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Importantly, no important headway has been made on a draft resolution that has been negotiated since 2018 between the two organizations.
The member countries of the UN Security Council (UNSC) and the AU Peace and Security Council (PSC) are holding their annual meeting in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, the headquarters of the AU. They are taking stock of the financing of peacekeeping operations on the continent in the midst of different perceptions among the participants. Importantly, no important headway has been made on a draft resolution that has been negotiated since 2018 between the two organizations.
The PSC is an important partner of the UN Security Council in the implementation of the mandates. The two councils will also discuss the security situation on the continent, particularly in relation to Sudan, the Sahel, Somalia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
AU Peace and Security Commissioner Bankole Adeoye laid emphasis on the need for predictable, adequate, flexible, and sustainable funding for the continental organization’s peacekeeping operations in Africa, an issue that has been on the UNSC agenda for over a decade.
African Peace and Security Architecture was established in 2002. Since its inception, the AU has been struggling to finance its peace operations. For funding of its operations, it is largely dependent on partners such as the European Union (EU).
The UN is looking at the evolution of a framework resolution enabling it to dispense with the current ad hoc agreement on the financing of essential peace operations on the continent.
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ representative to the AU, Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, expressed the hope that the discussions in Addis Ababa would endorse the new Agenda for Peace published in July. The Agenda stresses that threats to peace and security on the continent required new responses implemented by African partners, with a mandate from the UN Security Council and financed by mandatory contributions.
