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9556-Assembly en 29 30 January 2007 Auc The African Union Eighth Ordinary Session
9556-Assembly en 29 30 January 2007 Auc The African Union Eighth Ordinary Session
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DECLARATIONS
The Assembly:
The Assembly:
10. CALLS UPON Member States to initiate the implementation of the African
Regional Nutrition Strategy and the NEPAD African Nutrition Initiative by
2008 with focus on long-term household food security and ending child
hunger and under-nutrition;
11. CALLS UPON the Commission, the New Partnership for Africa’s
Development (NEPAD) Secretariat and the Regional Economic
Communities (RECs) to establish a system for selecting and prioritising
key AU and NEPAD Comprehensive African Agricultural Development
Programme (CAADP) related to previous Summit commitments;
The Assembly:
The Assembly:
The Assembly:
The Assembly :
c. Investigate the nature and modalities, and set in motion the process
of establishing the African Education Fund;
The Assembly:
The Assembly:
b) self-determination;
7. AFFIRMS that the vast majority of the peoples of Africa are indigenous to
the African Continent;
DECISION ON SOMALIA
The Assembly:
2. RECALLS ALSO all the relevant decisions of the Peace and Security
Council on Somalia and Resolution 1725 (2006) of the United Nations
Security Council unanimously adopted on 6 December 2006;
9. ALSO CALLS ON the Member States and the AU Partners to support the
Transitional Federal Institutions (TFIs) of Somalia to enable them to
establish their authority in the country;
Assembly/AU/Dec.142 (VIII)
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10. EXPRESSES ITS SUPPORT to the initiative of the TFG for an inclusive
inter-Somali dialogue involving all stakeholders including political leaders,
clan leaders, religious leaders, and representatives of the women, youth,
business community and the civil society which would ensure national
reconciliation in Somalia;
The Assembly:
9. ALSO APPEALS to Member States that have not yet done so, to sign
and ratify/ accede to the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and
Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa.
Assembly/AU/Dec.144 (VIII)
The Assembly,
1. TAKES NOTE of the Activity Report of the African Court on Human and
Peoples’ Rights for 2006;
The Assembly:
1. TAKES NOTE of the report on the activities of the Peace and Security
Council and on the status of peace and security in Africa;
WELCOMES the fact that The Sudan has approved both the
conclusions of the high level consultation and the decision of the
Peace and Security Council.
12. URGES the Ivorian parties, with the support of ECOWAS, the African
Union, the United Nations and the international community, to
redouble efforts to bring the peace process to its logical conclusion on
the basis of Resolution 1721, adopted by the United Nations Security
Council on 1 November 2006, through direct dialogue as proposed by
President Laurent Gbagbo and supported by ECOWAS and the African
Union;
Assembly/AU/Dec.145 (VIII)
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14. URGES the Government of The Sudan and the SPLM to do their
utmost to ensure the scrupulous and speedy implementation of the
Comprehensive Peace Agreement in order to achieve the ultimate
objective that they have set for themselves;
16. STRESSES the urgent need for the Comorian parties to take all the
necessary steps to consolidate the reconciliation process in their
country, particularly by overcoming the current difficulties on the
constitutional powers that should devolve on each of the Comorian
entities. The Assembly REQUESTS the Peace and Security Council to
consider the possibility of deploying a mission that would contribute to
the creation of a conducive security environment during the forthcoming
elections in the Islands, scheduled to take place in March – April 2007,
and undertake other related tasks;
17. CALLS UPON the Peace and Security Council to pursue its efforts,
with special emphasis on conflict prevention, by examining potential
conflict situations before they degenerate into conflicts;
The Assembly:
The Assembly:
1
Reservation entered by the Arab Republic of Egypt.
Assembly/AU/Dec.148 (VIII)
The Assembly:
The Assembly:
1. Gabon (Central)
2. Ethiopia (East)
3. Algeria (North)
4. Angola (South)
5. Nigeria (West)
Assembly/AU/Dec.150 (VIII)
The Assembly:
The Assembly,
3. DECIDES to launch a competition for the selection of a new flag for the
African Union;
5. DECIDES that the design proposed by the Leader of the Great Libyan
Arab Jamahiriya should be taken as one of the entries for the competition;
The Assembly :
The Assembly:
The Assembly:
2. ADOPTS the budget of the African Union for the year 2007
amounting to US$132,988,152 million:
2
Reservation entered by the Arab Republic of Egypt.
Assembly/AU/Dec.155 (VIII)
The Assembly:
The Assembly:
The Assembly:
The Assembly:
The Assembly,
The Assembly :
The Assembly:
The Assembly:
The Assembly:
The Assembly:
The Assembly:
We, the AU Heads of State and Government, meeting in our 8th Ordinary Session Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia, on 29-30 January 2007,
Re-calling the Decision we made during our January 2006 Summit in Khartoum, the
Sudan, to declare the 2007 as the International Year of African Football as proposed by
the Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia;
Recognizing the role of sport in the promotion of peace, solidarity, social cohesion and
sustainable socio-economic development;
Aware of the need for reflecting on the collective history of football in Africa and also the
need for commemorating the 50th anniversary of Confederation of African Football
(CAF’s) as part of our appreciation of its outstanding contribution to the development of
soccer in Africa;
Appreciating the briefing by South Africa on the preparations to host the 2010 World
Cup, for the first time in the history of the Continent, which is a legitimate recognition of
Africa’s contribution to the advancement of world sports;
Pursuant to our commitment to ensuring the success of the 2010 World Cup
tournaments on our Continent;
Recognizing the supportive role of sports in Africa’s effort to achieve the Millennium
Development Goals;
We therefore:
5. REAFFIRM our commitment to make the 2010 World Cup a truly African
World Cup, by committing our countries to the full and substantive
involvement in the preparations leading to the 2010 World Cup;
7. URGE CAF, FIFA, the international sport community and friends of Africa to
provide the necessary support to South Africa in its preparation for the 2010
World Cup;
10. ALSO REQUEST the Commission, in collaboration with CAF, FIFA, and other
development partners, to follow-up the implementation of the activities of the
International Year of African Football and report on the achievements to the
Assembly;
Assembly/AU/Decl.2 (VIII)
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We, the Heads of State and Government of the African Union, meeting in Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia, on 29 – 30 January 2007 in the 8th Ordinary Session of our Assembly:
Further recalling the Khartoum Declaration issued by the 5th Summit of African,
Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Heads of State and Government in Khartoum on 8
December 2006.
Hereby:
3. CALL ON the European Union to extend the deadline for the completion of
negotiations beyond the December 2007 time frame and to explore the
alternatives of Economic Partnership Agreements as required by the
Cotonou Partnership Agreement;
7. STRESS that WTO Negotiations under the Doha Work Programme have
important implications for the negotiations of EPAs, which are required to
be compatible with WTO rules; and therefore CALL for the appropriate
sequencing of the two sets of negotiations.
Assembly/AU/Decl.3 (VIII)1
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We, the Heads of State and Government of the Member States of the African Union,
meeting at the 8th Ordinary Session of our Assembly in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 29th –
30th January 2007;
Recalling the decision of the international community at Doha in November 2001 to put
the interests and concerns of developing countries at the center of the New Round of
World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations;
Taking into account the enormous financial and human resource costs that have been
incurred by our Member States since the launch of the Doha Round in 2001;
Mindful of the decisions taken by the Heads of State and Government of the United
Nations Organization at the Millennium Summit +5, held in New York in September
2005, regarding the need of development, as well as the ways and means for attaining
this central objective;
Further recalling the recommendations of the G-8 Summit held in Saint Petersburg in
2006 and the commitments taken by the major trade players concerning the
achievement of the Doha Round objectives;
Aware that there are many systemic trade issues of importance to Africa’s development
which are beyond the reach of bilateralism and which can be best addressed within the
framework of a rules-based multilateral trading system;
Further aware that Africa will be a major loser if the Doha Round fails to deliver on its
development promises and does not lead to a strengthening of multilateralism;
Convinced that a successful completion of the Doha Round, with development at its
core, is critical to Africa meeting the challenges of development, including the
achievement of the Millennium Development Goals;
Taking note of the expressions of support for Africa’s development aspirations by some
of our development partners.
Assembly/AU/Decl.3 (VIII)1
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Hereby:
4. REQUEST the major players in the WTO and our development partners to
contribute to the attainment of this objective by translating their
expressions of support for Africa’s development into concrete
development-oriented commitments in the WTO negotiations.
6. URGE our trade partners, especially the major players, to provide the
necessary flexibilities that will enable African countries to use trade as an
engine for promoting development, reducing and eliminating poverty.
7. STRESS therefore the need to improve and make workable, the rules,
principles and mechanisms of multilateral trade, for African countries, in
particular the least developed among them.
10. COMMEND African Trade Ministers and Negotiators for their continued
steadfastness in the defense of Africa’s interests in the WTO negotiations.
11. RE-ITERATE our position that any outcome of the current Round of WTO
negotiations that fails to adequately deliver on the development promises
of the DDA will be unacceptable to Africa.
Assembly/AU/Decl.4 (VIII)
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We, the Heads of State and Government of the African Union, meeting at the 8th
Ordinary Session of our Assembly in Addis Ababa, from 29 – 30 January 2007:
Recalling our commitment to the principles and objectives, stipulated in the Constitutive
Act of the African Union and its NEPAD programme;
Further Recalling the objective and principles of the 1992 United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its commitments;
Welcoming the entry into force of the Kyoto Protocol on 16 February 2005 and its full
operationalization by the Marrakech Accords adopted in Montreal in December 2005;
Recognizing that climate change could endanger future well being of the population,
ecosystems and socio-economic progress of Africa;
Welcoming the outcome of the Ministerial meetings on disaster risk reduction, which
approved a programme of action to implement the Africa Regional Strategy for Disaster
Risk Reduction.
Noting that actions for mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions to combat climate
change should be reinforced on the principle of differentiation basis and that urgent
action is required to advance adaptation measures.
1. CONTINUE TO URGE countries that have yet to ratify the Kyoto Protocol
to do so.
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11. DEMAND that developed countries undertake and meet their mitigation
commitments, including the implementation of the “polluter pays” and
“differentiated responsibilities principles” as provided for in the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and to
institute deeper cuts in Greenhouse Gas emissions and better trade terms
on emission entitlement.
Assembly/AU/Decl.4 (VIII)
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We, the Heads of State and Government of the African Union, meeting at the 8th
Ordinary Session of our Assembly in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from the 29 to 30 January
2007;
Determined to take all necessary measures to strengthen our common institutions and
provide them with the necessary resources to enable them discharge their respective
mandates effectively;
Reaffirming that African people are now more than before determined to banish
poverty, combat diseases, improve public health, increase agricultural production, and
achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs);
Realizing that the achievement of these goals depends on our countries’ ability to
harness science and technology for development and also on an increased and
sustained investment in science, technology and innovation;
Recognizing the need to build and strengthen Africa’s institutions to enable them to
conduct more scientific research so that the outputs of research may be utilized to solve
our social environmental problems and contribute to socio-economic development;
Recalling the decision to declare the Second Decade of Education for Africa (2006-
2015) and the adoption of the Framework for the Plan of Action for the Decade;
• Promote and support research and innovation activities and the requisite
human and institutional capacities;
Assembly/AU/Decl.5(VIII)
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• Ensure the enhanced role and the revitalization of African universities and
other African institutions of higher education as well as scientific research
institutions so that they can play an effective role as loci of science,
technology and engineering education and development and also
contribute to public understanding of science and technology;
We call on UNESCO and other bilateral and multilateral organizations to support the
Member States, Regional Economic Communities and the African Union to implement
the Summit decision on Science and Technology.
Assembly/AU/Decl.6(VIII)
We, the Heads of State and Government of the Member States of the African
Union, meeting during the Eighth Ordinary Session of our Assembly held in Addis
Ababa, the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, from 29th – 30th January
2007;
Recognizing with appreciation the call of the Ethiopian people to all fellow
African brothers and sisters to embrace the Millennium as a truly African
occasion and to join them in the celebrations;
Noting with satisfaction the commitment of the Ethiopian people to use this
occasion as a unique opportunity to highlight their collective resolve to make a
difference in their struggle against poverty, and to broaden the frontiers of
democracy and good governance;
Call upon all Member States of the African Union, the Commission of the African
Union and the Regional Economic Communities to extend their support towards
the successful celebration of this unique African occasion – the Ethiopian
Millennium.