UN security council delegation meets Ethiopia’s Zenawi
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By Tesfa-Alem Tekle May 21, 2011 (ADDIS ABABA) – A joint
consultative meeting between the AU Peace and Security Council (PSC)
and the UN Security Council began in the Ethiopian capital, Addis
Ababa on Saturday.
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Gerard Araud, French Ambassador to the UN, lead UN mission to Ethiopia (UN)
The annual meeting will deliberate on a range of regional issues,
particularly security. The 15-member UN council’s mission led by
Gerard Araud, French Ambassador to the UN, conferred with the
Ethiopian Prime minister, Meles Zenawi on Saturday. The high-level UN
delegation was briefed on the current situation in Ethiopia. “The UN
delegation has held broad a consultation with Prime Minister Meles
Zenawi earlier this morning where both sides discussed peace,
security, and stability situations and developments reached in the
region’’ Ambassador Dina Mufti, state foreign affairs spokes person,
told Sudan Tribune. “The delegation was briefed in detail with the
current situations and progress in Ethiopia, Somalia and Sudan” he
added. The two sides also discussed the country’s unsettled border
dispute with neighbouring Eritrea; which remains unresolved since
the1998-2000 war which killed over 70,000 people. This year’s
meeting will deliberate on and review security situations and conflict
in Libya, Cote d’Ivoire, and Somalia. Also topping the agenda will
be the situation in Sudan where the meeting will consult on ways of
clearing pending setbacks for the smooth and peaceful separation of
South Sudan which is heading to officially become an independent state
on 9 July 2011. The meeting will be co-chaired by Lungile Pepani,
the South African Ambassador and the Permanent Representative to the
AU. Following the visit in Ethiopia, the council’s mission will be
headed to Khartoum in north Sudan, Juba in South Sudan, Abyei in
central Sudan, and Nairobi in Kenya. . During the last stop in Nairobi
the delegation will meet senior Kenyan government officials to discuss
concerns related to situation in war-torn Somalia. The Council will
be back in New York on 27 May to hold consultations ahead of
preparations for South Sudan’s declaration of independence and plans
for a UN presence in the country. (ST)
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