The Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security of the African Union (AU), Bankole Adeoye, insisted Monday in Algiers on the requirements of the reform of the United Nations Security Council and on the means to achieve a strong and unified Africa while calling for accelerating negotiations between African countries regarding this reform.
ALGIERS, June 10 (Xinhua) — The Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security of the African Union (AU), Bankole Adeoye, insisted Monday in Algiers on the requirements of the reform of the Security Council of United Nations and on the means to achieve a strong and unified Africa while calling for accelerating negotiations between African countries regarding this reform.
This statement was made during the 11th ministerial meeting of the Committee of Ten Heads of State and Government of the AU on the reform of the UN Security Council. Discussing other priority areas in Africa, the commissioner cited the imperative to silence the guns, fight terrorism and achieve continental integration and better representation internationally.
For his part, Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmed Attaf indicated that Africa wanted a reform to restore to the Council its role and its effectiveness in the successive crises and conflicts which were accumulating, at the regional and international levels and in the face of to the sterility of diplomatic initiatives in the development of the expected solutions and regulations.
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune received the heads of delegation participating in the meeting, according to local sources.
At the end of the audience, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sierra Leone, Musa Timothy Kabba, whose country chairs the Committee, emphasized the imperative of reaching an African consensus for reform of the Council , calling on heads of state and government in Africa to accelerate negotiations aimed at achieving this objective, adding that Africa is the only continent that does not have permanent representation in the Security Council.
The Committee is made up of Algeria, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Libya, Namibia, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Senegal and Zambia.
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