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Chergui

lines on the record: 215
first: 2014-02-20
most recent: 2020-10-19
sittings or episodes: 18
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“The African Union Commission believes that the Agreement offers the South Sudanese a unique window of opportunity to deliver an inclusive, lasting and just peace. However, as my colleague mentioned, both the AU and the United Nations are very much aware of the scepticism surrounding the ability of the parties to deliver on their commitments. As a result, some international partners are yet to sign as guarantors. However, as the African Union and the United Nations, we felt duty-bound to engage the Government of South Sudan, at the highest levels possible, and emphasize the need for the full implementation of the Agreement and the importance of women's representation in the peace process.”
2018-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8403 (2018) · source
“The Peace and Security Council commended President Salva Kiir Mayardit and the other South Sudanese parties for the signing of the revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan, on 12 September. It also recognized that this remains the only viable option for addressing the current political, social, economic and security challenges facing South Sudan and for ensuring lasting peace. As the Council is aware, the African Union and the United Nations signed the revitalized Agreement as guarantors, which in itself comes with major responsibilities. Therefore, it was only logical to undertake this visit early enough to express support for the revitalized peace Agreement while encouraging the parties to faithfully implement it.”
2018-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8403 (2018) · source
“Mr. Chergui: Mr. President, I, too, wish to thank you for this opportunity to brief the Security Council on the joint African Union and United Nations high- level visit to South Sudan, which we undertook from 7 to 9 October. As my colleague and friend Jean-Pierre Lacroix indicated, this was the first joint visit that also included UN-Women as well as the African Union Panel of the Wise and FemWise, Indeed, this mission underscored our resolve to strengthen our institutional partnership aimed at achieving an equitable peace in South Sudan. I wish to inform the Council that our joint mission provided a similar briefing to the African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council at its 800th meeting, held here in Addis Ababa on 10 October.”
2018-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8403 (2018) · source
“Our joint efforts are already bearing fruit, and we look forward to building a closer relationship that will deliver on our aspirations for peace and security on the continent, including silencing the guns by 2020. In the meantime, we are receiving excellent news from Africa, as we heard earlier with regard to developments between Ethiopia and Eritrea and elsewhere. With such efforts under way in Africa, together with our collective work, I believe that we can achieve the noble goal of silencing the guns.”
2018-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8314 (2018) · source
“We hope that that will serve as impetus for the Security Council to move forward in its considerations to avail assessed contributions to African Union-led peace support operations. It is our hope that today's meeting will pave the way to achieve that objective in line with the relevant provisions of the Charter of the United Nations, including Chapter VIII. Flexibility and innovation should guide our discussions to ensure coherence across the various layers ofour global security architecture. In that regard, I am pleased to note that there has been progress with regard to the Secretary- General's recent Action for Peacekeeping initiative. In conclusion, I would like to stress once again the strategic importance of the African Union-United Nations partnership, particularly its positive impact on peace and security in Africa.”
2018-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8314 (2018) · source
“In order to deliver on that objective, in 2016 the African Union Assembly decided to endow the African Union Peace Fund with $400 million. The full endowment level will be reached in 2021 and will be achieved incrementally at the following annual targets: $65 million for 2017; $65 million for the current year and $90 million per year for 2019, 2020 and 2021. As I address the Council, African Union member States have already contributed $47 million out of the targeted $65 million. That illustrates that, despite their limited resources, African Union member States are committed to assuming their share of responsibility to enhance peace and security on the continent.”
2018-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8314 (2018) · source
“For its part, the African Union is finalizing the revision of its strategy for the Sahel in line with the decision adopted by the African Union Peace and Security Council at its recent Heads-of-State meeting in Nouakchott. In that regard, I am grateful to my sister Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed, who met our envoy President Buyoya in Nouakchott, where they agreed to coordinate two strategies so that we can avoid duplication and, more important, assist the people in the Sahel. Allow me to recall that the African Union has consistently advocated for predictable and sustainable financing through United Nations-assessed contributions for African Union-led peace operations. In 2015, the African Union Assembly of Heads of State and Government decided to finance 25 per cent of the cost of the African Union's peace support operations.”
2018-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8314 (2018) · source
“The African Union is grateful to the Security Council for recognizing the African Initiative for Peace and Reconciliation as the main framework for achieving a political solution in the country, and I urge the Council to continue to support it. The situation across the Sahel region also requires our urgent attention. The instability in northern Mali has not only spilled over into the central region of the country and to neighbouring Burkina Faso and the Niger; it has also morphed into intercommunity clashes spurred by the conflict between herders and farmers. Critical support from the United Nations is therefore required to hasten the operationalization of the Joint Force ofthe Group ofFive for the Sahel.”
2018-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8314 (2018) · source
“In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, attention must be focused upon addressing the future challenges associated with the general elections scheduled for 23 December in line with the 31 December 2016 agreement. In Somalia, resource mobilization to enable the African Union Mission in Somalia to deliver on its mandate, including the gradual handover to the Somali security forces through Somalia's transition plan and capacity-building, remains a critical challenge. If not addressed, the progress made in Somalia might be reversed. The deteriorating security situation in the Central African Republic is a continuing source of concern.”
2018-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8314 (2018) · source
“In the field, the partnership between our two decision-making bodies is manifest in our collaborative peacemaking efforts in several conflict and post- conflict situations, including in the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Great Lakes region, Guinea Bissau, Mali and the Sahel, South Sudan and Somalia, just to name a few. Despite the progress achieved so far, we still face some challenges, particularly when it comes to the relationship between the African Union Peace and Security Council and the Security Council, where more work is needed in order to achieve greater coherence and coordination when dealing with crisis situations on the continent. Those include building on recent gains made in South Sudan to impress upon the parties to uphold and implement the signed agreements.”
2018-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8314 (2018) · source
“As the Council has already noted, the ever-growing partnership with United Nations colleagues has allowed us to incorporate an additional operational tool, which is the joint Visits that I started with Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix to Darfur and the Central African Republic. That effort will continue in the coming weeks and months. It is essential that the positive momentum currently prevailing between our respective secretariats continue to foster dynamism in cooperation and coordination between the Security Council and the African Union Peace and Security Council.”
2018-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8314 (2018) · source
“Moussa Faki Mahamat. That renewed commitment has indeed moved the partnership from an ad hoc approach into a more structured and predictable one. The second annual conference of the African Union and the United Nations, which took place recently in Addis Ababa on 9 July, reaffirmed the importance of our partnership and the significance of multilateral responses to global security challenges. In that regard, we have committed to enhancing collaboration, cooperation and coordination between our two organizations, based on the principles of complementarity, comparative advantage, burden- sharing and collective responsibility. We have also agreed to enhance consultations prior to decision-making in order to reach a shared understanding of the issues at hand and attain consistency in the support for African-led peace support efforts.”
2018-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8314 (2018) · source
“I would like to tell her that the African Union Commission recognizes itself fully in all she said. It is therefore my distinct honour to address this meeting to highlight the significant progress that has been made in the partnership between our two organizations and the coherence in our decision-making, while enriching each other with the knowledge of our respective comparative advantages. Over the years, the African Union has forged a critical partnership with the United Nations in order to achieve its Vision of a peaceful, prosperous and integrated continent. That relationship was given new impetus by the signing in Apri12017 of the Joint United Nations-African Union Framework for Enhanced Partnership in Peace and Security by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Mr.”
2018-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8314 (2018) · source
“Mr. Chergui: Allow me first of all to warmly congratulate Sweden on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for this month, and I commend your initiative, Madam President, to convene this timely and very important meeting on cooperation between the African Union and the United Nations, which takes place on the eve of the twelfth annual consultative meeting between the African Union Peace and Security Council and the United Nations Security Council. I am also pleased to note that today's meeting is being held only a few days after the very successful African Union-United Nations second annual conference, held in Addis Ababa on 9 July. At the outset, I would also like to thank my sister, Ms. Sahle-Work Zewde, for the important briefing she delivered.”
2018-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8314 (2018) · source
“Those demands are all the more legitimate because sustainable funding for peace efforts in Africa should not be considered only as an African priority, but also as an international strategic imperative to respond to the complex and interconnected nature of threats to international peace and security. That brings me to the end of my briefing. I wish to conclude by stressing again the strategic importance of the African Union-United Nations partnership. The challenging and increasingly complex situations on the ground emphasize the need to enhance and to properly calibrate our concerted efforts to achieve sustainable peace in Africa.”
2018-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8243 (2018) · source
“The progress achieved over the past 24 months in the operationalization ofthe Peace Fund, which has already received two-thirds of the planned contribution for 2018, serves as a demonstration of the African Union's commitment. It should be recalled that the Peace Fund is organized around three windows. The first should fund preventive diplomacy and mediation, the second should fund institutional capacity, and the third should fund peace support operations. It is our hope that the ongoing efforts of the African Union will help to convince the Security Council to respond positively to Africa's demands in this regard.”
2018-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8243 (2018) · source
“Fourthly, throughout the sustaining peace process, our collective endeavours will amount to little if there is no corresponding effort to mobilize adequate resources for the implementation of the defined priorities. No significant progress can be made without adequate financial resources and technical assistance to support concerned countries in sustaining peace. The main challenges that post-conflict reconstruction and development implementation has been facing are related to the amount of resources and expertise it demands and the high-level political and diplomatic engagement it requires to be successful. As Council members already know, the African Union continues to make considerable efforts to assume greater responsibility for funding its peace activities.”
2018-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8243 (2018) · source
“The African Union, through its post-conflict reconstruction and development, and the United Nations, through its peacebuilding architecture, have much to learn from each other's approaches and experiences, and from seeking greater cooperation and collaboration. The recently signed Joint United Nations-African Union Framework for an Enhanced Partnership in Peace and Security and the subsequent memorandum of understanding between the African Union Commission and the Peacebuilding Support Office provide a solid framework to strengthen cooperation in support of peacebuilding and sustaining peace efforts in Africa. We welcome the commitment of the Secretary-General to consolidate and further promote our partnership in this area, as outlined in his recent report on peacebuilding and sustaining peace (S/20l8/43).”
2018-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8243 (2018) · source
“That entails in particular incorporating local perspectives and empowering marginalized communities. It also requires taking into consideration the regional dimension and the transnational nature of conflicts in Africa. The African Union has already started incorporating this dimension in its joint efforts with the different regional mechanisms. Thirdly, the importance of establishing close cooperation and working relationships among national, regional and international actors cannot be overemphasized. In that context, given that Africa remains the major regional focus of the United Nations peacebuilding architecture, the partnership between the African Union and the United Nations is crucial.”
2018-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8243 (2018) · source
“The African Union has developed a continental structural conflict prevention framework that allows its Member States to engage in a voluntary process with the Commission to enhance their capacity to identify vulnerabilities to conflict at the very early stage and, on this basis, work out a mitigation strategy. With the support of the African Union Commission, Ghana has just finalized its report as the first country to volunteer for the exercise. I believe that this mechanism could present an additional opportunity for cooperation between the African Union and the United Nations, in the light of the joint framework signed last year. Secondly, there is a need to shift from the current top-down approach to a more people-centred paradigm with a specific focus on peace dividends, especially for women andyouth.”
2018-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8243 (2018) · source
“In the same vein, we are in the process of strengthening our stabilization efforts in Somalia within the framework of the African Union Mission in Somalia, and in the Sudan through the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur, respectively. The recent relapses of several post-conflict countries into violence and instability highlight the need to do more to address, in a coherent manner, the structures, attitudes and processes that perpetuate conflict and instability. In that regard, allow me to share some of the critical lessons learned, on which today's meeting can build to enhance our joint efforts towards achieving sustainable peace in Africa. First, there is an urgent need to strengthen our cooperation in the area of prevention. Conflict prevention remains the most cost-effective tool, yet it is the least resourced.”
2018-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8243 (2018) · source
“Going forward, the African Union plans to scale up its stabilization efforts on the continent. Our objective is to manage transitions from initial stabilization, which often carries a heavy military footprint, to long-term peacebuilding, focusing on reconstruction, revitalization of public service institutions, and short- to medium-term socioeconomic and political development. In the Lake Chad basin, the African Union and the Lake Chad Basin Commission are now in the process of finalizing a strategy that will rationalize the various initiatives aimed at stabilizing the areas affected by Boko Haram's activities.”
2018-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8243 (2018) · source
“To date, the Commission has provided support to the Central African Republic, Liberia, Madagascar, Guinea-Bissau, the Lake Chad basin, the Sahelo-Saharan region and Somalia in a broad range of areas, including the strengthening of human rights institutions, the scaling-up of health facilities, capacitating educational institutions, and security sector reform, as well as rule of law reforms. Currently, the African Union is in the process of deploying technical advisers to support the security sector reform as well as transitional justice processes in The Gambia. That is being done in furtherance of a Peace and Security Council decision that mandated the Commission to provide support to The Gambia, following a request by the new authorities of the country.”
2018-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8243 (2018) · source
“In the area of peacebuilding, the implementation of the African Union Policy on Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development has progressively enabled the Commission to take concrete actions to consolidate peace and prevent relapse into violence. At the core of the African Union's interventions is the need to build sustainable resilience with a view to enhancing structural transformation, thereby preventing relapse. In short, the African Union's approach to peacebuilding has preventive and stabilization dimensions. Therefore, our engagement has been geared towards developing and implementing quick-impact and peace-strengthening projects in areas of deployment of African Union peace support operations, and through the African Union liaison offices.”
2018-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8243 (2018) · source
“Let me start by recalling that the very idea of peacebuilding and sustaining peace is strongly grounded in the long-enshrined principle that peace cannot be achieved without development, and vice-versa, and that neither peace nor development can thrive without human rights and good governance. It is indeed that firm conviction that underpins the African Union's approach to fulfilling its central mandate to achieve a peaceful and prosperous Africa. In line with the provisions of its Constitutive Act and the Protocol relating to the Establishment of the Peace and Security Council, the African Union has, over the past decade, assumed greater responsibilities on conflict prevention, management, resolution and post-conflict reconstruction and development.”
2018-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8243 (2018) · source
“Antonio Guterres, to whom I would like to reiterate our recognition, as well as our strong support for his inspiring and tireless efforts to promote peace and stability in Africa, in close partnership with the African Union. Only one week ago, I had the opportunity to brief the Council on one of the most visible parts of that strategic partnership, illustrated by the recent successful field mission that I undertook, jointly with my friend, Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, respectively to the Sudan and the Central African Republic. I thank the Secretary-General for his support.”
2018-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8243 (2018) · source
“Mr. Chergui: First of all, I would like to commend the Peruvian presidency for convening this timely and very important meeting on peacebuilding and sustaining peace. The presence of the honourable Minister for Foreign Affairs, as well as the high-level participation bears witness to the importance of the meeting, in addition to the Council's commitment to advancing the agenda of sustaining peace. I also wish to express our gratitude for the kind invitation extended to me to share the perspective of the African Union on that strategic discussion in View of our growing partnership with the United Nations. In that regard, it gives me great pleasure and honour to speak in the presence of the Secretary-General, Mr.”
2018-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8243 (2018) · source
“We are no longer in a situation of failing to provide assistance to persons in danger but are condemning those young men and women to death if we fail to act. In conclusion, let me say that our common humanity is at stake. The expectation that we shall address the scourge of human trafficking is immense, and time is not on our side. We owe it to the victims ofthis tragedy who have suffered for far too long.”
2017-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8111 (2017) · source
“Fourthly, there is an urgency gap, related to the low level of importance accorded to human trafficking. More must be done to mobilize international, regional and national actors to bring the issue to the top of our agendas. Finally, there is a policy-implementation gap, where policies at the national, regional, continental and global level are not implemented. Let me again touch on the situation in Libya. The slavery camps must be dismantled without delay, the criminal networks destroyed immediately and those behind the atrocious crimes brought to justice. It is also our expectation that the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees will establish a permanent presence in Libya to assist the victims of trafficking.”
2017-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8111 (2017) · source
“We were not heard before and we continue not to be heard, but we are hopeful that that will change. Secondly, we must address Government deficits and the lack of social a economic development on the continent, which have led our youth to risk their lives across the Sahara and Mediterranean Sea in search of a better tomorrow or to become involved with terrorist groups that can provide income and a sense of belonging. Let us make sure that this time we move from words to action, and ensure that we meet the goal set for 2030. Thirdly, there is a lack of cooperation among the various actors involved in addressing the issue of human trafficking. It is therefore very important for our two organizations to hold regular consultations at the highest leadership level.”
2017-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8111 (2017) · source
“Each of our initiatives to combat human trafficking is founded on the realization that the challenges of human trafficking must be addressed from both regional and global perspectives and be situated within the context of sustainable development. Unfortunately our efforts to prevent, protect and assist the victims of human trafficking continue to be hindered by the following challenges. First, although we have a shared analysis of the mini conflict situations on the continent, we do not always have a common strategy. Take Libya, for example. We all remember the pre-intervention period in the country. The African Union wanted the mediated solution but it was prevented. Even today, the repercussions of the current situation in Libya or in neighbouring African countries are not fully appreciated.”
2017-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8111 (2017) · source
“AFRIPOL will also play a critical role in training and building the capacity of law enforcement agencies to confront the range of emerging transnational threats, including human trafficking. We are also working on a framework that will provide comprehensive Victim-support services for those affected by human trafficking. That includes health services addressing the long-term needs of those who have been physically injured, and psychological support for the victims and their families. That is in line with the three approaches of preventing the crime, prosecuting traffickers and protecting the victims.”
2017-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8111 (2017) · source
“The Nouakchott and Djibouti processes on the enhancement of security cooperation in the Sahel and East Africa, established under the auspices of the African Union, have served as the catalysts for robust cooperation between the intelligence services of the countries of the respective regions. Those processes have allowed different institutions to develop and share their understanding of common security threats, and devise collaborative response measures to address them. The African Union Mechanism for Police Cooperation (AFRIPOL) is now fully operational. AFRIPOL was established to enhance cooperation and coordination between police and other law enforcement agencies of member States at the strategic, operational and tactical levels to coherently and effectively combat all forms of crime.”
2017-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8111 (2017) · source
“The African Union has also adopted several legal and normative instruments that are designed to tackle the trafficking of human beings and the smuggling of migrants. Those instruments have provided the basis for member States to enact anti-trafficking legislation, which has protected and rescued a great number of victims. The second component focuses on strengthening security response measures. Significant progress has already been made through peace support operations and ad hoc security arrangements. However, there are considerable gaps in the criminal justice response to human trafficking, which include outdated legislation and weak institutional capacities to investigate, prosecute and adjudicate human trafficking cases.”
2017-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8111 (2017) · source
“Interventions should be tailored to address particular vulnerabilities and provide meaningful and effective alternatives for livelihoods and political participation. The African Union Commission is undertaking various initiatives aimed at addressing the structural vulnerabilities of member States, through the Continental Structural Conflict Prevention Framework. The Commission is also supporting member States in strengthening their national peace infrastructure to enable them to respond to local realities and potential threats. Within the framework of the African Union Border Programme, the African Union's work with development partners has helped some of its members in the Sahel and East Africa to enhance Government presence in the border region by extending public and social services.”
2017-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8111 (2017) · source
“We are working relentlessly to prevent and mediate conflicts, and to address their root causes. Indeed, building on the Joint United Nations-African Union Framework for Enhanced Partnership in Peace and Security, the United Nations and the African Union are currently in the process of developing and a United Nations-African Union framework for the implementation of Agenda 2063 and the Sustainable Development Goals. The African Union also maintains that a multi-pronged but tailored and context-specific approach that addresses the complexities and nuances of the problem is the only way to make concrete and sustainable progress. The African Union therefore focuses on both prevention and response. The preventive approach focuses on addressing the conditions that lead to human trafficking.”
2017-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8111 (2017) · source
“The business of smuggling migrants has become so lucrative that it has led to clashes among rebel factions, who are, in essence, rent-seekers promising partners that they can contain the issue of migrants in Libya. The African Union has requested the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights to launch an urgent investigation in support of the measures announced by the Libyan authorities and to submit its conclusions as soon as possible. The African Union also intends to dispatch an envoy to Libya for consultation with the Government and other stakeholders in order to agree on practical steps to address the plight of African migrants in Libya. The African Union believes that ending the trafficking in persons in conflict situations must start with the resolution of conflict.”
2017-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8111 (2017) · source
“Allow me to touch on the plight of migrants in Libya. The African Union learned with dismay of reports of the auctioning of African migrants in Libya as slaves. We were lost for words when we saw those images. The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Mr. Moussa Faki Mahamat, has strongly condemned such despicable acts, which are at odds with the ideas of the founding fathers of our Organization and the relevant African and international instruments, including the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights. In addition, the African Union is deeply concerned about the inhuman conditions across Libya where migrants are being held.”
2017-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8111 (2017) · source
“The stories we hear from the victims in countries such as Libya, South Sudan, Central African Republic and Somalia, to name a few, are harrowing. The Government of Burundi has recorded more than 356 women and girls who have been Victims of human trafficking since January. The tragedy is that once they reach their destination, human rights abuse continues, sometimes under the radar. Although the phenomenon exists everywhere, the populations in conflict situations are more vulnerable to sex trafficking, child sex trafficking, forced labour, domestic servitude, forced child labour and the unlawful recruitment and use of child soldiers. According to the report just released by the International Labour Organization, Africa has the highest rate of modern slavery, with 7.6 per cent per 1,000 people.”
2017-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8111 (2017) · source
“Mr. Chergui: On behalf of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, I would like to thank the Italian presidency of the Security Council for convening this important meeting under the agenda item "Maintenance of international peace and security: trafficking in persons in conflict situations". I will focus my presentation on the situation in Africa. The African Union Peace and Security Council is currently seized with 15 conflict situations on the continent, including countries engaged in war or experiencing post-conflict tensions, while a dozen face chronic vulnerabilities. In each of those situations, trafficking remains an issue that continues to erode the human dignity of individuals, in particular women and children.”
2017-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8111 (2017) · source
“Without the political cooperation and support of the Council, the attainment of collective security within Africa and beyond will be difficult to achieve.”
2017-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8006 (2017) · source
“We therefore look forward to further deliberation and possible decision by the Council, in September 2017, on the dedicated support from the United Nations to all Council-mandated African peace support operations. In conclusion, Council members will agree with me that the new leaderships of the African Union Commission and the United Nations are determined to promote greater synergy between peace, security and development. Both organizations have set mutually reinforcing and ambitious, but not insurmountable, strategic priorities, as reflected in Agenda 2063 and Vision 2030 respectively. We continue to count on the political leadership and guidance of our member States, especially in the Council, in the realization of our institutional mandates.”
2017-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8006 (2017) · source
“In that respect, I am pleased to note that the implementation of the Kigali Summit decision on financing is now under way. We are convinced that the efforts that we have invested in the African Union since 2001 to realize alternative sources of funding will be achieved. As a way of enhancing our accountability measures, the African Union Commission has requested that the United Nations and the European Union nominate representatives to the governance structure of the Peace Fund. Yet, it is clear that Africa will not be able to fund peace initiatives on its own. Therefore, the prospects of predictable and sustainable funding for addressing peace and security challenges, including through the utilization of United Nations assessed contributions remains a common African position.”
2017-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8006 (2017) · source
“This entails supporting the African Union's efforts in countering violent extremism through greater investment in political, human rights, humanitarian and developmental approaches. In addition, the African Union Counter-terrorism Fund, as well as activities of the African Centre for the Study and Research on Terrorism, the Nouakchott and Djibouti processes are important coordination platforms through which the African Union can be supported in the fight against terrorism. Here, I should like to reiterate our readiness to work with the new Under-Secretary-General, Mr. Vladimir Ivanovich Voronkov. Fourthly, the financing of peace support operations remains a perennial issue of discussion, which we hope can be resolved soon.”
2017-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8006 (2017) · source
“The recent authorization of regional coalitions such as the Multinational Joint Task Force against Boko Haram and the Group of Five for the Sahel force are innovative ways through which the African Union and its member States are responding to the prevalence of terrorist activities within the framework of the African Union Peace and Security Architecture. Yet, prolonged conflicts and governance deficits provide fertile grounds for a cycle of radicalization and extremism. Therefore, the African Union and United Nations must work together to resolve seemingly intractable conflicts by building resilience through sustainable post-conflict reconstruction and development initiatives.”
2017-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8006 (2017) · source
“The enhancement process will be achieved within the framework of the Maputo Five-year Strategic Workplan on the African Standby Force, which has been finalized. As I speak, a high-level technical team is undertaking the verification of the capabilities of the five brigades of the African Standby Force. I will encourage Council members and partners to support the implementation of the African Standby Force Strategic Workplan. We look forward to closely working with the new Under- Secretary-General, Mr. Vladimir Ivanovich Voronkov. Thirdly, the spread of violent extremism remains a source of concern.”
2017-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8006 (2017) · source
“The African Union and its regional standby forces have put in tremendous efforts to develop and operationalize the African Standby Force and its Rapid Deployment Capability as one ofits conflict management tools, as enshrined in the African Peace and Security Architecture. That was evidenced by the declaration of full operational capability of the Force in January 2016 by the African Union Specialized Technical Committee on Defence, Safety and Security. Despite this historic achievement, the Ministers of Defence of African Union member States further recognized that there are challenges ahead, especially with the mandating process, funding and logistics support and therefore called for further strengthening of the ASF.”
2017-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8006 (2017) · source
“In that regard, the African Union has developed the Continental Structural Conflict Prevention Framework, which allows member States to identify their resilience and vulnerabilities and brings various stakeholders together to work on a mitigation strategy. As we speak, one of our member States is currently going through this exercise. Other priorities include strengthening efforts to encourage member States to sign, ratify and domesticate African Union instruments related to conflict prevention, and supporting member States in the delimitation, demarcation and reaffirmation of African borders with the objective of preventing conflict and of transforming borders from barriers to bridges. Secondly, the enhancement of the operational readiness of the African Standby Force must be fully supported.”
2017-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8006 (2017) · source
“Some of the concrete priorities we are working on in the area of conflict prevention include enhancing coordination between the African Union and relevant African Union organs and regional economic communities in order to create better synergies between the African Governance Architecture and the African Peace and Security Architecture; strengthening platforms for engagement in early warning issues through regular horizon scanning to the Peace and Security Council; assisting our member States to strengthen their own national peace infrastructure; assisting member States to identify and address local, political and socioeconomic root causes of conflict.”
2017-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8006 (2017) · source
“I have already established an internal secretariat within the Peace and Security Department of the African Union to develop an implementation matrix of the Joint Framework, and dedicated staff has been assigned to fulfil this objective.”
2017-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8006 (2017) · source