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comparative advantage, taking into account the familiarity of AU and its Regional
Mechanisms with conflict dynamics and their flexibility in dealing with security
challenges, including their ability to rapidly deploy peace support operations to create
conditions for the eventual deployment of UN peacekeeping operations, in line with the
recommendations of the Prodi Panel Report;
12.
Emphasises the urgent need for the AU and the UN, both at the level of their relevant
decision‐making organs and Secretariats, including within the framework of the forthcoming
JTFmeeting to be held on the margins of the forthcoming AU Summit, at the end of January
2012, to engage in earnest on a dialogue to elaborate the principles that would underpin their
strategic relationship, to better harmonise their approaches and methods for dealing with
peace and security issues on the continent;
13.
Reiterates its commitment, including on the basis of the communiqués of the
consultative meetings held between Council and the UN Security Council, to strengthen its
cooperation with the latter, including through more structured and substantive yearly meetings,
regular consultations before taking decisions on issues of common concern, enhanced
interaction between the Chairperson of the AU Peace and Security Council and the President of
the UN Security Council,joint field missions to enhance synergy in monitoring, assessment of
results and response strategies;
14.
Recognizes the important role that the UN General Assembly (UNGA) and the Economic
and Social Council (ECOSOC) can play in the enhancement of the partnership between the AU
and the UN, particularly in view of the oversight functions of the UNGA on financial matters,
and ECOSOC, whose mandate straddles the development and security spheres;
15.
Reiterates its commitment to deepen its cooperation with the UN Peace‐building
Commission (UNPBC), and looks forward to further interaction with the UNPBC, bearing in mind
the ongoing efforts by the AU to fully operationalize the AU Policy Frameworkon Post‐Conflict
Reconstruction and Development (PCRD), including the dispatching of assessment missions to
countries emerging from conflicts and the planned launching of an African Solidarity Initiative to
generate more significant support from within the continent, in a manner that complements
international efforts;
16.
Underlines the need for the UN Security Council to be more responsive to requests
made by the AU regarding specific conflict and crisis situations in Africa;
17.
Encourages the Commission and the UN Secretariat to pursue and intensifytheir efforts
towards greater coordination and collaboration, in particular in dealing with specific conflict and
crisis situations, addressing cross‐cutting issues, such as security sector reform, demobilisation,
disarmament and reinsertion, terrorism and transnational crimes, small arms and light
weapons, impact of climate change on peace and security, post‐conflict reconstruction and
development, structural prevention of conflicts, as well as capacity building, within the
framework of the Ten‐Year Capacity Building Programme and the Roadmap for the
operationalization of the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA), as adopted by the AU
and the Regional Mechanisms following the APSA assessment study conducted from July to
October 2010 with the support of the European Union;
18.
Reiterates its call to the United Nations to address in a systematic manner the issue of
the predictability, sustainability and flexibility of the funding of AU peace support operations
undertaken with the consent of the Security Council, through the use of UN assessed
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