Report of the technical consultative meeting for the West African subregion of the united nations transport and communications decade in Africa

Report of the Technical Consultative meeting for the West African Subregion of the United Nations Transport and Communications Decade in Africa was held at Lome, Togo from 8 to 11 June 1981. The documents for the Lome meeting had been prepared with the participation of the countries concerned and thus reflected their priorities. The adoption of the United Nations Transport and Communications Decade programme, which encompassed the network in its entirety, was a clear testimony of efforts made earlier to open the subregion to trade opportunities. The ECOWAS transport and telecommunications programmes were tailored to the Decade programme with many of the ECOWAS projects almost identical with those of the Decade. The meeting at Lorne was concerned with roads; air transport telecommunications, broadcasting and postal projects for the 16 countries members of ECOWAS.