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Rodas Melgar

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  1. “That is valid for development cooperation, the maintenance of international peace and security, humanitarian assistance and the promotion of human rights. It is valid for our own continent - Latin America and the Caribbean - and there is no reason to doubt that it is equally so for Africa, where the African Union and a host of subregional institutions have a solid and proven track record of achievements. In the latter instance, South Africa has played a leading role that merits our recognition.”

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  2. “As is well known, there are several agreements between the United Nations and the African Union in the area of development cooperation, all under the umbrella of the framework agreement signed in 2006 between them, which contain a 10-year capacity-building programme which is not limited to the peace and security cluster. We naturally support cooperation in the area of development, in the spirit of the New Partnership for Africa's Development. That, too, can be perceived as a conflict-prevention activity, under the broader aegis of the General Assembly. In summary, Guatemala, in its multilateral vocation, has always been partial to combining the presence of the United Nations with that of regional and subregional institutions.”

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  3. “Perhaps the best examples of the results of this cooperation are the African Union- United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur and the African Union Mission in Somalia. We also note that progress in the area of cooperation has taken place both at the level of the Secretariats of the United Nations and the African Union and within the intergovernmental machinery. We find that the yearly meetings of the Security Council with the African Union Peace and Security Council are of particular interest. We also applaud the establishment in 2010 of the United Nations Office to the African Union, which will bring greater consistency to the relationship between the two entities. Naturally, cooperation between the United Nations and regional institutions goes well beyond the mandates of the Security Council.”

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  4. “In more general terms, we believe that the partnership between the Security Council and regional institutions in the area of peace and security contains the conceptual underpinnings of a productive relationship based on the clear comparative advantages derived from the Council's mandate to maintain international peace and security and the greater knowledge and identification that regional institutions tend to have regarding their own member countries. That is why we applaud the growing tendency of the Council - tacit, in some cases, and explicit in others - to follow the guidance offered by the regional entities, in contrast to the possible temptation to try and dictate the path to follow from this Chamber without consultations.”

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  5. “To the degree that concrete proposals emerge to strengthen the link between both institutions, my delegation will consider them with a positive inclination. We are also well aware - and the Secretary-General's report makes the point - that cooperation between the United Nations and the African Union has at times faced divergent positions on particular issues. The same can be said for different points of view regarding complementarities and burden-sharing. However, we feel that the existing consensus-building mechanisms between the parties should help to resolve those issues.”

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  6. “In both endeavours, we feel part of a community of interests with our colleagues of the African continent, in our double capacity as a troop-contributing country and as a country that experienced a post-conflict situation with very unique experiences of peacebuilding on the heels of the signing of our own peace accords in late 1996. Judging from the concept paper circulated by the presidency (S/2012/13, annex) and the report of the Secretary-General, much has been achieved in partnering the Security Council with the African Union - the latter, through the African Peace and Security Architecture - since the Security Council adopted resolutions 1625 (2005) and 1809 (2008). At the same time, we take the point made in the concept paper that there remains much to be done, above all in the area of mediation and conflict prevention.”

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  7. “Indeed, we have witnessed the growing link between the Council and regional entities in the resolutions adopted by this organ recently, in which the African Union certainly plays a prominent role, together with other regional economic communities, such as the Economic Community of West African States, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development and the League of Arab States. The link between the Security Council and regional entities is not limited to the preventive actions and mediation contemplated in Article 52 of the Charter or to the coercive measures contemplated in Article 53; indeed, as the report of the Secretary- General reminds us, those entities increasingly participate in peacekeeping operations and, by extension, in peacebuilding activities.”

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  8. “On the contrary, today's debate is very pertinent for us, since regional cooperation is one of the pillars of our foreign policy. For 60 years now, our subregion, Central America, has been a pioneer in promoting a broad and deep integration process, which partially explains the high value we place on regionalism in all its manifestations. The support we offered to the recent creation of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States is, of itself, one more example of that vocation. The expression of that policy in the context of the United Nations is found in the area of peace and security under Chapter VIII of the Charter, which covers the compatibility between the work of the Security Council and regional organizations.”

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  9. “This is a very special occasion for me - I would even say an emotional one - since this is our first participation in a debate of the Security Council since we took our place as an elected member last week, and because it takes place two days before the present Administration of my country relinquishes power to the new Government elected by popular vote in November. In other words, this week is of special relevance for our history of democratic consolidation at the national level, and also for our presence, for the first time, in this body of the United Nations. I therefore welcome the opportunity to be present on this occasion. It might be argued that Guatemala has little to offer in a debate on the strategic partnership between the Security Council and the African Union, since we do not belong to the latter, but that is not the case.”

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  10. “Mr. Rodas Melgar (Guatemala) (spoke in Spanish): We thank your Government, Sir, for having organized this timely debate, as well as for the concept paper circulated among us (S/2012/13, annex). We highly appreciate your personal presence at this gathering, which undoubtedly adds to its relevance. We also value the presence of the senior officials of the five subregional institutions who have joined us, and we thank the Commissioner for Peace and Security of the African Union for his briefing on United Nations- African Union cooperation in peace and security. We also sincerely appreciate the Secretary-General's complete and illuminating report on the same topic (S/2011/805).”

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