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 101e Regional confidence-building measures: activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa, published in 2021.

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 subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Central Africa Confidence-Building Measures Regional Security War Prevention

What’s in this document?

31 operative paragraphs

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;

Welcomes and encourages the initiative of the States members of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa to further develop collaboration and synergies with the Economic Community of Central African States;

Invites the Standing Advisory Committee and the Economic Community of Central African States to initiate discussions on the relationship between the two entities in the light of the institutional reform of the Economic Community;

Welcomes efforts under way by the Standing Advisory Committee and its secretariat to implement the communication strategy adopted at the forty-fifth ministerial meeting of the Committee, held in Kigali from 4 to 8 December 2017, and encourages Member States and other partners to support initiatives aimed at increasing the visibility of the Committee, including among the populations of the subregion, in cooperation with civil society;

Reaffirms the importance of disarmament and arms control programmes in Central Africa carried out by the States of the subregion with the support of the United Nations, the African Union and other international partners;

Encourages Member States to provide assistance to those States members of the Standing Advisory Committee that have ratified the Arms Trade Treaty,¹² and encourages those that have not yet done so to ratify the Treaty;

¹²United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 3013, No. 52373.

Encourages States members of the Standing Advisory Committee and other interested States to provide financial support for 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), and encourages signatories that have not yet done so to ratify the Convention;

Welcomes the holding of the first Conference of States Parties to 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, in Yaoundé from 11 to 13 June 2018, in accordance with article 34, paragraph 3, of the Kinshasa Convention;

Encourages Member States to assist States parties to the Kinshasa Convention with coordination activities for the control of small arms and light weapons at the regional and national levels, including funding thereof, as expeditiously as possible;

Reaffirms its support for the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy¹³ and its four pillars, which constitute an ongoing effort, and calls upon Member States, the United Nations and other appropriate international, regional and subregional organizations to step up their efforts to implement the Strategy in an integrated and balanced manner and in all aspects;

¹³Resolution 60/288.

Welcomes the adoption, by the Conference of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of Central African States at its seventeenth ordinary session, on 30 July 2020, of the strategy on preventing and combating terrorism in Central Africa, and requests United Nations, regional and international partners to support its implementation;

Welcomes the joint summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States and the Economic Community of Central African States, in coordination with the African Union Commission, on peace, security, stability and the fight against terrorism and violent extremism, held in Lomé on 30 July 2018, and recalls the Lomé Declaration on Peace, Security, Stability and the Fight against Terrorism and Violent Extremism adopted at that summit;

Encourages the Economic Community of Central African States and the Economic Community of West African States to work together towards the implementation of the Lomé Declaration;

Encourages the States members of the Standing Advisory Committee to carry out the programmes of activities adopted at their ministerial meetings, and requests the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa to continue to provide support;

Appeals to the international community to support the efforts undertaken by the States concerned to implement disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programmes, and urges the States concerned to ensure that such programmes take into consideration the needs of women and children associated with former combatants;

Welcomes the efforts of Cameroon and the Congo in providing assistance to the Interregional Coordination Centre for Maritime Security in the Gulf of Guinea and the Regional Centre for Maritime Security in Central Africa, respectively, and urges other member States to honour their financial commitments in order to ensure the predictable and sustainable operation of the two Centres;

Encourages Member States to continue to implement the outcomes of the Summit of Heads of State and Government on Maritime Safety and Security in the Gulf of Guinea by operationalizing the Interregional Coordination Centre for Maritime Security in the Gulf of Guinea and activities of the Regional Centre for Maritime Security in Central Africa, and also encourages the implementation of the Charter on Maritime Security and Safety and Development in Africa adopted at the African Union Extraordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government on Maritime Security and Safety and Development in Africa;

Calls upon Member States and subregional bodies to take immediate concerted action to counter the phenomenon of poaching and trafficking in wildlife and natural resources, including through the implementation of the provisions of its resolutions 69/314, 70/301, 71/326, 73/343 and 75/311;

Welcomes the progress made by the Economic Community of Central African States and the Economic Community of West African States in initiating common policies and joint programmes on the management of pastoralism and cross-border transhumance, and encourages the Economic Community of Central African States to adopt the protocol on pastoralism and cross-border transhumance in Central Africa;

Encourages the development of mechanisms for regulation by the Economic Community of Central African States, and calls for the holding of a high-level conference to discuss issues relating to pastoralism and cross-border transhumance with a view to ensuring joint and integrated management thereof;

Requests the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa, in collaboration with the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa, to facilitate the efforts undertaken by the States members of the Standing Advisory Committee, in particular for their execution of the Implementation Plan for the Kinshasa Convention;¹⁴

¹⁴See A/65/717-S/2011/53, annex.

Requests the Secretary-General and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, with the support of the international community, to continue to assist the countries of Central Africa in tackling the issues of refugees and displaced persons in their territories;

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

Welcomes the increased contributions made by several Member States to the trust fund of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa, reminds the States members of the Standing Advisory Committee of the commitments that they undertook on the adoption of the Declaration on the Trust Fund of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa on 8 May 2009¹⁵ and the Bangui Declaration on 10 June 2016,¹⁶ and invites those States members of the Committee that have not already done so to contribute to the trust fund;

¹⁵A/64/85-S/2009/288, annex I.

¹⁶A/71/293, annex I.

Urges other Member States and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to support the activities of the Standing Advisory Committee effectively through voluntary contributions to the trust fund;

Urges the States members of the Standing Advisory Committee, in accordance with Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) of 31 October 2000, to strengthen the gender component of the various meetings of the Committee relating to disarmament and international security, in line with the Sao Tome Declaration on the Participation of Women in the Statutory Meetings of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa, adopted on 1 December 2016,¹⁷ in which member States were invited to increase the representation of women in delegations participating in the statutory meetings of the Committee, and strongly encourages the States members of the Committee to ensure that gender-related considerations are taken into account in the activities of the Committee;

¹⁷A/72/363, annex II.

Expresses its satisfaction to the Secretary-General for his support to the Standing Advisory Committee, expresses appreciation for the role played by the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa, welcomes the outcome of the strategic review of the Office, and strongly encourages the States members of the Standing Advisory Committee and international partners to support the work of the Office;

Welcomes the efforts of the Standing Advisory Committee towards addressing cross-border security threats in Central Africa, including activities of groups affiliated with Boko Haram and the Lord’s Resistance Army, and acts of piracy and armed robbery at sea in the Gulf of Guinea, the issue of transhumance and its cross-border security implications, as well as the fallout from the situation in the Central African Republic, and also welcomes the role of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa in coordinating those efforts, working closely with the Economic Community of Central African States, the African Union and all relevant regional and international partners;

Expresses its satisfaction to the Secretary-General for his support for the revitalization of the activities of the Standing Advisory Committee, and requests him to continue to provide the assistance needed to ensure the success of its regular meetings;

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

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

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