UN / AFRICAN UNION

Ten years after the first joint communiqué of the United Nations (UN) Security Council and the African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council, UN and AU officials highlighted the role of regional and sub-regional organizations in the maintenance of international peace and security. UNIFEED-UNTV

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:09
• Production Date: 24 May 2016
• Asset Language: English; French
• Personal Subject: HERVÉ LADSOUS
• Corporate Name: AFRICAN UNION - AU
• Subject Topical: PEACE AND SECURITY
• Geographic Subject: AFRICA
• MAMS Id: 1628967
• Parent Id: 1628967
• Alternate Title: unifeed160524b

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STORY: UN / AFRICAN UNION
TRT: 02:09
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: NATS

DATELINE: 24 MAY 2016, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

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FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior UN building

24 MAY 2016, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

2. Med shot, delegates
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Haile Menkerios, Head of the United Nations Office to the African Union and Special Representative to the African Union:
“No single organization can succeed on its own in addressing the challenges that confront us. The United Nations values cooperation with regional and sub-regional organizations. In the past decade, regional and sub-regional organizations have gained greater influence over conflict dynamics and regional politics.”
4. Med shot, delegates
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Hervé Ladsous, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations:
“The African Union, directly or not, is the most important partner of the United Nations in peacekeeping. Three simple figures illustrate this; 9 out of 16 UN peacekeeping operations are in Africa, over 80 percent of all uniformed peacekeepers are deployed in UN peacekeeping missions in Africa, and almost 50 percent of all uniformed peacekeepers come from AU member states.”
6. Med shot, delegates
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Tete Antonio, Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations:
“The increasingly important role regional and sub-regional organizations are playing in the maintenance of peace and international security is a major feature of the landscape of the post-cold war period in international security. Regional organizations now occupy a central place in the international architecture of security; therefore, they are perceived in their respective regions, as key actors in security. This reality, more than anywhere else, is clear in Africa.”
8. Med shot, delegates
9. Wide shot, Council

Storyline

Ten years after the first joint communiqué of the United Nations (UN) Security Council and the African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council, UN and AU officials today (24 May) highlighted the role of regional and sub-regional organizations in the maintenance of international peace and security.

The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative to the African Union, Haile Menkerios, told the Security Council that “no single organization can succeed on its own in addressing the challenges that confront us” and noted that “in the past decade, regional and sub-regional organizations have gained greater influence over conflict dynamics and regional politics.”

The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Hervé Ladsous, said the African Union “is the most important partner of the United Nations in peacekeeping.”

Ladsous pointed out that “9 out of 16 UN peacekeeping operations are in Africa, over 80 percent of all uniformed peacekeepers are deployed in UN peacekeeping missions in Africa, and almost 50 percent of all uniformed peacekeepers come from AU member states.”

For his part, the Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations, Tete Antonio, said “the increasingly important role regional and sub-regional organizations are playing in the maintenance of peace and international security is a major feature of the landscape of the post-cold war period in international security.”

Antonio said regional organizations “are perceived in their respective regions, as key actors in security.” This reality, he stressed, “more than anywhere else, is clear in Africa.”

The Council issued a Presidential Statement recalling its previous relevant resolutions and statements underscoring the importance of developing effective partnerships between the United Nations and regional organizations, in particular the African Union.

The statement commended the increased contribution of the African Union to the maintenance of peace and security, and welcomed the continuing important efforts and enhanced peacekeeping role of the African Union and its sub-regional organisations.