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2012-01-12
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  1. “Furthermore, we hope that the Secretary-General can provide recommendations to the Security Council, better enabling the Council to fully understand and address those cross-cutting threats, particularly in the case of West Africa and the Sahel region. Those recommendations should focus on the main, destabilizing factors. In that regard, we consider drug trafficking to be the number one priority. Finally, there is a need for the Security Council to continue to be informed and updated on these issues and continue to discuss them, based on regular briefings from the Executive Director of UNODC.”

    2012-02-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6717 (2012) · source

  2. “We must strive to strengthen coordination between the United Nations, African regional organizations, the European Union and other specialized organizations working in that area, such as INTERPOL. Lastly, within the United Nations system itself, there is a need for coordination among the bodies, agencies, funds and programmes that play a role, direct or indirect, in providing assistance in the fight against transnational organized crime. It seems to us important that we are all informed about what will be done in that area. We would therefore welcome the Secretary- General's continued consideration of cross-cutting threats, especially transnational organized crime, when considering conflicts, prevention strategies, integrated missions and peacekeeping operations.”

    2012-02-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6717 (2012) · source

  3. “In that regard, France has contributed more than €10 million to technical cooperation programmes in support of good governance and the justice sector in the countries of the Sahel region, as part of its special priority funds programme. France is also fully committed to the fight to ensure maritime security in the Gulf of Guinea, for example by developing a three-year project for Benin, Ghana and Togo, and also working alongside the Economic Community of Central African States. Finally, each year, our interior security attaches in West Africa, often in close coordination with other relevant international organizations, implement technical assistance programmes that include police training and the provision of equipment.”

    2012-02-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6717 (2012) · source

  4. “The States of West Africa and the Sahel region can count on strong and determined support from France and, more broadly, from the European Union, in strengthening their capacities to combat transnational organized crime. The European Union is a major player, providing substantial support for efforts to combat drug trafficking and organized crime in West Africa and for the fight for maritime security, both in the Gulf of Guinea and in the Sahel region, where the Union is implementing significant technical assistance programmes. France is fully committed to those efforts, alongside the countries of West Africa. Thanks to its network of volunteers and other partners, its interior security attaches and its liaison officials, we have been able to step up our cooperation.”

    2012-02-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6717 (2012) · source

  5. “Given the international dimension of the criminal networks of which we are speaking, some of which have their origins outside West Africa and even outside the continent, it is more crucial than ever to strengthen regional and international cooperation on matters of policing and the rule of law. It is particularly important to establish national criminal justice systems that are accessible and aligned with international norms. The United Nations Conventions against drugs, the United Nations Palermo Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and United Nations Merida Convention against Corruption have established an exemplary and appropriate policy framework for the fight against narcotics. It should be universalized and implemented.”

    2012-02-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6717 (2012) · source

  6. “I would like specifically to commend the role played for several years now by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in helping the States of the region. Since 2008, UNODC has played a major role in implementing the 2008-2011 Praia Regional Action Plan of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The direct involvement of African countries is critical, especially of those suffering the full brunt of the destabilizing effects of that illegal trade. The voices of those countries must be better heard and their actions supported. In that regard, we are fully convinced that ECOWAS must play a central role.”

    2012-02-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6717 (2012) · source

  7. “Various bodies of the United Nations are working to promote political awareness of the challenges involved and more effective political collaboration in addressing them. On the ground, we must take advantage of the opportunities for cooperation among the various United Nations agencies and other international organizations working on those issues. The instability caused by various forms of illegal trade, particularly drug trafficking, requires a coordinated response, as well as reconstruction and crisis prevention policies that include combating transnational organized crime. This principle is at the heart of the West Africa Coast Initiative, which includes Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Cote d'Ivoire and Liberia and which is supported by France.”

    2012-02-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6717 (2012) · source

  8. “We also know that, as elsewhere, drug trafficking in Africa attracts other transnational illicit trade, such as in weapons, money laundering and human trafficking. The spread of both small arms and heavy weapons is another challenge characteristic of West Africa and the Sahel region. The penetration of funds from those illegal trades into the broader regional economy, the corruption it causes, and the violence among criminal groups striving to capture markets all undermine governance and threaten socio-economic development. In that context, France welcomes the fact that the Security Council is assessing the impact of those forces and also welcomes the initial responses implemented by the States of West Africa.”

    2012-02-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6717 (2012) · source

  9. “But the case of West Africa - which has undergone many conflicts over the past decade - shows the diversity of organized crime and, above all, its negative effect on efforts at achieving good governance and rebuilding public institutions in post-conflict situations. The Council has several times expressed its concern about the growing drug traffic and its destabilizing effect in Guinea-Bissau. The phenomenon affects the whole of West Africa and is tied in with maritime insecurity and armed piracy on the high seas. Organized crime networks form and use the Sahel region - which is particularly porous - as a transit area, before spreading to the rest of the continent or the shores of Europe.”

    2012-02-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6717 (2012) · source

  10. “Mr. Courtial (France) (spoke in French): I thank the delegation of Togo for organizing this debate, which gives us a chance to exchange ideas about the impact of organized transnational crime on international peace and security in West Africa and the Sahel. I also thank Mr. Fedotov for his briefing and I would like to take this opportunity to reassert my country's appreciation for his work and the organization he runs. I align myself with the statement to be made by the observer of the European Union. The Security Council has many times been made aware of the threats posed by international organized crime to stability and security in various regions in the world, such as Afghanistan, Haiti or Central America.”

    2012-02-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6717 (2012) · source

  11. “As President Sarkozy stated during the Africa- France summit held in Nice last year, Africa must be a key player with respect to larger issues of peace, security and global equilibrium. France has taken action in that respect and hopes that in the framework of the necessary reform of the Security Council, Africa will assume its rightful place, including among the permanent members.”

    2012-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6702 (2012) · source

  12. “Thus increased cooperation between the United Nations and the African Union is essential. The contacts and meetings promoted by the Secretary- General between the Secretariat and the African Union Commission, as well as between the Security Council and the AU Peace and Security Council, fall within that framework and will, in keeping with the spirit of the Charter of the United Nations, guarantee the best possible coordination between the African Union and the United Nations. That is also the task of the new United Nations Office to the African Union. My country welcomes the progress made as a result of the cooperation between the United Nations and the AU and will continue to play an active role in supporting United Nations peacekeeping, as well as the African Union and subregional organizations in terms of both funding and training.”

    2012-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6702 (2012) · source

  13. “Here I should like to underscore the importance that France attaches to support for the holding of free, fair and peaceful elections. In the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan, the combined efforts of the United Nations, through its peacekeeping operations in the region and its Office in Libreville, and of the African Union in combating the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) are yet another example of the cooperation between these two organizations. Regional participation is key to finding a lasting solution in the face of that threat. The recent adoption by the African Union of a strategy to combat the LRA is most welcome. Clearly, challenges to peace and security on the African continent are far from being homogenous.”

    2012-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6702 (2012) · source

  14. “The African Peace Facility provided by the European Union is an initial appropriate step in response to the request by the African Union for lasting and predictable funding for its operations. It is crucial that new players step up to the plate so as to guarantee the lasting nature of this funding. Peacebuilding should also be at the heart of cooperation between the United Nations and the African Union. In the Sahel, in West Africa and in the Great Lakes region, we have seen an increasing number of, and a growing interlinkage between, factors of instability, terrorism, trafficking and rebel activity, which undermine the security and integrity of States. Such challenges must spur us to continue to support security sector reform; disarmament, demobilization and reintegration initiatives; and the promotion of the rule of law.”

    2012-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6702 (2012) · source

  15. “The progress made by troops on the ground must be consolidated by the implementation of the political strategy by the Transitional Federal Government, backed by the international community, as the Security Council has recalled in several resolutions. The conduct of peacekeeping operations is, of course, interlinked with the issue of funding, in particular in the current, very difficult budgetary context. Along those lines, we must seek improved operational effectiveness, in particular by strengthening the chain of command in such operations and by improving cooperation with troop-contributing countries. We also take note with interest of the efforts made by the African Union to reform its management methods and diversify its sources of funding for peacekeeping operations.”

    2012-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6702 (2012) · source

  16. “In Somalia, the United Nations is providing significant logistical support to the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), which is tasked with supporting the Transitional Federal Institutions and the Somali security forces in the establishment of security in the country and in the implementation of the process of political transition. That technical cooperation is crucial to enabling AMISOM. to carry out its mission in a particularly complex context and to counter the challenges posed by Al-Shabaab fighters. While the African Union is calling for increased United Nations support, we should nevertheless ensure that the options put forward not fall exclusively under the domain of security.”

    2012-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6702 (2012) · source

  17. “In future, the challenge will be to better coordinate the respective mediation efforts of the United Nations and the African Union. The guidelines in this respect that are currently being drawn up will undoubtedly be useful in that context. The United Nations and the African Union are also cooperating in the conduct of peacekeeping operations. The African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur is playing a decisive role in the stabilization of the security and humanitarian situation. One of the challenges facing the mission is that it is governed by a chain of command that is split between the United Nations and the African Union. Experience has shown that strengthening day-to-day cooperation between the Secretariat and the AU Commission will improve the effectiveness of military personnel on the ground.”

    2012-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6702 (2012) · source

  18. “The new United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa, established in Libreville, is tasked with a similar role. Moreover, the African Union is involved in the assessment missions deployed on the ground by the United Nations in the face of the new cross-cutting threats, such as the recent ones in the Sahel region. In addition to its presence on the ground, the United Nations has strengthened the mediation capacities of the African Union by supporting the creation of a unit to that end within the African Union Commission. That cooperation has increased the capacities of the African Union, which today is carrying out complex mediation missions, particularly in Somalia and the Sudan, where the African Union High-level Implementation Panel, led by Mr. Mbeki, is addressing the settlement of pending disputes between Khartoum and Juba.”

    2012-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6702 (2012) · source

  19. “Today all our efforts are focused on ensuring that that original partnership, which is fully in line with the spirit of Chapter VIII of the Charter of the United Nations, lasts and flourishes. The Secretary-General's report recalls that today conflict prevention, peacekeeping - in the strict sense of the word - and peacebuilding lie at the heart of the cooperation between the United Nations and the African Union. So as to ensure conflict prevention, the United Nations has established regional offices in Dakar and Libreville and has created partnerships with African organizations. The United Nations Office in West Africa is fully engaged in initiatives in the area of mediation and good offices, specifically in Guinea, the Niger and Benin, in systematic coordination with the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States.”

    2012-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6702 (2012) · source

  20. “It is against that backdrop that the cooperation between the United Nations and the African Union in the area of peace and security has continued to grow. The African Union provides the United Nations with on-the-ground access. Its efforts in that respect bear witness to the fact that the continent is endeavouring to gradually shoulder responsibility for its own security, in accordance with the San Francisco Charter. For its part, the United Nations provides the African Union with legitimacy in the framework of the Charter as well as skills, resources and expertise that can provide support to missions charged with conflict prevention and management on the continent.”

    2012-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6702 (2012) · source

  21. “Mr. Courtial (France) (spoke in French): Madam President, I wish to thank you for having convened today's debate on cooperation between the United Nations and the African Union (AU) in the area of peace and security. I welcome your presence here today, which bears witness to the leadership role that South Africa intends to play in the Security Council. I wish also to extend my thanks to the Secretary-General for his presentation and for his report (S/2011/805), as well as to Commissioner Lamamra. I should like to make several observations. As you recalled, Madam President, almost two thirds of the discussions held in the Security Council pertain to Africa, and 80 per cent of all peacekeepers are deployed on the African continent.”

    2012-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6702 (2012) · source