23 December 2004
New York — Angola presented on Wednesday, in New York, the report by the Ad Hoc Working Group of the UN Security Council on the Prevention and Resolution of Conflicts in Africa.
Speaking at this year's last session of the Security Council, the representative of Angola at the UN, Ismael Martins, who is the chairman of the referred group, emphasized the need to explore new ways of cooperation between the UN and the African Union (AU).
He considered that the adoption of the presidential declaration, in the especial meeting of Nairobi in last November, regarding the institutional cooperation between the UN and the AU, mainly in relation to the situation in Darfur (Sudan) and Burundi, are visible results of the increment on such a cooperation.
He also said that the African Group may play a prevailing role in the increase of the cooperation between the Security Council and the newly created Council of Peace and Security of the African Union, having into account that the prevention, management and resolution of conflicts in Africa "has truly to be a complementary effort of Africans and their international partners".
The report also highlights the situations in the DR Congo, Guinea-Bissau, Somalia, Sudan, Cote d'Ivoire and Liberia, as well as the issue on the development of the Great Lakes region.
At this meeting there was also emphasis on countries such as Liberia and Cote d'Ivoire, as well as the threat of terrorism from Al-Qaida and Taliban.
The two-year mandate of Angola as a non permanent member of the Security Council will finish on 31 December of the current year, alongside with Germany, Chile, Spain and Pakistan, to be replaced in January 2005 by Argentina, Denmark, Greece, Japan and Tanzania.
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