In view of the foregoing, African decision-makers adopted the following measures:

February 1975 in Addis Ababa: the OAU Council of Ministers adopted resolution no. cm/res.404 (xxiv) which approved the establishment of the Pan-African Telecommunication Union and Res. 401 (xxiv) established the Headquarters of the Union at Kinshasa (republic of Zaire)

July 1975 in Kampala: the Assembly of Heads of State and Government endorsed resolutions CM/Res.404 (xxiv) and CM/Res.401 (xxiv).

December, 1975 in Kinshasa: the 2nd African Telecommunication Conference organized under the auspices of the OAU, ECA. ITU and ADB, adopted its resolution no. 1 on the establishment of the Pan-African Telecommunications
Union. They further elected a steering committee made up of 9 states: Guinea (chairman). Kenya (vice chairman). Algeria, Botswana, Congo, Ghana, Morocco, Central African republic and Congo DR (Zaire), (secretary), and mandated them to draw up a draft convention and examine all the administrative and financial aspects relating to the
functioning of the union.

August, 1976 in Addis Ababa: meeting of the steering committee at the OAU
headquarters under the chairmanship of Mr. Mamadou Bobo Camara of Guinea
with the participation of OAU, ITU, ECA and ADB as observers, to finalize the results
of their work. The results of the work of the steering committee were submitted for consideration to the plenipotentiaries of 32 OAU.

Member States which met in two sessions, in May and December 1977 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, under the chairmanship of Mr. Emmanuel Egbe Tagbi, minister of state
of Cameroon. in December 1977, the plenipotentiaries: ¦adopted and signed the convention which established the Pan-African telecommunications union and conferred
on it the status of OAU specialized agency. This was the first specialized agency to be established by the OAU; ¦elected the 13 member states of the first Administrative
Council (Algeria. Central African Republic, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon. Ghana, Burkina Faso (Upper-Volta), Kenya, Lesotho, Mauritania, Rwanda, Senegal, Zambia; ¦elected the first secretary general of the Union, Mr. Mamadou Bobo Camara of Guinea and the Deputy Secretary General, Mr. Rajabu Mabula Yusuf of Tanzania; ¦the report and final acts of this conference were approved by the 29th ordinary session of the OAU council
of ministers and the OAU summit, in June 1978, in Libra Ville, Gabon.

In June 1978, the secretary general of the Union assumed office in Kinshasa, Zaire (Congo DR).the general secretariat signed the headquarters agreement with the government of the host country.

In July 1979, in Monrovia, Liberia, the general secretariat signed a cooperation agreement with the parent organization, OAU, thus confirming the Union as the first specialized agency of the OAU.