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In pursuance of the above the technical services at Headquarters have since formulated 23 project ideas a brief description of which is given in Annex II.
Further, Mr. B. Bolin, the ILO Deputy Director-General, led a mission to some of the existing_multibi donar. countries. (Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Federal Republic of Germany as also the Commission of the European Economic Communities) in Summer of 1981.
The object of the mission was to explore the possibility of obtaining contributions on multi-bilateral basis for ILO programmes in favour of the people of Southern Africa and their liberation movements. Full texts of the project ideas were sent in advance to the countries visited by the mission. During the course of introducing discussions the mission had made the following points:
(a)
(b)
The updated ILO Declaration of Apartheid had been adopted by the Conference with no opposition and with near unanimity; an obligation therefore existed on States to assist in its imple- mentation; morally if not legally.
The ILO has:
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
already decided to increase the resources available from the Regular Budget, but this would not make significant contribution towards implementing projects;
undertaken a mission to the national liberation movements from southern Africa and the front-line States, in April/ May 1981, followed by a tripartite meeting in Livingstone (Zambia); and
discussed with UNDP in Geneva. It was learned later that UNDP had agreed to fund project on vocational rehabili- tation for Namibia, at an increased budget of $580,000.
(c) The projects which had been submitted were within the ILO's spheres of competence and dealt with humanitarian and practical forms of assistance.
(d) No attempt had been made to the creation of a voluntary fund, as suggested in paragraph 6(a) (ii) of the Declaration, which was a matter to be dealt with separately by the Governing Body.
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