A/RES/76/57
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
13 December 2021
Seventy-sixth session
Agenda item 101 (b)
Review and implementation of the Concluding Document
of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly:
United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and
Disarmament in Africa
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 6 December 2021
[on the report of the First Committee (A/76/445, para. 17)]
76/57.
United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament
in Africa
The General Assembly,
Mindful of the provisions of Article 11, paragraph 1, of the Charter of the United
Nations, in which it is stipulated that a function of the General Assembly is to consider
the general principles of cooperation in the maintenance of international peace and
security, including the principles governing disarmament and arms limitation,
Recalling its resolutions 40/151 G of 16 December 1985, 41/60 D of 3 December
1986, 42/39 J of 30 November 1987 and 43/76 D of 7 December 1988 on the United
Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa and its resolutions
46/36 F of 6 December 1991 and 47/52 G of 9 December 1992 on regional
disarmament, including confidence-building measures,
Recalling also its subsequent resolutions on the Regional Centre, the most
recent of which is resolution 75/76 of 7 December 2020,
Recalling further its resolution 73/46 of 5 December 2018, in which it
recognized the role of women in disarmament, non-proliferation and arms control,
Reaffirming the role of the Regional Centre in promoting disarmament, peace
and security at the regional level,
Welcoming the continuing and deepening cooperation between the Regional
Centre, the African Union and African subregional organizatio ns in the context of the
adoption of Agenda 2063 by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the
African Union, and in particular the objective of silencing the guns in Africa,
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