A/RES/57/88 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, 1. Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on regional confidencebuilding 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 56/25 A;5 2. Reaffirms its support for efforts aimed at promoting confidence-building measures at 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; 3. Also reaffirms its support for the programme of work of the Standing Advisory Committee adopted at the organizational meeting of the Committee, held at Yaoundé from 27 to 31 July 1992; 4. Notes with satisfaction the progress made by the States members of the Standing Advisory Committee in implementing the programme of activities for the period 2001–2002, in particular by: (a) Holding a Subregional Conference on the Protection of Women and Children in Armed Conflict in Central Africa at Kinshasa from 14 to 16 November 2001; (b) Holding a meeting of Chiefs of Staff of the States members of the Standing Advisory Committee at Libreville from 18 to 20 March 2002; (c) Holding the seventeenth ministerial meeting of the Standing Advisory Committee at Kinshasa from 22 to 26 April 2002; (d) Holding the subregional consultation on the theme “Parity and development: participation of the Central African woman” at Douala from 28 to 30 May 2002; _______________ 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/57/161. 2 2