Assembly/AU/Dec.665(XXX)
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DECISION ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A SINGLE
AFRICAN AIR TRANSPORT MARKET1
Doc. EX.CL/1067(XXXII)
The Assembly,
1.
TAKES NOTE of the Report of the Ministerial Working Group on the
establishment of a Single Air Transport Market (SAATM) within the framework of
the African Union (AU) Agenda 2063;
2.
RECALLS:
3.
4.
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i)
the Declaration on the Establishment of a Single African Air Transport
Market Assembly/AU/Decl.1(XXIV) adopted at the Twenty-Fourth Ordinary
Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the AU, in
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 31 January 2015;
ii)
The Solemn Commitment declared by AU Member States to the
Implementation of the Yamoussoukro Decision towards the establishment
of SAATM by 2017 at the Twenty-Fourth Ordinary Session of the
Assembly of Heads of State and Government, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
on 31 January 2015;
MINDFUL OF the aspirations of:
a)
The Constitutive Act of the AU adopted at the Thirty-Sixth Ordinary Session
of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government, in Lomé, Togo on 11
July 2000 with entry into force in 2001;
b)
The Treaty Establishing the African Economic Community (also known as
the Abuja Treaty) adopted at the Twenty-Seventh Ordinary Session of the
Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Member States of the
Organization of African Unity (OAU) in Abuja, Nigeria on 3 June 1991 with
entry into force on 12 May 1994;
c)
The Decision relating to the Implementation of the Yamoussoukro
Declaration on the Liberalization of Access to Air Transport Markets in
Africa endorsed at the Thirty-Sixth Ordinary Session of the Assembly of
Heads of State and Government, in Lomé, Togo on 12 July 2000;
CONVINCED that the realisation of SAATM is vital to the achievement of the
long-term vision of an integrated, prosperous and peaceful Africa under the AU
Agenda 2063; that it will bring about the enhanced connectivity across the
continent leading to sustainable development of the aviation and tourism
Reservation entered by the Arab Republic of Egypt
30th Ordinary Session of the Assembly, 28- 29 January 2018, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia