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  1. “Despite that changing nature of conflict, however, ensuring security remains — at its very core — a feat that can be accomplished only in terms of the collective. We must work together, with renewed vigour and unyielding solidarity, to expand our multilateral engagements, enhance cooperation at the regional and subregional levels and deliver peace and security to all countries and peoples.”

    2021-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/941 (2021) · source

  2. “The Security Council and the African Union Peace and Security Council should continue to explore all modalities for information-sharing, particularly through joint field visits. Joint institutional engagement should also be pursued, in a consultative and pragmatic fashion, to address emerging and consequential challenges such as climate change and environmental degradation. The effects of climate change on peace and security across the continent are indisputable. Other areas for coordinated action include mine action, terrorism, piracy and organized crime. The conflict landscape is being profoundly altered and redefined by climate change, technological advances and other compounding factors.”

    2021-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/941 (2021) · source

  3. “At the institutional level, the strategic partnership between the United Nations and the African Union remains undeniably essential to building and maintaining peace. That partnership should be further broadened with the systematic engagement of subregional organizations and mechanisms, including the Economic Community of West African States, the Economic Community of Central African States, the Southern African Development Community, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development and others. Conflict prevention, peacekeeping, peacebuilding and the entire spectrum of activities across the security, development and humanitarian nexus are most effective when addressed by a broad and inclusive consortium of stakeholders. The contributions of regional and subregional actors to these processes are unparalleled.”

    2021-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/941 (2021) · source

  4. “Those efforts ought to be provided with greater support — politically and financially — through all practical means. The sustainable funding of AU-led peace operations and measures to ensure the adequate, predictable and reliable financing of peacebuilding initiatives in African countries should also be treated as urgent imperatives by the international community. And major donors, in particular developed countries and the international financial institutions, should ramp up their overseas development assistance commitments, eliminate barriers to concessional financing and advance new pathways for African countries to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in line with their national priorities and perspectives.”

    2021-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/941 (2021) · source

  5. “And so, the historical injustices and contemporary contradictions of the present multilateral order demand that homegrown solutions to problems on the African continent be fully embraced, reinforced and advanced. During this International Decade for People of African Descent, development and reparatory solutions for all African peoples must be supported as vital priorities. African countries have a vast wealth of experience in building peaceful, orderly and viable States amidst their post-colonial struggles. The African Union’s depth of expertise in regional diplomacy, mediation, reconciliation, transitional justice, security sector governance and reform, and disarmament, demobilization and reintegration initiatives has delivered effective peace processes and political transitions in many settings.”

    2021-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/941 (2021) · source

  6. “In fragile settings violent conflict, widespread displacement, acute hunger, underdevelopment, the hazards of climate change and environmental degradation permeate most profusely, with the most devastating socioeconomic and political outcomes. Across the African continent, the bellowing calls for fresh initiatives and renewed commitments on the part of the international community at large are unmistakeable. To be sure, the positions and priorities of the African Union, in particular the Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want” and the Silencing the Guns initiatives, provide the most practical blueprint for continental peace and stability.”

    2021-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/941 (2021) · source

  7. “I thank my dear friend and brother, the President of the Republic of Kenya, His Excellency Uhuru Kenyatta. I greet him in love, faith and hope. his contribution this morning has been stellar. I endorse everything he outlined in his statement. Permit me to express, on behalf of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, our deepest appreciation to the Republic of Kenya for convening this important discussion. We also thank our briefers for their insightful remarks. I am particularly moved, too, by the presentation of another of my dear friend and brother, the President of Ghana, His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. A spate of complex and interconnecting challenges of the most arduous kind bear upon peace and security globally.”

    2021-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/941 (2021) · source