Inter-African Legal Co-Operation

Jurisdiction
African Regional Bodies · African Union (AU)
Citation
CM/Res.226(XV)
Regional Body / Author
Executive Council of the African Union
Date
31 August 1970
Language
English
Type
Resolution

CM/Res. 226 (XV)



INTER-AFRICAN LEGAL CO-OPERATION



The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its Fifteenth Ordinary Session in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 24 to 31 August 1970,


Reaffirming the importance of and need for legal co-operation between African States;



Referring to its previous Resolutions and decisions on this matter, and especially Decision CM/Dec. 108 (XIV);


  1. DECIDES to deter consideration of the question of concluding a treaty or treaties on inter-African legal co-operation between Member States of OAU until its Seventeenth Ordinary Session,


  1. EARNESTLY REQUESTS Member States that have not yet done so, to forward to the Secretariat, as far as possible before the Sixteenth Ordinary Session of the Council, their answers to the questionnaire prepared by the Secretariat in accordance with Decision CM/Dec. 108 (XIV),


  1. RECOMMENDS the constitution of a Committee of experts composed of nine members to study the synoptic report of the Secretariat and to submit to the Council a draft convention or conventions on co-operation in legal matters,


  1. REQUESTS the Administrative Secretary General to prepare a report on the financial implications of setting up the aforementioned Committee of experts for the Sixteenth Session of the Council.

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