Considering the importance of the Community of Sahelo-Saharan States, an intergovernmental organization that addresses the common interests of its members and takes account of the diverse links that unite their peoples, and given the determination of the organization to confront the factors that have caused economic backwardness and instability in its member States, its conviction that joint action in a framework of complementarity is the best way to integrate its countries and peoples, its commitment to the maintenance of international peace and security in the Sahelo-Saharan region and its determination to satisfy the wish for economic, cultural, political and social integration in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, the Charter of the Organization of African Unity, the Charter of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, the Treaty Establishing the African Economic Community of 3 June 1991 (the Abuja Treaty)A/46/651, annex. and the constitutive documents of the regional organizations to which its member States belong,
考虑到萨赫勒-撒哈拉国家共同体作为一个政府间组织的重要作用，它可促进其成员国的共同利益，并可维护联结着各成员国人民的各种纽带；鉴于该组织决心消除造成其成员国经济落后和动荡不安的因素，它坚信在互补的框架内采取联合行动是把其成员国及其人民联合起来的最佳办法，它致力于在萨赫勒-撒哈拉区域维护国际和平与安全，它还决心根据《联合国宪章》、《非洲统一组织宪章》、《伊斯兰会议组织宪章》、1991年6月3日《非洲经济共同体成立条约》（《阿布贾条约》）A/46/651，附件。 及其成员国所参加的各区域组织的组织文件，致力于实现经济、文化、政治和社会一体化的愿望，