Draft report : second meeting of the Conference of Ministers (Eleventh Session of the Commission)

The second meeting of the Conference of Ministers convened at the State House Accra, Ghana from 19 to 23 February 1973. The opening session was presided over by the Honorable Q,K,J, Masire, Vice-President of' Botswana. The Conference observed one minute’s silence in tribute to the memory of Dr, Amilcar Cabral, the valiant fighter for the freedom of' Guinea (Bissau) and Cape Verde, assassinated the previous month. In order to achieve a better utilization of the diminishing technical assistance resources, Mr. Farah said, OTC had been reorganized at the beginning of 1973 to place emphasis on improving its operational capacity to deliver the technical assistance inputs needed by the developing countries for projects in their national development plans and programmes which fell under the competence of OTC.

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Format: Conference document biblioteca
Language:eng
Published: 1973-02
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10855/28731
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Summary:The second meeting of the Conference of Ministers convened at the State House Accra, Ghana from 19 to 23 February 1973. The opening session was presided over by the Honorable Q,K,J, Masire, Vice-President of' Botswana. The Conference observed one minute’s silence in tribute to the memory of Dr, Amilcar Cabral, the valiant fighter for the freedom of' Guinea (Bissau) and Cape Verde, assassinated the previous month. In order to achieve a better utilization of the diminishing technical assistance resources, Mr. Farah said, OTC had been reorganized at the beginning of 1973 to place emphasis on improving its operational capacity to deliver the technical assistance inputs needed by the developing countries for projects in their national development plans and programmes which fell under the competence of OTC.