PSC/AHG/COMM/1.(CCCXCVII) Page 3 urges the Security Council also to take steps, as articulated above, to foster a more strategic vision of the partnership between the AU and the UN on matters relating to the maintenance of international peace and security; 8. Agrees that the following steps should be taken as a matter of urgency, to enhance the AU-UN partnership in the area of peace and security, in order better to respond to the complex challenges facing the two organizations on the ground: a. b. On the relations between the Peace and Security Council and the Security Council, Council, while looking forward to the joint annual consultative meeting between the two organs scheduled to take place in Addis Ababa on 8 October 2013, calls for the following steps to be taken: i. systematic consultations between the two Councils, including through their Chairs, prior to taking decisions on matters relating to the continent; ii. adoption of practical steps to ensure that the joint annual consultative meetings between the two Councils are more structured and substantive; iii. immediate implementation of the existing agreement by the two Councils to undertake joint field missions to enhance synergy and facilitate the formulation of cohesive positions and strategies in dealing with conflict situations in Africa; iv. effective involvement of the African members of the Security Council in the drafting of resolutions, presidential statements and statements to the press concerning Africa, including through the designation of African states as pen holders/co-pen holders on African matters, as part of the overall efforts to ensure that lead roles for country-specific situations and thematic issues are fairly distributed among all the members of the Security Council; v. adequate, timeous, informal and formal consultations with the AU and its Regional Mechanisms for Conflict Prevention, Management and Resolution, as may be relevant, on the drafting of resolutions, presidential statements and statements to the press on matters relating to Africa; and vi. convening, in Addis Ababa, of consultations between the Peace and Security Council and the members of the UN Security Council, to exchange views on issues of common concern; On the relations between the AU Commission and the UN Secretariat, Council, while looking forward to the 7th meeting of the JTF scheduled to take place in New York on 30 September 2013, calls for the following steps to be taken: