women and children, acts of sexual violence and acts of extremism and sectarian violence;

requests the transitional authorities to make and fulfil a firm and explicit commitment to

ensure that investigations are conducted as soon as possible when violence against women

or children is alleged and that the perpetrators are prosecuted and held to account for their

acts;

11. Welcomes the decision of the United Nations Security Council to prepare plans for the

imposition of targeted sanctions, including a travel ban and freezing of the assets of

individuals having acted to undermine peace, stability and security, in particular those who

have violated human rights and international humanitarian law, recruited and deployed

children in armed conflict, committed acts of sexual violence, or lent their support to illegal

armed groups or criminal networks involved in the illicit exploitation of natural resources in

the Central African Republic;

12. Urges the transitional authorities to develop and implement disarmament, demobilization

and reintegration or repatriation programmes; underscores the importance of strengthening

the institutional capacity of the police, the judiciary and the penitentiary system to uphold

the rule of law;

13. Also urges the transitional authorities to establish an inclusive national dialogue between all

stakeholders in the country – political, social and religious – with a view, in the near future,

to restoring State authority and to institutionalizing a credible and fair process of national

reconciliation;

14. Welcomes the establishment of a special fund through which States and international,

regional and subregional organizations can contribute to the MISCA, and expresses support

for the organization of an international donors conference as soon as possible to request

contributions, in particular through this fund;

15. Also welcomes the establishment of a national electoral authority on 16 December 2013and

underscores how important it is for the transitional authorities, with support from the

United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in the Central African Republic (BINUCA), to

organize free and regular elections, providing in particular for the participation of women

and without delay (during the second half of 2014, if possible, and by February 2015 at the

latest);

16. Recommends that the United Nations Security Council deploy, by the earliest possible date,

a UN peacekeeping mission to the Central African Republic with an expanded mandate

covering support for the political transition, the restoration of State authority throughout

the country, the organization of elections, protection for the delivery of humanitarian

assistance and the return of refugees and of persons displaced by the violence;

17. Takes note that the IPU has already conducted a needs assessment and requests it to take

urgent follow-up action with the National Transition Council, including by offering advisory

expertise in the recently launched process of constitutional reform;

18. Entrusts the Secretary General with the task of conveying this resolution to all IPU Members,

Associate Members and Observers and to the other international organizations.

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