Foreign relations of the African Union

Politics of the African Union
Institutions Casablanca Group Union of African States Organisation of African Unity African Economic Community African Unification Front
Executive Assembly Chairperson Commission Chairperson Conference and Events Peace & Sec. Pol. Affairs Infra. & Energy Soc. Affairs HR, Sci., & Tech. Trade and Industry Rural Econ. & Agri. Economic Legal Counsel Executive Council Rep. Committee
Legislature Pan-African Parliament President Bureau Secretariat List of members Permanent Committees Rural Econ., Agri., Resources, Environ. Monetary & Financial Trade, Customs, & Immigration Cooperation, IR, & Conflict Transport, Industry, Communications,   Energy, Science, & Tech. Health, Labour, & Social Educ., Culture, Tourism, & HR Gender, Family, Youth, Disabilities Justice & Rights Rules, Privileges, & Discipline
Judiciary Sirte Declaration Constitutive Act of the AU Law Charter on Rights  Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights Justice and Human Rights Court of Justice Court on Human and Peoples' Rights List of judges
Advisory bodies Peace and Security Council Economic, Social and Cultural Council Specialised Technical Committees Rural Econ., Agri. Monetary & Financial Trade, Customs, and Immigration Industry, Sci. & Tech., Energy, Natural Resources, & Environment Transport, Comm., Tourism Health, Labor, Social Edu., Culture, & Human Resources
Financial bodies AEC Pillars (Abuja Treaty) CEN-SAD COMESA EAC ECCAS/CEEAC CEMAC ECOWAS/CEDEAO UEMOA WAMZ IGAD SADC SACU AMU/UMA African Central Bank African Monetary Union African Investment Bank New Partnership for Africa's Development African Peer Review Mechanism New Partnership for Africa's Development E-School Program
Decentralised bodies Agencies of the AU Africa CDC African Space Agency
Related topics Enlargement Foreign relations TerrAfrica partnership
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The individual member states of the African Union (AU) coordinate foreign policy through this agency, in addition to conducting their own international relations on a state-by-state basis. The AU represents the interests of African peoples at large in intergovernmental organizations (IGO's); for instance, it is a permanent observer at the United Nations' General Assembly.

Other intergovernmental organizations

Membership of the AU overlaps with other IGO's, and occasionally these third-party organizations and the AU will coordinate matters of public policy.

Political

Non-Aligned Movement (Every AU member state, except South Sudan and the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic)

Commonwealth of Nations:

Regional

Arab League:

Arab Maghreb Union:

Community of Sahel-Saharan States:

Conseil de l'Entente:

Economic

Greater Arab Free Trade Area:

Economic Community of the Great Lakes Countries:

G20 developing nations:

G-20 major economies:

• South Africa

G33:

G90:

Group of 77:

Indian Ocean Commission:

Liptako–Gourma Authority:

Mano River Union:

OPEC:

Linguistic

Community of Portuguese Language Countries:

Organisation internationale de la Francophonie:

Organization of Ibero-American States:

• Equatorial Guinea

Religious

Organisation of Islamic Cooperation:

Diplomatic missions

The African Union maintains special diplomatic representation with the United States,^[1] European Union, and as of 2022 has plans for a mission to the People's Republic of China.^[2] In 2011, the United States Mission to the African Union donated a state of the art multimedia box to the cash-starved African Union in a formal ceremony, in which they also presented new interns who will be trained to use it.^[3]

Foreign relations of constituent states

See also

• Enlargement of the African Union
• Africa–United States relations
• Africa–China relations
• Africa–Soviet Union relations
• Africa–EU relations
• France–Africa relations
• Africa–India relations
• Africa–Japan relations
• Africa–North Korea relations
• Africa-South Korea relations
• Yugoslavia and the Organisation of African Unity

References

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