Assembly/AU/Dec.274(XIV) Page 1 DECISION ON THE PROCLAMATION OF 2010 AS THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE YOUTH The Assembly, 1. RECALLS Decision Assembly/AU/Dec.250 (XIII) requesting all Member States and the African Group in New York to give their support to efforts geared towards the adoption of a draft resolution proclaiming 2010 “International Year of the Youth”; 2. ALSO RECALLS Decision Assembly/AU/Dec.250 (XIII) inviting all Member States of the United Nations Organisation and other international organizations to support this initiative to proclaim 2010 as International Year of the Youth, and to contribute to its adoption when it is tabled before the United Nations General Assembly; 3. TAKES NOTE of the effective adoption on 18 December 2009 by the 64th Session of the United Nations General Assembly of Resolution 64/131 entitled “2010 International Year of the Youth: Dialogue and Mutual Understanding” to proclaim the year and to organize a World Youth Conference as the highlight of the Year, and invites the President of the General Assembly to conduct open-ended consultations with Member States with a view to determining the modalities of the Conference and the expected outcomes; 4. EXPRESSES its full satisfaction and great pride following the unanimous adoption, on the initiative of His Excellency Zine El Abidine BEN ALI, President of the Republic of Tunisia, of the appeal to proclaim 2010 as the International Year of the Youth; 5. COMMENDS the Republic of Tunisia and its President, His Excellency Zine El Abidine BEN ALI, for the special interest given to the role of the youth, in general, and the African Youth, in particular, in the task of developing and consolidation mutual understanding; 6. CALLS UPON Member States to continue to support this initiative while actively participating in consultations that will be led by the President of the United Nations General Assembly on the modalities for organizing the World Youth Conference; 7. URGES Member States to organize and undertake national actions and participate in regional and international activities to mark the International Year of the Youth; Adopted by the Fourteenth Ordinary Session of the Assembly in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 2 February 2010