United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/61/296
Distr.: General
5 October 2007
Sixty-first session
Agenda item 108 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 17 September 2007
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/61/L.70 and Add.1)]
61/296. 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
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 and 59/213 of 20 December 2004,
Recalling also the principles enshrined in the Constitutive Act of the African
Union adopted at the meeting of the Heads of State and Government of the African
Union, held in Lomé from 10 to 12 July 2000, 2
Recalling further the decisions and declarations adopted by the Assembly of
the African Union at all its ordinary and extraordinary sessions, held in Durban,
South Africa, on 9 and 10 July 2002, 3 in Maputo from 10 to 12 July 2003, 4 in Addis
Ababa from 6 to 8 July 2004, 5 in Abuja on 30 and 31 January 2005, 6 in Sirte,
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, on 4 and 5 July 2005, 7 in Khartoum on 23 and 24 January
2006, 8 and in Banjul on 1 and 2 July 2006, 9
Welcoming the adoption of the African Union Non-Aggression and Common
Defence Pact at the fourth ordinary session of the Assembly of the African Union, 6
as an instrument to reinforce cooperation among States members of the African
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1
A/61/256 and Add.1.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2158, No. 37733.
3
See A/57/744, annex III.
4
See A/58/626, annex I.
5
See African Union, documents Assembly/AU/Dec.33–54 (III) and Assembly/AU/Decl.12 & 13 (III).
6
See African Union, documents Assembly/AU/Dec.55–72 (IV) and Assembly/AU/Dec.1–2 (IV).
7
See African Union, documents Assembly/AU/Dec.73–90 (V), Assembly/AU/Dec.1–3 (V) and
Assembly/AU/Resolution 1 (V).
8
See African Union, documents Assembly/AU/Dec. 91–110 (VI), Assembly/AU/Dec.1–3 (VI) and
Assembly/AU/Recommendations (VI).
9
See African Union, documents Assembly/AU/Dec. 111–132 (VII) and Assembly/AU/Decl.1–4 (VII).
2
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