DECISION ON AN AFRICAN COMMON POSITION ON
AN ANTI-PERSONNEL LANDMINES
The Executive Council:
TAKES NOTE of the recommendations of the African Groups in New York and Geneva on the need for an African Common Position on an Anti-Personnel Landmines;
REQUESTS the Commission to convene a meeting of Experts in September 2004 in Addis Ababa, to elaborate a Common African Position, based on the relevant Decisions of the OAU/AU, particularly the Plan of Action of Kempton Park of May 1997 and the Ottawa Convention, for submission to the Nairobi Review Conference in November 2004;
ALSO REQUESTS the Commission to submit the report of the Experts group meeting to a Ministerial meeting to be held on the margins of the UN General Assembly Session in 2004 for consideration.