viii. the sending by, or on behalf of a Member State or the provision of any support to armed groups, mercenaries, and other organized trans-national criminal groups which may carry out hostile acts against a Member State, of such gravity as to amount to the acts above, or its substantial involvement therein; listed ix. the acts of espionage which could be used aggression against a Member State; for military x. technological assistance of any kind, intelligence and training to another State for use in committing acts of aggression against another Member State; and xi. the encouragement, support, harbouring or provision of any assistance for the commission of terrorist acts and other violent trans-national organized crimes against a Member State. 4) “Assembly” means the Assembly Government of the African Union; of “Commission” means the Commission “Common Solemn African Declaration Defence on a Heads State and of the African Union; and Security Common of Policy” means African Defence the and Security Policy adopted by the Second Extraordinary Session of the Assembly, held in Sirte, Great Socialist Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, in February 2004; 8) “Constitutive Union; h) “Court Union; Act” means of Justice” means the Constitutive Act of the African the Court of Justice of the African "Destabilization" means any act that disrupts the peace and tranquillity of any Member State or which may lead to mass social and political disorder;