Cooperation Between the United Nations and the African Union

A/RES/61/296View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 108a Cooperation between the United Nations and the African Union, published in 2006.

What other versions does this mandate have?

7 versions · 2003–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/79/329

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/79/329	Cooperation between the United Nations and the African Union	4,349	16%Compare
2013	A/RES/67/302	Cooperation between the United Nations and the African Union	3,723	66%Compare
2011	A/RES/65/274	Cooperation between the United Nations and the African Union	3,782	53%Compare
2009	A/RES/63/310	Cooperation between the United Nations and the African Union	2,601	39%Compare
2007	A/RES/61/296	Cooperation between the United Nations and the African Union	2,199	46%Compare

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Programme 9	—	23

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Programme 9	—	23	—

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report · 2004

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2004	A/59/591	Enhancement of African peacekeeping capacity report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/57/48

What’s in this document?

31 operative paragraphs

Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General;1

Stresses the need for closer cooperation and coordination between the United Nations system and the African Union, in accordance with the Cooperation Agreement as well as other relevant memorandums of understanding between the two organizations, particularly in the implementation of the commitments contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration14 and the 2005 World Summit Outcome18 and as regards achieving the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, at the national, subregional and regional levels;

Invites the Secretary-General to request all relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes to intensify their efforts to support cooperation with the African Union, including through the implementation of the protocols to the Constitutive Act of the African Union2 and the Treaty establishing the African Economic Community,²⁰ and to assist in harmonizing the programmes of the African Union with those of the African regional economic communities with a view to enhancing regional economic cooperation and integration;

²⁰A/46/651, annex.

Also invites the Secretary-General to request the United Nations system to enhance its support for the Commission of the African Union in the implementation of its Strategic Plan (2004–2007);

Requests the United Nations system, while acknowledging its primary role in the promotion and maintenance of international peace and security, to intensify its assistance to the African Union, as appropriate, in strengthening the institutional and operational capacity of its Peace and Security Council and in coordinating with other international partners when needed, in particular in the following areas:

Development of its early warning system, including the Situation Room of the Peace and Security Directorate;

Training of civilian and military personnel, including a staff exchange programme;

Regular and continued exchange and coordination of information, including between the early warning systems and mediation mechanisms of the two organizations;

Peace support missions of the African Union in its various member States, in particular in the area of communication and other related logistical support;

Capacity-building for peacebuilding before and after the cessation of hostilities on the continent;

Support for the Peace and Security Council in taking humanitarian action on the continent in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and the Protocol relating to the Establishment of the Peace and Security Council;

The full establishment of the African standby force and the military staff committee;

Enhancement of the institutional capacity of regional peace support training centres for States members of the African Union;

Cooperation between the United Nations Security Council and the African Union Peace and Security Council;

Calls upon the United Nations system to support the African Union and its member States in their efforts to implement the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals;

Calls for the implementation of the declaration on enhancing United Nations-African Union cooperation: framework for the ten-year capacity-building programme for the African Union,10 and in this regard, requests the Secretary-General to take appropriate measures to strengthen the capacity of the United Nations Secretariat and to implement its mandate with respect to meeting the special needs of Africa;

Recognizes the need for sustainable and predictable financing and operational and logistical support for African Union peacekeeping operations and the crucial role the United Nations has to play with the international community to work towards a solution quickly, and to that end urges the United Nations to encourage donor countries, in consultation with the African Union, to contribute to adequate funding, training and logistical support for African countries in their efforts to enhance their peacekeeping capabilities, with a view to enabling those countries to participate actively in peacekeeping operations within the framework of the Protocol relating to the Establishment of the Peace and Security Council and the framework of the United Nations, and looks forward to the report of the Secretary-General on these issues;

Stresses the urgent need for the United Nations and the African Union to develop close cooperation and concrete programmes aimed at addressing the problems posed by illicit trafficking in small arms and light weapons and anti-personnel mines, within the framework of the relevant declarations and resolutions adopted by the two organizations;

Calls upon the United Nations system, the African Union and the international community to intensify their cooperation in the global fight against terrorism through the implementation of the relevant international and regional treaties and protocols and, in particular, the African Plan of Action adopted in Algiers on 14 September 2002, as well as their support for the operation of the African Centre for Studies and Research on Terrorism, inaugurated in Algiers in October 2004;

Calls upon the United Nations system to intensify its efforts, in collaboration with the African Union, in combating illegal exploitation of natural resources, particularly in conflict areas, in accordance with relevant resolutions and decisions of the United Nations and the African Union;

Encourages the United Nations system to effectively support the efforts of the African Union by urging the international community to strive for the successful and timely completion of the Doha round of trade negotiations, including negotiations aimed at substantial improvements in areas such as trade-related measures, including market access and regional economic integration, to promote sustainable growth in Africa;

Invites the United Nations system to enhance its support for African countries in their efforts to implement the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation;17

Encourages the United Nations to take special measures to address the challenges of poverty eradication through debt cancellation, enhanced official development assistance, increases in flows of foreign direct investment and transfers of affordable and appropriate technology;

Calls upon the United Nations system to accelerate the implementation of the Plan of Action contained in the document entitled “A world fit for children”, adopted on 10 May 2002 at the special session of the General Assembly on children,²¹ and to provide assistance, as appropriate, to the African Union and its member States in this regard;

²¹See resolution S-27/2.

Calls upon the United Nations system and the African Union to develop a coherent and effective strategy, including through joint programmes and activities, for the promotion and protection of human rights in Africa, within the framework of the implementation of regional and international treaties, resolutions and plans of action adopted by the two organizations;

Urges the United Nations system to increase its support for Africa in the implementation of the declaration of the extraordinary summit meeting of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and other related infectious diseases, held in Abuja in April 2001,²² and the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS²³ so as to arrest the spread of these diseases, inter alia, through sound capacity-building in human resources;

²²Organization of African Unity, document OAU/SPS/ABUJA/3.

²³Resolution S-26/2, annex.

Also urges the United Nations system to continue to implement resolution 58/149 of 22 December 2003 on assistance to refugees, returnees and displaced persons in Africa, and effectively to support African countries in their effort to incorporate the problems of refugees into national and regional development plans;

Requests the United Nations system to cooperate with the African Union and its member States in the implementation of appropriate policies for the promotion of the culture of democracy, good governance, respect for human rights and the rule of law, and the strengthening of democratic institutions which will enhance the popular participation of the peoples of the continent in these issues, in accordance with the purposes and principles of the Constitutive Act of the African Union and the New Partnership for Africa’s Development;²⁴

²⁴A/57/304, annex.

Urges the Secretary-General to encourage the United Nations system to work towards ensuring the effective and equitable representation of African men and women at senior and policy levels at the respective headquarters of its organizations and in their regional fields of operation;

Calls upon the Secretary-General and the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, working in collaboration, to review every two years the progress made in the cooperation between the two organizations, and requests the Secretary-General to include the results of the review in his next report;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its sixty-third session on the implementation of the present resolution.

Cooperation Between the United Nations and the African Union

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