DECISION ON THE ELECTION OF THE CHAIRPERSON OF
THE AFRICAN UNION FOR 2020
The Assembly,
RECALLS Decision Assembly/AU/Dec.635(XXVIII), adopted at the 28th Ordinary Session of the Assembly held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in January 2017, which stated 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 Chairperson 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 takes into account that 2020 will be the turn of the Southern Region;
TAKES NOTE of the outcome of the consultations by the Southern Region as reported by the Republic of South Africa, Dean of the latter;
DECIDES that the incoming Chair of the African Union for 2020 will be the Republic of South Africa.