A/RES/63/310
United Nations
Distr.: General
7 October 2009
General Assembly
Sixty-third session
Agenda item 114 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 14 September 2009
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/63/L.101 and Add.1)]
63/310. Cooperation between the United Nations and the
African Union
The General Assembly,
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General on cooperation between
the United Nations and regional and other organizations, 1
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Recalling the provisions of Chapter VIII of the Charter of the United Nations,
as well as its resolutions 55/218 of 21 December 2000, 56/48 of 7 December 2001,
57/48 of 21 November 2002, 59/213 of 20 December 2004 and 61/296 of
17 September 2007,
Recalling also the principles enshrined in the Constitutive Act of the African
Union adopted in 2000 in Lomé, 2
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Recalling further the decisions and declarations adopted by the Assembly of
the African Union at all its ordinary and extraordinary sessions,
Welcoming the adoption of the framework for the ten-year capacity-building
programme for the African Union set out in the declaration on enhancing United
Nations-African Union cooperation, signed in Addis Ababa on 16 November 2006
by the Secretary-General and the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, 3
which highlights the key areas for cooperation between the African Union and the
United Nations,
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Acknowledging the decision of the African Union Peace and Security Council
at its sixty-eighth meeting, held on 14 December 2006, on the establishment of a
coordination and consultation mechanism between the African Union Peace and
Security Council and the United Nations Security Council, welcoming the June
2007 agreement to hold joint meetings at least once a year, 4 and taking note of the
third consultative meeting held in July 2009 in Addis Ababa,
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1
A/63/228-S/2008/531 and Corr.1.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2158, No. 37733.
3
A/61/630, annex.
4
See S/2007/386, annex.
2
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