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UN:
AFRICA TO BE SECURITY COUNCIL'S TOP PRIORITY THIS MONTH, SAYS PRESIDENT:
06/9/2007 (MaximsNews.com, U.N.) |
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- 06 September 2007 –
The President of the Security Council for
September yesterday announced that issues affecting Africa will dominate the
15-member body’s work programme this month.
“My
priority will obviously be Africa,” Ambassador Jean-Maurice Ripert of France
told reporters at UN Headquarters in New York, adding that the Council hopes to
continue to mobilize the international community to assist Africa in tackling
the challenges the continent faces.
To this
end, Mr. Ripert said that on 25 September, there will be a high-level Council
summit to discuss African peace and security, characterizing the event as major,
given the importance and number of individuals expected to participate in the
debate.
“What
we would like is both to examine crises but not necessarily for the heads of
state and government to give their solutions, but to look at how we could
improve the response of the UN to this emergency and how to assist African
governments and African organizations in dealing with crises,” he noted.
These
crises are complex and often involve such issues as the environment, immigration
and natural resources, Mr. Ripert said, adding that as a result, peacekeeping
forces alone cannot resolve today’s conflicts.
The
President announced that Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, currently visiting
Sudan, will brief the Council on 12 September regarding his trip, which will
also take him to Chad and Libya. In addition, consultations will be held this
Friday regarding the authorized hybrid UN-African Union (AU) peacekeeping force
(UNAMID) in Darfur.
Also
regarding Africa, Mr. Ripert said there would probably be consultations on Chad
and the Central African Republic (CAR), given the repercussions of the
humanitarian situations in the two nations on the Darfur crisis.
“As
we’ve said, the situation is not improving,” he noted, citing the nearly
400,000 refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Chad, and the more
than 200,000 others in the northeast of the CAR. “It’s getting worse.”
Mr.
Ripert said Council members would work to pass a resolution on the deployment of
a possible international presence in the area with both a police and military
component.
Outside
Africa, other issues to be discussed include Haiti, Iran, Afghanistan, the
Middle East and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, which is being set up to
prosecute those people responsible for the assassination of former Lebanese
prime minister Rafiq Hariri.
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