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UN GENERAL COMMITTE -- TAKE 1
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UN Press Release GA/7836 Issued: 22 September 1989
The General Committee meets this morning to consider the request
of Egypt and Guinea-Bissau for the inclusion of an additional
agenda item entitled "African Alternative Framework to
Structural Adjustment Programmes for Socio-Economic Recovery and
Transformation" in the agenda of the forty-fourth session of the
General Assembly.
The Committee will have before it a memorandum submitted by the
sponsors of the item (document A/44/242), recalling that at the
fiftieth ordinary session of the Council of Ministers of the
Organization of African Unity (OAU) a resolution on the African
Alternative Framework to Structural Adjustment Programmes for
Socio-Economic Recovery Transformation was adopted. That
resolution requested that the Group of African States in New York
place the issue before the General Assembly "to enable the
international community to consider the issue in detail".
The item was on the agenda of the second regular session of 1989
of the Economic and Social Council, which adopted a resolution
requesting the General Assembly to consider taking action on the
African Alternative Framework to Structural Adjustment
Programmes for Socio-Economic Recovery and Transformation, as
appropriate.
The President of the General Assembly, JOSEPH N. GARBA (Nigeria),
called the meeting to order at 9:42 a.m.
ALFREDO LOPES CABRAL (Guinea-Bissau), speaking in his capacity
as representative of the African Group, said that many of the
adjustment programmes for Africa had bogged down, despite the
determination of the African countries to make them work. For
that reason, the item had been placed before the Committee. He
hoped the General Assembly would tackle alternatives to the
traditional approaches to structural adjustment. Further, he
hoped all Member States would support this attempt to have an
in-depth debate in the plenary.
The Committee then decided to recommend the inclusion of this
additional item in the agenda of the current session and that it
be considered directly in plenary.
Before adjourning the meeting, the PRESIDENT thanked the
following countries for being in their seats at 9:35 a.m.:
Austria, Gambia, Brunei Darussalam, Tunisia, Sudan, Soviet
Union, Burkina Faso, Costa Rica and Vanuatu
The PRESIDENT adjourned the meeting at 9:50 a.m.
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