Regional Confidence-Building Measures :#activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa

A/RES/55/34[B]View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda items 74 Review and implementation of the concluding document of the 12th special session of the General Assembly and 74a Regional confidence-building measures : activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa, published in 2001.

What other versions does this mandate have?

5 versions · 1999–2008

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/62/53

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2008	A/RES/62/53	Regional confidence-building measures activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa :	1,033	32%Compare
2003	A/RES/57/88	Regional confidence-building measures activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa :	1,224	—
2002	A/RES/56/25[A]	Regional confidence-building measures :#activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa	—	—
2001	A/RES/55/34[B]	Regional confidence-building measures :#activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa	—	—
1999	A/RES/53/78[A]	Regional confidence-building measures activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa	—	–

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report · 2008

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2008	A/63/164	Regional confidence-building measures activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa : report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/62/53

What subjects does this mandate have?

10 subjects

Central Africa Children in Armed Conflicts Conferences Confidence-Building Measures Early Warning Systems Legislators Parliamentary Government Refugee Assistance Regional Security Women

What’s in this document?

23 operative paragraphs

A/RES/55/34 [B]

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Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on regional confidence-building measures, which deals with the activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa in the period since the adoption by the General Assembly of resolution 54/55 A;

Reaffirms its support for efforts aimed at promoting confidence-building measures at regional and subregional levels in order to ease tensions and conflicts in Central Africa and to further peace, stability and sustainable development in the subregion;

Also reaffirms its support for the programme of work of the Standing Advisory Committee adopted at the organizational meeting of the Committee, held at Yaoundé from 27 to 31 July 1992;

Notes with satisfaction the progress made by the States members of the Standing Advisory Committee in implementing the programme of activities for the period 1999-2000, in particular by:

Holding the Subregional Conference on the Proliferation of and Illicit Traffic in Small Arms in Central Africa at N’Djamena from 25 to 27 October 1999;

Holding the twelfth ministerial meeting of the Standing Advisory Committee at N’Djamena from 27 to 30 October 1999;

Holding a meeting of experts of the countries of the subregion to draft the Protocol on the Council for Peace and Security in Central Africa and the Mutual Assistance Pact between countries of Central Africa at Malabo from 14 to 17 February 2000;

Holding the thirteenth ministerial meeting of the Standing Advisory Committee at N’Djamena from 2 to 6 May 2000;

Holding the Subregional Conference on the Question of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons in Central Africa at Bujumbura from 14 to 16 August 2000;

Holding the fourteenth ministerial meeting of the Standing Advisory Committee at Bujumbura from 17 to 19 August 2000;

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 their ministerial meetings;

Welcomes the creation of a mechanism for the promotion, maintenance and consolidation of peace and security in Central Africa, to be known as the Council for Peace and Security in Central Africa, by the summit Conference of Heads of State and Government of the Central African countries, held at Yaoundé on 25 February 1999, and requests the Secretary-General to give his full support to the effective realization of that important mechanism;

Emphasizes the need to make the early-warning mechanism in Central Africa operational so that it 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 programme of work of the Committee, adopted at its organizational meeting held at Yaoundé in 1992, and requests the Secretary-General to provide it with the assistance necessary for it to function properly;

Requests the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to continue to lend all their support to the effective establishment and smooth functioning of the Subregional Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Central Africa;

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 for the implementation and smooth functioning of the early-warning mechanism and the Council for Peace and Security in Central Africa;

Also requests the Secretary-General to support the establishment of a network of parliamentarians with a view to the creation of a subregional parliament in Central Africa;

Requests the Secretary-General and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to continue to provide increased assistance to the countries of Central Africa for coping with the problems of refugees in their territories;

Welcomes with satisfaction the decision taken by the Standing Advisory Committee at its fourteenth ministerial meeting to organize a subregional conference on the protection of women and children in armed conflicts, and requests the Secretary-General to lend all the necessary support for the holding of the conference;

Thanks the Secretary-General for having established the Trust Fund for the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa;

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;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to provide the States members of the Standing Advisory Committee with assistance to ensure that they are able to carry on their efforts;

Also requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-sixth session a report on the implementation of the present resolution;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-sixth session the item entitled “Regional confidence-building measures: activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa”.

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