A/RES/58/65 Recalling the Brazzaville Declaration on Cooperation for Peace and Security in Central Africa, 1 the Bata Declaration for the Promotion of Lasting Democracy, Peace and Development in Central Africa, 2 and the Yaoundé Declaration on Peace, Security and Stability in Central Africa, 3 Bearing in mind resolutions 1196 (1998) and 1197 (1998), adopted by the Security Council on 16 and 18 September 1998 respectively, following its consideration of the report of the Secretary-General on the causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in Africa, 4 Emphasizing the need to strengthen the capacity for conflict prevention and peacekeeping in Africa, Recalling the decision of the fourth ministerial meeting of the Standing Advisory Committee in favour of establishing, under the auspices of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, a subregional centre for human rights and democracy in Central Africa at Yaoundé, Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on regional confidence1. building measures, which deals with the activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa in the period since the adoption by the General Assembly of resolution 57/88; 5 2. 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 peace, stability and sustainable development in the subregion; Also reaffirms its support for the programme of work of the Standing 3. Advisory Committee adopted at the organizational meeting of the Committee, held at Yaoundé from 27 to 31 July 1992; Notes with satisfaction the progress made by the States members of the 4. Standing Advisory Committee in implementing the programme of activities for the period 2002–2003, in particular by: (a) Holding a seminar on the implementation in the Central African region of the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects 6 at Brazzaville from 12 to 14 May 2003; (b) Holding the nineteenth ministerial meeting of the Standing Advisory Committee at Brazzaville from 14 to 17 May 2003; (c) Holding the “Biyongho 2003” military peacekeeping exercise at Franceville, Gabon, from 21 to 28 July 2003; (d) Holding the twentieth ministerial meeting of the Standing Advisory Committee at Malabo from 27 to 31 October 2003; _______________ 1 A/50/474, annex I. A/53/258-S/1998/763, annex II, appendix I. 3 A/53/868-S/1999/303, annex II. 4 A/52/871-S/1998/318. 5 A/58/177. 6 See Report of the United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects, New York, 9–20 July 2001 (A/CONF.192/15), chap. IV, para. 24. 2 2