The Causes of Conflict and the Promotion of Durable Peace and Sustainable Development in Africa

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 164Causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in Africa, published in 1998.

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2 versions · 1998–2000

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2000A/RES/54/234The causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in AfricaLatestCompare with previous version
1998A/RES/53/92The causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in Africa

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Welcomes the report of the Secretary-General on the causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in Africa1 for its holistic approach to the problems of peace and development in Africa and the concrete recommendations contained therein;

Commends the Secretary-General for his strong and global advocacy for African development and his efforts to mobilize the international community further in support of the continent, and, in particular, to bring the United Nations system, including the Bretton Woods institutions, to support African development within a coordinated framework;

Notes that the effective implementation of the recommendations of the Secretary-General on building durable peace and promoting sustainable development in Africa will require increased and sustained political will by African States and the international community;

Calls upon African countries to continue their efforts to create an enabling domestic environment for sustainable development;

Calls upon the international community to provide African countries with a substantial increase in the flow of financial resources required to implement the recommendations of the Secretary-General effectively, and in that context also calls upon all parties concerned to cooperate in improving the quality and effectiveness of development assistance from all sources;

Stresses the importance of improved coordination among relevant bodies and agencies of the United Nations system in assisting with post-conflict peace-building, reconciliation, reconstruction and development in Africa, and requests the Secretary-General to seek further measures in this regard;

Urges the United Nations and other relevant international institutions, upon request from Governments, to provide adequate assistance for the strengthening of the institutions for the promotion of transparency and accountability in public administration and good governance and, in this regard, urges all Governments to promote and respect all human rights and the rule of law and to strengthen democratic institutions;

Urges all States, as well as other relevant actors, to rely upon peaceful means instead of military solutions to their problems and, to that end, to promote preventive diplomacy and confidence-building measures, as appropriate, and strengthen Africa's capacity to participate in all aspects of peacekeeping operations, in particular through increased cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity and between the United Nations and subregional organizations;

Calls upon the international community to supplement national efforts by providing African countries with sufficient concessional resources for capacity-building and the attainment of a substantial and sustained pace of economic growth and development;

Strongly underlines the importance of an enabling environment for investment, in particular, foreign direct investment, market access, good governance, increase in the volume and effectiveness of official development assistance, tackling unsustainable debt burdens, including through debt conversion measures, flexibility in the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Debt Initiative and support for regional cooperation and integration as priority areas that need to be addressed in order to achieve sustainable development in all African countries and to encourage the participation of all African countries in the global economy, as recommended in the report of the Secretary-General;

Encourages African countries to continue to promote regional economic cooperation and integration in the framework of the Treaty establishing the African Economic Community3 and other complementary subregional organizations and arrangements, and calls upon the international community to support these efforts;

Requests all Governments and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to pay particular attention to meeting the special needs of refugee women and children, including those with special protection needs, as well as internally displaced persons;

Supports the recommendation to harmonize current international and bilateral initiatives on Africa contained in the report of the Secretary-General, and invites African countries and their partners during the coordination segment of the 1999 substantive session of the Economic and Social Council to identify and rank priorities in partnership, to define respective responsibilities and to agree on realistic and measurable targets in priority areas;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit a progress report on the implementation of the recommendations contained in his report to the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session;

Requests the President of the General Assembly, in preparation for the discussion at the fifty-fourth session of the General Assembly, to establish an open-ended ad hoc working group of the General Assembly to monitor the implementation of the present resolution and, in particular, the recommendations contained in the report of the Secretary-General to the Security Council and the General Assembly on the causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in Africa; in this regard, the Working Group shall determine its mandate and modalities, taking into account the outcome of the deliberations of the Economic and Social Council on this matter.

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