Taking note of decision AHG/Dec. 175 (XXXVIII), adopted by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity at its thirty-eighth ordinary session, held in Durban on 8 July 2002, approving the Memorandum of Understanding on Security, Stability, Development and Cooperation in Africa, thereby affirming the centrality of the process of the Conference on Security, Stability, Development and Cooperation in Africa as a policy development forum, a framework for the advancement of common values and as a monitoring and evaluation mechanism for the African Union,
注意到2002年7月8日在德班举行的非洲统一组织国家元首和政府首脑会议第三十八届常会通过的AHG/Dec.175 (XXXVIII)号决定，其中核可《非洲安全、稳定、发展和合作谅解备忘录》，从而申明非洲安全、稳定、发展和合作会议的进程作为政策制定论坛、促进共同价值的框架和非洲联盟的监测和评价机制的中心作用，