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Article: Committee evaluates African recovery and sets 'New Agenda.' (United Nations Ad Hoc Committee of the Whole of the General Assembly)
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- December 1, 1991
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A new plan for African recovery efforts was formulated by the Ad Hoc Committee of the Whole of the General Assembly, which met in the New York from 3 to 14 September to conduct the final review and appraisal of the five-year UN Programme of Action for African Economic Recovery and Development 1986-1990.
The United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s was adopted by consensus ad referendum and recommended for approval by the Assembly later this year.
The Committee also completed a 44-paragraph assessment of the implementation of the original Programme of Action. Acknowledging, along with other critics, that that Programme had ...