Assembly/AU/4(XII) Page 11 Prosecutor, no action has so far been taken to defer the application. On its part, the Commission is in the process of finalizing the composition of the high-level panel established by the PSC at its meeting of 21st July 2008, to examine the situation indepth and submit recommendations on how best the issues of accountability and combating impunity, on the one hand, and reconciliation and healing, on the other, could be effectively and comprehensively addressed. 47. The security and humanitarian situation continues to be of concern. Humanitarian aid workers as well as UNAMID personnel and assets have been at increasing risk during the reporting period. It is against this background that UNAMID continued its build-up and, with the assistance of the Government of the Sudan, it has achieved its targeted strength of 60 per cent deployment of uniformed personnel (military and police) by the end of the year. The establishment of a Tripartite Committee, consisting of the Government of Sudan, the AU Commission and the United Nations, along with the appointment of a full-time Government liaison officer to El Fasher, has contributed significantly to the deployment of the Mission, with a number of key arrangements having been concluded and implemented by the Government and UNAMID. 48. On relations between Chad and The Sudan, it is first to be noted that the Contact Group established by the Dakar Agreement of March 2008 met at the ministerial level and at the level of Defence, Security and Intelligence experts responsible for studying and planning the rapid establishment of the Peace and Security Force along the border between the two countries. Thus, the meetings were successively held in Brazzaville, in June 2008, in Dakar, in July 2008, and at Asmara, in September 2008. Following the restoration of diplomatic relations between Chad and The Sudan, formalised by the exchange of their respective Ambassadors on 9 November 2008, the 6th Contact Group Meeting took place in N’Djamena, on 15 November 2008. This meeting was preceded, from 12 to 14 November, by the 4th Defence, Security and Intelligence Experts Planning Meeting, the conclusions of which were adopted by the Contact Group. The 7th Contact Group Meeting will be held in Khartoum. 49. In accordance with the decision on relations between Chad and The Sudan adopted by the 138th PSC Meeting held in Sharm El Sheikh, on 29 June 2008, the Commission sent to Chad a delegation led by the former President of Burundi, Mr Pierre Buyoya, from 10 to 16 October and from 25 to 28 November 2008; and to The Sudan, from 2 to 9 November 2008. The delegation was received in audience by President Idriss Deby Itno, and had working sessions with senior officers of the Sudanese and Chadian Governments, as well as with representatives of the international community and other key players. The Authorities of both countries reiterated their commitment to normalise their diplomatic relations and to ensure that no hostile action was carried out against their respective territories on either side of their common border. 50. The security situation remained generally calm. However, there were a number of clashes between the Chadian National Army and rebel groups, some of which announced, on 18 January 2009, in Hadjer Marfaïne, a locality situated on the Chadian and Sudanese border, that they had formed an alliance called Union of Resistance Forces (UFR). In addition, on 14 January 2009, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 1861(2009) authorising the deployment of a military component of the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and