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Kaberuka

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2016-11-18
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2017-06-15
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  1. “However, to the extent that there is accord regarding the urgency of improving the international peace and security architecture in order to address today's security challenges, arriving at a shared solution for new financing arrangement and authorized peace support will be a great achievement for both the African Union and the United Nations.”

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  2. “Therefore, forging an effective partnership between the United Nations and the African Union is of the greatest strategic importance for our collective security. In that respect, the financing partnership between the African Union and the United Nations is critical in that it offers a pathway to more predictable funding of AU peace support operations. That enhanced form of partnership must necessarily be based on the two organizations' respective authorities, competencies and capacities. It must also observe the principles of burden-sharing, consultative decision-making, comparative advantage, division of labour and mutual accountability. There should be no illusions with respect to the political complexity of such an undertaking.”

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  3. “As part of my new expanded mandate, which is focused on the Peace Fund as well as the overall financing of the African Union, I will be focusing most of my time assisting the Chairperson in implementing the various mechanisms and ensuring that AU member States respect their financial commitments to the African Union. I am confident that the 2017 Peace Fund target can be met. While AU member States are primarily responsible for financing the Peace Fund, partnerships will continue to play a vital role in supporting the peace and security activities on the African continent. Therefore, deepening cooperation with partners, both traditional and emerging, is imperative. The current international peace and security architecture is under significant pressure, given the complexity of the challenges that the world faces today.”

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  4. “With those new Governance arrangements, the AU Peace Fund will provide a more effective instrument through which the AU and its partners in the international community will be able to work together to promote the cause of peace and stability in Africa and the world. I am pleased to say that, as of May - as the Commissioner for Peace and Security has already told the Council - 14 AU member States had made their contribution to the Peace Fund, even before the establishment of the new governance arrangements. Those contributions represent just over 12 per cent of the of the target set for 2017.”

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  5. “It is for that reason that the Fund will finance only activities that emanate from a decision by a competent AU organ, in this case the Assembly of Heads of State, the Peace and Security Council or the Chairperson, in line with the powers set out in the Protocol. With respect to the timelines of their implementation, the Chairperson of the Commission aims to expedite the operationalization of the Peace Fund governance arrangements in 2017. The adoption of the Peace Fund instruments and the the governance structures that I have referred to will be implemented before the end of the year.”

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  6. “An independent evaluation group will provide periodic evaluation on the use and impact of the Fund. A dedicated Peace Fund secretariat will be established within the Commission to manage day-to-day operations and will report to the executive management committee. Finally, an independent Fund manager will be recruited to ensure the highest standards of accountability and compliance with fiduciary rules and procedures in the management of the Fund. I believe that structure reflects international best practice in terms of fund governance arrangements and will reassure both African member countries and partners to the fund. Of course, it has been adapted to reflect the fact that the African Union is an intergovernmental organization, and not a corporate body.”

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  7. “In addition, a crisis reserve facility - a revolving trust fund provided for under article 21, paragraph 4, of the Peace and Security Council Protocol on Peace and Security - would be established within the Peace Fund to enable rapid responses to unforeseen crises, from any unutilized balances. The AU policy organs, in particular the Peace and Security Council, have the political authority to guide the activities ofthe Peace Fund. The Chairperson of the Commission, supported by an executive management committee, will oversee the Fund's day-to-day operations. A board of trustees will be put in place to ensure strategic coherence, enhanced governance and the financial and administrative oversight of the Fund. External partners to the Fund will be invited to nominate two representatives to the board of trustees.”

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  8. “They were presented to the AU Peace and Security Council on 30 May, and I am pleased to confirm that the Council fully endorsed the proposals. Let me briefly recap the proposed governance arrangements. As High Representative for the Peace Fund, I was requested to put forward ideas on how the Peace Fund could be financed, structured and governed for the peace and security challenges the continent faces, in a much more predictable way and while avoiding overreliance on multiple unpredictable funding channels. The July 2016 session of the AU Assembly adopted the proposal that the Peace Fund be structured around three windows: mediation and preventive diplomacy, institutional capacity and peace support operations.”

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  9. “I would particularly like to commend the work undertaken by the United Nations Secretariat and by the Commission to follow up on the relevant provisions of the resolution, in particular the consultative process carried out between March and April. I am pleased to note that the process was conducted in the spirit of true partnership and collaboration. I look forward to seeing more processes of that nature between our two organizations. One of the key issues on which the Council asked to be updated under in resolution 2320 (2016) was progress on the operationalization of the AU Peace Fund, including the overall benchmarks and timelines. Over the past few months, the detailed governance arrangements for the Peace Fund were developed.”

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  10. “Over the years, and as the nature of international peace and security threats has evolved, various high-level reports and recommendations have made three key points consistently: first, that the crises the world faces today are often so complex that no one single organization is able to provide the needed response; secondly, that regional organizations bring a comparative advantage to the table; and, thirdly, that there is a need for financing mechanisms that are predictable rather than voluntary or ad hoc. A well- funded African Peace and Security Architecture is not simply an African priority, it is a global public good. A significant amount of work has been undertaken since the adoption of resolution 2320 (2016), on 18 November 2016, as members heard from the Commissioner.”

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  11. “Mr. Kaberuka: It is an honour and a privilege for me to be here for this important debate. I would like to thank the Bolivian presidency and the entire membership of the Security Council for inviting me and the African Union (AU) Commissioner for Peace and Security to make a contribution to the update by the African Union to the Security Council on resolution 2320 (2016), with a special focus on the African Union's Peace Fund.”

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  12. “The African Peace Fund provides a robust mechanism and unified governance and reporting lines to deal with the numerous channels that complicate accountability and the frameworks that raise transaction costs and reduce effectiveness for all. As the United Nations Security Council considers a strengthened partnership between the two organizations, I hope members will agree that the revitalized AU Peace Fund provides a more coherent framework and a more articulated instrument, through which the continent of Africa and its friends in the international community can work together to promote the cause of peace and stability in Africa and the world.”

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  13. “Both the African Union and the United Nations fully appreciate what that would mean in terms of the administrative, fiduciary and governance angles, including full compliance with AU and United Nations norms as well as international obligations. The recent joint review by the two organizations has provided further lessons for reflection. There is a need for further innovation and mutual learning. However, African countries are determined to take ownership of the maintenance of peace and stability on the continent. Today the world faces threats that cannot be confined to a particular geographical area, and it is critical to have all hands on deck.”

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  14. “We have agreed to phase in the mechanism, using 2017 as a transition year, so as to allow countries to go through the legal, fiscal and institutional mechanisms and to ensure compliance with national requirements and international obligations. As far as cooperation with the United Nations is concerned, both sides appreciate that there is much work to be done by both organizations to refine the ways in which that cooperation should be realized, including the consideration of a number of scenarios to define, first, what the 25 per cent African contribution would imply and, secondly, under what conditions the 75 per cent United Nations contributions would be requested.”

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  15. “I want to emphasize that it is on the third priority - peace-support operations - and that priority alone that the AU is seeking support and cooperation from the United Nations through assessed contributions for Security Council-authorized, but AU- led, operations. A number of scenarios were considered as to what financial commitment that translates into, given the unpredictable nature of such undertakings. Those scenarios are being shared with the competent United Nations and AU administrative organs. African Union members fully appreciate that getting the Fund fully operational is a complex task at the technical, administrative and political levels. Nevertheless, that task is under way. An implementation mechanism is in place, led by 10 Finance Ministers.”

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  16. “The conclusions reached were by consensus and sought to reflect the principles of self-reliance, solidarity, ability to pay, equitable burden-sharing, greater compliance and predictability. The Fund will focus on four main priorities: first, on preventive diplomacy, as experience has shown that that is by far the most cost-effective way to maintain peace, which in the case of the AU would be around $35 million per year, a modest but very effective expenditure; secondly, on institutional capacity to address institutional gaps in the implementation of the Fund, estimated at $30 million per year; thirdly, on peace-support operations, when that becomes necessary and appropriate and as approved by the competent AU organs; and, fourthly, on a crisis-reserve facility to enable the AU to respond to the rapid onset of crises in a timely manner.”

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  17. “As that Envoy, I was requested to put forward ideas on how the facility could be funded, structured and governed for the challenges of today in a much more predictable way that would avoid overreliance on multiple unpredictable funding channels. It is important to emphasize that, while the Union's members were seeking to undertake that initiative in a spirit of greater ownership and reduced dependence on ad hoc voluntary and unpredictable external sources, they also conceived of the Fund as a means to strengthen and provide the international community with a more effective tool for partnerships. At the AU Assembly of Heads of States and Government held in Kigali in July, the Union's leadership deliberated on the revitalization of the Peace Fund and took a number of key decisions.”

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  18. “The limited resources of the Fund were quickly overwhelmed by the needs, thereby hampering the organization's ability to manage continental peace and security priorities. It is opportune here to highlight and appreciate the support provided by the international community, bilateral partners, regional organizations and the United Nations, as well as the innovative ways in which that was done, including through United Nations-managed trust funds. There have sometimes been frustrations on both sides, and lessons have been learned that will no doubt inform the future. Early this year, the leadership of the African Union appointed a Special Envoy with the mandate to develop ideas and proposals on how the African Union could revitalize the Peace Fund.”

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  19. “However, even long before that, the Organization of African Unity, the precursor to the African Union, had put in place a mechanism to finance its peace activities, mainly in the form of upstream preventive diplomacy and, occasionally, a few stabilization missions pending the maturation ofa global response. That was the idea behind the setting up of the Peace Fund established over 20 years ago in 1993. That was the time when Africa was beginning to confront major crises, to which the global community was not always in a position to respond in a timely manner. Nonetheless, despite the goodwill, the deep economic crises of the day and the proliferation of crises in subsequent years led to a situation where the Fund fell short of its objectives.”

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  20. “First, the crises that the world faces today are often so complex that no one single organization is able to provide the needed response. Secondly, regional organizations bring a comparative advantage to the table. Thirdly, there is a need for financing mechanisms that are predictable and sustainable, rather than voluntary and ad hoc. A well-funded African Peace and Security Architecture is not simply an African priority, it is a global strategic imperative. When the African Union came into being it was determined to address the root causes of conflicts, and it instituted a Peace and Security Architecture to that end. It also adopted a vision to silence the guns by 2020.”

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  21. “Mr. Kaberuka: It is an honour and a privilege to be here for this important debate. I would like to thank the presidency of Senegal and His Excellency Mr. Mankeur Ndiaye, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Senegalese Abroad, for his leadership. I thank the membership of the Council for the invitation to make a contribution with a special emphasis on the emerging architecture of the African Union (AU) for financing peace and security. Peace and stability is the prerequisite for socioeconomic development in a continent that has begun to turn a corner and has demonstrated a new dynamism after years of economic decline. Several speakers have already referred to a number of high- level reports that have established three very important facts.”

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