A/RES/74/131 Assistance to refugees, returnees and displaced persons in Africa address the challenges of financing and creating an enabling environment at all levels for sustainable development in the spirit of global partnership and solidarity, Taking note of the World Humanitarian Summit, held in Istanbul, Turkey, on 23 and 24 May 2016, while recognizing that it did not have an intergovernmentally agreed outcome, and welcoming the commitment of the African Heads of State and Government, adopted by the African Union, on the theme “One Africa, One Voice, One Message at the World Humanitarian Summit”, 1. Takes note of the reports of the Secretary-General 8 and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; 9 2. Calls upon African States that have not yet signed or ratified the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa to consider doing so as early as possible in order to ensure its wider implementation; 3. Notes the need for African States, with the support and collaboration of the international community, to resolutely address the root causes of all forms of forced displacement in Africa and to foster peace, stability and prosperity throughout the African continent; 4. Recalls the global compact on refugees as set out in the High Commissioner’s annual report (part II) of 2018, 10 affirmed on 17 December 2018, 11 and calls upon the international community as a whole, including States and other relevant stakeholders, to implement the compact in order to achieve its four objectives on an equal footing based on the principle of burden- and responsibility-sharing, and in accordance with the guiding principles and paragraph 4 of the global compact on refugees, through concrete actions, pledges and contributio ns, including at the first Global Refugee Forum in December 2019, and requests the High Commissioner to report regularly on the progress being made; 5. Welcomes the important outcomes of the six continental consultative meetings that were organized under the 2019 theme of the African Union, “Year of refugees, returnees and internally displaced persons: towards durable solutions to forced displacement in Africa”, with regard to global responsibility-sharing, the role of parliamentarians in preventing and resolving forced displacement, statelessness, the mixed movements of refugees and migrants, and the ratification and implementation of the Organization of African Unity Convention governing the specific aspects of refugee problems in Africa of 1969 1 and the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa (Kampala Convention) of 2009 ; 6. Reaffirms the central role played by the Heads of State and Government of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development towards the successful negotiations in Khartoum and the eventual signing of the final Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan between the Government and the opposition movements during the thirty-third extraordinary summit, held in Addis Ababa on 12 September 2018, and encourages ongoing efforts to fully implement this agreement in order to achieve a sustainable and lasting peac e; 7. Commends the continued efforts and commitment by the regional Governments towards resolving conflicts in the region, including the ongoing mediation by the Sudan between the parties to the conflict in the Central African __________________ 8 9 10 11 4/10 A/74/322. Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-fourth Session, Supplement No. 12 (A/74/12). See A/73/12 (Part II). See resolution 73/151. 19-22226