The report on the activities of the Administrative Secretary General of the Organization of African Unity

Council of Ministers, Fifth Ordinary Session Accra, October 1965The report of the Administrative Secretary General of the Organization of African Unity on the execution of the instructions of Heads of State and Government on resolutions and political matters

Agenda item ii: apartheid and racial discrimination

Summit Conference of Independent African States meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 22 to 25 May 1963The imperious and urgent necessity of co-ordinating and intensifying efforts to put an end to the South African Government’s criminal policy of apartheid and wipe out racial discrimination in all its forms

Agenda item iii: Africa and the United Nations

Summit Conference of Independent African states meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 22 to 25 May 1963The United Nations is an important instrument for the maintenance of peace and security among nations and for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples

Education and culture

Summit Conference of Independent African States meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from the 22 to 25 May 1963Educational and cultural co-operation amongst African States will break down linguistic barriers and promote understanding amongst the people of the continent. Once this co-operation in the educational and cultural fields amongst African States has been organized, co-ordinated and harmonized and fully implemented, it will pave the way to the final goal, namely African Unity

Agenda item iv: areas of co-operation in economic problems

Summit Conference of Independent African States meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 22 to 25 May 1963Its extreme dependence on the export of primary products, Africa, more than any other developing region, is adversely affected by persistent deteriorations in export earning

Agenda item iii: general disarmament

Summit Conference of Independent African States meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 22 to 25 May 1963The imperious and urgent necessity of co-ordinating and intensifying efforts to contribute to the achievement of a realistic disarmament programme through the signing, by all States concerned, of a treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control

Bamako convention on the 1 'ban of the import into Africa and the control of transboundary movement and management of hazardous wastes within Africa

Conventio

Proceeding and report of the Economic and Social Commission

Economic and Social Commission, First Session, Niamey, December 1963The Economic and Social Commission of the Organization of African first session held in Niamey, Niger, from 9th to 13th December 1963 elected the chairman

Agenda item II: Decolonization

Summit Conference of Independent African States meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 22 to 25 May 1963The imperious and urgent necessity of co-ordinating and intensifying efforts to accelerate the unconditional attainment of national independence of all African territories still under foreign domination. It is the duty of all African Independent States to support dependent peoples in Africa in the struggle for freedom and independence

Official text

Summit Conference of Independent African States meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 22 to 25 May 1963Notable efforts made by the Imperial Government of Ethiopia in organizing the first historic meeting of Heads of Independent African States and Government to consolidate African unity through the inception of the Organization of African Unity