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  1. “Currently, there is close cooperation with the United Nations and the African Union through the joint missions deployed in various countries. More recently, ECOWAS has embarked on programmes in other areas, namely, providing basic goods and services to disadvantaged groups, particularly women; supporting resilience in the agricultural sector; and facilitating reintegration through training and job-creation programmes. Such activities are necessary to create the conditions for sustainable peace. In conclusion, ECOWAS remains strongly committed to working with all its partners, in particular the United Nations and the African Union, in order to maintain and build peace and to ensure sustainable development. I would like to end my remarks by reiterating our sincere thanks for the opportunity of this meeting.”

    2018-12-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8414 (2018) · source

  2. “The third observation relates to the implementation of post-conflict reconstruction activities. The aim of such work is to build peace through support so as to prevent the resurgence of conflict, including through institution-building, reconciliation and the implementation of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) and security sector reform programmes. In Guinea-Bissau, the security sector reform programme was launched in 2013. In The Gambia, for example, it involved supporting the Government in drawing up and implementing a security sector reform programme and capacity-building of the National Assembly in its role of political control over the defence and security forces. ECOWAS also supports the Government in its efforts to improve the management and security of weapons and ammunition stockpiles.”

    2018-12-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8414 (2018) · source

  3. “Such support was instrumental in defining the mandate of ECOMIG and in its deployment, which required the authorization of the Security Council; Third is the conduct of joint missions with the United Nations, particularly in Burkina Faso in 2014 during the political crisis and in Mali in 2012 following the military coup d'etat, and preventive diplomacy, as I have already mentioned, in Guinea, Nigeria, Ghana and, more recently, Sierra Leone. Lastly, as part of strengthening that cooperation, on 23 April, ECOWAS signed a memorandum of understanding with the United Nations, which covers areas related to political dialogue, national reconciliation, democratic governance and conflict prevention and management, as well as human rights and the rule of law.”

    2018-12-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8414 (2018) · source

  4. “We coordinate our actions to ensure better visibility and efficiency. The partnership is characterized by the following. First, our partners, in particular the representative of the African Union and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel, participate in all meetings of the ECOWAS Mediation and Security Council at the ministerial level and the Meeting ofHeads of State and Government, the main decision-making bodies on issues of regional peace and security. The second element is the political support of the African Union and the United Nations for the deployment of peace missions.”

    2018-12-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8414 (2018) · source

  5. “They include, for example, mediation in the political crises in Togo and the Niger, in 2005 and 2009, respectively; multiple mediations in Guinea Bissau, resulting in the deployment of the ECOWAS Mission in Guinea Bissau since 2012; the case of Cote d'Ivoire, presented yesterday by His Excellency the President of the Republic; mediation efforts in the post- electoral crisis in the Gambia following the presidential election ofDecember 2016, which led to the deployment ofthe ECOWAS Mission in the Gambia (ECOMIG); and the ongoing mediation in the political crisis in Togo. The second observation that underlies our action is the partnership in all the aforementioned areas of intervention. Collaboration with all partners, in particular the African Union and the United Nations, is a constant feature of our action.”

    2018-12-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8414 (2018) · source

  6. “With respect to crisis management and resolution, interventions are deployed when preventive diplomacy actions have not achieved the expected results or have led to open crises or when crises occur in an unpredictable manner. These actions focus on facilitation or mediation efforts between national political actors, and, in extreme cases, involve the deployment of peacekeeping missions. The recent history of ECOWAS is rich with these missions.”

    2018-12-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8414 (2018) · source

  7. “In addition, recently, preventive diplomacy actions were carried out in Nigeria in anticipation of the upcoming elections. Furthermore, to enhance the effectiveness of the Mechanism for Conflict Prevention, ECOWAS is establishing an early-warning and response system, based on the collection and analysis of a variety of indicators in the political, social, economic, climate and environmental fields. Based on a regional architecture, this arrangement is being extended with the creation of early-warning and response mechanisms at the national level; these are already in place in five Member States. The programme envisages a gradual extension to the other countries of the region.”

    2018-12-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8414 (2018) · source

  8. “These actions are carried out, on the one hand, at the level of crisis prevention, to prevent tensions and perceptible disputes from escalating and turning into conflicts. In this way, we avoid the dramatic consequences of conflicts while avoiding the cost of a hypothetical intervention. Preventive actions and preventive diplomacy have been conducted in almost all States at the precise moment when a crisis emerges. They are less visible but have helped to reduce tensions and avoid the emergence of difficult situations. Preventive diplomacy actions are more frequent during electoral processes, especially during elections. They have been successfully deployed in the presidential elections in Guinea, Nigeria and Ghana, and more recently in Sierra Leone and Mali.”

    2018-12-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8414 (2018) · source

  9. “Through this revision, the regional peace and security agenda was added to the Community's original agenda, namely, regional economic integration and development, with the overall objective of creating a peaceful and secure environment conducive to regional integration and economic development in the region. ECOWAS has adopted two major instruments enabling it to intervene at any time in crisis prevention, management and resolution, as well as to undertake peacekeeping and post-conflict reconstruction: the Protocol relating to the Mechanism for Conflict Prevention, Management, Resolution, Peacekeeping and Security, adopted in 1999, and the Supplementary Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance, adopted in 2001. These two instruments provide the legal framework for and give legitimacy to ECOWAS interventions.”

    2018-12-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8414 (2018) · source

  10. “Today's theme gives us the opportunity to deepen our reflections on the international community's efforts to promote peace and security. I would like to make three observations that summarize the action of ECOWAS on this key issue. The first concerns the ECOWAS internal mechanism for peace and stability in the region. The civil wars in the region, particularly those in Liberia and Sierra Leone, and their consequences - destabilizing for security and devastating for the economic and social development of these countries - led in particular to the adoption of the ECOWAS Revised Treaty in 1993.”

    2018-12-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8414 (2018) · source

  11. “On behalf of the institutions of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), I would like at the beginning of my briefing to express my condolences to the Government and the people of the United States on the occasion of the passing of Mr. George H. W. Bush, forty-first President of the United States of America. I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for the opportunity to participate in this important meeting, which is in line with the high-level meeting presided over yesterday by His Excellency Mr. Alassane Ouattara, President of the Republic of Cote d'Ivoire, whose theme was post-conflict reconstruction and peace, security and stability (see S/PV.8413). All of yesterday's statements provided ample evidence of the reciprocal causality between sustainable economic development and peace and security.”

    2018-12-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8414 (2018) · source