AHG/ST. 3 (XVI) Rev. 1 MONROVIA DECLARATION OF COMMITMENT OF THE HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT, OF THE ORGANIZATION OF AFRICAN UNITY ON GUIDELINES AND MEASURES FOR NATIONAL AND COLLECTIVE SELF-RELIANCE IN SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A NEW INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER We, the Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity; Recalling our resolution CM/ST/ 12 (XXI) endorsed by the Tenth Ordinary Session of the Organization of African Unity held in Addis Ababa on 25 May 1973 containing the African Declaration of Co-operation, Development and Economic Independence; Recalling the recommendations of the 11th Extraordinary Session of the Council of Ministers of the OAU on Economic Development and cooperation held in Kinshasa in December 1976; Having taken note of the Interim Report of the Secretary-General on Development and Economic Integration of African contained in Doc CM/983 (XXXIII) including its annex I – Colloquium of the prospects for Development and Economic Growth in Africa especially to the year 2000 - and annex II – Development strategy for Africa for the Third United Nations Development Decade; Aware of the fact that Africa is a vast continent amply endowed with natural resources of all kinds, provided with a potentially rich human resource base and capable of a rapid transformation of its economies and improvement in the standard of living of its peoples, Determined to ensure that our Member States individually and collectively restructure their economic and social strategies and programmes so as to achieve rapid socio-economic change and to establish a solid domestic and intra-African base for a self-sustaining, self-reliant development and economic growth;