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Madeira

lines on the record: 377
first: 2003-11-20
most recent: 2022-05-23
sittings or episodes: 24
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“Therefore, it is critically important for the transition’s timely success that international partners prioritize enhanced support for the Federal Government to enable it to adequately raise, pay and equip a Somali security force capable and able to gradually, but effectively, assume full responsibility for the country’s security. It is in that vein, and with immense appreciation, that the AU welcomed the visit to Somalia by General Stephen Townsend, Commander of the United States Africa Command, to discuss cooperation between United States forces and the Somali National Army.”
2022-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9040 (2022) · source
“In order to achieve that within the 2024 timeline, it is vital to scale up air strategic support with transport and attack helicopters, as well as adequate offensive weapons in all sectors, for both ATMIS and Somali security forces to be effectively agile and mobile with the required speed so that they can surprise and successfully take on and subdue Al-Shabaab. Had part of those requirements been implemented in the field, Al-Shabaab’s attack against the ATMIS forward operating base in Ceel Baraf would not have been the same. Transition is only truly transition when its elements are visible and tangible.”
2022-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9040 (2022) · source
“In order to begin the full implementation of the transition requirements, as stipulated in resolution 2628 (2022), ATMIS recently collapsed its forward operating base in Gololey, in sector 5, to create a mobile force. In addition, together with the Somali national armed forces, ATMIS is expected to undertake a series of planned activities that will also support its mandated reconfiguration. They include the convening of the second-quarter sector commanders’ conference, a logistics conference and an equipment review that will enable both ATMIS and the Somali national armed forces to develop a joint reconfiguration plan. Force generation and adequate and predictable funding and equipment attuned to force activity and mobility are key to degrading Al-Shabaab and ensuring the success of the transition.”
2022-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9040 (2022) · source
“What has become clear in those daring and heightened attacks is a resurgent Al-Shabaab that will continue to pose multiple challenges to both Somalia and ATMIS, which points to the urgent need for a robust and adequate response to the group. In that regard, the establishment of ATMIS on 1 April was followed by transition activities in close collaboration with the Federal Government, primarily focused on joint ATMIS-Somali security forces disruption operations throughout Somalia, securing main population centres and supply routes, mentoring and training Somali security forces and joint planning and coordination. As part of our joint planning, we have continued to hold regular meetings with the Somali armed forces, which included the holding of a first-quarter sector commanders’ conference in March.”
2022-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9040 (2022) · source
“The attack took place while a campaign meeting of electoral delegates and other officials was under way. On 23 March, an Al-Shabaab suicide bomber blew himself up near the Hiraan administrative headquarters, while electoral activities were taking place. The explosion was followed by an attack using a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device, killing at least 50 people, including a member of Parliament, Amina Mohamed Abdi. Other trends in the activities of Al-Shabaab have included simultaneous attacks against AMISOM forward operating bases. In that context, in February, Al-Shabaab carried out a coordinated attack against the ATMIS FOB in Elbaraf, using a combination of available improvised explosive devices.”
2022-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9040 (2022) · source
“We also witnessed an increase in activities related to Al-Shabaab’s infiltration of its Amniyat operatives in major cities, with particular emphasis on Mogadishu, extortion, ground surveillance of friendly forces, forward operating bases (FOBs) and main supply routes and the recruitment and training of militants. In Mogadishu on 23 March, a group of armed of Al-Shabaab fighters disguised in military uniforms infiltrated the Aden Adde International Airport area and attacked the SafeLane Global company’s compound, resulting in five fatalities, including three international employees and one Somali police officer. On 19 February, a person-borne improvised explosive device exploded inside a restaurant in Beledweyne, resulting in the deaths of at least 18 people, including Government officials.”
2022-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9040 (2022) · source
“We at ATMIS identify with the peace objectives, and we will be with the Somali Government and its people as they forge ahead to give substance to those aspirations and goals. Now is the time for the global community to proactively and constructively rally in support of the President of Somalia and his Government as they confidently start the long walk towards one person, one vote for the consolidation of democracy and good governance in the country. Throughout the electoral process, we saw an increase in Al-Shabaab’s destabilizing activities through the employment of asymmetrical means in the form of attacks using improvised explosive devices, probing attacks, grenade and mortar attacks, ambushes and targeted assassinations of senior Government officials, security forces, civilians and election delegates and officers.”
2022-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9040 (2022) · source
“Helping to empower and support the Somali security forces achieve force generation; reconfiguring and implementing the Somali Transition Plan; supporting the efforts to degrade and put an end Al-Shabaab and other illegal armed groups; opening the main supply routes to facilitate the free and safe movement of people and goods throughout the country, thereby eliciting economic growth and social development; availing AU good offices through ATMIS in facilitating and finalizing the constitution; promoting justice; normalizing relations with all the federal member states; advancing reconciliation, good governance and democracy; and achieving one person, one vote universal suffrage by 2026 — all those are actions that give substance to, and justify the presence of, ATMIS in Somalia.”
2022-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9040 (2022) · source
“Although we still have much to learn about the details in the transformation of those political objectives into Government programmes and plans, the spirit underlying peace policies is very much in line with what the AU Agenda 2063 stands for and the ATMIS mandate, as outlined at the 1,068th meeting of the AU Peace and Security Council, held on 8 March, and what resolution 2628 (2022), of 31 March, is all about.”
2022-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9040 (2022) · source
“In his electoral manifesto, he placed emphasis on liberating the country from Al-Shabaab, opening up the main supply routes, ensuring that the security forces remained republican and did not interfere in political processes, restoring justice and implanting a governance system based on the Constitution and social reconciliation, as well as prioritizing humanitarian issues, democratization, economic development and proactive foreign policy.”
2022-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9040 (2022) · source
“ATMIS is proud to have been instrumental in its multiform support to the electoral process, particularly in the provision of the much-needed electoral security support alongside the Somalia security forces in Dhuusamarreeb, Jawhar, Beledweyne, Baidoa, Baraawe, Kismaayo, Gedo and Mogadishu, where together we were able to deliver an orderly, peaceful and secure presidential election in the midst of repeated threats and attacks by Al-Shabaab, including on the very day of the presidential election, with the goal of creating an environment of destabilization and violence, derailing the process and, eventually, stopping the election. But that did not happen. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud campaigned under the banner of putting Somalis in agreement with one another and in agreement with the world.”
2022-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9040 (2022) · source
“That is a source of concern in our joint commitment — under the African Union’s Agenda 2063 — to ensure gender equality and priority. However, we are encouraged to see the election of Sadia Yasin Haji Samatar as the first female Deputy Speaker of the House of the People.”
2022-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9040 (2022) · source
“With a new Parliament elected and a leadership legitimized by the people’s representatives, the doors are now open for a new chapter in the history of Somalia to be written — a chapter heralding hope, opportunity and determination of a people who was able to maintain its identity and idiosyncrasies despite all odds and vicissitudes. This is a people that has remained steadfast, resilient and determined to reconcile internally and end the war, bring about peace, develop the country and restore Somalia to its former glory and beyond. In that process, despite the robust campaign in support of an increased representation of women in the federal Parliament, the 30 per cent minimum quota for women was not achieved.”
2022-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9040 (2022) · source
“Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, for subsequently accepting the electoral results, congratulating his successor, shaking hands with him and pledging to support him. This peaceful transfer of power, which consolidates and honours a practice that has now become Somalia’s political tradition, creates conditions conducive to the advancement of the national political dialogue and the deepening of reconciliation. These important tasks will require collaboration between the Federal Government and the federal member states. In that regard, I am pleased to note that the new Administration is already engaging regional leaders on critical national issues.”
2022-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9040 (2022) · source
“Mr. Madeira: I thank you, Madam President, for giving me the floor to brief the Security Council on Somalia. Let me start by congratulating you and your country, the United States of America, for assuming the presidency of the Security Council for the month of May. The most far-reaching development in Somalia in the period under consideration is the successful conclusion of the prolonged and painstaking electoral process, which culminated with the election of the President of the Federal Republic of Somalia on 15 May in a peaceful and favourable environment. On behalf of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission and the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS), I wish to once again congratulate President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on his victory and express our appreciation to the outgoing President, Mr.”
2022-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9040 (2022) · source
“There should be a clear division of labour, transparency and accountability in the implementation of tasks and commitments, improved coordination and enhanced information-sharing and mutual accountability.”
2022-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8965 (2022) · source
“The right type and an adequate number of enablers and multipliers would be required to give the mission’s armed component the flexibility, agility and mobility that the transition plan is demanding and that the mission itself needs to succeed in its targeted and other planned joint or coordinated operations. The achievements made around the Somali force-generation effort should be enhanced and consolidated over the next few months that the transfer of security responsibility to the Somali security forces is achieved within the projected time frame of the new mission. Transition is a complex process. The Friends of Somalia involved in helping the country assume full responsibility for its security, recover peace and achieve reconciliation and development must continue to pull together complementarily and united in their common paths.”
2022-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8965 (2022) · source
“The documents clearly retain the idea that the mission is a transitional mechanism aimed at enabling and supporting the Somali Government and its security forces to effectively take full responsibility for the security of Somalia in a pre-established time frame, preserve the gains accumulated with the support of AMISOM over the years and allow for the departure of AU forces and other mission components. To achieve those lofty objectives, both the new AU mission and the Federal Government of Somalia need to be supported. The military component of the AU mission and the Somali security forces must enhance their counter-IED ability, their ability to collect and process information and their capacity to apply the elements of speed and surprise when acting on real-time, actionable intelligence.”
2022-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8965 (2022) · source
“Those documents were developed with the full participation of the AU and the Federal Government of Somalia and the involvement of entities recommended by the Council. They are a true reflection of the spirit and letter of the Somali transition plan, as they faithfully outline and follow the dictates regarding the operational activities, institutional capacity-building and stabilization in the way envisaged by the plan and in a manner that we all understand and identify with.”
2022-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8965 (2022) · source
“The ensuing bilateral technical discussions, which at the latest stage included officials of the United Nations and the European Union, culminated in the production of three important draft documents aimed at providing responses to the request made by this body, as enshrined in operative paragraphs 8 and 9 of its resolution 2568 (2021). The draft concept of operations, the draft joint proposals and the draft optional logistical support contain details on the strategic objectives, mandate, composition, size, structure, equipment, duration and command and control of the mission. They are documents still in the making that will have to go through different levels of clearance before they can be brought to the attention of the African Union Peace and Security Council and the United Nations Security Council.”
2022-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8965 (2022) · source
“Those projects, which include the provision of health services, educational support, water and sanitation, have all been completed and handed over to various communities throughout Somalia. The last quarter of 2021 saw an intensification of contacts with a view to overcoming the challenges that stood in the way of efforts towards an agreement on a framework for the establishment of a reconfigured African Union mission in Somalia that would replace AMISOM and eventually hand over full security responsibilities to the Somali security forces. Those challenges were successfully overcome after bilateral discussions between the AU and the Federal Government of Somalia led to the adoption of a nine-point approach to future engagements in that regard.”
2022-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8965 (2022) · source
“In December 2021, together with the Somali security forces, key operations were carried out in Lower Juba and Gedo, while in early January 2022 has been devoted to consolidating the gains of Operation Badbaado I. Similarly, in late January, AMISOM, Somalia and the Somali National Army, including the Danab forces, carried out a series of operations that saw five senior Al-Shabaab figures put out of action, with several other Al-Shabaab fighters captured. The African Union (AU), through the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia, has announced its civilian-led stabilization activities. With the support of the European Union and the current Government, the Mission, in collaboration with both the Federal Government and federal member states, has carried out a total of 34 quick-impact and peace-strengthening projects.”
2022-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8965 (2022) · source
“Al-Shabaab appears emboldened by its determination to disrupt the ongoing electoral process. The attack of 10 February at the El Gabta junction in Mogadishu in which a convoy of “Somaliland” election representatives was targeted is a clear demonstration of that trend. With regard to a possible resurgence of the Islamic State, these must be judged within the context of Da’esh’s emerging regional presence in East Africa, one that is characterized by a proliferation of funds, intensified recruitment and the transfer of terrorist tactics. During the reporting period, AMISOM has continued to focus on joint operations in support of the Somali security forces.”
2022-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8965 (2022) · source
“The violence has mainly been perpetrated by Al-Shabaab through the use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs), person-borne improvised explosive devices, mortar attacks, ambushes and targeted assassinations of senior Government officials, Somali security forces and civilians. We have also been monitoring with concern what could be a resurgent Islamic State, as credible reports indicate that the group carried out two IED attacks and detonated a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device in November 2021 and January 2022, respectively. Besides, AMISOM is assessing multiple reports suggesting that the Islamic State has returned to extortion in Mogadishu. As we continue to monitor the activities of Al-Shabaab and the possible expansion of the Islamic State, a clear picture is emerging.”
2022-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8965 (2022) · source
“Their task is to offer strategic support on election security issues. Thirdly, we have enhanced our operational support and police force, with a specific focus on jointly providing security to the Lower House election venues. Key venues have included Banaadir, Kismaayo, Baidoa, Dhuusamarreeb, Baraawe and Jawhar. We are presently deployed in Garbahaarrey, ready to secure the electoral process there. Regrettably, the security situation in the country continues to be a source of great concern, as Al-Shabaab remains relentless in its destabilizing activities. Since my most recent briefing (see S/PV.8907), we have observed an upsurge in terrorism-related violence.”
2022-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8965 (2022) · source
“I also welcome the important role played by the National Consultative Council meeting, held from 3 to 9 January, in forging consensus on resolving outstanding election issues. Besides technical support, AMISOM has remained focused on delivering election security. Our delivery since November has been a three-pronged one. First, we have redoubled our training efforts in the joint operation centres, with an emphasis on building the capacity of Somali Police Force commanders. Linked to that effort has also been AMISOM’s support on intelligence, data management and reporting — a critical element of the functioning of the joint operation centres. Secondly, recognizing the lead role of the Somali Police Force in delivering election security, African Union police now collaborate with senior Somali Police Force leadership.”
2022-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8965 (2022) · source
“In support of a swift conclusion of the ongoing electoral process, I have continued to undertake a series of diplomatic engagements, including meetings with civil society representatives, state officials, opposition leaders, and federal and regional leaders. My aim has been to listen and learn from all stakeholders who are making visible contributions to the advancement of the electoral process and to encourage them to continue doing so and to move ahead with the elections. Somalia needs continued support from international partners to overcome the current and emerging election challenges. In that context, I am very encouraged that the structural and operational difficulties faced by states and the Electoral Dispute Resolution Committee have been addressed.”
2022-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8965 (2022) · source
“We encourage them to remain steadfast, since despite the slow pace at which the process is moving, 130 members of the Lower House of the Federal Parliament have so far been elected. We also note that 28 women have been elected to date, representing 22 per cent of the 30 per cent quota reserved for women. As the process continues, enhanced efforts need to be deployed to scale that percentage up to reach the target set. The African Union, through the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), continues to actively engage, support and provide technical expertise to Somalia’s ad hoc election management bodies, the Federal Election Implementation Team and other key election stakeholders, including the federal member states.”
2022-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8965 (2022) · source
“I thank you, Madam President, for this opportunity to address the Security Council on the situation in Somalia. I am pleased to be here alongside my good friend Ambassador James Swan, Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia. We are now 10 days away from the 25 February deadline for the completion of the Lower House elections. That all-important date was set by the Somali leaders at the National Consultative Council meeting held in January. Although that deadline may not be met, it represents the sense of urgency and seriousness with which the Somali leaders have committed themselves to overcoming the odds and concluding the electoral process as early as possible.”
2022-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8965 (2022) · source
“There is also a request for updating the concept of operations, which should clearly spell out the end-state, nature, mandate, tasks, posture, structure, duration, and command and control of the mission. It is in that context that the AU Peace and Security Council requested that the AU Commission immediately resume consultations with the Federal Government of Somalia and relevant international partners with a view to reaching a common approach on the aforementioned issues. The African Union Commission has already indicated its readiness to engage in that regard.”
2021-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8907 (2021) · source
“To achieve that, and in full respect of Somalia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, we need, as a matter of urgency, to continue and conclude, in a detailed and exhaustive manner, the discussions that we have already started on the issues that will shape the future mission and are relevant to its effectiveness and success, markers such as those related to the enhancement of our coordination and cooperation, coherence and complementarity in our approaches, mutual trust and accountability, sustained information-sharing and funding, inter alia. Our work in that regard has, to a large extent, already been facilitated by resolution 2568 (2021), which called for proposals on the strategic objectives, size and composition of the new mission.”
2021-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8907 (2021) · source
“It slows down and undermines the development of Somalia and its neighbours. It will continue to jeopardize and compromise the attainment of our continental objectives if it is not contained and removed. For the sake of the people of Somalia and for our own sake, as a continent and as a region, we need peace and stability in Somalia, but that cannot come unless we continue to work together, and complementarily. The AMISOM mandate comes to an end on 31 December. There is an absolute need for a new mission that would take over from AMISOM.”
2021-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8907 (2021) · source
“Somali National Army staff officers have been nominated to lead those cells. The African Union cooperation priorities and objectives at this stage of its history are not only the preservation and consolidation of its member States’ hard-won political independence and sovereignty, including that of Somalia, but also the enhancement of that independence and sovereignty with the empowerment of every people and State through economic and social development and prosperity. Those continental strategic objectives, which are enshrined in the Constitutive Act of the African Union and are part and parcel of the African Union’s Agenda 2063, cannot be achieved in isolation or without peace. The security threat confronting Somalia today is a threat not only to the Somali people; it is a regional threat, a continental and worldwide threat.”
2021-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8907 (2021) · source
“Guriel town and the village of Bohol are now quiet, but our efforts in the direction of the peaceful resolution of the standoff must continue. In the period under review, we have conducted joint operations with the Somali National Army, disrupting Al-Shabaab in Lower Shabelle, notably in Basra in October and in Gambole in September, and frustrating, through robust air power, the attempt by Al-Shabaab to reclaim some bridge towns. With regard to joint planning and coordination, AMISOM force headquarters and Somali National Army representatives held a series of meetings to implement the harmonized AMISOM reconfiguration plan. In order to facilitate joint planning and the coordination of operations, joint operations coordination cells have been opened in all AMISOM sectors.”
2021-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8907 (2021) · source
“In addition, and of late, Al-Shabaab’s efforts have been increasingly and deliberately directed at disrupting the electoral process with attacks on some election centres, indirect fire attacks against AMISOM fortified bases and increased public execution of individuals working with the Somali security forces and AMISOM personnel. While Al-Shabaab remains the principal threat to peace and security, I am concerned by recent incidents of resorting to armed confrontation in the standoff between Ahlu Sunna Wal Jama’a and Government authorities. Separately and in conjunction with the other international partners, we have appealed to the parties to cease fighting and seek to address their differences through negotiated mechanisms. Armed clashes have died down.”
2021-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8907 (2021) · source
“The trainings were aimed at providing Somali security officials with the requisite knowledge and skills to plan, monitor and coordinate the activities of the joint operation cells before, during and after the elections. Insecurity across Somalia remains a source of grave concern. Apart from continuing to infiltrate its Amniyat operatives into major cities and towns, extortion and ground surveillance, Al-Shabaab has increased its improvised explosive devices attacks, complex attacks, probing attacks, grenade and mortar attacks, ambushes, suicide bombings and targeted assassinations of senior Government officials.”
2021-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8907 (2021) · source
“Since my most recent briefing (S/PV.8833), AMISOM police, together with their Somali counterparts, have continued to enhance their efforts to secure the ongoing elections. That has led to AMISOM police units being deployed beyond their traditional areas of activity across the federal member states, particularly Garbaharey, in Jubaland; Jowhar, in Hirshabelle; and Barawe, in South-West state. In anticipation of the operationalization of the joint operation centres across Somalia, AMISOM police have also focused on election-related training. In that regard, AMISOM’s election security cell has recently trained 245 security officials, mostly from the National Intelligence and Security Agency and the Somali National Army.”
2021-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8907 (2021) · source
“I am pleased to report that Somalia is now the first African Union member State to receive multipronged intervention support through an African Union peace support operation. That support now includes African Union technical experts embedded in the Federal Electoral Implementation Team, providing important advisory support on logistics, legal issues and election security, financial support to the Federal Electoral Implementation Team to assist in fulfilling its electoral obligations, conducting capacity-building workshops on key election themes, including building support for the enhanced participation of women in the electoral process and the provision of information technology equipment for the Federal Electoral Implementation Team, under the Federal Minister for Women and Human Rights Development, as part of operational support to those institutions.”
2021-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8907 (2021) · source
“While attention has rightly been focused on the completion of national elections, I am encouraged by the peaceful completion of the first direct one-person one-vote local council elections that took place in three districts of Puntland in October. The elections were free, transparent and peaceful. Voter enthusiasm was immense, and the turnout was high. It was a unique experience in many ways, which I am sure will be emulated. Recognizing the importance of the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) extending its support beyond election security, the African Union Peace and Security Council, through its communiqué 994, mandated AMISOM to provide technical assistance to other areas of Somalia’s electoral process. In that context.”
2021-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8907 (2021) · source
“To strengthen the voice of women in the quest to have their rights and level of political representation recognized and upheld, AMISOM has been working closely with the women goodwill ambassadors and other female activists. Their focus now is the upcoming House of the People elections and how to prevail over the elders and other political leaders to ensure that they live up to the commitments undertaken and voluntarily enshrined in the 17 September 2021 and 27 May agreements. Those commitments include improving the electoral mechanisms to ensure that the very important 30 per cent minimum quota for women’s representation is achieved.”
2021-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8907 (2021) · source
“That is allowing for sustained interaction and dialogue to continue among them in spite of the odds, ensuring a platform where differences can be narrowed and the possibility for consensus around issues of common concern can be enhanced. That is a very positive development, which we should continue to encourage and harness to ensure the swift, peaceful and credible completion of the remaining stages of the electoral process, which are pivotal to returning the country to peace, stability and prosperity. The 30 per cent quota for women remains a challenge. While the African Union welcomes the completion of the Upper House elections, we note with concern that the results have fallen short of the minimum 30 per cent quota for women, totalling only 26 per cent.”
2021-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8907 (2021) · source
“It is our ardent hope and desire that this process will be accomplished and completed before the end of the year, in line with the commitment made by the country’s political leadership at its most recent National Consultative Council meeting. It was with satisfaction that, after months of protracted dispute over the composition and leadership of the “Somaliland” electoral management body, we witnessed and took note of the start of the lower house election in the Somaliland constituency in Mogadishu, the first of its kind in this electoral season. It is worth noting that, despite persistent differences, the country’s political stakeholders have kept their doors open to each other.”
2021-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8907 (2021) · source
“Mr. Madeira: I thank you, Mr. President, for the invitation to address the Security Council on the situation in Somalia. Let me start by congratulating you and your country, Mexico, on assuming the presidency of the Council for the month of November. Since my previous briefing to the Security Council (see S/PV.8833) and despite the deeply concerning slow pace of the process, Somalia has moved away from the pre-27 May electoral impasse and has recently completed its Upper House elections — not a minor feat that we have all welcomed. The country is now in the early stages of its lower house electoral marathon.”
2021-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8907 (2021) · source
“Those developments remain significant in strengthening the relations of the two neighbours and will continue to create the conditions for the building of a regional political consensus originally forged after the deployment of AMISOM, in 2007.”
2021-08-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8833 (2021) · source
“For that reason, as the African Union’s presence begins to evolve, the renewal of resolution 2540 (2020) should benefit from a radical reassessment undertaken jointly by the Federal Government, the African Union, the United Nations and key international partners. Additionally, an appraisal should be considered of the prioritization and sequencing of its mandated tasks that must be aligned with the new realities emerging in Somalia beginning in 2022. Let me conclude on another positive note and welcome the series of important measures that we have witnessed being taken by Kenya and Somalia since June.”
2021-08-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8833 (2021) · source
“We recognize and appreciate the European Union’s continued financial support for AMISOM since its deployment in Somalia, and we also acknowledge the constraints to continued support occasioned by competing priorities for funds in a global economy depressed by the coronavirus disease pandemic and the attendant economic downturns. Despite those constraints, the African Union is clear that any future African Union presence in Somalia must be assured of sustainable and predictable funding. Regarding the United Nations, our partnership must remain at the centre of international engagement with Somalia.”
2021-08-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8833 (2021) · source
“That will also require an African Union presence, in particular its civilian component, in order to have more specialized experts deployed across Somalia, reflecting Somalia’s federal nature. The second is partnership. As the African Union seeks to move to a new phase of its presence in Somalia, focusing on support for stabilization, institution-building, deradicalization and post-conflict reconstruction and a more defined political role, it will be seeking to renew its strategic partnerships. In that regard, there can be no stronger partners than the European Union and the United Nations.”
2021-08-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8833 (2021) · source
“One of the most important conclusions emerging from the seminal report of the High-level Independent Panel on Peace Operations of 2015 (see S/2015/446) was its emphasis on the primacy of politics in the ultimate success of peace operations. That is no less the case in relation to AMISOM. In supporting Somalia to meet its challenges, including in the successful implementation of the Somali transition plan, the African Union must be able to ensure that its security efforts are buttressed by a meaningful role in delivering the necessary political processes that underpin the security architecture necessary for the full takeover of security responsibilities by the Somali security forces. To that end, any African Union mission must retain a flexible posture, allowing it to deliver on new and emerging priorities.”
2021-08-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8833 (2021) · source
“Any future mission in Somalia must continue to operate with full respect for Somali sovereignty and leadership in all spheres, more specifically in the areas of stabilization, peacebuilding and State-building. That remains important, as it will allow the African Union to continue working in partnership with Somali stakeholders to support nationally owned strategies and frameworks as Somalia begins to plan for its next election cycle, in 2025-2026. While over the years we have seen many gains, both political and security challenges lie ahead for Somalia. Addressing those challenges will require continued leadership, outreach and reconciliation.”
2021-08-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8833 (2021) · source
“Its conclusions have been considered by both AMISOM itself and some troop-contributing countries, the African Union Commission and, on 30 July, the African Union Peace and Security Council. They have all looked into that report by those independent assessors. The overriding consensus was in favour of a joint African Union-United Nations multidimensional stabilization mission or hybrid mission as the model that would be best placed to address the challenges that a new African Union mission would encounter post-2021. We at AMISOM further believe that while the United Nations-led independent assessment calls for a reconfigured AMISOM post-2021, any final consideration must consider three key issues. The first is ownership.”
2021-08-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8833 (2021) · source