AHEAD OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY SUMMIT, UN AND AU CHIEFS DISCUSS STRONGER PARTNERSHIP

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Date: 22 Sep 2013 16:00:00 -0400
Subject: AHEAD OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY SUMMIT, UN AND AU CHIEFS DISCUSS
STRONGER PARTNERSHIP
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AHEAD OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY SUMMIT, UN AND AU CHIEFS DISCUSS STRONGER
PARTNERSHIP New York, Sep 22 2013 4:00PMSecretary-General Ban
Ki-moon and the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Nkosazana
Dlamini-Zuma, today discussed ways to further strengthen the
relationship between the two organizations.

"The Secretary-General thanked Ms. Dlamini-Zuma for the African
Union's continued support to the work of the United Nations, in
particular, to the offices based in Addis Ababa," a UN spokesperson
<"http://www.un.org/sg/offthecuff/index.asp?nid=2996">said following
the meeting in New York.

Mr. Ban and Ms. Dlamini-Zuma are meeting on the sidelines of the
high-level General Assembly debate which is due to start at the UN
Headquarters on Tuesday.

The two officials also discussed issues of common interest in the
Central African Republic (CAR), where a half-million people are
estimated to be in dire need, made worse by fresh fighting in the
northwest.

The CAR -- which has been marked by decades of instability and
fighting -- witnessed a resumption of violence last December when the
Séléka rebel coalition launched a series of attacks. A peace agreement
was reached in January, but the rebels again seized the capital,
Bangui, in March, forcing President François Bozizé to flee.

The recent fighting has further eroded even the most basic services in
the country and exacerbated an already dire humanitarian situation
affecting the entire population of 4.6 million people, half of whom
are children. Currently, 1.6 million people are in dire need of
assistance, including food, protection, health care, water, sanitation
and shelter.

Mr. Ban and Ms. Dlamini-Zuma also discussed the Democratic Republic of
the Congo (DRC) where some 80,000 people have been driven from their
homes in a new outbreak of violence in the eastern part of the
country.

Over the past year the fighting with the M23 in the Goma region has
displaced more than 100,000 people, exacerbating an ongoing
humanitarian crisis in the region which already includes 2.6 million
internally displaced persons (IDPs) driven from their homes in clashes
with other rebel groups and 6.4 million in need of food and emergency
aid.

Mr. Ban, particularly through his special envoy to the Great Lakes
Region, Mary Robinson, has stressed the importance of implementing the
11-nation Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the DRC and
the region signed earlier this year as a comprehensive approach to
sustainable peace in the region.

The AU, similarly to the UN, is tasked with overseeing its
implementation, along with the International Conference on the Great
Lakes Region (ICGLR), the Southern African Development Community
(SADC).

Today's discussions also focused on Mali, Somalia, Guinea-Bissau, and
Sudan and South Sudan, as well as the situation in Western Sahara.
Sep 22 2013 4:00PM
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