UN General Assembly
1991

Faced with the uncertain future of all these countries, at their last summit meeting the Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity (OA.U), recognized the need for stopgap measures by encouraging regional economic integration to be achieved in the next three decades, and to take shape in the African Economic Community. But in the short term, Africa will continue as in the past to make appeals to its creditors to undertake to do more to help find a solution to the painful debt problem and thereby help complete its internal efforts to achieve development.