Africa's submission to the special session of the United Nations general assembly on Africa’s economic and social crisis

Abstract

we, the African Ministers for Foreign Affairs and the Ministers responsible for Economic Development and Planning having convened in Addis Ababa from 29 to 31 March 1986 for the extraordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity and for the extraordinary session of the Conference of Ministers of the Economic Commission for Africa and, acting for and on behalf of all the Governments and Peoples of Africa, have made a careful assessment of the rapid deterioration of the social and economic conditions in our region and do hereby, in accordance with Africa's Priority Programme for Economic Recovery adopted at the twenty-first Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity, present to the special session of the United Nations General Assembly on African economic situation, this our submission on Africa's economic and social crisis.