Assembly/AU/Dec.599(XXVI) Page 2 9. UNDERTAKES to defend, canvass and promote the African Union Common Position at the on-going intergovernmental negotiations on the reform of UNSC; 10. URGES all Member States as follows: 11. 12. i) Continue to speak with one voice on all aspects of “the question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the UN Security Council and related matters”; ii) The need not to adhere to other negotiating groups or special interests, as it is not in keeping with the spirit of the Common African Position; iii) Those that have not done so to include the issue of the UNSC reform among their foreign policy priorities in their engagements with non-African partners; in particular, the need to correct without further delay, the historical injustice that the African continent continues to suffer. DECIDES to include the following: i) An allocation in the Commission’s Budget for the purpose of funding the activities of the Committee of Ten and REQUESTS the Commission in collaboration with the Permanent Representatives’ Committee (PRC) to make adequate proposals in this regard to the Assembly through the Executive Council starting from the 2017 Budget; ii) On the agenda of its closed session, on the margins of the 27th Ordinary Session of the Assembly scheduled for July 2016, an item on UNSC reform. REITERATES that the Committee of Ten remains seized of its mandate until Africa achieves its objectives on the reform of UNSC.