Adopts the programme for the 2nd Transport and Communications Decade in Africa (1991-2000); recommends that the General Assembly approve the programme for the 2nd Decade; requests the General Assembly to formally launch the Transport and Communications Decade in Africa; appeals to all African Governments, as beneficiaries of the programme, to give support for the achievement of the objectives of the programme for the 2nd Decade at the national, subregional and regional levels; appeals to UN agencies and other international organizations to provide all the necessary technical and other assistance to African Governments and work closely with ECA, the Inter-Agency Coordinating Committee and African regional and subregional intergovernmental organizations in order to implement effectively the programme and projects for the 2nd Decade; appeals to international financial institutions, as well as to African regional and subregional financial institutions, to ensure and facilitate the financing of national, subregional and regional projects for the 2nd Decade; requests the ECA to prepare draft statutes for the single bureau for the Trans-African Highway Authorities for adoption by member States.

Adopted without vote, 32nd meeting

Adopted at the 32nd plenary meeting, 26 July 1991.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the Economic and Social Council at its 2nd regular session of 1991, Geneva, 3-26 July 1991. - E/1991/INF/10. - 30 Aug. 1991. - p. 64-67. - Issued in ESCOR, 1991, Suppl. no. 1 and 1a.