United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/57/40
Distr.: General
23 January 2003
Fifty-seventh session
Agenda item 22 (e)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/57/L.25 and Add.1)]
57/40.
Cooperation between the United Nations and the
Economic Community of Central African States
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 55/22 of 10 November 2000, 55/161 of 12 December
2000 and 56/39 of 7 December 2001 on cooperation between the United Nations and
the Economic Community of Central African States,
Bearing in mind the charter establishing the Economic Community of Central
African States, by which the Central African countries have agreed to work for the
economic development of their subregion, to promote economic cooperation and to
establish a Common Market of Central Africa,
Recalling the United Nations Millennium Declaration, adopted on 8 September
2000 by the heads of State and Government at the Millennium Summit of the United
Nations, 1 and especially chapter VII thereof,
Noting that, at the ninth regular session of the Economic Community of
Central African States, held at Malabo on 24 June 1999, the heads of State and
Government of the member States decided to resume the activities of the
Community, in particular by incorporating a collective security component, and by
providing it with sufficient financial and human resources to enable it to become a
real tool for the integration of their economies and to foster the development of
cooperation between their peoples, with the ultimate aim of making it one of the
five pillars of the African community and of helping Central Africa to meet the
challenges of globalization,
Bearing in mind the report of the Secretary-General on the causes of conflict
and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in Africa, 2
Welcoming the establishment of the Council for Peace and Security in Central
Africa with a view to creating a climate of peace and security in the subregion and
strengthening the rule of law essential to its development,
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See resolution 55/2.
A/52/871-S/1998/318.