UN / SOMALIA RESOLUTION VOTE

The Security Council endorsed the African Union Peace and Security Council’s decision to replace the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia with the African Union Support and Stabilisation Mission in Somalia, marking a further step in transitioning national security responsibilities to Somalia’s own forces. UNIFEED

• Video Length: 00:02:44
• Production Date: 27 December 2024
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: AFRICAN UNION - AU
• Subject Topical: PEACE; TERRORISM; PEACE AND SECURITY
• Geographic Subject: SOMALIA
• MAMS Id: 3326968
• Parent Id: 3326968
• Alternate Title: unifeed241227a

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STORY: UN / SOMALIA RESOLUTION VOTE
TRT: 02:44
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 27 DECEMBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

Shotlist

FILE – NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters

27 DECEMBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. UPSOUND (English) Dorothy Camille Shea, Deputy Representative, Permanent Mission to the United Nations, United States of America:
“Will those in favour of the draft resolution contained in document S/2024/961 please raise their hand. Those against? Abstentions?”
4. Wide shot, delegates voting
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dorothy Camille Shea, Deputy Representative, Permanent Mission to the United Nations, United States of America:
“The result of the voting is as follows: 14 votes in favour, 0 votes against, 1 abstention. The draft resolution has been adopted as resolution 2767 (2024).”
6. Wide shot, Security Council
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohamed Rabi Yusuf, Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Federal Republic of Somalia:
“We acknowledge the Council’s intention to operationalize the historic resolution 2719 (2023) through the current adoption of the African Union-led Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM) for one year. We look forward to the SG’s Strategic review in May and welcome the Councils’ call to implement the AU-UN recommended ‘hybrid model’ in July 2025.”
8. Wide shot, Security Council
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohamed Rabi Yusuf, Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Federal Republic of Somalia:
“Access to the UN assessed contributions of up to 75 percent can provide adequate, predictable and sustainable funding to AUSSOM and significantly enhance the capacity to confront the security challenges posed by Al-Shabaab”
10. Wide shot, Security Council
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Tesfaye Yilma, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia:
“We share the high expectation from AUSSOM to positively contribute to Somalia’s long-term stability while preserving the security gains made thus far. However, the transition will be successful only if Somali Security Forces are enabled to assume their full responsibility. National consensus within Somalia and unified regional front against terrorism are indispensable elements. Without such political and operational readiness, consolidating the security gains will be difficult to attain.”
12. Med shot, Somali ambassador

Storyline

The Security Council today (27 Dec) endorsed the African Union Peace and Security Council’s decision to replace the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) with the African Union Support and Stabilisation Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM), marking a further step in transitioning national security responsibilities to Somalia’s own forces.

Adopting resolution 2767 (2024) (to be issued as document S/RES/2767(2024)) by a vote of 14 in favour to none against, with 1 abstention (United States), the Council authorized African Union members to take all necessary measures for 12 months, starting 1 January 2025, including supporting the Federal Government of Somalia in degrading Al-Shabaab and affiliates linked to Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), also known as Da’esh.

The Council also welcomed the progress made so far by Somalia in assuming progressively greater responsibility for its national security, including the Somali security forces taking over responsibilities from 7,000 drawn-down ATMIS forces since 2022.

African Union member States were authorized to continue to deploy up to 12,626 uniformed personnel, including 1,040 police personnel, to AUSSOM until 30 June 2025 and to complete by this date the realignment of all African Union troops from ATMIS to AUSSOM.

The text contains a section dedicated to financing AUSSOM, including references to Council resolution 2719 (2023) — which establishes a framework for financing African Union peace support operations through UN assessed contributions.

The Council requested the Secretary-General to implement, within existing resources made available through the rightsizing of the UN Support Office in Somalia, the “hybrid” implementation of the 2719 framework to AUSSOM from 1 July 2025, combining UN assessed contributions with funds mobilized by the African Union and other partners.

This application is contingent on the Council’s confirmation by 15 May 2025 of sufficient progress on operationalizing the modalities of resolution 2719 (2023).