Assembly/AU/Dec.269(XIV) Rev.1 Page 2 5. CONSIDERS that AU is endowed with the instruments required to tackle the scourge of unconstitutional change of Government and that the objective should be to promote the effective implementation of these instruments by, where necessary, refining, enriching and updating them, rather than elaborating new instruments. The Assembly ALSO EMPHASIZES, in conformity with the relevant AU instruments, the need for a comprehensive approach to the issue of unconstitutional changes of Government based on zero tolerance for coups d’ Etat but also for violations of democratic standards, the persistence and reoccurrence of which could result in unconstitutional changes; 6. ENDORSES the recommendations contained in the Report of the Chairperson of the Commission and, more specifically, agrees on the following measures: i) Enhancing the effectiveness of AU response to unconstitutional changes and modalities for accompanying transitions: a) REITERATES its appeal to all the Member States concerned to take, without delay, the measures required of them to become parties to the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance, which considerably strengthens the provisions regarding unconstitutional changes of Government, and REQUESTS the Commission, working closely with the relevant structures of the Union, particularly the Pan-African Parliament, to pursue and step up its efforts at raising the awareness of all the concerned stakeholders to speed up the entry into force of the Charter; b) DECIDES that, in cases of unconstitutional changes of Government, in addition to the suspension of the country concerned, the following measures shall apply: a. non-participation of the perpetrators of the unconstitutional change in the elections held to restore constitutional order; b. implementation of sanctions against any Member State that is proved to have instigated or supported an unconstitutional change in another State; c. implementation by the Assembly of other sanctions, including punitive economic sanctions. Adopted by the Fourteenth Ordinary Session of the Assembly in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 2 February 2010