UN General Assembly
1979

58. Also emerging from the OAU Assembly in Monrovia was the adoption of a Strategy for Economic Development in Africa, affirming the establishment of an African Economic Community and other recommendations contained in the report of the ECA-OAU Colloquium on Perspectives of Development and Economic Growth in Africa up to the Year 2000, which was held in Monrovia earlier this year. The sixteenth session of the OAU Assembly recommended that the General Assembly of the United Nations consider this strategy as an integral part of the international strategy for the third United Nations development decade. 59. Africa is counting on the continuing support of the United Nations and its specialized agencies for the implementation of this strategy.