Constitution

Republic of the Congo 2001 Constitution

Table of Contents

TITLE III. OF THE DUTIES

Article 43

Every citizen has duties toward the family, the society, the State and the other collectivities legally recognized.

Article 44

Each citizen has the duty to respect their fellow men without discrimination, and to maintain with them relations that permit them to promote and to reinforce reciprocal tolerance.

He is required to preserve the national cultural values in a spirit of dialogue and consultation, to contribute to the reinforcement of the national cohesion and solidarity.

Article 45

Every citizen must preserve the peace, the national independence, and the territorial integrity and contribute to the defense of the country.

Treason, espionage for the profit of a foreign power, joining the enemy in times of war, as well as any other form of threat to the security of the State are reprimanded by the law.

Article 46

All citizens have the duty to work for the common good, to fulfill all their civic and professional obligations and to make their tax contributions within the conditions determined by the law.

They have the duty to work to the extent of their capacities and of their possibilities.

Article 47

Public assets are sacred and inalienable. Every citizen must respect them scrupulously and protect them. The law establishes the conditions for the alienation of public assets in the general interest.

Any act of sabotage, of vandalism, of corruption, of illicit enrichment, of racketeering, of diversion or of dilapidation of the public monies, is reprimanded within the conditions specified by the law.

Article 48

Every citizen, elected or appointed to a high public function, is required to declare his patrimony when taking his functions and at the cessation of them, in accordance with the law.

The non-observance of this obligation causes the forfeiture of the functions within the conditions established by the law.

Article 49

Every citizen, in charge of a public function, or elected to a public function, has the duty to accomplish it with conscience and without discrimination.

Article 50

Every citizen has the duty to conform himself to the Constitution, the laws and the regulations of the Republic and to fulfill his obligations towards the State and the society.