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  1. “The international community must establish a new reality based on common interests and an awareness that our destiny is shared. It must be approached through constructive cooperation between the United Nations and regional and international organizations in support of strategic policy- and decision-makers and in order to enhance cooperation in border management and risk analysis. We must also work on further coordination to oppose and cut off the sources for terrorism funding by focusing on human security and enhancing aid to promote sustainable development. Enhancing regional cooperation and coordination in order to arrive at effective mechanisms and find a common position would help us to confront the root causes of the problems we are facing now. Our sole purpose must be to create peace, development and security.”

    2012-12-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6882 (2012) · source

  2. “The ministers stressed the need to intensify efforts within the framework of common responsibility at the bilateral, Maghreb, regional and international levels in order to counter all threats and dangers that could destabilize the Maghreb area. They emphasized that this fight will be successful only if it adopts a preventive, integrated and coordinated approach that is part of a comprehensive strategy. Given the magnitude of the threat and the pooling of efforts among the various cells of Al-Qaida and other criminal organizations, we have no choice but to bolster security cooperation between the Arab Maghreb Union and the Economic Community of West African States, which would help to eliminate the causes of instability and tension, with tremendous benefit to the Maghreb and African States.”

    2012-12-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6882 (2012) · source

  3. “We support and express our deep appreciation for United Nations efforts to establish security and stability in Mali through a political approach. However, we believe that it might also be very useful to support those efforts through campaigns to collect the weapons that are so plentiful in the area, in cooperation with relevant United Nations organizations. There are strong and reciprocal ties among armed groups, criminal groups, terrorist groups and organized crime, including the trafficking of drugs, arms and human beings, as well as illegal immigration and money-laundering. All of those threaten the security of the Maghreb area as well as its African and Mediterranean environment. That was the conclusion reached by the Arab Maghreb Union's foreign ministers in a ministerial meeting that was organized to discuss the security issue.”

    2012-12-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6882 (2012) · source

  4. “The developments in our region and the repercussions of certain events have made the area an easy channel for drug and human trafficking. They have also opened new networks and routes for smuggling arms and other dangerous materials and made it easy to cross international borders, which are difficult to fully monitor. The best evidence of that is the huge quantity of arms that have been smuggled from nearby areas, the consequences of which could shake the very foundation of all that has been achieved so far in establishing democratic systems of governance. That calls for a firm stance and systematic behaviour that is based on our common interest in further coordination in order to promote security, stability and development in our societies.”

    2012-12-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6882 (2012) · source

  5. “It comes as no surprise that armed violence has erupted at a sensitive time when economic, environmental and food security crises are rampant worldwide. Events have proven that the armed groups and rebel movements involved are multidimensional and pose a common threat to our area. The Al-Qaida network, which is rampant in those States, recruits the youth of the Maghreb area into its ranks, and it is clear that our collective responsibility today lies in refuting the reference points and conceptual framework of those groups by immunizing our youth with a correct concept of our civilization, history and religion, especially since the countries of the Arab Maghreb and those of the Sahel and the Sahara have for centuries been linked by a culture that has spread the values of Islam and the principle of tolerance - a foundation of our religion.”

    2012-12-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6882 (2012) · source

  6. “This meeting is being held under exceptional and sensitive circumstances, because the various developments in the Sahel and the Sahara, which constitute a security belt for the Maghreb and Africa as a whole, are a great challenge. That is especially true of the crisis in Mali and the deep repercussions thereof, which are no longer limited to the West African States but are spreading throughout Africa, in terms both of security and stability and of development. The strategic location of the Union States for Africa and Europe, and their ties to the Sahel and the Sahara at the geographic and cultural levels, make us well aware of the historical importance and dangerous repercussions of any developments in that region and the threat they pose to security. That is confirmed by the transnational and transcontinental challenges we face.”

    2012-12-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6882 (2012) · source

  7. “Allow me at the outset to express our deep appreciation for the invitation to the secretariat of the Arab Maghreb Union to participate in today's Security Council meeting, held under the presidency of Morocco, which is one of the founding States of the Union. I take this opportunity to note Morocco's intensive efforts to maintain peace and security in the world. I am honoured to express our deep appreciation to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for his ongoing efforts to lay firm foundations for security in the Sahelo-Saharan region. I would also like to express our good wishes to Mr. Romano Prodi, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Sahel. We wish him every success in his efforts to promote security and stability in the region.”

    2012-12-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6882 (2012) · source