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first: 1994-02-15
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“The promotion of peace, security and reconciliation in Somalia is ongoing, even with imperfect execution and incompletely met goals. However, we must build on the progress made and the results achieved and open up new horizons for the role of the international community, and especially the role of the United Nations, in and around Somalia. Relocating the United Nations and African Union facilities to Mogadishu would be a significant step in that direction. For its part, the African Union will continue to share its vision and to make its contribution to increasing the effectiveness of our joint action and to bolster the credibility of our commitments through concrete results meeting the expectations of the Somali people and serving the comprehensive goals at stake in the situation in Somalia.”
2010-05-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6313 (2010) · source
“The parallel activities on the issue of piracy at sea are also part of this same context insofar as the developing international consensus must focus on the elimination of the underlying causes of piracy, as well as proper coordination of the considerable naval forces deployed on the high seas with other forces that are also well endowed with the capacity to act and deter. AMISOM must be rapidly provided with such a capacity so that it can fight piracy and terrorism throughout its area of activity, including the maritime space of Somalia. As it marks its fiftieth anniversary this year, Somalia is at a crossroads. Much has been done by the international community and by the Somalis themselves; just as much remains to be done.”
2010-05-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6313 (2010) · source
“The follow-up to the Brussels conference; the Jeddah and Cairo meetings of the International Contact Group on Somalia which were facilitated by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, my friend Ahmedou Ould Abdallah, to whom I would like to pay a well-deserved tribute for all that he has done; the regular Addis Ababa meetings among the African Union, the United Nations, the troop-contributing countries and international partners; and the forthcoming Istanbul Conference: these are all to be welcomed for their importance and usefulness.”
2010-05-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6313 (2010) · source
“At the same time, the standardization of AMISOM's logistical and operational norms and the conditions of service of its staff must be actively pursued to ensure that its change of status to a United Nations peacekeeping force is not unduly delayed for technical reasons. The situation in Somalia calls for comprehensive and agreed strategies so that all contributions will be complementary and mutually reinforcing. These strategies should give issues of security in the current context of Somalia the importance they deserve and must also include the rebuilding of the State and its institutions and administrative instruments, as well as renewed humanitarian action and the implementation of development projects. The mobilization of support for all of these purposes must increase.”
2010-05-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6313 (2010) · source
“The agreement is of a character and scope that have considerable potential at the political, military and territorial levels and with regard to influencing the social, religious and cultural dynamics in the country. While slow and still insufficient in terms of the urgency and the extent of the needs, the positive effects of the international community's multifarious contributions to Somalia's institutions and AMISOM are beginning to be felt. Programmes and projects that should in time lead to a fundamental change in Somalia's political and security landscape are being created or implemented. In that regard, the development of the Somali security forces through quality training, the provision of functioning equipment and the standardized management of their operation and the careers of their staff, must receive high priority.”
2010-05-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6313 (2010) · source
“In fact, developments during the early months of the year show a generally positive trend towards achieving the goals whose attainment the international community is ensuring through its support for the ongoing action of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government under the authority of President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, and the particularly perilous but very necessary and important work being done by the brave Burundi and Ugandan peacekeepers deployed within the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). The agreement signed on 15 March between the Transitional Federal Government and the Ahlu Sunna Wal Jama'a movement at the headquarters of the African Union Commission can quite rightly be seen as a distinctive milestone in the strategic changes in the situation in Somalia.”
2010-05-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6313 (2010) · source
“Nothing could better symbolize the success of the many activities and increasing efforts that the African Union has undertaken throughout this year than Somalia's decisive progress in promoting peace and reconciliation by fully restoring State authority through its territory and the ability of its institutions to exercise their sovereign prerogatives. Nothing would more fully repay the innovative partnerships that have been established between Africa and the United Nations, as well as between Africa and the relevant countries and organizations, than the significant strengthening of operational capacities and effective synergies among all the actors and factors that seek to address all the challenges posed by the situation in Somalia and their enduring effects on international peace and security.”
2010-05-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6313 (2010) · source
“I have the honour and privilege of speaking to the Council on behalf of the African Union Commission, and I am very glad to do so under Lebanon's presidency, a brother country whose issue contribute qualitatively to the economic dynamism of many African countries and brand the promising exchanges between Africa and the Arab world with their own brilliance. I thank you, Mr. President, for having invited me to take part in this debate on developments in the situation in Somalia, a country that belongs to the African and Arab groupings and whose emergence from crisis involves the entire international community. The year 2010 has been declared the Year of Peace and Security in Africa. It marks the fiftieth anniversary of Somalia's accession to independence.”
2010-05-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6313 (2010) · source
“With the necessary political will, decisive progress can be made in an ongoing effort of effective Somalization of the country's national security and by the Somali State's assumption of its other sovereign functions. At the same time, humanitarian assistance, quick impact projects and the launch of development activities that create jobs should all be part of a comprehensive, consistent and multidimensional effort to mobilize collective energies to ensure that Somalia is no longer a threat to its own people, to its region, to Africa and to the world. Somalia must no longer be seen through the lens of the trauma of its past experiences. Rather, Somalia must be vigorously supported in creating the leverage for a recovery that will be healthy both for Somalia itself and for the entire international community.”
2010-01-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6259 (2010) · source
“Based on all of these considerations, the Peace and Security Council "reiterated its appeal to the United Nations Security Council to take the necessary steps for the United Nations to play a role commensurate with the gravity and complexity of the situation on the ground, including through the transformation of AMISOM. into a United Nations peacekeeping operation and by putting in place all other legal, budgetary, logistical and operational arrangements that could decisively enhance the effectiveness of the action of the international community in Somalia". Clearly, Somalia and the international community have made considerable gains on which it would be desirable and possible to base a bold strategic vision for ending the crisis in Somalia by the end of the transitional period in October 2011, which is not a long time from now.”
2010-01-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6259 (2010) · source
“It expressed its appreciation for the considerable logistical support that the United Nations has provided to AMISOM, as well as for the encouraging results of the pledging conference held in Brussels. The AU Peace and Security Council also welcomed the United Nations Security Council's adoption of resolution 1907 (2009) and called for its genuine implementation, while urging the Security Council to respond positively to its request to impose a no-fly zone and port controls in order to deprive Somali insurgents and their allies of the use of the country's air and maritime spaces. The Peace and Security Council also expressed its concern over the ongoing piracy and the phenomenon of the payment of ransoms that fuel crime, terrorism and extremism.”
2010-01-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6259 (2010) · source
“The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), which in 2009 witnessed twice as much loss of life as in the rest of its existence, has increased in terms of numbers, capacity and experience; it is motivated by a heightened sense of its responsibilities and the desire to accomplish an undertaking for peace which Africa is pursuing on behalf of the entire international community - and with its support. Here I would like to once again pay tribute to Burundi and Uganda for their decisive contribution to this mission. On 8 January, the Peace and Security Council of the African Union renewed AMISOM's mandate for another 12 months and is counting on the Security Council's support for its decision.”
2010-01-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6259 (2010) · source
“In fact, the past year in Somalia has set in motion a tenuous but nonetheless genuine momentum toward a rebirth of the Somali State, led by the pluralistic and inclusive Transitional Institutions, the expansion of the bases of President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed's Government, and the functioning of Government structures that are working to bring about good governance, while vital public services such as national police and security forces are gradually and effectively being put in place. The legitimacy and credibility of the present Transitional Federal Institutions, with clear aims, objectives and expectations, have made sure that a broad consensus of the international community is united behind them.”
2010-01-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6259 (2010) · source
“There has been a detectable quantitative growth in the capacity of insurgent groups to do harm, which in turn has led to increases in deadly terrorist acts and a territorial expansion that has yet to be sufficiently contained. One of the effects of the insurgent groups' spectacular acts that magnifies their propaganda and their impact is the perception that the situation in Somalia is structurally volatile, precarious and uncertain.”
2010-01-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6259 (2010) · source
“However, it was also different from many of the preceding years inasmuch as the cruel tribulations and complex problems have begun to be addressed as major challenges that are also harbingers of opportunity. The enemies of peace and reconciliation, inside and outside the country, have redoubled their aggression and cruelty, blindly determined to wreck the results of the Djibouti process and beyond that to make Somalia a regional focal point and base of operations for maritime piracy and international terrorism. The affiliation of Somali armed groups, particularly the Al-Shabaab movement, with international jihadist terrorists has been confirmed and reconfirmed through public declarations of allegiance to Al-Qaida, an influx of foreign fighters into Somalia, and the introduction of typical modi operandi previously unknown there.”
2010-01-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6259 (2010) · source
“President, and the other members of the Council for so opportunely scheduling this meeting on Somalia so early in the year. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General for his report (S/2009/684), as well as his Special Representative, Mr. Ahmadou Ould Abdallah, for his extremely clear and useful introductory comments and for his praiseworthy perseverance in carrying out his mission. I would also like to express my appreciation to the representative of Somalia and the Permanent Observer of the League of Arab States and to assure them of our continued cooperation, while thanking them in advance 10-20953 for the useful information on developments in Somalia that they will be giving the Council. The year 2009 was a particularly difficult one for Somalia.”
2010-01-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6259 (2010) · source
“Now that the effects of the earthquake that hit Haiti so hard are beginning to be seen in all their tragic scope and it is confirmed that there has been considerable loss of human life, I would like once again to express on behalf of the African Union our heartfelt condolences to the people and the Government of Haiti and to the families and loved ones of the deceased, to whom we extend all our sympathies. We are thinking of our colleagues - leaders, members, partners and even visitors who are there with the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti, including Mr. Hedi Annabi, Special Representative of the Secretary- General, whose whereabouts are still unknown. We assure their families of our full solidarity. On behalf of the African Union (AU), I would like to thank you, Mr.”
2010-01-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6259 (2010) · source
“The African Union, which has proclaimed 2010 the Year of Peace and Security, will continue to work with regional economic communities throughout the continent, as with all our partners, to ensure that today's discussions honour their promises and have the outcomes they deserve, in the concerted multilateral approaches that will improve the international community's success in the conduct of its civilizational work of building a universally shared peace.”
2010-01-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6257 (2010) · source
“Beyond the modesty of its approach and the prudence of its tone, Chapter VIII of the Charter of the United Nations has proved very flexible and adaptable in dealing with new realities that nobody in 1945 could have imagined. That creativity should be encouraged and stimulated so that the United Nations and the regional organizations can together make advantageous and appreciable gains in effectiveness.”
2010-01-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6257 (2010) · source
“Beyond that, there exists a major challenge in the need for the regional organizations and the universal Organization that is the United Nations to meet on shared values and to develop shared, adequate and effective responses to events and situations about which they sometimes take different positions. That is particularly the case with regard to unconstitutional changes of Government, religious extremism, terrorism - including financing terrorism through ransom payments in cases of hostage-taking - climate change and environmental security, as well as in situations where the regional consensus agenda and decisions made by organizations such as the African Union are not universally supported. That can lead to shortcomings and weaknesses in what should be collective action promoting the complementarities among various international actors.”
2010-01-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6257 (2010) · source
“The partnership is also manifested in the annual consultative meeting between this Council and the Peace and Security Council of the African Union, as well as in the increasingly effective coordination between the leadership of the United Nations Secretariat and that of the African Union Commission. Cooperation between our organizations raises issues of conception, organization, coordination, harmonizing procedures, streamlining methods, capacity-building and stable and predictable funding of the peacebuilding operations conducted by regional organizations. Some of these issues have been considered in the Prodi report (see 8/2008/813) and other studies, whose recommendations we should now begin to implement.”
2010-01-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6257 (2010) · source
“The partnership between the African Union and the United Nations has already produced considerable achievements in various situations and with various operational methods. Ongoing consultations and cooperation adapted to the demands of effectiveness are being developed on the basis of the criterion of comparative advantage and taking due account of all relevant factors. That strategic partnership has been realized in a symbolic way in the first and only hybrid peacekeeping operation - the AU-UN Hybrid Mission in Darfur (UNAMID). It has also been demonstrated in an equally significant way through the United Nations logistical support unit to the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM).”
2010-01-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6257 (2010) · source
“Building in that way on the successful cooperation and complementarity between the African Union and the regional economic communities and regional mechanisms, the African Union has developed wide-ranging partnerships, such as that which Mr. Amr Moussa, Secretary-General of the Arab League, has just described to illustrate the level of coordination between our two organizations. Such African Union partnerships also extend to other friendly organizations, such as the European Union, which is making significant contributions to the funding of a number of our activities. Such consultations and cooperation are also developing with the International Organization of la Francophonie, the Commonwealth, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Organization of American States, NATO, and so forth.”
2010-01-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6257 (2010) · source
“The retreat was particularly promising, and its success paves the way for measures that will lay out plans for cooperative work that have been opened by common reflection. The African Union has made peace and security the first of four pillars on which its strategy and programmes of action are based. The promotion of peace and security is conceived and conducted on the basis of developing doctrine, of operationalizing the architecture and of action by all entities concerned in order to promote the elimination of conflict throughout the African continent. Those three areas of action have all seen far-reaching, mutually reinforcing results that also pave the way for further progress.”
2010-01-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6257 (2010) · source
“The African Union is all the more happy to participate in this exercise as its special relationship with the United Nations continues to increase in range, effectiveness and ambition. This exercise is thus important and timely. It should open new possibilities for complementarities and synergies so as to maximize the impact of action on the part of the various international actors across the whole range of activities, including conflict prevention, management and resolution, peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction. It is particularly fortunate that this exercise is taking place today as an extension of the two-day retreat that the Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, held with the leaders of regional organizations.”
2010-01-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6257 (2010) · source
“I would like first to associate the African Union with the words of solidarity and sympathy that the Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, expressed for the people and Government of Haiti following the earthquake that has cruelly struck that country. I would also like to express our deepest sympathy to the families of all United Nations colleagues on mission in that country. I wish to express congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Council and to thank you for having organized this debate, the outcome of which should further promote the potential partnership between the United Nations and regional organizations in matters of peace and security.”
2010-01-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6257 (2010) · source
“From this standpoint, upgrading the level and effectiveness of regional and international institutions' representation in Somalia would be a timely step in the right direction. The African Union, which welcomes the promising work it is doing in Somalia with the United Nations and the team headed by Special Representative Ould Abdallah, alongside the Department of Field Support, as well as the valuable assistance of its international partners, expresses the hope that this struggle for peace will be crowned with the success it deserves.”
2009-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6173 (2009) · source
“The African Union and the United Nations are developing a lasting partnership in Somalia that heralds a qualitative step forward in the design of peacekeeping operations whose objective aims determine their form and composition. The deployment of a sixth battalion, from Burundi, with Algerian air assets and the establishment of a United Nations logistics support module, are further encouraging developments. The conditions are thus gradually being created to enable the United Nations to assume directly the large share of responsibilities that naturally fall to it in asserting the presence of the international community in Somalia, including taking over from a fully operational AMISOM.”
2009-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6173 (2009) · source
“and the expeditious build-up of the Somali National Security Force, it is important that Somalia's air space and territorial waters not be open to the free passage of weapons, munitions and foreign combatants. It is equally important that the struggle not be waged only where the anti-peace forces take the initiative, in this case the capital, Mogadishu, which is being increasingly emptied of its civilian population. The authority of the State and of the Government of President Ahmed should be gradually extended to other parts of the country, beginning with those presenting distinctive characteristics in operational as well as strategic terms, and indeed in spiritual and symbolic terms, too.”
2009-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6173 (2009) · source
“Thirdly, the fight waged in legitimate self- defence by the Somali Government and the forces supporting President Sheikh Sharif Sheik Ahmed, on the one hand, and the stabilization work carried out by the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), on the other, together form a coherent resistance to a global threat and are helping to defeat it. Taking these considerations into account, we feel that it is in the natural order of things that the international community, mobilized in solidarity and faced with the challenges that the anti-peace forces in Somalia pose to its core values, should decide on and implement bold and innovative measures. Beyond the ongoing strengthening of AMISOM.”
2009-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6173 (2009) · source
“First, the strategic stakes of the situation, in their direct impact on international peace and security, ensure that the Somali conflict cannot be dismissed as a simple civil war fed by general dissatisfaction with the distribution of power and wealth in the country. Somalia has become a source of insecurity at a regional level and beyond. Secondly, the increase, since 12 May 2009, in acts of armed violence against the Transitional Federal Institutions, the nascent National Security Force and the Somali police in Mogadishu is aimed not only at bringing about an unconstitutional change of Government, but at making Somalia a lasting trouble spot and a base of operations for extremist activities that challenge the region and the world as a whole.”
2009-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6173 (2009) · source
“The African Union's governing bodies, the Assembly of Heads of State and Government and the Peace and Security Council, have assumed and reaffirmed action-oriented positions in line with all the recommendations put forward by the political leaders of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development. These positions and recommendations are well known to the Council and I will not repeat them here. I would, however, like to articulate three key ideas that I feel should be seen as essential by the international community, assuming that failure in Somalia is not an option and that now more than ever is the time for boldness and increased commitment.”
2009-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6173 (2009) · source
“These improvements reflect a drive for transparency, inclusiveness and responsiveness to the expectations of a people who have been sorely tried by years without a State and by fratricidal hostilities. The Transitional Federal Institutions, representing broad political movements, have undertaken to work in Somalia to create positive momentum towards a resolution of the crisis. But anti-peace forces inside and outside Somalia have redoubled their violent efforts to destroy the achievements of the peace and national reconciliation processes, supported by Africa and the entire international community as a precious opportunity for Somalia. These forces are working relentlessly to ensure that Somalia is inescapably associated with terrorism, piracy, endemic instability and threats to itself as well as to neighbours near and far.”
2009-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6173 (2009) · source
“Allow me at the outset to thank you, Sir, and the other members of the Council for this opportunity to report on the African Union Commission's assessment of the situation in and prospects for Somalia. I particularly appreciate the privilege of participating in the Security Council's consideration of this item under your presidency, Sir. Your personal commitment and Uganda's invaluable contribution to peace and reconciliation in Somalia are recognized and praised here and everywhere. The situation in Somalia is difficult and volatile, but it is neither desperate nor insurmountable. In the few months since the unity Government, headed by President Sheikh Sharif Sheik Ahmed, has been in existence and functioning, we have seen marked improvements in the country's governance.”
2009-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6173 (2009) · source
“I therefore call on States Members of the United Nations to generously contribute to the envisaged United Nations trust fund that will provide financial and material support to AMISOM. until a United Nations peacekeeping operation is deployed, and to assist in building Somali institutions for security and rule of law. In conclusion, I should like to express appreciation once again to all partners that have so far extended support to AMISOM. both bilaterally and multilaterally. We believe that if we collectively continue to take correct and decisive measures, we will ensure that the current window of opportunity created in Somalia will not have been lost.”
2009-03-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6095 (2009) · source
“I therefore call upon the Council to build on its position and take the decision needed to deploy a follow-on peacekeeping operation to take over from AMISOM, in view of the fact that, on 11 March 2009, the Peace and Security Council of the African Union renewed the mandate of AMISOM. for another three months, in anticipation of the Security Council decision to deploy a follow-on peacekeeping force. Equally important is the need to urgently implement the decision by the United Nations to provide a logistical support package to AMISOM. In this respect, I look forward to the General Assembly's early budgetary approval of the elements of the support package to be provided through United Nations- assessed contributions.”
2009-03-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6095 (2009) · source
“It is in this light that the AU welcomes Security Council resolution 1863 (2009), adopted on 16 January 2009, in which the Council expressed its intent to consider establishing a United Nations peacekeeping operation in Somalia as a follow-on force to AMISOM, subject to a further decision by 1 June 2009. In this resolution, the Council also approved the proposals made by the Secretary-General on 19 December 2008, for a logistical package to support AMISOM. with equipment and services, as well as the establishment of a trust fund to provide financial support to AMISOM. to assist in the re-establishment, training, and retention of an all-inclusive Somali security force.”
2009-03-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6095 (2009) · source
“The African Union Commission is also engaging other member States to secure additional troops, and I should like to note the contribution of the Government of Algeria in providing airlifts for the rotation of the Burundi contingent units and for the deployment of the third Ugandan battalion at no cost to the AU. In addition, efforts continue to be made to complete the deployment of the police component of AMISOM. as part of the efforts to train, mentor, restructure and reorganize the Somali police. The AU and the United Nations Development Programme are currently developing an integrated support plan for the Somali Police Force, and I would like to seize this opportunity to once again extend the African Union's sincere appreciation to its bilateral and multilateral partners who are providing financial and logistical support to AMISOM.”
2009-03-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6095 (2009) · source
“Level I hospital provides medical care to a considerable number of Somalis, while AMISOM water tankers supply portable water to communities around the camps and beyond. At this juncture, I should like to inform the Council that the AU continues to pursue efforts to enhance AMISOM. The Mission's current strength is 3,450, consisting of two battalions each from Burundi and Uganda, against an authorized strength of 8,000. Steps are under way to deploy, in a matter of days, one additional battalion pledged by Uganda, while consultations continue with Burundi as to the appropriate timing for the deployment of the third battalion pledged by the Burundian Government.”
2009-03-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6095 (2009) · source
“Considering the need to fully equip the Somali Joint Security Force with the requisite weapons and ammunition, the AU has been requested by the Transitional Federal Government to work with the Security Council and take advantage of the exemption to the arms embargo imposed on the country to help the Government acquire arms for its forces. The humanitarian situation remains particularly difficult. In fact, considerable progress recorded earlier with the return of a number of internally displaced persons and some refugees to Mogadishu, has been reversed, as a number of Mogadishu residents have again been forced out as a result of continued fighting between various armed elements and TF G forces. For its part, AMISOM. continues to provide basic humanitarian relief to local communities. The AMISOM.”
2009-03-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6095 (2009) · source
“Furthermore, a number of religious clerics, traditional leaders, businessmen and the influential Hawiiye Cultural and Unity Council have also intervened and prevailed on some of the groups concerned to halt their attacks on AMISOM. That has resulted in a form of cessation of hostilities, which became effective on 1 March. I should stress that AMISOM. is working closely with the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) to operationalize the Somali Joint Security Force. At the moment, AMISOM. is providing food rations to the first batch of recruited TFG/ARS forces.”
2009-03-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6095 (2009) · source
“The African Union (AU) appreciates the Security Council's continued attention in addressing the threats posed by piracy off the coast of Somalia and beyond. The effective actions that are being taken should directly or indirectly assist in promoting much-needed overall security for Somalia and for the whole region. Indeed, the security situation in Somalia, and in Mogadishu in particular, remains very volatile. In efforts to address the heightened level of insecurity, notably the attacks directed at the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), President Sheikh Sharif met with representatives of a number of armed opposition groups in a bid to open dialogue with them. The President also established a national security committee to oversee efforts to improve security and broaden reconciliation.”
2009-03-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6095 (2009) · source
“The Government and other transitional institutions have since relocated to Mogadishu. It is worth noting that the new President, upon assumption of duty, expressed his commitment to work towards effective reconciliation among the Somali people and bring on board those elements that are still outside the peace process. He also stressed the intention of his Government to promote close cooperation with Somalia's neighbours. As the Council is aware, the Djibouti agreement was conducted under the auspices of the United Nations, with the active support of the African Union and other international partners. I should like to underscore the need for sustained United Nations engagement in the implementation of the agreement as a critical part of the effort to promote the success of the peace and reconciliation process.”
2009-03-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6095 (2009) · source
“First, Somali stakeholders, acting in accordance with the decisions reached within the context of the Djibouti process, expanded the Transitional Federal Parliament to accommodate the Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia and other stakeholders, including civil society. On 30 January 2009, the expanded parliament proceeded, in a free and fair manner, to elect a new President in the person of His Excellency Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed. This election, coupled with the expansion of the parliament, crowned the process initiated by the signing of the Djibouti agreement of 19 August 2008. Later, on 13 February, the newly elected President appointed His Excellency Mr. Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke as the new Prime Minister, and a 36-member national unity cabinet was thereafter constituted.”
2009-03-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6095 (2009) · source
“Thank you, Mr. President, for your understanding and for your assistance in making it possible for the African Union to address the Council. This is very important for the partnership between the African Union and the United Nations. (spoke in English) I should like to thank the Council for this opportunity to address it on this very important issue of Somalia. Somalia has witnessed significant progress since the beginning of the year. Following the resignation of President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed on 29 December 2008, a number of positive developments took place in the country.”
2009-03-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6095 (2009) · source
“At a time when Africa, having correctly anticipated the new realities and requirements of peacekeeping and acquired a comprehensive and progressively operational peace and security architecture - of which the African Standby Force must be a rapid and effective tool - it is necessary to effectively meet the challenge of financing equitably and as a shared responsibility. The Prodi report stands as a qualitative and decisive step in that direction. The African Union will spare no effort to ensure that the guidance and recommendations of the report are turned into realities, to the greatest benefit of peace and security throughout our continent and the world.”
2009-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6092 (2009) · source
“The President of the African Union Peace and Security Council for March will have the opportunity to share with Council members the specific contributions that the Peace and Security Council wishes to make directly to the Council's consideration of the issue. The future of maintaining international peace and security requires creativity and boldness from all of us. Greater decentralization or devolution, requiring harmonized efforts at the global and regional levels and cohesive strategies, is an ever more essential part of addressing the major challenges in the field of peace and security facing the international community, especially in Africa.”
2009-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6092 (2009) · source
“The process launched following that request, pursuant to a well-advised proposal submitted by South Africa, has resulted in the report submitted for the Council's consideration today. I wish to express the deep appreciation of the African Union Commission to Ms. Dlamini Zuma, Minister for Foreign Affairs of South Africa, for her country's and her personal commitment to undertaking this noble project. Indisputably, the report being considered today is an important step in the overall efforts aimed at building the capacities of the African Union, meeting the challenges facing the continent in the field of peace and security, and mobilizing increased support from the international community. The recommendations on the financing of African Union peacekeeping operations are, from that point of view, of special importance.”
2009-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6092 (2009) · source
“At the same time, the African Union, through all these initiatives in the field of restoring peace and in promoting and supporting peace, is also acting on behalf of the international community, specifically on behalf of the Security Council, which bears the main burden in the maintenance of international peace and security. It is thus in this context that the African Union has requested that the United Nations, within the framework of Chapter VIII of its Charter, consider the possibility of financing, via regularly assessed contributions, peacekeeping operations undertaken by the African Union or under its authority and with the consent of the Security Council.”
2009-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6092 (2009) · source
“Africa's experience in the field of the deployment of observers and military units has developed in various parts of the continent in sometimes especially difficult conditions. That was the case in the recent past in Burundi and the Sudan. It is the case today in Somalia, where battalions deployed by Uganda and Burundi within the framework of African Union Mission in Somalia are bravely striving to support the incipient progress of the Somali people on their road to peace, reconciliation, security and stability. In undertaking such initiatives, the African Union is of course discharging its own political responsibilities, and clearly such actions are eloquent proof of an African solidarity that yearns to be proactive and that wants other African States to stand side by side with Somalia in its ordeal.”
2009-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6092 (2009) · source