ASS/AU/Dec. 7 (I) DECISION ON THE SITUATION IN MADAGASCAR The Assembly: 1. RECALLS Article 4 (p) of the Constitutive Act of the African Union on the condemnation and rejection of unconstitutional changes of Government; 2. REAFFIRMS its commitment to the Algiers Decision and the Lome Declaration on Unconstitutional Changes of Government, adopted by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government during their ordinary sessions held in July 1999 and July 2000, respectively; 3. COMMENDS President Levy Patrick Mwanawasa, the outgoing Chairman of the OAU, President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal and the other Heads of State who facilitated the Dakar I Agreement of 18 April 2002, and who proposed the Dakar II Settlement Plan for Madagascar, as well as the Secretary General of the OAU and the Personal Envoy of the United Nations Secretary General for their efforts; 4. ENDORSES the Communiqué on the situation in Madagascar adopted by the Central Organ meeting held at Summit level in Addis Ababa on 21 June 2002; 5. ENCOURAGES Mr. Marc Ravalomanana and all the Malagasy parties to pursue efforts aimed at achieving national reconciliation and cohesion and promoting a peaceful solution to the crisis; 6. ENCOURAGES further Mr. Marc Ravalomanana and other Malagasy parties concerned to organise, as soon as possible, elections** as recommended in the Communiqué adopted by the Central Organ meeting at Summit level held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 21 June 2002. These elections must be transparent and Reservations expressed by Senegal, which proposes the organization of Legislative elections. *