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STORY: UN / AFRICA PEACE AND SECURITY
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SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 25 MAY 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
25 MAY 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs:
“Those missions demonstrated significant political will and commitment, but they also faced some recurrent problems. Challenges included funding shortfalls and the absence of requisite operational and logistical capabilities, as well as force enablers and multipliers. While the support the UN and other partners have provided has been useful and appreciated, it has also often been unpredictable.”
4. Med shot, DiCarlo addresses the Council
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs:
“As we look at different parts of the continent, it is obvious that the need to put AU peace operations on solid footing is increasingly pressing.”
6. Wide shot, Security Council
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs:
“The case for adequately financing AU-led peace support operations is beyond solid. We are therefore hopeful that the Security Council will agree to provide its backing, including allowing access to UN assessed contributions.”
8. Wide shot, Security Council
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs:
“As the Secretary-General has stated, concrete action on this longstanding issue will address a critical gap in the international peace and security architecture and bolster the efforts of the African Union to tackle peace and security challenges on the continent.”
10. Close up, Security Council president
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Bankole Adeoye, AU Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security:
“We cannot continue to use traditional peacekeeping methods in the face of the complex nature of conflicts that involve terrorism and violent extremism. Hence, the need for a paradigm shift in concept of operations from Peacekeeping to Peace Enforcement.”
12. Wide shot, Security Council
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Bankole Adeoye, AU Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security:
“The current funding of AU-led/authorized PSOs cannot respond to the compelling need for sustainability and effectiveness as well as the compelling need for innovative funding, being the fundamental goal of the AU.”
14. Wide shot, Security Council
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Bankole Adeoye, AU Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security:
“It is indeed the right time, if we are to decisively respond with the appropriate mechanisms and support models to address the critical conflict issues in Africa. The ongoing crises in Somalia, Lake Chad Basin, Sahel, the Great Lakes, and Mozambique, provide valuable lessons on the inadequacy of the current international peace architecture and support models that are ad hoc and unsustainable.”
16. Close up, Security Council president
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Bitania Tadesse, Programme Director, Amani Africa:
“Considering the nature of the peace and security challenges facing Africa, which account for 60 percent of the decisions of this Council, it is the moment to make the necessary decision for adapting the arrangement and the tools for the realization of the Charter’s most fundamental pledge.”
18. Wide shot, Security Council
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Bitania Tadesse, Programme Director, Amani Africa:
“This is not about writing a blank cheque nor is it a matter of charity. Doing this is rather about this Council crafting the framework for shouldering its part of the responsibility in the shared global public good of maintaining peace and security in Africa.”
20. Med shot, Council members
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Bitania Tadesse, Programme Director, Amani Africa:
“Africa is looking up to this Council. It is our firm believe that this Council will rise to the occasion and muster the will for demonstrating, as the Secretary-General puts it, its ‘readiness to address a critical gap in the international peace and security architecture as well as strong reaffirmation of the willingness of this council to stem the scourge of armed conflict on the African continent.”
22. Med shot, Council members
The top UN political affairs official Rosemary DiCarlo urged the Security Council to offer more support for African Union (AU) peace operations, saying that “those missions demonstrated significant political will and commitment, but they also faced some recurrent problems.”
Briefing the Council on Thursday (25 May), DiCarlo said those “challenges included funding shortfalls and the absence of requisite operational and logistical capabilities, as well as force enablers and multipliers.”
“While the support the UN and other partners have provided has been useful and appreciated, it has also often been unpredictable,” she added.
As the UN looks at different parts of the continent, continued the Under-Secretary-General, “it is obvious that the need to put AU peace operations on solid footing is increasingly pressing.”
DiCarlo also said that “the case for adequately financing AU-led peace support operations is beyond solid” and the UN Secretariat is “therefore hopeful that the Security Council will agree to provide its backing, including allowing access to UN assessed contributions.”
The top political affairs official concluded, “As the Secretary-General has stated, concrete action on this longstanding issue will address a critical gap in the international peace and security architecture and bolster the efforts of the African Union to tackle peace and security challenges on the continent.”
The AU Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security, Bankole Adeoye, also addressed the Council, saying the international community “cannot continue to use traditional peacekeeping methods in the face of the complex nature of conflicts that involve terrorism and violent extremism”, making the case for “the need for a paradigm shift in concept of operations from Peacekeeping to Peace Enforcement.”
Adeoye added, “The current funding of AU-led/authorized PSOs cannot respond to the compelling need for sustainability and effectiveness as well as the compelling need for innovative funding, being the fundamental goal of the AU.”
According to the AU official, “it is indeed the right time, if we are to decisively respond with the appropriate mechanisms and support models to address the critical conflict issues in Africa.”
“The ongoing crises in Somalia, Lake Chad Basin, Sahel, the Great Lakes, and Mozambique, provide valuable lessons on the inadequacy of the current international peace architecture and support models that are ad hoc and unsustainable,” concluded Adeoye.
Bitania Tadesse, the Programme Director for Amani Africa, a think tank based in Addis Ababa that provides research and analysis on the work of the AU and its Peace and Security Council, also briefed Council members, telling them that “considering the nature of the peace and security challenges facing Africa, which account for 60 percent of the decisions of this Council, it is the moment to make the necessary decision for adapting the arrangement and the tools for the realization of the Charter’s most fundamental pledge.”
According to Tadesse, “this is not about writing a blank cheque nor is it a matter of charity.”
“Doing this is rather about this Council crafting the framework for shouldering its part of the responsibility in the shared global public good of maintaining peace and security in Africa,” she explained.
The Program Director also said that “Africa is looking up to this Council” and added, “It is our firm believe that this Council will rise to the occasion and muster the will for demonstrating, as the Secretary-General puts it, its ‘readiness to address a critical gap in the international peace and security architecture as well as strong reaffirmation of the willingness of this council to stem the scourge of armed conflict on the African continent.”
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