Article 58
Regional security
1. Member States undertake to work to safeguard and consolidate relations conducive to the maintenance of peace, stability and security within the region.
2. In pursuit of these objectives, Member States undertake to cooperate with the Community in establishing and strengthening appropriate mechanisms for the timely prevention and resolution of intra-State and inter-State conflicts, paying particular regard to the need to:
(a) maintain periodic and regular consultations between national border administration authorities;
(b) establish local or national joint commissions to examine any problems encountered in relations between neighbouring States;
(c) encourage exchanges and cooperation between communities, townships and administrative regions;
(d) organize meetings between relevant ministries on various aspects of inter-State relations;
(e) employ where appropriate, good offices, conciliation, meditation and other methods of peaceful settlement of disputes;
(f) establish a regional peace and security observation system and peacekeeping forces where appropriate;
(g) provide, where necessary and at the request of Member States, assistance to Member States for the observation of democratic elections.
3. The detailed provisions governing political cooperation, regional peace and stability shall be defined in the relevant Protocols.
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