Security Council resolution 1197 (1998) [on cooperation between UN and the OAU in the area of regional conflict prevention and the maintenance of peace]
[UN collaboration with OAU and subregional organizations in Africa to prevent and resolve conflicts in Africa]

Urges the Secretary-General to assist in the establishment within OAU of an early warning system based on the model currently being used by UN, and to assist in strengthening in making operational the OAU conflict management centre and its situation room; encourages also the Secretary-General to develop a strategy for the purpose of enhancing contributions to the UN Trust Fund for Improving Preparedness for Conflict Prevention and Peacekeeping in Africa; invites the Secretary-General to assist OAU and subregional organizations in Africa to establish logistics assessment teams; encourages the establishment of partnerships between States and regional and subregional organizations involved in peacekeeping operations; welcomes the proposal by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to establish a Council of Elders within its Mechanism for the Prevention, Management, Resolution of Conflicts, Peacekeeping and Security for the purpose of facilitating mediation efforts; endorses the establishment of a UN Preventive Action Liaison Office in OAU; invites the Secretary-General to: (a) adopt measures for an improved flow of information through systematic mechnisms; (b) develop, in collaboration with OAU and with subregional organizations in Africa, common indicators for early warning; (c) arrange, in collaboration with OAU and with subregional organizations in Africa, occasional visits of staff at working level; (d) arrange joint expert meetings on certain specific areas of early warning and prevention; requests the Secretary-General to implement the present resolution in the course of his ongoing efforts to develop cooperation with OAU and subregional organizations in Africa and, where necessary, drawing on the UN Trust Fund for Improving Preparedness for Conflict Prevention and Peacekeeping in Africa.

Adopted unanimously, 3928th meeting

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Concerns cooperation between UN and the OAU in the area of regional conflict prevention and the maintenance of peace.