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President Assoumani

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2023-03-28
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2023-03-28
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  1. “We need to combat poverty and exclusion through a successful policy that includes capacity-building and ensuring equal opportunities, as well as boosting employment for young people, who are often the preferred targets of extremists. We need to dry up the sources of terrorist financing through hard-line legislation that enables the freezing of funds belonging to suspected terrorists or those who have been listed nationally or internationally. Above all, we need to take more comprehensive, stronger, coordinated, innovative, timely, sustainable and supportive actions if we want to eradicate that scourge and in turn achieve the African Union’s Agenda 2063 for harmonious and sustainable development.”

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  2. “The Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism needs more concerted and decentralized implementation. Innovative programmes such as the AFSIT programme, co-funded by the African Union-United Nations Development Programme, should be strongly encouraged and financially supported. Establishing regional counter- terrorism centres to support national efforts to prevent and combat terrorism is a crucially important component of that. Those centres will help strengthen national, regional and continent-wide protective measures and ensure inter-regional cooperation and coordination in the prevention and detection of terrorist threats, as well as in combating terrorist acts, including in ports and at sea. Time is not on our side.”

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  3. “On behalf of the African Union, I would like to assure the Council of our commitment to sparing no effort to support member States in achieving our common goal of preventing the spread and threat of terrorism and combating it on the continent by further strengthening collaboration with the United Nations. In conclusion, I would like to emphasize two important points in the fight against this scourge. First, we must ensure the mobilization of the necessary funds for preventing and combating terrorism and ensure predictable, flexible and sustained funding for African Union peacekeeping operations, which are also intended to combat terrorism and violent extremism. Prevention is also important, and we need to focus on it more than we currently are.”

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  4. “I therefore urge the Council to redouble its efforts by strengthening United Nations-African Union collaboration in prevention, which is less costly in the long run. The United Nations Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism, if provided with the necessary resources, would make a significant impact. In that regard, it is also important to highlight the planned African Union-United Nations Development Programme Africa Facility to Support Inclusive Transitions (AFSIT) to support States in political transitions in order to build resilient local and national institutions. I therefore recommend the use of those platforms and call on partners to support the effective launch of that strategic project.”

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  5. “That is why the African Union has put in place regional frameworks, such as its enhanced security cooperation process and the Nouakchott process. We are also ensuring the operationalization of the African Peace and Security Architecture in the Sahel-Sahara region and the Djibouti process at the continent level, as well as that of other regional fusion and liaison centres and units, such as the Accra Initiative. Some of those frameworks are currently having positive impacts but still require renewed commitment and support. And the United Nations and the African Union, as key instruments, have the ability to leverage those tools to combat terrorism and violent extremism. One of the factors contributing to the continued spread of terrorism is the lack of attention given to primarily preventive approaches.”

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  6. “The recent deployment of the Southern African Development Community Mission in Mozambique, as well as the decision of the East African Community to deploy a force in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, largely encouraged and supported by the African Union and the United Nations, deserve to be commended. The ongoing security challenges, which greatly compromise our quest for sustainable development, require sustained and renewed efforts within the relevant regional and continental frameworks in a collective momentum for peace, security and stability on the continent. To that end, the sharing of relevant information and intelligence and the coordination of operations is essential to consolidate our gains in preventing and combating terrorism and other cross- border threats.”

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  7. “For its part, the African Union has already taken on initiatives in that regard, including the establishment of its Ministerial Committee on Counter Terrorism to support member States and regional economic communities in implementing the Summit’s conclusions. The continent is also continuing to make great strides in addressing its various security challenges, including through the deployment of major peacekeeping operations. Examples of that include the outstanding achievements made in Somalia through the African Union Mission in Somalia and, subsequently, the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia, in addition to the achievements of the Multinational Joint Task Force in the Lake Chad basin. The success of those missions has helped to reduce violence, contain terrorist groups and protect the affected populations.”

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  8. “Africa remains confronted by the continued disturbing incidence of terrorism, which has negative socioeconomic and political effects on the countries and regions concerned, as well as the continent as a whole. That is why the African Union’s sixteenth Extraordinary Summit on terrorism, held in Malabo in May 2022, focused on the disturbing link between terrorism and violent extremism, on the one hand, and the advent of unconstitutional changes of Government in Africa, on the other. The Summit underlined the need for an urgent response to the threats posed by terrorism, whose consequences the Security Council has been seized of for several years.”

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  9. “With regard to terrorism, I would like to recall that that phenomenon has raged for a long time. It is since the Libyan crisis in 2011 that it has really exploded, in particular in Africa. That crisis encouraged the arrival in the Sahel of thousands of foreign fighters and mercenaries. It led to the establishment of terrorist organizations in Africa and the uncontrolled circulation of weapons. And that is how terrorism gradually expanded in Africa. From the north to the south and the east to the west, the terrorist contagion continues to grow in almost all parts of Africa. I will therefore spare no effort to ensure that the African Union Master Roadmap of Practical Steps to Silence the Guns in Africa by 2030, which I have had the honour of managing since February, becomes a reality.”

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  10. “At the outset, I would like to warmly congratulate you, Mr. President, on having assumed the presidency of the Security Council for the month of March. I am convinced that your enlightened leadership will enable us to move forward as we look for appropriate solutions to the many challenges facing the international community, particularly with regard to peace and security. I am therefore happy to address this high-level Security Council debate on a complex issue that requires a strong and comprehensive response. I would like to thank you, my brother, President of Mozambique, for your kind invitation. One could rightly ponder on the relevance of the link between terrorism and violent extremism, as those phenomena seem to fuel each other, resulting in families displaced from countries and the delayed development of our States.”

    2023-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9296 (2023) · source