Cooperation Between the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 32 Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity, published in 1995.

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33 versions · 1966–2002

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/56/48

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2002	A/RES/56/48	Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity	2,168	49%Compare
2001	A/RES/55/218	Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity	1,136	36%Compare
2000	A/RES/54/94	Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity	1,725	47%Compare
1999	A/RES/53/91	Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity	1,696	65%Compare
1997	A/RES/52/20	Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity	2,139	90%Compare

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29 operative paragraphs

A/49/490.

A/49/313, annex I.

Ibid., annex II.

See Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-ninth Session, Plenary Meetings, 15th meeting, and corrigendum.

See A/48/322, annex II, AHG/Decl.3 (XXIX) Rev.1.

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity and of his efforts to strengthen that cooperation and to implement the relevant resolutions;

Notes with appreciation the continued and increasing participation of the Organization of African Unity in the work of the United Nations and the specialized agencies and its constructive contribution to that work;

Calls upon the United Nations organs, in particular the Security Council and the Economic and Social Council, to continue to involve the Organization of African Unity closely in all their activities concerning Africa;

Commends the establishment by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity in June 1993 of a mechanism for the prevention, management and resolution of conflicts in Africa, and also commends its good functioning;

Commends the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity for their ongoing cooperative activities in the resolution of conflicts in Africa, and stresses the need to enhance and strengthen the existing pattern of exchange of information and consultations, especially in the areas of preventive diplomacy, peacemaking and peace-keeping operations;

Calls upon the United Nations to coordinate its efforts and to cooperate with the Organization of African Unity in the context of the pacific settlement of disputes and the maintenance of international peace and security in Africa, as provided for under Chapter VIII of the Charter of the United Nations;

Urges the United Nations, within existing resources, and encourages its Member States to help the Organization of African Unity to strengthen its conflict resolution capacity, in particular in the areas of:

Establishment of an early warning system;

Conflict prevention and management and settlement of disputes;

Training of staff of the Organization of African Unity and African peace-keepers;

Logistical support;

Encourages Member States to consider ways and means of providing financial assistance to the conflict resolution activities of the Organization of African Unity;

Notes with appreciation the assistance provided by the United Nations and its agencies to African countries in the context of the democratization process;

Urges the United Nations to continue to support the Organization of African Unity in its efforts to manage a peaceful democratic transition in Africa;

Urges all Member States and regional and international organizations, in particular those of the United Nations system, as well as non-governmental organizations, to provide the necessary and appropriate economic, financial and technical assistance to refugees and displaced persons, as well as to African countries of asylum, taking into account recent disquieting developments in this respect;

Commends the continued efforts of the Organization of African Unity to promote multilateral cooperation and economic integration among African States, and requests United Nations agencies to continue to support those efforts;

Stresses that the economic, technical and development assistance provided to Africa by the organizations of the United Nations system must continue, and emphasizes the current need for those organizations to accord priority to Africa in this field;

Urges the Secretary-General, Member States, regional and international organizations, in particular those of the United Nations system, and non-governmental organizations to extend their support to the operation of the African Economic Community and to assist in economic integration and cooperation in Africa;

Requests the Secretary-General to support the efforts of the Secretary-General of the Organization of African Unity with a view to holding sectoral meetings on the priority areas of cooperation, and in particular to support those meetings organized by the Economic and Social Council of the African Economic Community;

Requests the agencies of the United Nations system working in Africa to include in their programmes at the national and regional levels the activities which will enhance regional cooperation in their respective areas and to facilitate the realization of the objectives of the Treaty establishing the African Economic Community;

Calls upon United Nations agencies to intensify the coordination of their regional programmes in Africa in order to create interlinkages among them and to ensure the harmonization of their programmes with those of the African regional and subregional economic organizations;

Emphasizes the urgency of the need to adopt appropriate measures to ensure the effective implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s, 6/ in particular in the areas of resource flows, debt relief and diversification of African economies;

Recalls the report prepared by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and transmitted by the Secretary-General on the need for and feasibility of the establishment of a diversification fund for Africa's commodities; 7/

Resolution 46/151, annex, sect. II.

A/48/335 and Add.1 and 2.

Calls upon the Secretary-General to work in close coordination and cooperation with the Secretary-General of the Organization of African Unity, in particular on the follow-up to and effective implementation of the New Agenda;

Recalls its resolution 48/214 of 23 December 1993, in paragraph 10 of which it invited the Secretary-General to reinforce the capabilities of the Office of the Special Coordinator for Africa and Least Developed Countries of the Department for Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development of the Secretariat to follow up and promote the responses of the United Nations system and the international community to the development concerns of Africa, as expressed in the New Agenda;

Endorses the agrement reached between the organizations of the United Nations system and the Organization of African Unity on the convening of a meeting between the secretariats of those organizations, to be held in 1995 at Addis Ababa, to review and evaluate the progress made in implementing the proposals and recommendations agreed upon in September 1993 on cooperation between them in 1994-1995 and to adopt new and effective joint action;

Calls upon the relevant organs of the United Nations to ensure the effective, fair and equitable representation of Africa at senior and policy levels at their respective headquarters and in their regional field operations;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to ensure that the United Nations information network continues to disseminate information so as to increase public awareness of the social and economic problems, achievements and needs of African States and of their regional and subregional institutions;

Also requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its fiftieth session on the implementation of the present resolution and on the development of the cooperation between the Organization of African Unity and the organizations of the United Nations system.

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