United Nations
A/RES/65/274
Distr.: General
28 July 2011
General Assembly
Sixty-fifth session
Agenda item 122 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 April 2011
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/65/L.68 and Add.1)]
65/274. 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, 59/213 of 20 December 2004, 61/296 of 17 September
2007 and 63/310 of 14 September 2009,
Recalling also the principles enshrined in the Constitutive Act of the African
Union adopted in 2000 in Lomé, 2
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 Chair of the African Union Commission, 3 which
highlights the key areas for cooperation between the African Union and the United
Nations,
Acknowledging the decision of the Peace and Security Council of the African
Union at its sixty-eighth meeting, held on 14 December 2006, on the establishment
of a coordination and consultation mechanism between the Peace and Security
Council of the African Union and the United Nations Security Council, welcoming
the June 2007 agreement to hold joint meetings at least once a year, 4 noting that
such meetings offer an important platform for dialogue, in this regard welcoming
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1
A/65/382-S/2010/490.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2158, No. 37733.
3
A/61/630, annex.
4
See S/2007/386, annex.
2
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