This statement commits SSATP member countries to adherence to a number of policy principles, and likewise commits member regional economic communities to promotion of the policy principles amongst member states. SSATP members recognize the processes proposed in the SSATP Long Term Development Plan as the framework within which policy development will be promoted, and that the program is a transport policy development instrument of the African Union (AU), and will play its part in the initiatives of the AU's NEPAD.