Assembly/AU/Decl.1(XXIV) Page 1 DECLARATION ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A SINGLE AFRICAN AIR TRANSPORT MARKET Doc. EX.CL/871(XXVI) WE, African Heads of State and Government, meeting in, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 30th and 31st January 2014, on the occasion of the 24th Ordinary Session of the Assembly; Considering: i) the Constitutive Act of the African Union, adopted on 11 July 2000 in Lomé, Togo, in particular Articles 14, 15 and 16, which entrust the African Union Commission with a coordination mission in the Transport, Communication and Tourism sectors; ii) the Treaty Establishing the African Economic Community, adopted in Abuja, Nigeria in June 1991; iii) the Declaration Assembly/AU/Decl.2(XVIII) of the Eighteenth Ordinary Session of the Assembly held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in January 2012, which adopted the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) as the single policy and strategic framework for the development of infrastructure in Africa; iv) the Executive Council Decision EX.CL/Dec.826(XXV) endorsing the report of the Third Session of the Conference of African Ministers of Transport (CAMT); v) the Executive Council Decision EX.CL/Dec.821(XXV) placing the implementation of the Yamoussoukro Decision on the Liberalisation of Air Transport Markets in Africa, i.e. the establishment of a single African aviation market in the context of the African Agenda 2063. Mindful of the Decision Assembly/AU/Dec.394 (XVIII) adopted by the Assembly during its 18th Ordinary Session held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 29th and 30th January 2012 on boosting Intra-African Trade and Fast Tracking the Continental Free Trade Area; Concerned by the slow pace in implementing the Yamoussoukro Decision on the liberalisation of air transport markets in Africa; Aware of the political will show by a number of States in spearheading the liberalisation of the air transport markets throughout the continent and the need to encourage others to follow suit;