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Constitutif Act of African Union

CONSTITUTIVE ACT OF THE
AFRICAN UNION

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The Constitutive Act
We, Heads of State and Government of the Member States of the
Organization of African Unity (OAU):
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The President of thePeople’s Democratic Republic of Algeria
The President of the Republic of Angola
The President of the Republic of Benin
The President of the Republic of Botswana
The President of Burkina Faso
The President of the Republic of Burundi
The President of the Republic of Cameroon
The President of the Republic of Cape Verde
The President of the Central African Republic
The President of theRepublic of Chad
The President of the Islamic Federal Republic of the Comoros
The President of the Republic of the Congo
The President of the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire
The President of the Democratic Republic of Congo
The President of the Republic of Djibouti
The President of the Arab Republic of Egypt
The President of the State of Eritrea
The Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic ofEthiopia
The President of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea
The President of the Gabonese Republic
The President of the Republic of The Gambia
The President of the Republic of Ghana
The President of the Republic of Guinea
The President of the Republic of Guinea Bissau
The President of the Republic of Kenya
The Prime Minister of Lesotho
The President of the Republic of Liberia
The Leaderof the 1st of September Revolution of the Great Socialist
People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
The President of the Republic of Madagascar
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The President of the Republic of Malawi
The President of the Republic of Mali
The President ofthe Islamic Republic of Mauritania
The Prime Minister of the Republic of Mauritius
The President of the Republic of Mozambique
The President of the Republic of Namibia
The President of the Republic of Niger
The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
The President of the Republic of Rwanda
The President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
The President of the Republic of Sao Tomeand Principe
The President of the Republic of Senegal
The President of the Republic of Seychelles
The President of the Republic of Sierra Leone
The President of the Republic of Somalia
The President of the Republic of South Africa
The President of the Republic of Sudan
The King of Swaziland
The President of the United Republic of Tanzania
The President of the Togolese Republic
ThePresident of the Republic of Tunisia
The President of the Republic of Uganda
The President of the Republic of Zambia
The President of the Republic of Zimbabwe

INSPIRED by the noble ideals which guided the founding fathers of
our Continental Organization and generations of Pan-Africanists in their
determination to promote unity, solidarity, cohesion and cooperation
among the peoples of Africa andAfrican States;
CONSIDERING the principles and objectives stated in the Charter of
the Organization of African Unity and the Treaty establishing the African
Economic Community;
RECALLING the heroic struggles waged by our peoples and our
countries for political independence, human dignity and economic
emancipation;
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CONSIDERING that since itsinception, the Organization of African
Unity has played a determining and invaluable role in the liberation
of attainment of the unity of our continent and has provided a unique
framework for our collective action in Africa and in our relations with
the rest of the world.
DETERMINED to take up the multifaceted challenges that confront our
continent and peoples in the light of the social, economic...