A/RES/69/74. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2014

• Resolution Number: A/RES/69/74
• Year: 2014
• Session: 69th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/69/74

General Assembly Distr.: General

11 December 2014

Sixty-ninth session

Agenda item 97 (g)

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 2 December 2014

[on the report of the First Committee (A/69/441)]

69/74. United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and

Disarmament in Africa

The General Assembly

,

Mindful

of the provisions of Article 11, paragraph 1, of the Charter of the

United Nations, in which it is stipulated that a function of the General Assembly is

to consider the general principles of cooperation in the maintenance of international

peace and security, including the principles governing disarmament and arms

limitation,

Recalling

its resolutions 40/151 G of 16 December 1985, 41/60 D of

3 December 1986, 42/39 J of 30 November 1987 and 43/76 D of 7 December 1988

on the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa and its

resolutions 46/36 F of 6 December 1991 and 47/52 G of 9 December 1992 on

regional disarmament, including confidence-building measures,

Recalling also

its subsequent resolutions on the Regional Centre, the most

recent of which is resolution 68/61 of 5 December 2013,

Recalling further

its resolution 67/48 of 3 December 2012, in which the

General Assembly recognized the role of women in disarmament, non-proliferation

and arms control,

Reaffirming

the role of the Regional Centre in promoting disarmament, peace

and security at the regional level,

Welcoming

the continuing and deepening cooperation between the Regional

Centre, the African Union and African subregional organizations, in particular their

institutions in the fields of disarmament, peace and security, as well as between the

Centre and relevant United Nations bodies and programmes in Africa, and

considering the communiqué adopted by the Peace and Security Council of the

African Union at its 200th meeting, held in Addis Ababa on 21 August 2009,

Recalling

the decision taken by the Executive Council of the African Union at

its eighth ordinary session, held in Khartoum from 16 to 21 January 2006,

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in which

the Council called upon member States to make voluntary contributions to the

Regional Centre to maintain its operations,

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1 A/60/693, annex II, decision EX.CL/Dec.263 (VIII).