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Mbeki opens Africa debate, overshadowed by Zimbabwe
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 16 - 04 - 2008


South African President Thabo Mbeki appealed
Wednesday for international assistance for the African Union, which
he said has been hampered by the severe lack of logistics and
financial resources to carry out peacekeeping mandate on the
continent, according to dpa.
But while South Africa, current chair of the UN Security Council,
had wanted to focus only on the issue of peacekeeping, there were
growing demands that Mbeki also discuss the ongoing standoff over
unreleased election results in neighbouring Zimbabwe.
The council meeting at UN headquarters brought together the
presidents of South Africa, Somalia, Ivory Coast and Tanzania, the
prime ministers of Britain and Italy, and about a dozen of foreign
ministers, deputy foreign ministers.
"The issue of funding regional peacekeeping operations is central
to defining and streamlining the relationship between the UN and AU,"
Mbeki said in opening a day-long debate in the UN Security Council,
which was convened to discuss ways to strengthen the UN-AU working
relationship.
"Today's debate should give a clear indication as to the kind of
mechanism and processes that should be put in place to achieve this
objective," he said.
Mbeki pointed out that the AU has established an organizational
structure to deal with conflicts in Africa, but it was lacking the
means to operate. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has proposed
setting up a UN-AU panel to study ways for both sides to meet the
challenges in Africa.
Envoys from France, Britain and the United States had called on
Mbeki to include in the debate the unsettled dispute of Zimbabwe's
presidential elections, which had been kept out of the African
summit at the UN.
France's secretary of state for foreign affairs and human rights,
Rama Yade, told reporters before the meeting that her government
planned to ask that Zimbabwe be included in the debate. Ban on
Tuesday also said he would add it to the agenda.


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