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Moussa Faki Mahamat

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2020-12-04

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2021-05-19

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1. “In this connection, I call for the Security Council to consider a new approach and innovative ways to fund peace in Africa, as other organs and institutions in international fields are focusing on funding African development. It is time to know that peace is the sector that has the most important funding needs.”

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2. “Thirdly, in the medium to long term, we must not lose the momentum gained before the pandemic on the nexus between peace, security and development as expressed in Agenda 2063 and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which have clearly articulated long-term goals. In this regard, I invite the international community to support the African Continental Free Trade Area, which is experiencing significant progress, aimed at guaranteeing the free movement of goods and services among the various African countries. Finally, I reiterate the call of the Secretary-General for all belligerents, wherever they are, to fully embrace and uphold the global ceasefire in order to facilitate efforts being deployed against the COVID-19 pandemic.”

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3. “I wish to reiterate that the post-pandemic recovery should lay emphasis fundamentally on economic recovery led by job creation, the provision of credit to small and medium-sized enterprises and rebuilding sustainable livelihoods in the sectors that have borne the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. I would also like to emphasize that we should take full advantage of the strategic partnership between our two organizations, the AU and the United Nations. In this regard, the AU Commission and the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission should further strengthen their coordination on the various aspects of support to the African countries concerned with post-conflict reconstruction and development in order to optimize and maximize the efficiency of this support and its positive impact.”

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4. “I also reiterate the African Union’s call to ensure debt relief in favour of African countries, taking into consideration the unique circumstances of countries that have lost revenues and existing reserves to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Secondly, in the short term, there is a need to exert institutional efforts in advocating for greater flexibility in the financing of national socioeconomic stimulus programmes. We stress the need for concerted efforts by international financial institutions and partners, as well as the African Development Bank, in this area.”

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5. “There is an urgent need to put an end to vaccine protectionism and vaccine nationalism threatening to exclude low-income and fragile countries, thereby endangering the socioeconomic recovery of affected African countries. In that regard, I highly commend the efforts of African Union leaders in establishing the COVID-19 Response Fund, aimed at raising resources to strengthen the continental response to COVID-19 notably by mitigating the pandemic’s socioeconomic and humanitarian impact on African populations. The international community is strongly called upon to support the endeavours of the AU Response Fund aimed at supporting the efforts of African countries to launch their vaccination programmes.”

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6. “The COVID-19 pandemic has also had a devastating impact on the capacities of public hospitals in such countries, endangering the lives of citizens suffering from other chronic diseases. Allow me now to emphasize three points to which I want to draw the Council’s attention. First, in the immediate term, we need more coordination in the distribution of vaccines and manufacturing programmes. That is of urgent and immediate concern. The United Nations and the AU can assist Governments of conflict-affected countries to ensure that existing efforts in the fight against the pandemic are well coordinated, in particular in relation to the financial, technical and logistical assistance for the provision of vaccines.”

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7. “The global travel bans, and national lockdowns have generated a socioeconomic crisis, which has led to the disruption of economies and affected both formal and informal employment sectors, leading to massive job losses, rising inflation and a real deterioration in living standards. With the COVID-19 pandemic, the delivery of services has been severely impacted, leading to serious threats to livelihoods, which could trigger rising frustrations and growing social discontent. The economic consequences of the pandemic on Africa’s small and medium enterprises and the informal sector, notably in conflict-affected countries, such as those in transition processes, have resulted in massive job losses. That is likely to have an impact on the return-to-school initiatives, as most parents lack the means to send children to school.”

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8. “On the economic front, slowed economic growth, lower levels of international trade, lower demand for Africa’s primary exports, rising external debt and rising inflation have created an economic situation that will impact negatively on the socioeconomic situation in many African countries. In that regard, 20 African countries face the risk of collapse because of the burden of debt. That will require new thinking and initiatives aimed at post-pandemic recovery. I would like to stress that an economic recovery strategy should focus more on an economic stimulus and debt restructuring, and not on austerity. On the social front, the situation is also urgent and requires immediate attention.”

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9. “On the political front, there have been challenges in sustaining the necessary political processes for implementing transitions and peace agreements on the ground to avoid a collapse of many African nations. The efforts of the United Nations Security Council and the African Union Peace and Security Council need to focus on conflict-affected countries and continue to encourage and nurture the political processes being undertaken to ensure the sustained progress of political transitions and the implementation of peace agreements. The Sudan, Mali, Libya and Chad are examples of our deep concerns in that area of transitional processes.”

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10. “Indeed, the trends continue to show a rising trajectory in the number of infected people and resulting fatalities. At the onset of the pandemic, Africa adopted its own strategy to resist the scourge. The African Union Commission, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, special envoys and member States synchronized various actions, leading to the rescue of millions of African lives. Today the biggest challenge that Africa is facing is the vaccine issue. It is a very big mistake to think that the world may be secure while the African continent is still lacking protection against the virus and its variants. Can we forget that the world is globalized and that the pandemic is profoundly so too?”

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11. “Let me first of all congratulate you, Mr. President, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for the month of May and thank you for this opportunity to brief the Council on African concerns and views on this very important subject matter of addressing the root causes of conflict while promoting post-pandemic recovery in Africa. On behalf of the African Union (AU) Commission, I welcome the Security Council’s initiative under the presidency of China to organize this debate with such a crucial theme. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic will continue to have a profound impact on the economic and social development of Africa and in particular on affected countries, which already have vulnerable socioeconomic systems, devastated by conflicts and fragile political processes.”

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12. “The only strategy for addressing fragility is to resolutely succeed in our policies to empower women and boldly integrate young people into a genuinely inclusive synergy of those vital forces in our societies. That requires other innovative dynamics and less inflammatory rhetoric. The hopes and expectations that we cherish from today’s debate are to see strong momentum emerge from our common efforts to triumph in our fight against exclusion, social injustice, unilateralism and the mistrust of cohesion, which is the foundation and essence of our common humanity.”

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13. “While some progress has been made, in close coordination with subregional organizations and with the strong support of the United Nations, we must recognize that a number of challenges continue to undermine our ability to effectively carry out our mandate. Those include access to predictable and sustainable resources in support of operations initiated, or led, by the African Union that have a clear and robust mandate. In that regard, we remain mindful of the primary responsibility of our member States to prevent and resolve conflicts peacefully and through dialogue, as well as to protect civilians and promote human rights. In our approaches to crises and peace and security issues, in our view exclusion is one of the key drivers of those crises and tensions.”

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14. “They contribute significantly to the development of a multilateralism that has been undermined by national self-interest and the weakening of humanity and channels of international cooperation. I would therefore like to congratulate this organ, the Security Council, on its contribution to that effort by adopting resolution 2457 (2019), which, among other things, calls for the mobilization of the United Nations and its institutions to support the African Union in implementing its noble goal of Silencing the Guns in Africa. The results achieved to date through that collaboration are highly commendable. You will agree with me, Mr. President, that only by pooling our collective expertise and resources will we be able to respond to the challenges that beset us.”

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15. “In that regard, the United Nations-AU partnership, supplemented by the agreements of April 2017 and January 2018, focus on the necessary consultation and strategic mobilization process with a view to eradicating the root causes of the fragility facing many African States and countries, in order to provide appropriate, coherent and decisive responses to prevent and manage conflicts in Africa. The close consultations between the United Nations Security Council and the AU Peace and Security Council seek to promote that objective. Such consultations increase our common understanding of the challenges that we face and enhance our response mechanisms, including through preventive diplomacy.”

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16. “Convinced that it could not remain silent in the face of African tragedies and that moreover it could not let others decide the fate of Africa, the Union has focused its tireless efforts on realizing the principle of African solutions to African problems. That approach has allowed for the resolution of many conflicts and crises across the continent, as it makes it possible to address the underlying causes of conflicts and in turn the sources of fragility. The framework agreements signed with the United Nations and the European Union on the fundamental issues of peace, security, governance and development have laid the foundations for fruitful cooperation in those crucial areas.”

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17. “The various vectors of the African Peace and Security Architecture, including the African Union Peace and Security Council, the Panel of the Wise and the Mediation Support Unit, have opened up a broad field of action that should enable considerable progress to be made in approaches to and the settlement of conflicts on the continent. The AU’s peacemaking and preventive diplomacy efforts, supported by the particularly effective use of special envoys and representatives, high representatives and liaison offices and missions across the continent, continue to play an active role in the achievement of those objectives.”

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18. “Overcoming that challenge is therefore a top priority for the African Union and one of the pillars of the international agenda. Soon after its creation, the African Union adopted a number of policies, instruments and mechanisms aimed at supporting its member States and strengthening their capacity to prevent conflicts and tensions, which pose obstacles and threats to their peace, stability and development. The establishment in 2002 of the African Peace and Security Architecture and the African Governance Architecture, as well as the related twofold master plan to promote peace, security and stability, effectively cover the various aspects of conflict prevention, management and resolution, as well as post-conflict stabilization, reconstruction and development.”

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19. “The Niger reported more than 100 deaths a few days ago; we express our condolences to the Government and the people of that country. Current breaches of or threats to international peace and security posed by factors such as conflict, terrorism, violent extremism, radicalization, transnational organized crime, the serious consequences of climate change, deadly infectious diseases and multiple pandemics have far-reaching consequences, especially for the most fragile States and the most vulnerable populations. With the current expansion of the COVID-19 pandemic, those tragic realities have come to a head. We have clearly seen the impact of the devastating health and socioeconomic effects of all kinds on fragile States. State fragility remains a major obstacle to development in Africa.”

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20. “I would first like to take this opportunity to express to you, Mr. President, as well as to all members, my best wishes for peace, security and health, especially in these trying times of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). I would like also to congratulate the President of the Republic of Tunisia on his assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of January 2021 and to thank him for including on the Council’s agenda this important item devoted to the challenges of peacekeeping in fragile contexts. This issue is at the heart of the concerns of the African Union, since it is in Africa that the issues of the fragility of States and the challenges facing peacekeeping are most acute, as can be seen in the Lake Chad basin and the Sahel.”

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21. “As we seek new ways to reinforce stronger multilateral cooperation, we must also address the contradictions in the Council that hamper, and sometimes prevent, the resolution of conflict in Africa. I wish the Council fruitful deliberations.”

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22. “We have entered into similar strategic partnerships with the European Union, and we hope to reinforce cooperation with other key member-driven organizations, including the League of Arab States, which has a large African membership, in order to strengthen strategic cooperation and better address shared threats to our common peace and security. In that regard, I will continue to urge the international community, in particular the Security Council, to acknowledge the principle of burden-sharing for the maintenance of global peace and security. This should include the provision of predictable, sustainable and flexible financing for AU-led or -authorized peace support operations, based on the principle of the use of United Nations assessed contributions.”

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23. “Similarly, we continue to make joint efforts to ensure that the implementation of the Silencing the Guns in Africa initiative works in tandem with the objectives that form our vibrant pan-African economic integration agenda. But the Africa we want also believes in the principles of international cooperation in our increasingly multipolar world, with a view to addressing common challenges as one global community. In this regard, the United Nations-AU strategic partnership is a blueprint for multilateral cooperation.”

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24. “Since 2007, in practice, the annual consultative meetings between the Security Council and the AU Peace and Security Council have been key to strengthening Council-to-Council engagement. Meanwhile, on the ground, the two organizations have also increased operational cooperation and coordination by working hand in hand to support peace processes in the Sudan, Mali, the Central African Republic, Darfur, Somalia and other areas. In that regard, I want to highlight the strong support and commitment to the strategic United Nations-AU relationship displayed by Secretary-General Guterres. For its part, the African Union is deepening its cooperation with the regional economic communities and regional mechanisms, particularly with respect to consolidating our activities to maintain regional peace and security.”

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25. “The signing in 2017 of the United Nations-AU Joint Framework for Enhanced Partnership in Peace and Security by myself and Secretary-General António Guterres has further boosted our strategic partnership and cooperation, with a view to promoting Africa’s ownership and leadership of peace processes on the continent. The subsequent signing, in 2018, of a similar framework agreement to harmonize the complementarity between the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development and the AU’s Agenda 2063 was in keeping with the enhanced partnership between our two organizations to accelerate the development agenda for Africa, in recognition of the nexus between peace, security and human development.”

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26. “Bearing in mind that about 70 per cent of the agenda of the Security Council is devoted to issues of peace and security related to the African continent, it would seem obvious that Africa should have a permanent presence in the Security Council. This, however, is still not the case. Enshrined in Chapter VIII of the Charter of the United Nations, the AU Constitutive Act and, indeed, article 17 of the Protocol Relating to the Establishment of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union, cooperation between the United Nations and the African Union is not only a necessity for both organizations but a prerequisite for the implementation of our respective mandates of promoting and upholding international peace and security.”

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27. “I would like to thank President Cyril Ramaphosa of the Republic of South Africa and Chair of the African Union (AU) for inviting me to contribute to this high-level debate on cooperation between the United Nations and regional and subregional organizations, with a specific focus on the relationship between the United Nations and the African Union. I would also like to congratulate him on his country’s assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I also wish to thank South Africa, as one of the three African non-permanent members of the Security Council, for its strong leadership and coordination together with its two fellow African members in advocating African positions at the Council, in collaboration with the AU Mission in New York, the AU Peace and Security Council and the AU Commission at large.”

    2020-12-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1179 (2020) · source