DECISION ON THE APPOINTMENT OF THE INCOMING CHAIRPERSON
OF THE AFRICAN UNION FOR 2022
The Assembly,
RECALLS Decision Assembly/AU/Dec.635(XXVIII) that in order to ensure continuity and effective implementation of Assembly decisions, a troika arrangement between the outgoing, the current, and the incoming African Union Chairpersons shall be established, and that in this regard, the incoming Chairperson shall be selected one year in advance;
ALSO RECALLS the principle of rotation for Chairpersonship of the African Union, and taking into account that 2022 will be the turn of the West African Region;
TAKES NOTE of the outcome of the consultations by the West African Region as reported by the Republic of Mali, Dean of the latter;
DECIDES that the Incoming Chair of the African Union for 2022 will be the Republic of Senegal.