Assembly/AU/Dec.226(XII) Page 1 DECISION ON THE DRAFT STATUTES ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE AFRICAN INVESTMENT BANK The Assembly: 1. TAKES NOTE of the Draft Statutes on the Establishment of the African Investment Bank; 2. URGES Member States to communicate their responses on the proposed draft Statutes on the Establishment of the African Investment Bank to the Commission by May 2009; 3. REQUESTS the Commission to convene a meeting of legal and finance experts to be followed by a Ministerial Conference to consider the draft Statutes; 4. WELCOMES the offer by the Great Libyan Arab Jamahiriya to host the experts meeting in May 2009; 5. REQUESTS the Commission to present the draft Statutes to the next Conference of African Ministers of Economy and Finance and thereafter to the next Ordinary Session of the Assembly, in July 2009 for consideration.