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URGENT ACTION FOR AFRICA:

The Committee then adopted a resolution on urgent action for Africa. This resolution, as contained in document A/AC.241/L.22/Rev.1, was the product of intense consultations held by Takao Shibata (Japan). This lengthy resolution: encourages all countries to disseminate information and promote education and public awareness about the objectives of the Convention; invites affected African countries to take urgent steps to prepare national and subregional action programmes; invites the developed countries to provide support to the affected African countries in such actions; invites the international and multilateral organizations, African subregional and regional organizations, and private sector organizations to provide support and mobilize necessary resources; and recommends that the affected African countries designate coordinating bodies at the national and subregional levels. The resolution also calls for the establishment, at national and subregional levels, of partnership arrangements with relevant developed countries, economic organizations, NGOs and representatives of local populations to facilitate the coordination of activities.