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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.