Assembly/AU/11 (XIII) Page 4 jurisdiction particularly in some non African States and EXPRESSES its deep concern that indictments have continued to be issued in some European States against African leaders and personalities. To this end, it calls for immediate termination of all pending indictments; iv. FURTHER REITERATES its conviction on the need for an international regulatory body with competence to review and/or handle complaints or appeals arising out of abuse of the principle of universal jurisdiction by individual States; v. CALLS UPON all concerned States to respect the international law and particularly the immunity of state officials when applying the principle of universal jurisdiction; vi. EXPRESSES APPRECIATION to the Chairperson of the African Union and the Chairperson of the AU Commission for efforts made so far towards ensuring that this matter is exhaustively discussed at the level of the United Nations General Assembly and with the European Union, respectively; vii. INVITES the Member States affected by the abuse of the principle of universal jurisdiction by non-African States to respond to the request made by the Chairperson of the Union and to communicate to the Commission the list and details of pending cases in non African States against African personalities; viii. REQUESTS the Commission to follow-up on this matter with a view to ensuring that a definitive solution to this problem is reached and to report to the next ordinary session of the Assembly through the Executive Council in January/February 2010. Annex I: Executive Summary (AU-EU Technical Ad-hoc Expert Group on the Principle of Universal Jurisdiction) Annex II: Report of the AU-EU Technical Ad-hoc Expert Group on the Principle of Universal Jurisdiction