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Ms. Erika de Wet
Professor of International Law
Co-Director of the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa University of Pretoria

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Peace and Security
Security Council
The Relationship between the United Nations Security Council and Regional Security Organizations in Africa
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(5/10/2012, 45 minutes)
Peace and Security
Security Council
The Relationship between the United Nations Security Council
and Regional Security Organizations in Africa
A. Legal Instruments
Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the International Court of Justice, San Francisco, 26 June 1945.

Constitutive Act of the African Union, Lomé, 11 July 2000, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2158, p. 328.

Protocol Relating to the Establishment of the Peace and the Security Council of the African Union, Durban, 9 July 2002.

B. Jurisprudence

International Court of Justice, Certain Expenses of the United Nations (Article 17, Paragraph 2, Of the Charter), Advisory Opinion of 20 July 1962, I.C.J. Reports 1962, p. 151.

C. Documents

Security Council resolution 1574 (2004) (2004) of 19 November 2004

General Assembly resolution 60/1 of 16 September 2005 (2005 World Summit Outcome)

Security Council resolution 1679 (2006) of 16 May 2006

Security Council resolution 1725 (2006) of 6 December 2006

Security Council resolution 1744 (2007) of 21 February 2007

Security Council resolution 1973 (2011)of 17 March 2011