AHG/Res. 116 (XIX) RESOLUTION ON THE SIXTH SESSION OF UNCTAD The Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its Nineteenth Ordinary Session in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 6 to 12 June, 1983, Recalling the resolution on the participation of Africa in international economic negotiations adopted by the Second Extraordinary Summit of the OAU heads of State and Government as contained in Annex III of the Lagos Plan of Action, Bearing in mind the resolution on Africa and on-going international economic negotiations adopted by the Conference of Ministers of the Economic Commission for Africa at its Silver Jubilee Session, Taking into account the severe economic crisis facing both developed and developing countries, but of which the latter have been made to bear the main burden, Aware of the Buenos Aires Platform adopted by the Ministerial meeting of the Group of 77 at its last session held from 28 March to 16 April 1983: 1. ENDORES the Buenos Aires Platform as the basis for negotiations at UNCTAD VI between the Group of 77 on the one hand, and Group B and Group D, representing respectively the developed market economic countries and the socialist countries of Eastern Europe, on the other; 2. URGES the developed countries, to give serious consideration to the proposals contained in the Buenos Aires Platform all the more so as the adoption and implementation thereof would benefit both the developed and developing countries in their efforts at recovery from the present economic crisis and development; 3. CALLS UPON the OAU/ECA Ministerial Follow-up Committee on Trade and Development to make a full assessment of the results of the Sixth Session, on the basis of studies to be carried out by the Secretary-General of OAU, in collaboration with the Executive Secretary of ECA, and report accordingly to the 20th Summit Conference of the African Heads of State and Government.