Cooperation Between the United Nations and the African Union

A/RES/63/310View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 114a Cooperation between the United Nations and the African Union, published in 2009.

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

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?

25 operative paragraphs

Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General,Error: Reference source not found 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,Error: Reference source not found and in this regard requests the Secretary-General to continue 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, in accordance with the established United Nations procedures;

Recalls the primary responsibility of the Security Council in the maintenance of international peace and security, and requests the United Nations system 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;

Emphasizes the need to pursue the ongoing measures to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of United Nations and African Union cooperation, recommends the continued improvement of the field presence of the United Nations Secretariat at the headquarters of the African Union, recognizing the need to ensure an appropriate level of representation at the United Nations Liaison Office at Addis Ababa commensurate with the increasing political integration of the African Union, the responsibilities for implementing all aspects of the ten-year capacity-building programme, coordinating the United Nations system in existing and emerging areas of cooperation in peace and security and political and humanitarian affairs, in order to enhance the strategic and operational partnership between the United Nations and the African Union and its subregions;

Recognizes the need to enhance the predictability, sustainability and flexibility of financing for regional organizations when they undertake peacekeeping under a United Nations mandate, and looks forward to the report to be submitted by the Secretary-General pursuant to the statement by the President of the Security Council of 18 March 2009;Error: Reference source not found

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 the illegal exploitation of natural resources, particularly in conflict areas, in accordance with relevant resolutions and decisions of the United Nations and the African Union;

Also 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;

Stresses the need for closer cooperation and coordination between the United Nations system and the African Union, in accordance with the Cooperation Agreement²⁴ 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 DeclarationError: Reference source not found and the 2005 World Summit OutcomeError: Reference source not found and as regards achieving the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, at the national, subregional and regional levels;

²⁴United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1580, No. 1044.

Encourages the deepening of collaboration between the African Union, recalling its Framework for Post-conflict Reconstruction and Development, and the Peacebuilding Commission on enhancing international support for African countries on the agenda of the Commission, and reiterates the need for enhanced coordination and consultations between the Commission and the African Union on assistance for countries emerging from conflict;

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 UnionError: Reference source not found and the Treaty establishing the African Economic Community,²⁵ 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;

²⁵A/46/651, annex.

Encourages the United Nations and the African Union to pursue joint initiatives for partnerships in Africa through, inter alia, the United Nations Office for Partnerships and Global Compact;

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;Error: Reference source not found

Encourages the United Nations to take special measures to address the challenges of poverty eradication through the United Nations funds, programmes and agencies, noting the importance of addressing, inter alia, debt cancellation, enhanced official development assistance, increases in flows of foreign direct investment and voluntary transfer of technology, the World Food Programme, the agriculture partnership to combat hunger, universal primary education initiatives, gender equality programmes, improved maternal health programmes, and HIV/AIDS education;

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 twenty-seventh special session of the General Assembly on children,²⁶ and to provide assistance, as appropriate, to the African Union and its member States in this regard, welcomes the ongoing efforts of the African Union to ensure the protection of the rights of children, and recalls in this regard the adoption of the Call for accelerated action on the implementation of the Plan of Action towards Africa Fit for Children (2008–2012);²⁷

²⁶Resolution S-27/2, annex.

²⁷A/62/653, annex.

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, malaria, tuberculosis and other related infectious diseases, held in Abuja in April 2001,²⁸ and the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS²⁹ so as to arrest the spread of these diseases, inter alia, through sound capacity-building in human resources;

²⁸Organization of African Unity, document OAU/SPS/ABUJA/3.

²⁹Resolution S-26/2, annex.

Also urges the United Nations system to continue to implement General Assembly resolutions 58/149 of 22 December 2003 and 63/149 of 18 December 2008, on assistance to refugees, returnees and displaced persons in Africa, and effectively to support African countries in their efforts 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;

Calls upon the Secretary-General and the international community to fulfil the commitments they undertook during the high-level event on the Millennium Development Goals, held in New York on 25 September 2008;

Welcomes and supports the ongoing efforts of the African Union to support gender equality, the empowerment of women and social development, and recalls in this regard the declaration of the African Women’s Decade by the Assembly of the African Union in February 2009,³⁰ and the African Union Gender Policy,³¹ the Social Policy Framework for Africa³² and the Windhoek Declaration on Social Development,Error: Reference source not found as adopted by the Executive Council of the African Union in January 2009;

³⁰See A/63/848, annex II, decision Assembly/AU/Dec.229 (XII).

³¹Ibid., annex I, decision EX.CL/Dec.487 (XIV).

³²Ibid., decision EX.CL/Dec.473 (XIV).

Recalls its resolution 63/250 of 24 December 2008 on human resources management, and urges the Secretary-General to encourage the United Nations system, within existing rules and regulations, 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-fifth session on the implementation of the present resolution.

Cooperation Between the United Nations and the African Union

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