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  1. “In return, the Council will get a strengthened partner to assist in tackling shared challenges - likely at a significantly lower cost than the United Nations - and will make an important and practical, contribution to the maintenance of international peace and security.”

    2017-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8006Reprise1 (2017) · source

  2. “Delays lead to longer, more expensive conflicts, and less effective missions exact a cost in lives. In his report, the Secretary-General laid out pragmatic options for the Council's consideration. We support those options as well as the AU decision to have 25 per cent of the cost of AU-led peace operations financed by African States. We also are supportive of utilizing United Nations assessed contributions to finance AU-led missions in defined circumstances. The Council should also adopt, in principle, the Secretary- General's proposal of an African Union-United Nations jointly developed budget. New Zealand stands ready to assist, including through lending our support to any resolutions that may come to the Fifth Committee, the General Assembly or the Council, but we urge the Council to take action as a matter of priority.”

    2017-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8006Reprise1 (2017) · source

  3. “During our presidency, after the Council's visit to South Sudan, we co-hosted - with the AU Commission - Council members and senior United Nations officials, including Special Representative Menkerios, at an off-site meeting to discuss the United Nations-African Union strategic framework. Those actions did not require formal Council decisions or consensus. We would urge current Council members, both individually and collectively, to take similar steps and make meaningful engagement with the AU an everyday habit. Secondly, we need to fix the fundamental issue of financing for African-led peace operations. That will not be easy, but we must agree on a new, more predictable financing model. Fragmented, ad hoc arrangements for each new AU-led mission are simply not sustainable.”

    2017-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8006Reprise1 (2017) · source

  4. “Regular and constructive exchanges on specific issues would contribute to a deeper understanding of perspectives, a greater unity of purpose and, ultimately, a stronger partnership. Overall, we need to see more cooperation through joint assessment missions, information exchanges, training and secondments, but every Council member can also individually help make this change simply by thinking and acting a little more broadly and strategically. For our part, while New Zealand was on the Council, we supported the inaugural elected ten Peace and Security Council of the African Union meeting in Addis Ababa at the start of 2015. With Spain, we met with the Chair of the AU Council at the start of our presidencies to discuss the joint agendas of each body.”

    2017-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8006Reprise1 (2017) · source

  5. “Wejoin others today in thanking the Secretary-General and Commissioner Chergui for their briefing. As a member of the Security Council when resolution 2320 (2016) was adopted, New Zealand was strongly supportive of the United Nations and African Union (AU) taking a more structured, complementary and integrated approach to tackling the challenges faced by the continent. We welcome recent developments, including the Secretary-General's May report (S/20l7/454) and will focus today's remarks on two priority areas: making meaningful African Union-United Nations engagement an everyday habit and fixing financing for African-led peace operations. First, while formal engagement between the Council and the AU Peace and Security Council is important, in our view it is through strengthening informal engagement that we will see the greatest value.”

    2017-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8006Reprise1 (2017) · source