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Stabilization Mission. The Assembly URGES the bilateral and multilateral partners
to participate in the Donors Roundtable for Guinea Bissau, scheduled to be held
during the first half of 2010, and APPEALS to the international community to
provide the necessary assistance to the country in the fight against drug trafficking;
27. WELCOMES the entry into force, on 15 July 2009, of the African Nuclear-WeaponFree Zone Treaty (Treaty of Pelindaba), and LOOKS FORWARD to the
Conference of the States’ Parties to the Treaty, scheduled to take place in Addis
Ababa, in April 2010, to establish the African Commission on Nuclear Energy. The
Assembly ALSO WELCOMES the entry into force, in December 2009, of the NonAggression and Common Defence Pact, and ENCOURAGES the Commission to
take all steps required for the implementation of the Pact. The Assembly NOTES
that these two instruments enrich the AU normative framework for the structural
prevention of conflicts;
28. REQUESTS the Peace and Security Council, in close collaboration with the
Chairperson of the Commission, to spare no effort, within the framework of the
Year of Peace and Security, to significantly advance the different peace processes
in the Continent and to take the necessary initiatives for more dynamic action in the
area of conflict prevention and post-conflict reconstruction.
Adopted by the Fourteenth Ordinary Session of the Assembly in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 2 February 2010