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3. Notes that the effective implementation of the recommendations of the Secretary-General on
building durable peace and promoting sustainable development in Africa will require increased and
sustained political will by African States and the international community;
4. Calls upon African countries to continue their efforts to create an enabling domestic environment
for sustainable development;
5. Calls upon the international community to provide African countries with a substantial increase
in the flow of financial resources required to implement the recommendations of the Secretary-General
effectively, and in that context also calls upon all parties concerned to cooperate in improving the quality
and effectiveness of development assistance from all sources;
6. Stresses the importance of improved coordination among relevant bodies and agencies of the
United Nations system in assisting with post-conflict peace-building, reconciliation, reconstruction and
development in Africa, and requests the Secretary-General to seek further measures in this regard;
7. Urges the United Nations and other relevant international institutions, upon request from
Governments, to provide adequate assistance for the strengthening of the institutions for the promotion
of transparency and accountability in public administration and good governance and, in this regard, urges
all Governments to promote and respect all human rights and the rule of law and to strengthen democratic
institutions;
8. Urges all States, as well as other relevant actors, to rely upon peaceful means instead of military
solutions to their problems and, to that end, to promote preventive diplomacy and confidence-building
measures, as appropriate, and strengthen Africa’s capacity to participate in all aspects of peacekeeping
operations, in particular through increased cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization
of African Unity and between the United Nations and subregional organizations;
9. Calls upon the international community to supplement national efforts by providing African
countries with sufficient concessional resources for capacity-building and the attainment of a substantial
and sustained pace of economic growth and development;
10. Strongly underlines the importance of an enabling environment for investment, in particular,
foreign direct investment, market access, good governance, increase in the volume and effectiveness of
official development assistance, tackling unsustainable debt burdens, including through debt conversion
measures, flexibility in the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Debt Initiative and support for regional
cooperation and integration as priority areas that need to be addressed in order to achieve sustainable
development in all African countries and to encourage the participation of all African countries in the
global economy, as recommended in the report of the Secretary-General;
11. Encourages African countries to continue to promote regional economic cooperation and
integration in the framework of the Treaty establishing the African Economic Community3 and other
complementary subregional organizations and arrangements, and calls upon the international community
to support these efforts;
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