United Nations
A/RES/59/213
General Assembly
Distr.: General
3 March 2005
Fifty-ninth session
Agenda item 56 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2004
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/59/L.54 and Add.1)]
59/213. 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
and 57/48 of 21 November 2002,
Recalling also the principles enshrined in the Constitutive Act of the African
Union adopted at the meeting of the Heads of State and Government of the African
Union, held in Lomé from 10 to 12 July 2000, 2
Recalling further the decisions and declarations adopted by the Assembly of
the African Union at its first, second and third ordinary sessions, held in Durban,
South Africa, on 9 and 10 July 2002, 3 in Maputo from 10 to 12 July 2003 4 and in
Addis Ababa from 6 to 8 July 2004, 5 respectively,
Welcoming the entry into force of the Protocol relating to the Establishment of
the Peace and Security Council of the African Union, on 26 December 2003, and the
policy framework document on the establishment of an African standby force and a
military staff committee,
Welcoming also the statement by the President of the Security Council at the
5084th meeting of the Security Council, held in Nairobi on 19 November 2004, on
the institutional relationship with the African Union, 6
Welcoming further the Vision and Mission of the African Union and the
proposals contained in the Strategic Plan of the Commission of the African Union,
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1
A/59/303.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2158, No. 37733.
3
See A/57/744, annex III.
4
See A/58/626, annex I.
5
See African Union, documents Assembly/AU/Dec 33–54(III) and Assembly/AU/Decl.12 & 13 (III).
6
S/PRST/2004/44; see Resolutions and Decisions of the Security Council, 1 August 2004–31 July 2005.
2
04-48904