United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 99d United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa, published in 2016.

What other versions does this mandate have?

27 versions · 1999–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/60

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/60	United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa	1,142	99%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/65	United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa	1,140	99%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/56	United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa	1,142	99%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/83	United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa	1,142	99%Compare
2021	A/RES/76/57	United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa	1,142	92%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

14 reports · 2003–2026

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2026	A/81/152	United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/80/60
2025	A/80/128	United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/79/65
2024	A/79/128	United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/78/56
2023	A/78/152	United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/77/83
2022	A/77/121	United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/76/57

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Africa Cooperation Between Organizations Regional Disarmament Regional Security Technical Cooperation

What’s in this document?

14 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General;²

²A/71/128.

Commends the Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa for its sustained support to Member States over the past 30 years in implementing disarmament, arms control and non-proliferation activities through seminars and conferences, capacity-building and training, policy and technical expertise, and information and advocacy at the global, regional and national levels;

Welcomes the continental dimension of the activities of the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa in response to the evolving needs of African Member States and the region’s new and emerging challenges in the areas of disarmament, peace and security, including maritime security;

Also welcomes the undertaking by the Regional Centre to provide capacity-building, technical assistance programmes and advisory services to the African Union Commission, subregional organizations and African Member States on the control of small arms and light weapons, including on stockpile management and destruction, the Arms Trade Treaty³ and issues related to weapons of mass destruction, as detailed in the report of the Secretary-General;

³See resolution 67/234 B.

Further welcomes the contribution of the Regional Centre to continental disarmament, peace and security, in particular its assistance to the African Union Commission in the elaboration and implementation of the African Union Strategy on the Control of Illicit Proliferation, Circulation and Trafficking of Small Arms and Light Weapons and the Action Plan for the Implementation of the Strategy and in the elaboration of the African Union Common Position on an Arms Trade Treaty, as well as its assistance to the African Commission on Nuclear Energy in its implementation of the African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty (Treaty of Pelindaba);⁴

⁴A/50/426, annex.

Welcomes efforts by the Regional Centre to promote the role and representation of women in disarmament, non-proliferation and arms control activities;

Notes with appreciation the tangible achievements of the Regional Centre and the impact of the assistance that it provided to Central African States in the implementation of the Central African Convention for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons, Their Ammunition and All Parts and Components That Can Be Used for Their Manufacture, Repair and Assembly (Kinshasa Convention),⁵ as well as the substantive support provided by the Centre to the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa, to Central and West African States in the elaboration of their respective common positions on the Arms Trade Treaty, to West Africa on the implementation of the Economic Community of West African States Convention on Small Arms and Light Weapons, Their Ammunition and Other Related Materials and on security sector reform initiatives, to East Africa on programmes to control brokering of small arms and light weapons and to African Member States in the implementation of Security Council resolution 1540 (2004) of 28 April 2004 and of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction;⁶

⁵See A/65/517-S/2010/534, annex.

⁶United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1015, No. 14860.

Commends the Regional Centre for the support and assistance that it provided to African States, upon request, on the Arms Trade Treaty, including through the organization of subregional and regional seminars and workshops;

Urges all States, as well as international governmental and non-governmental organizations and foundations, to make voluntary contributions to enable the Regional Centre to carry out its programmes and activities and meet the needs of African States;

Urges, in particular, States members of the African Union to make voluntary contributions to the Trust Fund for the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa in view of the celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of the establishment of the Regional Centre and in conformity with the decision taken by the Executive Council of the African Union in Khartoum in January 2006;1

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to facilitate close cooperation between the Regional Centre and the African Union, in particular in the areas of disarmament, peace and security;

Also requests the Secretary-General to continue to provide the Regional Centre with the support necessary for greater achievements and results;

Further requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its seventy-second session on the implementation of the present resolution;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-second session, under the item entitled “Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly”, the sub-item entitled “United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa”.

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