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(a) Holding a joint meeting of ministers of defence and of the interior at Libreville from 28 to 30
April 1998 on questions of security in Central Africa;
(b) Organizing the Subregional Conference on Democratic Institutions and Peace in Central Africa,
at Bata, Equatorial Guinea, from 18 to 21 May 1998;
(c) Holding a Seminar on the Training of Trainers in Practical Disarmament Measures for the
Consolidation of Peace for Senior Military and Civilian Officials at Yaoundé, from 27 to 31 July 1998;
5. Emphasizes the importance of providing the States members of the Standing Advisory Committee
with the essential support they need to carry out the full programme of activities which they adopted at
the ninth and tenth ministerial meetings, in particular the organization of joint military exercises to
simulate peacekeeping operations;
6. Welcomes the decision of the States members of the Standing Advisory Committee to convene
as soon as possible a summit meeting of heads of State and Government with a view to establishing a
higher council for the promotion of peace, the prevention, management and settlement of political crises
and armed conflicts in Central Africa and a subregional parliament in Central Africa;
7. Welcomes with satisfaction the establishment of an early warning mechanism in Central Africa
which will serve, on the one hand, as an instrument for analysing and monitoring political situations in
the States members of the Standing Advisory Committee with a view to preventing the outbreak of future
armed conflicts and, on the other hand, as a technical body through which the member States will carry
out the work programme of the Committee, adopted at its organizational meeting held at Yaoundé in 1992;
8. Requests the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
to lend their support to the establishment of a subregional centre for human rights and democracy in
Central Africa;
9. Also requests the Secretary-General, pursuant to Security Council resolution 1197 (1998), to
provide the States members of the Standing Advisory Committee with the necessary support in making
operational the early warning mechanism that they have just established;
10. Thanks the Secretary-General for having established the Trust Fund for the United Nations
Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa;
11. Appeals to Member States and to governmental and non-governmental organizations to make
additional voluntary contributions to the Trust Fund for the implementation of the programme of work of
the Standing Advisory Committee, in particular the activities referred to in paragraphs 5 and 7 above;
12. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to provide assistance to the States members of the
Standing Advisory Committee to ensure that they are able to carry on with their efforts;
13. Also requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session
a report on the implementation of the present resolution;
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