Cooperation Agreement in the field of Security
between the member states of the Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD)
The member states of the Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD),
agreed on the following:
Chapter (1)
Combating Destructive Activities
Article (1)
The member states of CEN-SAD shall take effective and firm action to prevent terrorist acts and organised crimes in all their forms, and prevent the use of their territory for planning, organising, or committing acts and crimes. This includes preventing the infiltration of individual or groups of terrorists or criminals, prohibiting their residence in any CEN-SAD country, preventing them from obtaining any financial or moral support or any physical or military training, combating their activities against any member state, and extraditing them to their countries after taking the measures applicable in the legislation of each member state.
Article (2)
Each member state shall take all the necessary procedures to prevent its citizens or residents from committing any hostile acts against the security and the territorial safety and unity of the other states.
Article (3)
Member states shall take the necessary measures to avert any activities that contravene the domestic policy or that prejudice the territorial safety or unity of any member state.
Chapter (2)
Exchange of Information
Article (4)
Member states shall – within available abilities – exchange laws, regulations, and rules pertaining to justice and public security activities, and any research, books, publications, bulletins, and training videos of a security character that are published by official agencies.
Article (5)
Member states shall exchange information and expertise that contribute to the development of means of combating all types of crimes. They shall provide technical assistance or consultancy in security affairs so as to ensure the desired integration in this field.
Article (6)
Member states shall exchange information and data pertaining to all security fields, in particular to:
Article (7)
Member states shall reinforce the relation between criminal inquiry and investigation agencies in every member state to report – whenever necessary – any information in their possession about any criminal operations that have been committed or that are under preparation inside or outside any of the member states.
Article (8)
Each member state shall take the necessary procedures to safeguard the confidentiality of the information, data, and material exchanged between member states whenever they are classified as confidential by the delivering state. Such information, data, and material may only be distributed with the approval of the state that provides them.
Chapter (3)
Technical Cooperation
Article (9)
Member states shall cooperate in developing, training, qualifying, and preparing security and police personnel. They shall develop such cooperation between educational and training institutions of similar specialisation in the member states.
Article (10)
The concerned entity in every member state shall notify its counterpart in the other member states of any new emerging crimes or criminal patterns, the methods used to commit such crimes, and the measures taken to track and prevent them.
Article (11)
As a boost to security cooperation, periodical meetings shall be held – when needed – and field visits shall be organised for security personnel of the member states at all levels and in various activities with the aim of introducing their national legislation.
Article (12)
The concerned security entities of the member states shall conduct prior consultations and their representatives shall work together on coordinating their positions on the issues listed on the agenda of regional and international conferences on security affairs.
Chapter (4)
Monitoring the Implementation of the Agreement’s Provisions
Article (13)
A technical committee composed of the representatives of the member states shall be established to monitor the implementation of the present agreement. Such committee shall convene on the margins of the meetings of the CEN-SAD interior and public security ministers. It shall have the following duties:
Article (14)
The member states shall communicate to implement this agreement through their security or specialised police agencies or via channels created for this purpose.
Chapter (6)
Final Provisions
Article (15)
Article (16)
This agreement shall enter into force provisionally upon its signature by two-thirds of the member states, and permanently upon deposit of the documents of ratification with the CEN-SAD General Secretariat by two-thirds of the member states.
Adopted in Bamako on 15 May 2004
Executed in three original copies of equal legal force in the Arabic, English, and French languages.
Signatories
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For the State of Eritrea HE Isaias Afwerki President |
For Burkina Faso HE Blaise Compaoré President |
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For the Togolese Republic HE Gnassingbé Eyadéma President |
For the Great Jamahiriya Brother/Colonel Muammar Gaddafi Leader of the Great First of September Revolution |
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For the Republic of Djibouti HE Ismail Omar Guelleh President |
For the Republic of the Sudan HE Omar Hassan al-Bashir President |
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For the Republic of the Gambia HE Yahya Jammeh President |
For the Republic of Benin HE Mathieu Kérékou President |
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For the Republic of Chad HE Idris Déby President |
For the Republic of Tunisia HE Zine El Abidine Ben Ali President |
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For the Central African Republic HE François Bozizé President |
For the Republic of Senegal HE Abdoulaye Wade President |
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For Somalia HE Abdiqasim Salad Hassan President |
For the Republic of Mali HE Amadou Toumani Touré President |
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For the Republic of Egypt HE Muhammad Husni Mubarak President |
For the Republic of Niger HE Mamadou Tandja President |
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For the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire HE Laurent Gbagbo President |
For the Republic of Ghana HE John Agyekum Kufuor President |
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For the Republic of Liberia HE Ellen Johnson Sirleaf President |
For the Kingdom of Morocco For His Majesty King Mohammed VI – Moulay Idriss El Alaoui Ambassador of King Mohammed VI to Tripoli For the King of Morocco |
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For the Federal Republic of Nigeria HE Olusegun Obasanjo President |
For the Republic of Guinea-Bissau HE Henrique Rosa President |
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For the Republic of Sierra Leone HE Ahmad Tejan Kabah President |
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