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 98a Regional confidence-building measures : activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa, published in 2005.

What other versions does this mandate have?

22 versions · 2003–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/63

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/63	Regional confidence-building measures : activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa	5,032	67%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/68	Regional confidence-building measures : activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa	4,315	87%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/59	Regional confidence-building measures : activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa	4,200	84%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/86	Regional confidence-building measures : activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa	3,887	78%Compare
2021	A/RES/76/60	Regional confidence-building measures : activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa	3,206	92%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

10 reports · 2005–2016

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2016	A/71/293	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/70/64
2015	A/70/165	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/69/73
2014	A/69/361	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/68/62
2013	A/68/384	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/67/70
2012	A/67/359	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/66/55

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 its resolution 59/96;⁶

⁶A/60/166.

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

Encourages the States members of the Economic Community of Central African States to pursue their efforts to promote peace and security in their subregion;

Encourages the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda to pursue their efforts to strengthen their bilateral relations;

Strongly appeals to the international community to provide all necessary support for the smooth functioning of the electoral process currently under way in the Democratic Republic of the Congo;

Appeals to the international community to support the efforts undertaken by the States concerned to implement disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programmes;

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 Standing Advisory Committee in implementing its programme of work for the period 2004–2005;⁷

⁷See A/59/769-S/2005/212, annex.

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, known as the Council for Peace and Security in Central Africa, by the Conference of Heads of State and Government of the countries members 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;

Thanks the Secretary-General for sending a multidisciplinary mission from 8 to 22 June 2003 for the purpose of undertaking an assessment of the priority needs of the region and challenges confronting it in the areas of peace, security, economic development, human rights and HIV/AIDS, and in the humanitarian field;

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;

Calls upon the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its sixty-first session a report on the implementation of the present resolution;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-first 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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