Preamble
The Member States of the African Union,
REITERATING our commitment to the fundamental principles and objectives
of the African Union, as enshrined in the Constitutive Act, the founding
instrument of the African Union and comprising, inter alia, the promotion of
democratic principles and institutions, popular participation, good governance,
human and peoples’ rights; the promotion of peace, security and stability on
the continent; and the acceleration of the political and socio-economic
integration of Africa;
COGNISANT that the principles and objectives of the African Peer Review
Mechanism [APRM], are themselves intrinsic to the afore-mentioned
principles and objectives of the African Union;
RECALLING that at the Inaugural Session of the Assembly of the African Union
held in July, 2002, in Durban, South Africa, we adopted a Declaration on
Democracy, Political, Economic and Corporate Governance, in which we
articulated the same said principles and objectives of the APRM, as well as
declared that the AU Member States had “separately agreed to establish” the
APRM on the basis of voluntary accession;
RECALLING the Declaration on the Implementation of the New Partnership
for Africa’s Development Ass/AU/Decl.1 (I), that was adopted by the Inaugural
Session of the Assembly of the African Union held in July, 2002, in Durban,
South Africa, in which it reiterated its commitment to the Declaration on
Democracy, Political, Economic and Corporate Governance and encouraged
all Member States of the African Union to accede to the Mechanism;
INSPIRED by the vision of the APRM as an African-owned and African-led
platform for self-assessment, peer-learning, and experience-sharing in the
pursuit of the highest possible standards of good political, economic and
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