Assembly/AU/Dec.251(XIII) Page 1 DECISION ON THE AFRICAN INVESTMENT BANK Doc. EX.CL./514 (XV) The Assembly, 1. TAKES NOTE of the recommendations of the Second African Union Commission – United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) Conference of African Ministers of Economy, Finance and Planning on the Statutes of the African Investment Bank (AIB), held in Cairo, Egypt in 2009; 2. ALSO TAKES NOTE of the recommendations of the Executive Council on the draft Statutes of AIB, as contained in its decision EX.CL/Dec. 504 (XV) adopted in Sirte, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, on 1 July 2009; 3. REQUESTS the Commission, in consultation with Member States’ experts and other stakeholders, to elaborate the planned annexes to the Statutes and present same for consideration and validation at a meeting of legal and financial experts to be organized before October 2009, prior to submission for adoption by the Extraordinary Conference of African Ministers of Economy, Finance and Planning due to take place in November 2009 and thereafter to the next Ordinary Session of the Assembly in January/February 2010 through the Executive Council; 4. ADOPTS the Statutes of the African Investment Bank and CALLS ON Member States to ratify the Protocol of the African Investment Bank and the Statutes annexed to it. (AU) Joint Draft June Adopted by the Thirteenth Ordinary Session of the Assembly in Sirte, Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya on 3 July 2009