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Vicky Ford

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2021-10-28
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2021-10-28
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  1. “That will enable 88 million more children to attend school by 2025, including many millions of girls in Africa. The United Nations-AU partnership is a crucial platform for all these efforts, and it is one that will continue to have the United Kingdom’s full support.”

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

  2. “The United Kingdom was the first non-African country to sign a partnership agreement. It offers huge opportunities — a common African market would have a combined gross domestic product of $2.5 trillion and when fully implemented could lead to a 33 per cent increase in intra-African trade. Through our presidency of the Group of Seven, we are working with development finance institutions to boost investment in African countries. And we are supporting the empowerment of African women and girls, including through education. Educating and empowering girls is absolutely essential if countries are to realize their full potential. The Global Education Summit, which Prime Minister Boris Johnson was honoured to co-host with you, Mr. President, in July, raised a record $4 billion, including a United Kingdom pledge of $600 million.”

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

  3. “On my recent visit to South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini, I saw first-hand the impacts of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and climate change. The United Kingdom is supporting African responses to these challenges. We have provided $27 million to the AU’s COVID-19 Response Fund. We are one of the leading donors to the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access (COVAX) Facility, which has helped 47 African countries to access around 65 million vaccine doses. We will continue supporting this vital work. We are also working with the AU to support its Green Recovery Action Plan and to showcase African climate action at the twenty-sixth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Glasgow. We are providing technical assistance for the African Continental Free Trade Area.”

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

  4. “I welcome the efforts of AU Special Envoy Obasanjo and others to promote dialogue between the parties to the conflict in Tigray. We need to step these efforts up. It is absolutely vital that they yield results. Thirdly, let me emphasize the importance we attach to the AU’s role in peace operations. I pay tribute to the efforts of the countries contributing police and troops to the African Union Mission to Somalia, and we look forward to receiving the joint United Nations-AU proposal for an AU-led successor mission. This must be based on a model supported by all key stakeholders, including the Somalis. Finally, I want to note the importance of the United Nations-AU partnership in tackling global challenges to Africa’s peace and stability and working for a more stable, prosperous future.”

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

  5. “The recent acts of the military represent an unacceptable betrayal of the Sudanese people and their journey to democracy, and I welcome the AU’s robust response and its suspension of the Sudan. Secondly, I want to emphasize the importance of United Nations-AU coordination in promoting political solutions to conflicts. The situation in northern Ethiopia is absolutely unacceptable. I am horrified by the humanitarian effects. More than 5 million people in Tigray require urgent aid, but less than 10 per cent of their humanitarian needs are being met. There are continuing credible reports of the abhorrent use of sexual violence as a weapon of war, particularly targeting women and girls. We are supporting life-saving efforts on the ground, and I reiterate our calls for an immediate ceasefire, humanitarian access and dialogue.”

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

  6. “Cooperation between the United Nations and the African Union (AU) is vital to achieving a safer, greener, healthier, more open and more resilient continent. I would like to make four key points in this respect. First, I want to underline the importance of collaboration in promoting and consolidating democracy, human rights, good governance and the rule of law. The United Kingdom strongly condemns the military’s arrest of civilian members of the Sudan’s transitional Government. We are deeply concerned about the reports of protesters being shot. The United Kingdom has been a consistent and firm advocate for democratic and peaceful transition in the Sudan.”

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