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  1. “With that, I would like to thank the Security Council for the kind invitation extended to us, affirming its openness to also bring in the views and voices of non-State actors, which is critical in this time that we are in.”

    2023-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9435 (2023) · source

  2. “On more immediate issues of concern, it is of paramount importance for the African Union and the United Nations to urgently address the extraordinary, painful humanitarian situation in the Sudan, and that they can do through humanitarian diplomacy and by establishing a dedicated mechanism to address the humanitarian challenge and the plight of civilians in those conditions. While we affirm and welcome the call that has been made in the joint consultative meeting between/by the Security Council of the United Nations and the African Union Peace and Security Council, this situation will not wait for those actors to heed the call that has been made; hence the need for urgent action and a dedicated mechanism for the humanitarian situation in the Sudan.”

    2023-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9435 (2023) · source

  3. “Our recent work therefore emphasizes the need to bring regional multilateral organizations such as the AU to the centre of global peace and security diplomacy in a systematic way rather than on an ad hoc basis. Finally, the AU-United Nations partnership needs to enhance its focus on the socioeconomic and development dimensions of the maintenance of international peace and security. It is now widely accepted that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and peace and security are deeply intertwined. Achieving the SDGs for member States of the AU is also directly tied to the reform of the multilateral financial system. For example, Africa pays a 500 per cent premium on borrowing from the market, and reform could save Africa as much as $56 billion, expanding access to much-needed resources to meet the Sustainable Development Goals.”

    2023-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9435 (2023) · source

  4. “38) Today elevating the United Nations-AU partnership to a higher level is also a strategic imperative for the effective functioning of multilateralism. The deepening polarization in the world, particularly among major Powers, is among the key factors of the increasing fracturing of the multilateral system. The AU, the member States of which make up 28 per cent of the United Nations, has a unique reservoir of potential for playing a moderation role in the face of such polarization. Tapping into the AU’s moderating role and, indeed, Africa’s potentiality as the future of multilateralism through the United Nations-AU partnership is key, not just for arresting the fracturing of the multilateral system — which we see today — but also for making it fit for purpose.”

    2023-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9435 (2023) · source

  5. “That echoes the Secretary-General’s proposal for the Security Council to break new ground through: “a new generation of African Union-led, United Nations-supported peace operations on the African continent that blend the respective strength of both organizations in a manner that prioritizes political solutions and maximizes the impact of both uniformed and civilian capabilities.” (S/2023/303, para. 43) A necessary corollary to and an essential part of that institutionalized arrangement is the shift that the Council also has to make, as the Secretary-General put it, from considering the use of United Nations-assessed contributions for AU-led peace support operations as exceptional circumstances to considering them “in a more systematic manner.” (ibid., para.”

    2023-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9435 (2023) · source

  6. “Therefore, despite the progress registered in the United Nations-AU partnership, the mobilization of resources by the two organizations largely reflects an ad hoc and case-by- case basis approach. For example, they are unable to collaboratively institute peace support operations that not only have stabilization and peace enforcement mandates and capabilities but also are willing and able to act on their peace-enforcement mandates that the security conditions on the ground warrant. Critical to elevating the United Nations-AU partnership in that context is to establish a systematic and institutionalized arrangement that affirms the peace and security tools of the African Union as part of the toolkit of the global collective security system under the Charter.”

    2023-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9435 (2023) · source

  7. “The Secretary-General’s Our Common Agenda (A/75/982) affirms that regional organizations “fill a critical gap in our global peace and security architecture”. His report on United Nations- AU partnership (S/2023/629) highlights that there is no other organization that better reflects those attributes than the African Union. Yet the state of the United Nations-AU partnership is far from adequate for the AU to effectively fill that critical gap. As we pointed out in one of our recent works, one manifestation of that inadequacy is the lack of a systematic and institutionalized global arrangement for harnessing the full potential and role of the AU as part of the global collective security system anchored in the Charter.”

    2023-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9435 (2023) · source

  8. “At this historic moment, deepening the partnership between the United Nations and the AU is not a matter of choice, nor is it merely something nice to do. We believe that, rather, it is a prerequisite for delivering on the peace and security and development objectives of the Charter of the United Nations. There is a pressing and growing need for both more crisis management and enhanced effectiveness of crisis management more today than in the past. No single actor can meet those pressing demands alone. The continued relevance of the United Nations and the AU in the maintenance of international peace and security in Africa therefore depends on them pulling their comparative advantages together and systematically coordinating their actions across files and portfolios.”

    2023-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9435 (2023) · source

  9. “Mr. Dersso: I would like to start by thanking Brazil’s presidency for the invitation extended to me to deliver this briefing on behalf of my organization, Amani Africa Media and Research Services. I would also like to recognize the members of the Security Council and the preceding briefers: my brother, Mr. Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, and Her Excellency Ambassador Fatima Kyari Mohammed. Amani Africa, a pan-African policy research, training and consulting think tank that works on multilateral processes of concern and interest for Africa, is the leading source of information and analysis on matters of the African Union (AU) in general and its Peace and Security Council in particular, including the AU’s strategic partnership with the United Nations. It is accordingly a particular honour for me to draw on our work for my briefing today.”

    2023-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9435 (2023) · source