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first: 2014-12-16
most recent: 2015-08-18
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“Finally, Madam President, I thank you very much for your time and for the opportunity to contribute to this debate from the EU's perspective.”
2015-08-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7505 (2015) · source
“Furthermore, the EU supports underpinning regional cooperation frameworks, such as the Rabat and Khartoum Processes, and provides increased support to border management across Africa and more widely, including through the Common Security and Defence Policy missions, such as that in the Niger. The EU also supports the development of return and migration management capacities, including at the regional level in Western Africa. But above all, we want to look at addressing the root causes of migration and, where we can, to support local efforts to tackle conflicts and human rights abuses and to improve the socioeconomic conditions in the countries of origin so that people are no longer feel forced to flee their own countries.”
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“Many migrants risk their lives to travel across the Mediterranean to Europe, often driven by despair, poverty, conflict or human rights abuses, which means that we also need to cooperate with the countries of origin and transit and to do more to address the root causes of migration. We will do so in close cooperation with the regional organizations concerned. On 11 and 12 November, we will hold a conference with African partners in Valletta to build our common vision and agree on common action on migration to tackle the challenge in the Mediterranean. A high-level meeting on the Western Balkan route is also envisaged.”
2015-08-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7505 (2015) · source
“Once the Council provides the required authorization, it will enable the operation to actively disrupt the smugglers and traffickers" business, in full respect for international law and the Security Council mandate. That will also be undertaken in close cooperation with the Libyan authorities in order to ensure that the legitimate livelihoods of Libyans are not affected. We will also ensure that the rights of the refugees and migrants are fully protected, and we are pleased to have established close cooperation with the United Nations, particularly the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, in that regard.”
2015-08-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7505 (2015) · source
“The current situation in the Mediterranean is an example of how international organized crime is involved with the smuggling of migrants and trafficking of human beings and how that can destabilize a whole region and put the basic rights and the lives ofthousands of migrants at risk. In response to that threat, the European Union decided to launch in June, in addition to the naval operations Triton and Poseidon, operated by Frontex, another naval operation, the European Union Naval Force-Mediterranean, with the mandate to disrupt the business model of smuggling and trafficking networks. It is already engaged in collecting information and intelligence about those networks.”
2015-08-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7505 (2015) · source
“We are now facing a particularly dramatic situation in the Mediterranean, on the European Union's own borders, which illustrates very well many of today's themes. Since 17 April, in which more than 800 migrants died in a single dramatic incident, the EU has adopted a comprehensive plan for substantial measures to deal with the challenges faced in the Mediterranean. Dealing with migration is a common interest of all countries around the Mediterranean, in the Sahel and in East Africa. It is not only a humanitarian problem, but also a political and a security problem for our member States and the wider neighbourhood, and therefore involves joint efforts with our partners in the AU, the Rabat Process and the Khartoum Process and with the League of Arab States.”
2015-08-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7505 (2015) · source
“Most recently, the focus of the partnership with the OSCE has been the conflict in Ukraine, where the OSCE role is central and has the EU's full support, including through considerable EU financial and material support to the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine. However, the scope of our partnership is much broader and covers such important issues as election observation, arms control and the many OSCE field presences throughout the wider European region. We consider the OSCE to be a central and inclusive platform for dialogue and confidence-building in the current crisis in European security. Cooperation with the Council of Europe is also important in the context of the Ukrainian conflict in focusing on support for constitutional and judicial reform.”
2015-08-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7505 (2015) · source
“Earlier this month, High Representative Federica Mogherini travelled to Malaysia to participate in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum and to co-chair the EU-ASEAN Post- Ministerial Conference. In that context, allow me to reiterate our appreciation to Malaysia for kindly hosting those two important meetings. The European Union also cooperates closely with NATO, the OSCE and the Council of Europe. All EU member States are participating States in the OSCE and the Council of Europe, and 22 member States belong to NATO. The EU cooperates closely with NATO, both strategically and operationally, in crisis management, for example, off the Horn of Africa and in the Western Balkans.”
2015-08-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7505 (2015) · source
“Those include security sector reform, border management, peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation, which we support through the provision of advice, mentoring and training. Where there are regional security challenges, such as piracy, trafficking and terrorism, we have adopted a regional strategic approach for the Sahel, the Gulf of Guinea and the Horn of Africa. Once again, those approaches are built very strongly on triangular cooperation among the EU, the AU and the United Nations in order to face the challenges. It is not in Africa alone that the EU has been active. We have developed partnerships with other regional organizations.”
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“It will enable us not only to continue our support for the efforts of the African Union Mission in Somalia and the IGAD-led monitoring and verification mechanism in South Sudan, but also to provide funding for the Multinational Joint Task Force against Boko Haram and the ECOWAS mission to Guinea-Bissau. But the long-term solution is to reinforce the AU's own capabilities and fund all these. We provide additional support through the European Development Fund and the Instrument for Stability to build long- term African sustainability. The EU, in addition, has deployed a Common Security and Defence Policy missions in Mali, the Niger, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia and the Central African Republic, specifically to enhance the capacity of local security operations to deal with the challenges they face.”
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“In that respect, we particularly value the positive role the AU has played in the recent crisis in Burundi in recalling very clearly the principles of the African Charter for good governance and democracy. We have supported AU-led peace operations themselves in a number of ways. In the 10 years since 2004, the EU has provided â‚¬1.4 billion to AU-led peace operations through the African Peace Facility. I am happy to announce that we recently agreed to increase the Facility provision from â‚¬750 million to â‚¬900 million for the next three-year period, to respond to the increasing crises.”
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“At the most recent EU-Africa Summit, in Brussels last year, the EU strongly supported African aspirations and commitment to ensuring peace, security and stability on the continent in the framework of the African Peace and Security Architecture. In order to improve the African capacity to handle crises, we committed to operationalizing the multidimensional African Standby Force and recognizing the African Capacity for Immediate Response to Crises as a transitional tool that is complementary to the Force, and thereby enhancing the AU's capacity to respond rapidly to crises and reinforce its continental early warning system. Progress on that is to be welcomed, and closer cooperation between the AU and its regional organizations is of great value.”
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“Ensuring follow-up to those reports with concrete steps will be crucial. Similarly, improved cooperation and coordination among regional organizations is a priority for us. In that context, we are pleased about something that you yourself pointed out, Madam President, which is the partnerships we have developed, in particular with the African Union, as well as with African subregional organizations such as the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the Southern African Development Community, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), the East African Community, the Economic Community of Central African States and the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region.”
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“In order to strengthen that further, we welcome the recent joint identification of priority areas for strengthening the EU-United Nations strategic partnership, which, among other things, underline the importance of EU member States' contributions to United Nations peacekeeping operations. Both the EU and the United Nations are currently engaged in crucial strategic reviews, in order to face the challenges more effectively. We welcome the reports issued by the High-level Independent Panel on Peace Operations (see S/2015/446) and by the Advisory Group of Experts on their respective reviews of peace operations and the peacebuilding architecture, which reflect well the EU's contribution. We particularly look forward to the review of resolution 1325 (2000), on women and peace and security.”
2015-08-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7505 (2015) · source
“The Secretary-General recently built on that in drawing up his report on partnering for peace and partnership peacekeeping (S/2015/229), which we thoroughly welcome and support. As a rather unique regional organization, we cooperate very closely with the United Nations at the strategic level through our United Nations- European Union Steering Committee and high-level dialogue on crisis management, as well as through joint consultative mechanisms and arrangements for operational cooperation on the ground in places such as the Central African Republic, Mali and Somalia.”
2015-08-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7505 (2015) · source
“That commitment is enshrined in our founding treaty, according to which the EU "shall contribute to peace, security, sustainable development [and] the strict observance of international law, including respect for the principles of the United Nations Charter." We therefore work particularly closely with the United Nations at the heart of the multilateral system. In 2011, the General Assembly itself underlined the EU's special relationship with the United Nations through its resolution 65/276, which recognizes the EU's partnership with the Organization. This partnership, particularly with regard to peace and security, comes under Chapter VIII of the Charter of the United Nations, which explicitly recognizes and encourages that regional arrangements should be put in place.”
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“We recently hosted a meeting in Brussels on preventive diplomacy and mediation, with experts from the United Nations, the League of Arab States, the African Union (AU) and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). That approach has helped the European Union to facilitate crucial agreements - between Belgrade and Pristina in 2013, and last month between the E3+3 and Iran on a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action that is contributing to a comprehensive, long-lasting and peaceful solution to the Iranian nuclear issue. The Plan of Action also strengthens the nuclear non-proliferation regime as a whole, and that will be monitored by the International Atomic Energy Agency. The European Union will remain committed to effective multilateralism.”
2015-08-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7505 (2015) · source
“Our response is focused on a comprehensive approach to preventing and managing conflicts, using both our Common Security and Defence Policy and the other policies and instruments of the European Union. In particular, preventing conflicts and relapses into conflict, in accordance with international law, is a primary objective of our external action, working together with global, regional, national and local partners. Since the adoption, in 2001, of the so-called Gothenburg Programme, the EU has developed an early-warning system, strengthened its mediation and dialogue capacities and established its own mediation support team. In that field we have developed close cooperation with regional and international organizations.”
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“Among the many challenges we see, there is a need to address in particular the challenge of terrorism and foreign fighters, maritime security and organized crime, including the smuggling of migrants and trafficking in human beings. Those are in addition to the challenges posed by irregular migration, climate change, energy security, cybersecurity and space security. To address those challenges, the EU and its member States are assuming increased responsibilities to act as a security provider, at the international level and in particular in our neighbourhood, in order to enhance our own security and our strategic role in the world and to respond to those challenges together with the international community.”
2015-08-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7505 (2015) · source
“The conflicts, threats and instability in the EU's immediate and wider neighbourhood, together with the long- standing and emerging security challenges affecting Iraq, Libya, the Sahel, Syria and Ukraine, are having an impact on Europe's security as well as on international peace and security, and represent a common challenge to our fundamental values and principles. This changing global environment was outlined by the High Representative in her report to the European Council in June, which launched work on an EU global strategy on foreign and security policy. In May, it also prompted European foreign and defence ministers to call for a stronger Europe and a more effective common security and defence policy.”
2015-08-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7505 (2015) · source
“Mr. Westcott: I have the pleasure to speak on behalf of the European Union (EU) and its member States. The candidate countries Turkey, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Albania; the country of the Stabilization and Association Process and potential candidate Bosnia and Herzegovina; as well as Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova and Georgia, align themselves with this statement. I would first like to thank you, Madam President, for taking the initiative to convene this open debate on an important topic, and for the excellent concept note (S/2015/599, annex) and for highlighting the work of the European Union in peacebuilding, conflict prevention and mediation. The global and European security environments have changed dramatically in recent years.”
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“The EU is prepared to continue to commit its instruments and experience to support African countries that have decided to follow this guidance in building effective, honest and loyal security sectors to manage the security of their own countries. We encourage other international partners to join the efforts to help finance such capacity-building. Strong cooperation between the African Union, the United Nations and the European Union can have the greatest effect in facing immediate challenges and in building long-term capacities to address underlying causes comprehensively. In conclusion, as we often say with our United Nations colleagues, peace and security cooperation has become a way of life. The same should apply to cooperation among all three of us.”
2014-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7343 (2014) · source
“Hence, efforts by the AU and United Nations to encourage good governance, respect for human rights, the fight against corruption and the full respect of constitutional rule are fundamental building blocks to prevent crises. This was expressed clearly and well in the communique following the 463rd meeting of the Peace and Security Council of the AU on 27 October: "[B]uilding strong, responsive and accountable State institutions at the local and national levels that deliver essential services, as well as ensure inclusive political processes, rule of law and public security, is key to preventing conflicts and consolidating peace building gains." The EU fully associates itself with those conclusions.”
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“On Somalia, the EU has firmly supported the endeavours of AMISOM. and the cooperation of the AU and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) to enhance the effectiveness of our action in support of a more inclusive political process. In South Sudan, we commend and support the efforts of IGAD and the African Union, but we remain concerned about the situation in Darfur and urge all three parties - the United Nations, the AU and the Sudan - to find a way to enable the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur to complete its mandate. To prevent conflict, however, nothing works better than good transparent and accountable Government, in which citizens and groups in a country feel that they are represented and protected and that their concerns are heard.”
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“Clearly, it is preferable to prevent conflict breaking out in the first place, and conflict prevention, together with early warning mechanisms, is an increasingly important part of our approach to fragile regions throughout the world. In Africa, we pursue such actions, again, in close collaboration with the United Nations and the AU. The Great Lakes is a good example of close cooperation in helping to resolve the challenge to peace and security that was posed by the Mouvement du 23 mars. The remaining problem there posed by residual elements of the Forces democratiques de liberation du Rwanda (FDLR) also needs to be dealt with if genuine and lasting peace is to be brought to that troubled region. We look to the 2 January deadline, when, if the FDLR has not responded, action will need to be taken.”
2014-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7343 (2014) · source
“In the Central African Republic, the European Union-led force, has been working closely alongside both the AU mission MISCA and now MINUSCA to provide vital protection for the civil population in Bangui. In Somalia, the EU Training Mission has been providing key support to the Somali security forces, which in turn have worked closely alongside AMISOM. to improve the security situation and to push back the terrorist threat posed by Al-Shabaab. Through Operation Atalanta offshore, the EU has helped drive private piracy from the seas around the Horn of Africa. In recent years, as the EU has evolved with its member States to become a global player, we have used a range of our political, diplomatic, financial and crisis management tools to restore or preserve peace.”
2014-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7343 (2014) · source
“In Mali, for example, the EU is able to draw on one of its other instruments, under our Common Security and Defence Policy, to provide both civilian and military training missions for the reconstruction and retraining of the Malian armed forces. That is part of a coherent medium-term strategy to build up Africa's national capacities, enabling it in due course to replace the United Nations peace support operation, MINUSMA. All in all, 16 Common Security and Defence Policy missions and operations have been deployed on the African continent so far, usually in coordination with the United Nations and the AU, bringing practical support and concrete results in a number of fragile and post-crisis countries.”
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“It is therefore important that others also contribute to building African capacities, as some colleagues around the table have already indicated their countries are prepared to do, and help fund such operations until such time as African countries themselves can cover the full cost. We note that progress in implementation of the African Standby Force has not perhaps been as fast as anticipated, but we take note that the efforts to introduce the African Capacity for Immediate Response to Crises and to make it more rapidly deployable will be welcome and important. This trilateral cooperation among the EU, the United Nations and Africa is like the three legs of a stool. They provide a stable basis for peace support operations across the continent.”
2014-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7343 (2014) · source
“The European Union has put its money where its mouth is. In the 10 years since 2004, the EU has provided â‚¬1.2 billion in support of AU-led peace operations through the African Peace Facility. That includes contributions to support both AFISMA and MISCA, but the largest amount has been the EU share of the costs of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). This is an excellent example of the three-way cooperation whereby the African Union coordinates the force contributors and assures the command of the operation, the European Union provides stipends for the AU's 22,000 troops, and the United Nations and the United States provide logistics, equipment and training. It is a genuine joint effort. Such peace support operations, however, do not come cheap, and even the European Union's resources are finite.”
2014-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7343 (2014) · source
“To help build African solutions to African problems, we have from the outset supported from the outset the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA), and we aim to give practical help at all levels - national, regional and continental - to enable its implementation, within the limits of our resources and our treaty obligations, which, for example, prevent the supply by the European Union of military hardware. A number of additional steps were identified in the road map for implementation of the follow-up to the EU-Africa Summit, including, first, intensified political dialogue on security, defence and crisis management issues; secondly, the operationalization of APSA, in particular by supporting the African Standby Force; and thirdly, the pursuit of sustainable funding for African deployment and crisis management capacity.”
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“Nearly 50 per cent of the 100,000 United Nations peacekeepers come from African countries. Mr. Mangaral took the Chair. The European Union has long-standing partnerships with both the African Union and the United Nations. In the field of security and peace support operations those partnerships increasingly overlap, and it is very timely to reflect on how that trilateral cooperation works, and how it could work even better. As was reaffirmed at the EU-Africa Summit in Brussels in April, the European Union is committed to supporting Africa's efforts to manage its own security.”
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“The partnership of the African Union (AU) and its regional organizations with the United Nations has evolved rapidly over the past decade, from capacity- building programmes to joint operations. In Mali, and more recently in the Central African Republic, the successful handover or transition of the African-led International Support Mission in Mali (AFISMA) and the African-led International Support Mission for the Central African Republic (MISCA) to the the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) and the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) are clear illustrations of that increasingly effective partnership. Today. Africa is the continent that contributes more peacekeepers than any other to United Nations operations.”
2014-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7343 (2014) · source
“I would like to thank the Chadian presidency for bringing to the table the subject of cooperation with regional organizations in the field of peace operations. The fact that the issue has been discussed three times in the Security Council this year is testimony to its relevance. The European Union expresses its support for presidential statement S/PRST/2014/27, which has been adopted and issued today. Chad itself has played a critical role in tackling regional peace and security challenges on the African continent and in its immediate region, so Chad knows that the kind of security threats that we now face almost invariably require a collective regional and international response, particularly where a peacekeeping role is required. That necessarily involves a range of partnerships.”
2014-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7343 (2014) · source
“Mr. Westcott: I have the honour to speak this morning on behalf of the European Union (EU) and its member States. The candidate countries the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Albania and Turkey; the country of the Stabilization and Association Process and potential candidate Bosnia and Herzegovina; as well as Ukraine and Armenia, align themselves with this statement. Like others, before anything else Ijoin in expressing our condemnation ofthe atrocity that has taken place in Peshawar, Pakistan. We express our condolences to the Government, the people and the families of the victims of those involved. We recall similar attacks against schoolchildren in Nigeria and elsewhere, which equally deserved our condemnation at the time.”
2014-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7343 (2014) · source