Noting that the fourth International Conference of New or Restored Democracies is scheduled to be held at Cotonou, Benin, from 4 to 6 December 2000, and also noting the initiative of the Government of Mali to host, at Bamako from 1 to 3 November 2000, following the Moncton Declaration adopted in September 1999 at Moncton, Canada, by the Eighth Summit of la Francophonie,A/54/453, annex I. an international symposium at the ministerial level on the status of the practices of democracy, rights and freedoms in the French-speaking community,
注意到2000年12月4日至6日在科托努举行了第四次新的民主政体或恢复民主的政体国际会议，还注意到1999年9月在加拿大蒙克顿举行的第八次法语国家首脑会议通过《蒙克顿宣言》A/54/453，附件一。 之后，马里政府于2000年11月1日至3日在巴马科主办了一次法语地区民主实践问题部长级国际研讨会，