United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/56/48
Distr.: General
23 January 2002
Fifty-sixth session
Agenda item 21 (j)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/56/L.37 and Add.1)]
56/48.
Cooperation between the United Nations and the
Organization of African Unity
The General Assembly,
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General, 1
Bearing in mind the decisions and declarations adopted by the Assembly of
Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity at its thirtyseventh ordinary session, held in Lusaka from 9 to 11 July 2001, 2 in particular
decision AHG/Dec.160 (XXXVII) on the establishment of the African Union on the
basis of the Constitutive Act and a period of transition from Organization of African
Unity and African Economic Community to African Union, to allow for the creation
of the organs of the African Union,
Taking note of declaration AHG/Decl.1 (XXXVII), adopted by the Assembly
of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity at its thirtyseventh ordinary session, concerning the adoption of the New African Initiative,
now called New Partnership for Africa’s Development, following the review by the
Implementation Committee of Heads of State and Government in Abuja on
23 October 2001 on sustainable development in Africa,
Recalling the provisions of Chapter VIII of the Charter of the United Nations
and the agreement on cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization
of African Unity, 3 as well as all its resolutions on cooperation between the United
Nations and the Organization of African Unity, including resolutions 54/94 of
8 December 1999 and 55/218 of 21 December 2000,
Taking note of the declarations and decisions adopted by the Assembly of
Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity at its thirtysixth ordinary session, held in Lomé from 10 to 12 July 2000, in particular
declaration AHG/Decl.4 (XXXVI), the Solemn Declaration on the Conference on
Security, Stability, Development and Cooperation in Africa, 4
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1
A/56/489.
See A/56/457, annex I.
3
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 548, No. 614 (Part II).
4
See A/55/286, annex II.
2
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