Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance
Economic Community of West African States
Protocol A/SP1/12/01 on Democracy and Good Governance
Supplementary to the Protocol relating to the Mechanism
For Conflict Prevention, Management, Resolution,
Peacekeeping and Security
Executive Secretariat
Dakar, December 2001
PREAMBLE
WE, THE HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT OF THE MEMBER STATES OF THE ECONOMIC
COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES (ECOWAS);
MINDFUL OF the ECOWAS Treaty signed in Cotonou on 24 July 1993, notably its Article 58;
MINDFUL OF the Protocol relating to the Mechanism for Conflict Prevention, Management, Resolution,
Peacekeeping and Security signed in Lome on 10 December 1999;
CONSIDERING all the issues enumerated or reaffirmed in the preamble to the Protocol of 10 December
1999 referred to above;
MINDFUL OF the principles set out in the OAU Solemn Declaration on Security, Stability, Development and
Cooperation in Africa adopted in Abuja on 8 and 9 May 2000 and the Decision AHG. DEC 142 (XXV) on
the framework for OAU's reaction to unconstitutional change of government, adopted in Algiers in July
1999;
CONSIDERING the Harare Declaration adopted by the Commonwealth on 20 October 1991 and the
Bamako Declaration adopted by the member countries of the Francophonie on 3 November 2000;
CONSIDERING also the Cotonou Declaration adopted on 6 December 2000 at the end of the 4th
international conference on new or restored democracies;
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