Assembly/AU/Dec.252(XIII) Page 5 15. URGES AU Member States to provide the necessary military and police personnel to enable AMISOM to reach its authorized strength, PAYS TRIBUTE to AMISOM and the Troop Contributing Countries, namely: Burundi and Uganda; REQUESTS Member States which have promised to provide troops for AMISOM to honour these promises as soon as possible and EXPRESSES GRATITUDE to all the Member States and partners providing support to AMISOM; 16. CALLS ON the United Nations Security Council, in line with the AU PSC and IGAD communiqués, to take immediate measures, including the imposition of a no-fly zone and blockade of sea ports, to prevent the entry of foreign elements into Somalia, as well as flights and shipments carrying weapons and ammunitions to armed groups inside Somalia which are carrying out attacks against the TFG, the civilian population and AMISOM, and also to impose sanctions against all those foreign actors, both within and outside the region, especially Eritrea, providing support to the armed groups engaged in destabilization activities in Somalia, attacks against the TFG, the civilian population and AMISOM, as well as against the Somali individuals and entities working towards undermining the peace and reconciliation efforts and regional stability;* 17. TAKES NOTE of the Report of the Commission on the border crisis between Djibouti and Eritrea, as well as the negative evolution of the crisis, as described to the Assembly, EXPRESSES GRAVE CONCERN at the total absence of progress regarding the implementation by Eritrea of the successive decisions taken at the 11th and 12th Ordinary Sessions of the Assembly, held respectively in July 2008 and February 2009, as well as resolution 1862 of the UN Security Council regarding the border dispute between Djibouti and Eritrea. The Assembly, once again, RE-AFFIRMS its different decisions and resolutions mentioned above and URGES Eritrea to urgently and fully comply with the repeated demands of the AU and the international community on the border crisis between Eritrea and Djibouti; 18. EXPRESSES ITS SERIOUS CONCERN at the mounting insecurity in the maritime spaces around Africa, and Somalia in particular, and STRONGLY CONDEMNS all illegal activities in these regions, including piracy, illegal fishing and dumping of toxic waste. The Assembly WELCOMES the initiatives undertaken by the Commission to develop a comprehensive and coherent strategy to combat these scourges and REQUESTS it to submit reports thereon to the competent organs of the African Union, on a regular basis; Adopted by the Thirteenth Ordinary Session of the Assembly in Sirte, Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya on 3 July 2009

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