United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/55/22
Distr.: General
11 January 2001
Fifty-fifth session
Agenda item 180
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/55/L.6/Rev.1 and Add.1)]
55/22.
Cooperation between the United Nations and the
Economic Community of Central African States
The General Assembly,
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,
Welcoming the establishment by the Secretary-General, at the initiative of the
States members of the Economic Community of Central African States, of the
United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central
Africa on 28 May 1992, pursuant to resolution 46/37 B of 6 December 1991, and
recalling its subsequent resolutions on the programme of work of the Committee,
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 1 and
resolutions 1196 (1998) and 1197 (1998) pertaining thereto, adopted by the Security
Council on 16 and 18 September 1998 respectively,
Noting that, at the ninth regular session of the Economic Community of
Central African States, held in Malabo on 24 June 1999, the heads of State and
Government of the member States decided to resume the activities of the
Community, inter alia, 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 Economic Community and of helping
Central Africa to meet the challenges of globalization,
Welcoming the fact that, in their desire to instil a climate of peace and security
and to strengthen democratic institutions and practice, together with respect for the
rule of law and human rights in their subregion, the States of the Economic
Community of Central African States have established the Council for Peace and
Security in Central Africa and have decided to set up an early warning mechanism
in Central Africa as a tool for preventing armed conflicts, a subregional parliament
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A/52/871-S/1998/318.