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UN: UN
PEACEBUILDING OFFICIAL HEADS TO SIERRA LEONE TO TRACK PROGRESS SINCE
ELECTIONS: 09/10/2007 (MaximsNews Network)
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UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network /
- 09 October 2007 -
Aiming to track progress in Sierra Leone as it
works to consolidate stability, a senior United Nations peacebuilding official
heads there today for meetings with top officials and a first-hand look at the
situation since elections were held last month.
“The
recent Presidential and Parliamentary elections in Sierra Leone mark a new
beginning for the Peacebuilding Commission’s engagement with the country,”
said Dutch Ambassador Frank Majoor, who chairs the Peacebuilding Commission’s
Sierra Leone “configuration,” which focuses on that country.
In
Freetown, he will meet with newly elected President Ernest Bai Koroma, Vice
President Chief Sahr Samuel Sam-Sumana, as well as parliamentarians,
representatives of civil society and members of the UN Country Team.
Ambassador
Majoor is seeking to obtain first-hand information about the post-election
situation and the remaining peacebuilding challenges in Sierra Leone, while
advancing discussion towards the conclusion of a “Peacebuilding Cooperation
Framework” – an agreed plan of commitments and priorities on such issues as
good governance, justice, security sector reform and youth employment.
“The
peaceful, orderly, and genuinely contested elections were in part the result of
an effective partnership between the national and international partners in
Sierra Leone,” he said.
At the
same time, he acknowledged the country’s many challenges, especially the need
to forge a government of national unity. “The Peacebuilding Commission can
play a critical role in support of the new government by agreeing on a
Peacebuilding Cooperation Framework,” he said.
Ambassador
Majoor will brief members of the Peacebuilding Commission next week on his
return. The Peacebuilding
Commission is an intergovernmental advisory body that brings together key
actors, including international donors, international financial institutions,
national governments from focus countries, troop contributor countries, UN
bodies and civil society representatives, to promote a common approach to
helping a country emerge from conflict.
The
PBC’s Organizational Committee brings together 31 Member States to establish
the body’s work agenda. It also has country specific “configurations” that
look at issues particular to individual States it is focused on.
Sierra
Leone’s run-off elections were held on 8 September, after polls held on 11
August failed to produce an outright winner. The presidential elections were the
first since UN peacekeepers left in 2005 after helping to bring peace and
stability to the country which was torn apart by a brutal 10-year civil war.
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