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African countries want to put in place a new system to repair injustices within the Security Council. This is what the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ahmed Attaf, declared this Monday in Algiers, on the occasion of the opening of the work of the 11e ministerial meeting of the Committee of Ten Heads of State and Government of the African Union (C10) on the reform of the United Nations Security Council, at the Abdelatif-Rahal International Conference Center (CIC), in Algiers.
The head of Algerian diplomacy also called for a profound reform to reactivate the role of the UN body, particularly in a geopolitical framework characterized by an increase in crises.
With this in mind, he also deplored the absence of diplomatic and political initiatives for the formulation of solutions to these crises. “This is the motivation of African countries which are calling for a reform of the Security Council… Africa has already demonstrated, in the past, its strength which is reflected in its unity and mobilization around just and noble causes. This demand is fair and legitimate,” he said.
It should be noted that Algeria has already demonstrated, on numerous occasions, its commitment to contributing to efforts to strengthen and promote a unified African position regarding the issue of Security Council reform, particularly in its capacity as a non-member. permanent, and this according to a global and integrated approach aimed at repairing the historical injustice imposed on the African continent.
As a reminder, a preparatory meeting was held the day before yesterday with experts, in closed sessions, with the program taking stock of international governmental negotiations, in addition to the presentation and debate around the final document, and this before its adoption.
Established in 2005, the C10 is made up of 10 African countries, namely Algeria, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Libya, Namibia, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Senegal and Zambia . He is responsible for strengthening and supporting the unified African position in the ongoing government negotiations within the UN framework on Security Council reform.
In this regard, the Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Community Abroad, Lounès Magramane, affirmed that a common African position was an important asset reflecting the common will of the 55 member states of the African Union. (AU), aiming in particular to correct the historical injustice towards the continent.
In a speech delivered at the opening of the work of the preparatory meeting, Mr. Magramane underlined that “the broad support enjoyed by the common African position within UN Member States and various interest groups is a serious recognition of the legitimacy and importance of Africa’s claim as formulated in the Ezulwini Consensus and the Sirte Declaration.
He also noted that this meeting “is being held at a delicate juncture, marked by serious threats, the latest being the continued violation of UN Security Council resolutions by the Israeli occupier, its contempt for international law and decisions of the International Court of Justice, despite the denunciation and multiple international calls to take immediate and effective measures to put an end to the barbaric aggression in Gaza.”
“The reform of the United Nations Security Council is now an absolute necessity,” maintained Mr. Magramane, estimating that “the relaunch of international governmental negotiations in this framework is of capital importance”.
He called on all participants “to seize the opportunity of this meeting to inject strong momentum into collective initiatives and provide full support for the common position to win the bet and meet the expectations of the African people.”