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As
UNSC Speaks on
Piracy,
Biafra,
Divided on
Western Sahara
Arria Meeting
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS, April
25 -- Amid UN
Security
Council
disagreements,
for example on
Western
Sahara, a
“debate” with
near unanimity
was held on
April 25, on
piracy in the
Gulf of
Guinea.
A Presidential
Statement was
adopted, which
“underlines
the importance
of determining
the existence
of any
possible or
potential
links between
piracy and
armed robbery
at sea and
terrorist
groups in West
Africa and the
Sahel region,
and urges
Member States
and relevant
international
organizations
to assist
States in the
region, as
well as
regional and
sub regional
organizations
in making
arrangements
to ensure that
necessary
measures are
taken to
prevent the
revenues
generated by
acts of piracy
and armed
robbery at sea
from
contributing
to the
financing of
terrorism.”
UN
official
Taye-Brook
Zerihoun cited
“cases of
hijacking of
vessels for
political
purposes by
the
self-described
'Biafra'
militants off
the cost of
Nigeria.”
During the
April 25
debate - 34
speakers
signed up,
including the
African Union
and Morocco --
Inner City
Press asked a
proponent of
an AU briefing
on Western
Sahara on
April 24, who
replied, “We
are working on
it.”
Inner City
Press obtained
the UN's
Western Sahara
report, as
approved by
Deputy
Secretary
General Jan
Eliasson on
April 18, and
exclusively
in full text
published it
on Scribd here,
days after the
UN threw its
journalistic
files right
out onto First
Avenue. Video
here and here (Periscope).
Now
Inner City
Press has
obtained the
notice of and
concept note
for a Security
Council Arria
formula
meeting on
Western
Sahara,
requested by
Angola so the
Council can
hear from the
African Union
envoy
Chissano, to
be held on
April 26 at 3
pm. Here's the
notice:
"Considering
the current
status quo
prevailing in
Western Sahara
and
considering
the request
made by the
African
Union's Peace
and Security
Council on 6
April, the
Permanent
Mission of
Angola is
convening an
Arria Formula
Meeting on
Western Sahara
to be held on
Tuesday 26
April, 2016 at
3:00 in CR7
(Tbc), which
will provide
an opportunity
to H.E.
Joaquim
Alberto
Chissano,
former
President of
Mozambique and
Special Envoy
of the
Chairperson of
the African
Union
Commission to
Western Sahara
to brief
Members of the
Security
Council, UN
Membership and
Observers
Mission to UN,
on the efforts
he's
undertaking in
the discharge
of his
mandate.
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