Regional Confidence-Building Measures Activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 67c Regional confidence-building measures : activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa, published in 2003.

What other versions does this mandate have?

5 versions · 1999–2008

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/62/53

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2008	A/RES/62/53	Regional confidence-building measures activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa :	1,033	32%Compare
2003	A/RES/57/88	Regional confidence-building measures activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa :	1,224	—
2002	A/RES/56/25[A]	Regional confidence-building measures :#activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa	—	—
2001	A/RES/55/34[B]	Regional confidence-building measures :#activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa	—	—
1999	A/RES/53/78[A]	Regional confidence-building measures activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa	—	–

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report · 2008

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2008	A/63/164	Regional confidence-building measures activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa : report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/62/53

What subjects does this mandate have?

12 subjects

Central Africa Confidence-Building Measures Displaced Persons Early Warning Systems Legislative Bodies Legislators Political Conditions Programme Implementation Refugee Assistance Regional Security Technical Cooperation War Prevention

What’s in this document?

21 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on regional confidence-building measures, which deals with the activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa in the period since the adoption by the General Assembly of resolution 56/25 A;⁶

⁶A/57/161.

Reaffirms its support for efforts aimed at promoting confidence-building measures at regional and subregional levels in order to ease tensions and conflicts in Central Africa and to further peace, stability and sustainable development in the subregion;

Also reaffirms its support for the programme of work of the Standing Advisory Committee adopted at the organizational meeting of the Committee, held at Yaoundé from 27 to 31 July 1992;

Notes with satisfaction the progress made by the States members of the Standing Advisory Committee in implementing the programme of activities for the period 2001–2002, in particular by:

Holding a Subregional Conference on the Protection of Women and Children in Armed Conflict in Central Africa at Kinshasa from 14 to 16 November 2001;

Holding a meeting of Chiefs of Staff of the States members of the Standing Advisory Committee at Libreville from 18 to 20 March 2002;

Holding the seventeenth ministerial meeting of the Standing Advisory Committee at Kinshasa from 22 to 26 April 2002;

Holding the subregional consultation on the theme “Parity and development: participation of the Central African woman” at Douala from 28 to 30 May 2002;

Holding the eighteenth ministerial meeting of the Standing Advisory Committee at Bangui from 26 to 30 August 2002;

Emphasizes the importance of providing the States members of the Standing Advisory Committee with the essential support they need to carry out the full programme of activities which they adopted at their ministerial meetings;

Welcomes the creation of a mechanism for the promotion, maintenance and consolidation of peace and security in Central Africa, to be known as the Council for Peace and Security in Central Africa, by the Conference of Heads of State and Government of the member countries of the Economic Community of Central African States, held at Yaoundé on 25 February 1999, and requests the Secretary-General to give his full support to the effective realization of that important mechanism;

Emphasizes the need to make the early-warning mechanism in Central Africa operational so that it will serve, on the one hand, as an instrument for analysing and monitoring political situations in the States members of the Standing Advisory Committee with a view to preventing the outbreak of future armed conflicts and, on the other hand, as a technical body through which the member States will carry out the programme of work of the Committee, adopted at its organizational meeting held at Yaoundé in 1992, and requests the Secretary-General to provide it with the assistance necessary for it to function properly;

Requests the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to continue to provide their full assistance for the proper functioning of the Subregional Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Central Africa;

Requests the Secretary-General, pursuant to Security Council resolution 1197 (1998), to provide the States members of the Standing Advisory Committee with the necessary support for the implementation and smooth functioning of the Council for Peace and Security in Central Africa and the early-warning mechanism;

Also requests the Secretary-General to support the establishment of a network of parliamentarians with a view to the creation of a subregional parliament in Central Africa;

Requests the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to continue to provide increased assistance to the countries of Central Africa for coping with the problems of refugees and displaced persons in their territories;

Thanks the Secretary-General for having established the Trust Fund for the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa;

Appeals to Member States and to governmental and non-governmental organizations to make additional voluntary contributions to the Trust Fund for the implementation of the programme of work of the Standing Advisory Committee;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to provide the States members of the Standing Advisory Committee with assistance to ensure that they are able to carry on their efforts;

Also requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth session a report on the implementation of the present resolution;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-eighth session the item entitled “Regional confidence-building measures: activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa”.

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