YouSaid · the spoken record

Djinnit

lines on the record: 401
first: 2003-03-18
most recent: 2019-03-26
sittings or episodes: 28
sources: un-security-council

Every line below is reproduced as it was said and linked to the record it came from. Nothing here is summarised or generated. Directory · Search · Corrections

“UNOWA's SSR strategy is directed at supporting and advising ECOWAS While ensuring that the United Nations approach to SSR in West Africa is harmonized. Obviously, much remains to be done on both aspects, but signs of progress within institutions are already encouraging. Also encouraging are the efforts being conducted at all levels to raise awareness of the threat to peace and stability posed by drug trafficking and organized crime in West Africa, including the menace of terrorism - especially in the Sahel band.”
2010-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6256 (2010) · source
“The increased vulnerability of the region to natural disasters - essentially those induced by climate change - is becoming a major source of conflict and violence, in that it generates humanitarian emergencies and exacerbates competition for dwindling natural resources. As the Security Council and the Secretary-General have stated on several occasions, security sector reform (SSR) remains a major condition for durable peace in West Africa. The situation in Guinea is yet another illustration of how the defence and security sector is key to stabilizing the country, both because of its still- predominant political role and the potentially explosive tensions prevailing within the security architecture. In Guinea and elsewhere, therefore, security sector reform has become a priority area for our conflict prevention efforts.”
2010-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6256 (2010) · source
“In some countries, including those that are considered stable, positive trends towards consolidating democratic processes remain fragile and reversible, as evidenced by the recurrence of constitutional reviews, as we have observed in Niger, and election-related instability, which we are trying to avoid in Togo. Those challenges continue to undermine the stability of States and their institutions and, as such, must be addressed in a sustained manner. 10-20643 On the economic side, the prevailing vulnerability of the West African region to external economic and financial shocks and their negative impact on the livelihood of populations have contributed to social unrest and political violence in some countries.”
2010-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6256 (2010) · source
“That close collaboration has allowed our three institutions to develop a common and coherent position and strategy to address some of the region's most pressing problems, in particular unconstitutional changes of Government and other political crises. The prospects for long-term peace in West Africa will very much depend on how effective our efforts are in sustaining the progress achieved thus far, both before and following the withdrawal of the United Nations peace operations from the subregion. The march towards democracy and the rule of law has made giant strides over the past few years. However, national institutions remain weak and unstable.”
2010-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6256 (2010) · source
“By strengthening its political institutions and seeking better prospects for economic growth and development, West Africa should be able to improve the quality of life for the majority of its population, and thereby minimize the possibility of frustration, social tension and, ultimately, violence. In our collaboration with other United Nations entities in West Africa, inter-mission cooperation remains high on UNOWA's agenda. I am proud of the growing collaboration we have developed. Similarly, I am pleased with the close cooperation that UNOWA has been able to build with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Union in our common objective to address the daunting challenge of establishing peace and security in the subregion.”
2010-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6256 (2010) · source
“UNOWA has been raising attention and working in synergy with other United Nations entities in West Africa to address that situation. Our action is focused 2 on a number of priorities, including encouraging recovery efforts in countries affected by crisis, consolidating good governance and the rule of law, promoting human rights and gender mainstreaming in those countries that are stable but still at risk, and raising awareness of the imperative need for economic growth and the fair distribution of wealth. Through our contacts with subregional organizations, the region's main stakeholders and leaders and our partners, we are continuously raising awareness of those priorities and of the importance both of addressing the prevailing causes of violent conflict and mitigating the structural causes of instability.”
2010-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6256 (2010) · source
“Mr. Djinnit: I am honoured to brief the Council on the activities of the United Nations Office for West Africa (UNOWA) over the past six months. In spite of the great complexity of country-specific and cross- border issues in West Africa, UNOWA continues to implement its mandate with determination and faith in the immense opportunities for subregional peace. West Africa continues to show a mixed picture of hope and concern. Since my last briefing to the Security Council in July 2009 (see S/PV.6157), there have been improvements in West Africa in the areas of conflict prevention, recovery and peacebuilding. However, that progress is threatened by insufficient guarantees and assurances for sustainable progress.”
2010-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6256 (2010) · source
“In conclusion, I would like to thank the Security Council for the attention it continues to devote to West Africa and for its support to the United Nations Office for West Africa.”
2009-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6157 (2009) · source
“In particular, it will pursue the promising avenue of triangular collaboration between the United Nations, ECOWAS and the African Union that it has promoted in the past months, especially in preventive action. In my capacity as Chairman of the Cameroon- Nigeria Mixed Commission and of the Follow-Up Committee on the implementation of the Greentree Agreement, I, along with my team, will continue to provide support for the ongoing demarcation process of the boundary between the two countries. Particular attention will be given to promoting confidence- building measures between the two countries, addressing the problems faced by the affected population along the boundary and encouraging bilateral cooperation in tackling common security threats in the Bakassi peninsula and beyond, with the support of partners in the international community.”
2009-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6157 (2009) · source
“In this respect, UNOWA will pursue its efforts aimed at promoting synergies within the United Nations regional system and situating the role and contribution of each entity within the overall objective of the United Nations, that of achieving lasting peace, stability and progress in the subregion, and its vision of delivering as one. Collaboration with national authorities, civil society and other international actors, in accordance with their respective mandates, will remain a priority. UNOWA will continue to work closely with regional organizations, especially ECOWAS, which play a critical role in the prevention, management and resolution of conflicts.”
2009-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6157 (2009) · source
“I take this opportunity to appeal for the full support of Security Council members and the international community as a whole for these and other efforts to facilitate the implementation of the ECOWAS action plan. Before concluding, I wish to stress that, to be effective in West Africa, action on cross-border and regional challenges to peace and security should take place as part of a broader, comprehensive strategy of conflict resolution and crisis prevention. In this context, UNOWA will continue to promote and strengthen a regional and integrated approach to cross- border issues in the subregion. The United Nations, through its various entities, has been providing a highly appreciated contribution to assist the subregion to face its daunting socio- economic and development challenges.”
2009-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6157 (2009) · source
“In addition to the important contribution the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has been making in supporting subregional efforts at addressing this plight, UNOWA is expected to play an increasing role in channelling efforts towards achieving common goals, including those outlined in the ECOWAS plan of action. Tomorrow, here in New York, ECOWAS, the Department of Political Affairs, UNOWA, UNODC, the Department of Peacekeeping Operations and INTERPOL will launch the West Africa Coast Initiative. This joint programme is aimed at building the capacity of the police and law enforcement agencies in four pilot countries - Cote d'Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea-Bissau - thus allowing them to more effectively prevent and combat organized crime and drug trafficking.”
2009-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6157 (2009) · source
“Indeed, the subregion has emerged as an important route of transit for drug trafficking, particularly of cocaine from Latin America to Europe, with drug trafficking networks taking advantage of the weaknesses of West African States, including porous borders, abundant unemployed youth, widespread corruption and poverty. The measures taken by West African States, with the support of the United Nations, to combat drug trafficking and criminal activities - especially the ECOWAS regional action plan to address the growing problem of illicit drug trafficking, organized crime and drug abuse in West Africa deserve unflinching support.”
2009-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6157 (2009) · source
“As part of its activities on security sector reform, the United Nations Office for West Africa has initiated a process aimed at clarifying the role of the security sector and other institutions and enhancing their capacity in providing security during electoral processes in West Africa. This initiative, jointly carried out with ECOWAS, United Nations country teams and Governments, is going on, with interventions planned in countries where critical elections are scheduled in 2009 and 2010. There are other recurrent security challenges in West Africa. Drug trafficking is currently one of the most prominent.”
2009-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6157 (2009) · source
“Closely related to unconstitutional changes of government in West Africa is the recurrent question of security sector reform. Council members will recall that the mission of the Security Council to West Africa from 26 June to 5 July 2003 noted in its report that "in each country which has been a source of instability in the subregion in recent years the issue of the reform of the security sector is of paramount importance". (5/2003/688, para. 68). Six years later, the challenge of security sector reform remains a pending and burning issue in a number of countries in the subregion.”
2009-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6157 (2009) · source
“The forthcoming meeting of the International Contact Group scheduled for 16 and 17 July in Conakry should provide the opportunity for a critical review of the situation in that country in the light of the commitment of the authorities to the time frame leading to elections before the end of the year. On that occasion, the International Contact Group is also expected to devise ways and means to revamp the process. In Togo, UNOWA, in liaison with ECOWAS, has been encouraging the main stakeholders to create propitious conditions for organizing peaceful and democratic presidential elections in 2010. It has also been collaborating closely with the United Nations country team, the Government and ECOWAS to address critical issues related to security and elections.”
2009-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6157 (2009) · source
“Meanwhile, in Mauritania we are faced with the challenge of creating conditions for a free and fair electoral process, despite a very tight schedule and a rather difficult political environment, as a result of the mistrust and conflicting interests among the various parties represented in the consensual transitional institutions, including the Independent Electoral Commission. In Guinea, efforts continue within the framework of the International Contact Group, albeit in a context 3 of mounting concerns about the pace and timing of the transition.”
2009-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6157 (2009) · source
“In Mauritania, efforts spearheaded by the Facilitation Team, comprising Senegal, the African Union and the United Nations, culminated in the signing, in early June, of a framework agreement between the main political forces, which paved the way to the return to constitutional order in the country and the preparation of presidential elections scheduled for 18 July 2009. The leadership provided by Senegal and the Facilitation Team and their determination, combined with the unprecedented example of collaboration between international organizations and individual countries in promoting a consensual way out of the crisis in Mauritania, should be commended and emulated when tackling similar situations in the subregion and the continent as a whole.”
2009-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6157 (2009) · source
“1) and called attention to "the possible violence that may accompany such events as well as the negative impact on economic and social welfare of the people and the development of affected countries." (ibid, p. 1) Against that background, allow me to recall that all of the unconstitutional changes of government that have taken place in Africa recently, with the exception of the case of Madagascar, occurred in West Africa. A failed coup attempt has also been reported in the subregion in the period under review. The United Nations and its Office for West Africa have been playing an active role in the collective efforts that have been deployed to address the political crises that have emerged following those unconstitutional changes of government.”
2009-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6157 (2009) · source
“Allow me to highlight three specific challenges to peace and security in West Africa that have continued to require special attention and considerable efforts during the past six months. The resurgence of unconstitutional or violent changes of Government emerged as one of the most alarming threats to peace and stability in West Africa. Considering the strong destabilizing effects of such events, the Security Council decided, a few weeks ago, to focus on the challenge of unconstitutional changes in Africa. 09-39336 It was particularly welcome in West Africa that the Council, in its presidential statement dated 5 May 2009, expressed 44' its deep concern over the resurgence of unconstitutional changes of government in a few African countries" (S/PRST/2009/11 , p.”
2009-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6157 (2009) · source
“Moreover, a number of growing or emerging challenges, which include terrorist activities in the Sahel band, piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, governance problems, drug trafficking and organized crime, jeopardize ongoing peace efforts in the subregion. The potential impact of those threats on international security should not be underestimated. Meanwhile, the social and economic situation remains precarious, as a result of the combined effects of factors such as high demographic growth, declining economic growth, rapid urbanization, youth unemployment, climate change and food insecurity. That is further exacerbated by the impact of the global economic and financial crisis on West African economies, which is deepening and is increasingly destabilizing.”
2009-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6157 (2009) · source
“In Guinea-Bissau, the first round of presidential elections has just been concluded and declared free, fair and transparent, while the United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office in Guinea-Bissau is transforming itself into an integrated office for better coordination of activities with all stakeholders so as to tackle the formidable peacebuilding challenges in that country. It is important to emphasize that the significant progress achieved by West Africa in the area of peace, security and stability remains extremely fragile, as the root causes of conflict and instability persist. In some cases, this progress is reversible, as illustrated by the recent democratic setback in Mauritania, the prevailing crisis in the Niger and other looming crises in the subregion.”
2009-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6157 (2009) · source
“More precisely, the determination of West Africa to address its crises decisively with the support of the United Nations and the wider international community, as well as its efforts to strengthen institutions, governance and the rule of law and to enhance the role of civil society including women, has led to an important reduction in the scope and level of violence across the subregion. Indeed, there is currently no open armed conflict going on in West Africa. The impact of armed violence on State institutions and societies, 09-39336 illustrated, for instance, by the number of refugees and internally displaced persons, has significantly decreased. Peace operations in C6te d'Ivoire, Liberia and Sierra Leone are steadily moving forward towards post-conflict recovery and peace consolidation.”
2009-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6157 (2009) · source
“The report before you (S/2009/332) presents the state of peace and security in West Africa over the past six months and the efforts deployed by the United Nations Office for West Africa (UNOWA) to support initiatives aimed at addressing the challenges of peace and stability in the subregion. The report underscores the progress in the overall peace and security situation in the subregion, especially the positive developments registered in post-conflict recovery and peacebuilding and progress in the area of governance and the rule of law.”
2009-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6157 (2009) · source
“On the other hand, however, experience shows that West Africa has learned much from that difficult experience and has emerged as one of the African subregions with the strongest determination and the most effective institutional framework to respond to challenges posed by political instability and armed conflict. The commitment of West African peacekeeping forces, the Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) in Liberia and Sierra Leone and other contributions by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and its member States to efforts aimed at addressing the conflicts that afflicted the subregion, including in the Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau and Togo, are a testimony to the strong political will of West African leaders and people to remain at the forefront of peace efforts in their subregion.”
2009-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6157 (2009) · source
“Mr. Djinnit: I feel particularly privileged to address the Security Council on the situation in West Africa and the activities of the United Nations Office for West Africa (UNOWA) over the last six months. Let me start by stressing the obvious, which is that 2 West Africa is part of the African continent. Therefore, the search for solutions to West African problems cannot be dissociated from the overall peace efforts on the African continent The trends of conflicts in Africa show that, since the early 19903, West Africa has been a laboratory for peace and security. On the one hand, the subregion has had more than its fair share of violent conflicts, with dire consequences for development, stability and human security.”
2009-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6157 (2009) · source
“Following the successful completion, on 14 August 2008, of the transfer of authority in the Bakassi peninsula from Nigeria to Cameroon, in accordance with the June 2006 Greentree Agreement, their efforts are now focused on expediting the boundary demarcation process, promoting confidence- building measures between the two countries and addressing the needs of affected populations.”
2009-01-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6073 (2009) · source
“In that regard, I am encouraged by the arrangements and effective partnerships developed over the past year with all United Nations entities operating in the subregion and the enthusiasm shown in situating their individual activities within the larger United Nations strategic objective in support of peace and stability in West Africa. Finally, in my capacity as Chairman of the Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission, my team and I continue to provide support to the delimitation and demarcation process along the Cameroon-Nigeria boundary.”
2009-01-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6073 (2009) · source
“In November in Conakry, Guinea, UNOWA initiated a useful regional discussion on the role of the security sector in electoral processes. Joint efforts will need to be undertaken by ECOWAS, the United Nations and other partners to build on that positive experience so that countries in the region can develop a broader security sector reform agenda. As members are aware, a pivotal role of UNOWA is to promote concerted subregional approaches to peace and security both within the United Nations system and with ECOWAS.”
2009-01-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6073 (2009) · source
“Continued partnership among the United Nations, the African Union and ECOWAS will be required to increase the likelihood that electoral processes in the region will be peaceful, transparent, free and fair. The situation in the fragile Sahel band continues to be a source of concern. UNOWA continues to closely monitor the mediation process related to the rebellion in northern Mali and the situation in the Niger, including the ongoing efforts to convene a regional summit on peace, security and development in Mali. The role and the capacities of security sector institutions remain major sources of concern in many West African countries. Security sector reform must be seen as a key component of any peacebuilding strategy, with ECOWAS playing a lead role and with the full support of the international community, including the United Nations.”
2009-01-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6073 (2009) · source
“In parallel, an important role that UNOWA can play, together with ECOWAS, is to engage countries of the region in preventive diplomacy, confidence-building and, if necessary, mediation efforts. Electoral processes and the opportunities and risks that they present are another priority area for the region and for UNOWA. While countries such as Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau and Ghana have provided encouraging examples of peaceful and transparent elections, democratization processes could, if not properly managed, trigger political violence, economic disruption and social strife in fragile societies in the region. Critical elections are envisaged in 2009 in Mauritania, Guinea, Cote d'Ivoire and the Niger.”
2009-01-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6073 (2009) · source
“While West Africa has made considerable progress in consolidating democratic governance, the process suffered major setbacks over the past six months in Mauritania and Guinea, both of which experienced military coups. There were also renewed attempts on the life of the President of Guinea-Bissau from within the country's armed forces. The fact that the coups in Mauritania and Guinea were bloodless is positive. If, however, the resurgence of coups is not addressed in a decisive manner, their potential domino effect across the region should not be underestimated. 09-21525 UNOWA has endeavoured to foster constructive dialogue among national, regional and international partners and continues to work to facilitate a return to constitutional order in Mauritania and Guinea within the shortest possible time frame.”
2009-01-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6073 (2009) · source
“While criminal networks operated mostly with the complicity of low-level authorities in the past, today they are infiltrating State institutions, fuelling corruption and destabilizing the political and social fabric of nations. UNOWA has therefore stepped up its activities, raising awareness at all levels of leadership about the harmful impact of organized crime on governance and security. In conjunction with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and ECOWAS, UNOWA is also expected to play a lead role in coordinating United Nations inputs into the implementation of the recently adopted ECOWAS Action Plan on drug trafficking.”
2009-01-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6073 (2009) · source
“In response to that potential threat to stability, UNOWA actively advocates with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and West African leaders regarding the need to take proactive and collective measures to achieve food security. The food crisis also remains a permanent item on the agenda of the regular meetings among the heads of United Nations agencies in West Africa convened by UNOWA. Another particular concern is the spread of cross- border organized crime, especially drug trafficking. Taking advantage of porous borders and weak State and security institutions, criminal networks are increasingly using West Africa as a transit route for narcotics bound for Europe from Latin America.”
2009-01-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6073 (2009) · source
“In addition to well-known problems 2 facing the region, such as youth unemployment, rapid urbanization, corruption and irregular migration, many of the root causes of conflict in a number of West African countries have yet to be addressed in an effective and durable manner. In the past six months, West Africa has continued to be heavily affected by rising global food prices and food insecurity, compounded by threats of a global recession, raising new concerns about many countries' prospects for achieving the Millennium Development Goals. It is expected that food insecurity will remain a special challenge to the region over the next few years.”
2009-01-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6073 (2009) · source
“Mr. Djinnit: The second report of the Secretary- General on the activities of the United Nations Office for West Africa (UNOWA) (S/2009/39), which is being presented to the Council today, focuses on cross- cutting and cross-border developments in West Africa and the activities UNOWA has undertaken since my last presentation to the Council in July. As a relatively small special political mission with a unique regional mandate, UNOWA does not always get the exposure it deserves, and I am grateful for this opportunity to present its work to the Council. Despite significant progress made in consolidating peace and stability in West Africa, many challenges remain that threaten to derail these positive developments.”
2009-01-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6073 (2009) · source
“The Council will undoubtedly be inspired by the ongoing efforts of the United Nations aimed at supporting the African Union mission in Darfur, which should lead to a hybrid mission to be financed by the United Nations through mandatory contributions. Certainly, what is at stake is the credibility and the effectiveness of regional organizations, as well as the durability and solidity of their relations with the United Nations. Ultimately, it will also affect the credibility and authority of the Security Council as the guardian and the ultimate guarantor of international peace and security.”
2007-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5649 (2007) · source
“It is reasonable to think that regional organizations must give relief to the United Nations and assume their share of the burden within the legitimate framework of the Charter of the United Nations and its Chapter VIII, which should be made more specific and updated to bring it into line with new international realities and the aspirations of all the peoples of the world. In the light of the path followed by the African Union and African subregional organizations, and in View of the expectations of the people of Africa and their commitment to the United Nations ideals of peace and solidarity, the African Union Commission fervently hopes that the Security Council will favourably consider the request of the African Union Summit and decide to establish a follow-up mechanism to pursue this question.”
2007-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5649 (2007) · source
“20) The question before you is fundamental, because it is at the heart of the essential relation between the Security Council and regional organizations, and it raises the problem of cooperation among the various levels of the global structure for security. Regional organizations such as the African Union and its subregional organizations are in a perfect position, having been given a mandate to intervene in conflicts - in conformity with the United Nations Charter. Increasingly they are called upon by crisis situations and cannot evade their responsibility. Africans expect that their institutions will accept their duty with regard to assistance and solidarity, at the very time when the United Nations is facing difficulties because of its growing needs in the area of peacekeeping operations.”
2007-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5649 (2007) · source
“Once again, eyes turned, naturally, to the United Nations and its Security Council, which has in fact authorized the deployment of the African Union Military Observer Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). That is the thrust of a decision taken at the recent African Union summit, which "Calls upon the United Nations to examine, within the context of Chapter VIII of the United Nations Charter, the possibility of funding, through assessed contributions, peace-keeping operations undertaken by African Union or under its authority and with the consent of the United Nations." (decision 145(VIII), para.”
2007-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5649 (2007) · source
“The question of lasting and foreseeable financing for peacekeeping operations undertaken by the African Union became even more pressing at the time of the deployment of the AU mission in Darfur in the Sudan. More recently, the AU decision - spurred by the possibilities for peace and reconciliation in Somalia following recent events in that country - to deploy a peacekeeping operation has given a sharper aspect to that question. In taking that decision fraught with consequences, the AU was aware that its means are pathetic - that must be emphasized - but at the same time it was moved by its principle to not remain indifferent and by its staunch faith in international solidarity.”
2007-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5649 (2007) · source
“The Commission was encouraged to note that in its report, the High-level Panel recognized in chapter XVI, on regional organizations, the growing role of those organizations in restoring and maintaining peace and recommended that "The rules for the United Nations peacekeeping budget should be amended to give the United Nations the option on a case-by-case basis to finance regional operations authorized by the Security Council with assessed contributions." (A/59/565, para. 272(f)) In his report to the General Assembly entitled, "In larger freedom: towards development, security and human rights for all" (A/59/2005), in particular in paragraphs 213 to 215, the Secretary-General endorsed that recommendation and proposed a 10-year plan for capacity-building with the African Union.”
2007-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5649 (2007) · source
“In submitting that proposal, the Commission was of the opinion that each time the African Union was called upon to become involved in a conflict situation in Africa, it would, in accordance with its founding principles, act on behalf of the international community and more particularly of the United Nations. The African Union should be able to move rapidly to contribute to the immediate stabilization of a given situation and to create conditions favourable to the deployment of a United Nations peacekeeping or peacebuilding operation. That would be done through role sharing based on complementarity and solidarity.”
2007-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5649 (2007) · source
“In that context, and strengthened by our faith in the United Nations ideals of peace and solidarity and by our commitment to the primary role of the Security Council in maintaining international peace and security and to the principle of the indivisibility of international peace and security, the Commission of the African Union took the opportunity of its meeting with the High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, set up by former Secretary-General Kofi Annan, to formally propose that the United Nations consider the possibility of financing peacekeeping operations undertaken by the 07-28578 African Union or under its authority through assessed contributions.”
2007-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5649 (2007) · source
“There was no final decision on that ethical debate, and it still haunts discussions on the renewal of the Facility, whose usefulness has certainly been proven. It is the position of the African Union that that Facility must not only be maintained, but also reinforced. Thus, the AU has put forth the idea of setting up a peace facility within the framework of the partnership with the G8++, thus giving effect to the commitments taken during the Kananaskis summit and reiterated at the summits of Evian and Gleneagles. However important and innovative those initiatives for financing peacekeeping operations through ad hoc arrangements are, they cannot replace the mechanisms found in the framework of Chapter VIII of the United Nations Charter.”
2007-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5649 (2007) · source
“Following that period, the AU mission was transferred to the United Nations, which in the meantime had considered that conditions had now been met for the deployment of a peacekeeping operation. But the commitment of European funding initially earmarked for development to finance peacekeeping operations raised ethical and moral problems. The problem arose more specifically when, wishing to build on the example of a partnership for peace in the case of Burundi, in order to give a new impetus and a long- term perspective to that partnership, the AU made a proposal to the EU that a facility be set up to support peacekeeping operations undertaken by the AU or under its authority, using European funding, including the resources earmarked for development.”
2007-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5649 (2007) · source
“During the deployment by the Organization of African Unity (OAU) - during the transition period towards the African Union (AU) - of the African mission in Burundi in 2003 and 2004, the major question of financing arose. All eyes, of course turned to the mother Organization and its Security Council, which has been entrusted with the primary responsibility for maintaining international peace and security. It is worth recalling here that the decision of the OAU/AU to deploy a peacekeeping mission to Burundi 07-28578 was taken with a view to, and while awaiting the deployment of, a peacekeeping operation by the United Nations. The European Union came to the aid of the OAU/AU, as did other, bilateral partners who provided logistical and financial support, thus facilitating the deployment of and the support for that mission for 13 months.”
2007-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5649 (2007) · source
“The question of financing by the United Nations, through assessed contributions, of peacekeeping operations undertaken by the African Union or under its authority has been discussed regularly in recent years in view of the growing involvement of our organization in peacekeeping missions. The idea of involving our continental organization in peacekeeping operations, beyond the deployment of military observer missions that are short-termed and limited in scope, reappeared during our discussions on the Constitutive Act of the African Union. As the Council knows, articles 4 (h) and 4 0") of the Constitutive Act granted the Union the right to intervene in member States. That power of the Union was stated in article 6 (d) of the protocol establishing the Peace and Security Council.”
2007-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5649 (2007) · source
“Madam President, allow me at the outset to convey to you the gratitude of President Alpha Oumar Konare for having included the African Union Commission in this Council meeting on the relationship between the United Nations and regional organizations, in particular the African Union, in the maintenance of international peace and security. Allow me as well to express our appreciation for your initiative in diligently bringing to the Security Council the debate on a matter crucial for our continental organization, one which was also the subject of a decision of a recent African Union summit and which is particularly dear to our hearts within the Commission.”
2007-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5649 (2007) · source
“In the same vein, the continued political and financial support of the international community will be required so as to enable the countries of the region to implement the Security, Stability and Development Pact, to be adopted in Nairobi, in the spirit of partnership, which, together with the principle of ownership, has been guiding the process. I am confident that this Security Council meeting will send a strong and unequivocal message of encouragement and support for the initiative, given the important tasks and formidable challenges that lie ahead in the post- Nairobi phase of the initiative.”
2006-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5359Resumption1 (2006) · source