The United Nations Security Council has adopted a Ghana-led African resolution calling for support and funding for operations to address all threats to international peace and security in Africa.
This model peace support funding goes beyond the United Nations’ traditional peacekeeping operations, said an official release issued to the Ghana News Agency on Thursday night.
Under this resolution, all AU-led peace support operations mandated by the UN Security Council will receive UN funding of up to 75% of their annual budget from UN-assessed contributions.
The remaining amount will be jointly mobilized by the United Nations and the African Union from the international community as extra-budgetary resources.
The board also committed to considering all viable options in the event of a significant shortfall in resource mobilization, the statement said.
The resolution was introduced by Ghana under the authority of the African Union Peace and Security Council, of which Ghana currently serves, along with other African countries in the Security Council, Gabon and Mozambique (A3).
“The dramatic outcome of complex and difficult negotiations comes 10 days before the end of Ghana’s term as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council,” the release said.
“When Ghana announced at the beginning of its term in January 2022 that securing Security Council agreement to change the traditional response to international peace and security, particularly in Africa, was a priority, “Violent extremism and terrorism were outnumbering traditional conflicts that attracted UN peacekeeping operations. Many expressed skepticism.”
“Previous attempts to agree on the use of UN assessment contributions to support African-led operations have faced opposition from some permanent members of the Council and other major contributors to the UN. It ended in failure.”
Ghana’s ambition was to achieve all these goals within a two-year term.
According to the announcement, as chairmen of the Council in November 2022, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and Minister of Foreign Affairs Shirley Ayorukor Botchway will hold a high-level meeting on the topic of the growing threat of violent extremism and terrorism. A signature discussion session was held. Africa.
They highlighted the Sahel and West African coastal regions and called for funding African-led operations through UN-assessed contributions.
They also recommended balanced funding for both military operations and addressing the socio-economic and climate root causes of conflict.
“One of the key objectives was to prevent terrorists from becoming radicalized and creating conditions for recruitment from vulnerable communities,” the statement stressed.
“The adoption of the framework resolution ensures that ECOWAS plans and related security initiatives in our region, such as the Accra Initiative and the Multinational Joint Task Force to combat Boko Haram, can potentially benefit from the necessary resources and resources. It is understood that ECOWAS will receive international support to defeat terrorism and violent extremism in the ECOWAS region.”
Commenting on the adoption of the resolution, Madam Shirley Ayorkoh Botchway, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, said: “Today is a great day for Africa and diplomacy.
“Together with partners around the world, we have taken a major step towards ending the many threats to international peace and security in the region.
“Our people have a right to the peace, stability, and progress that comes from successful peace support operations.
Disruptions to our regional integration projects and pressure on development resources due to security needs will ease as we move forward.
“I commend President Akufo-Addo for his leadership. I also commend the United Nations Security Council Multi-Stakeholder Working Group he established to advise our team in New York, my Department, and me. Masu.”