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(b) To launch programmes designed to retrain demobilized soldiers and prepare them for reintegration
into civilian life;
(c) To combat the illegal circulation of weapons and drugs in the subregion;
(d) To organize training seminars so as to strengthen the capacity of the Central African States to
participate more actively in peacekeeping operations organized under the auspices of the United Nations and
the Organization of African Unity;
(e) To organize joint military exercises to simulate the conduct of standard peacekeeping operations;
(f) To organize, for members of the armed forces and security forces of the Central African States,
seminars and awareness programmes relating to the conduct of public affairs, the rule of law and respect for
human rights;
(g) To hold a subregional conference on the topic "Democratic institutions and peace in Central Africa";
(h) To revert to the holding of two annual meetings of the Standing Advisory Committee at the
ministerial level in order to further consultations among the member States;
6. Expresses its conviction that the full implementation of those measures and activities will contribute
to the promotion of confidence among the member States, the establishment of democracy and good
governance and the consolidation of peace in the Central African subregion;
7. Welcomes the participation, at the invitation of the Government of Gabon, of representatives of the
States permanent members of the Security Council in the ninth ministerial meeting of the Standing Advisory
Committee, and invites the Secretary-General to facilitate the pursuit of this type of dialogue, which is likely
to strengthen cooperation between the Council and the countries concerned with a view to contributing to the
peaceful settlement of conflicts in Central Africa, whenever the States members of the Committee so request;
8. Thanks the Secretary-General for having established the Trust Fund for the United Nations Standing
Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa;
9. 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 measures and objectives referred to in paragraph 5 above;
10. 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, being convinced that
effective cooperation between the international community and the countries of the subregion can stimulate
the search for peaceful solutions to the crises and conflicts that occur in the subregion;
11. Also requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-third session a
report on the implementation of the present resolution;
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