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Africa must protect Libya's integrity: AU
11 Mar 2011 at 10:28hrs | Views
The African Union Peace and Security Council has emphasised the need for Africa to protect Libya's integrity and stop interference by outsiders.
At a meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia yesterday, the Council said a fact-finding mission should be set up to find the real situation on the ground and rescue Libya.
The Council also endorsed the AU position that Allasane Ouattara be sworn in as President of Cote d'Ivoire following disputed elections held in November last year.
Meanwhile, the Head of State and Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, President Robert Mugabe, has urged African regional blocs to put in place political mechanisms and systems to ensure that African states are accountable for one another.
The AU also emphasised the importance of peace and security on the continent as the pan-African bloc ended its 16th summit in Addis Ababa.
Major issues of concern for African leaders included the situation in Cote d'Ivoire, Somalia and Tunisia, according to a document on Africa's peace and security situation adopted by AU heads of state and government during the summit.
On Somalia, which is going through a crucial transitional period, the African leaders strongly urges the country's stakeholders to broaden and consolidate the reconciliation process, ensure greater cohesion within the Transitional Federal Institutions and complete the outstanding transitional tasks, including the constitutional process.
The war-torn Horn of Africa country has not had a functional central government for two decades. It is currently run by the internationally recognized Transitional Federal Government (TFG), which is protected by AU peacekeepers while facing deadly attacks by Islamist insurgent group of Al-Shabaab.
The country is expected to end its transitional period on August 20 this year.
Meanwhile, African leaders "urgently appeal" to all the Tunisian parties to "work together, in unity, peace, consensus and respect of legality, towards a peaceful and democratic transition," according to the document.
At a meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia yesterday, the Council said a fact-finding mission should be set up to find the real situation on the ground and rescue Libya.
The Council also endorsed the AU position that Allasane Ouattara be sworn in as President of Cote d'Ivoire following disputed elections held in November last year.
Meanwhile, the Head of State and Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, President Robert Mugabe, has urged African regional blocs to put in place political mechanisms and systems to ensure that African states are accountable for one another.
The AU also emphasised the importance of peace and security on the continent as the pan-African bloc ended its 16th summit in Addis Ababa.
Major issues of concern for African leaders included the situation in Cote d'Ivoire, Somalia and Tunisia, according to a document on Africa's peace and security situation adopted by AU heads of state and government during the summit.
On Somalia, which is going through a crucial transitional period, the African leaders strongly urges the country's stakeholders to broaden and consolidate the reconciliation process, ensure greater cohesion within the Transitional Federal Institutions and complete the outstanding transitional tasks, including the constitutional process.
The war-torn Horn of Africa country has not had a functional central government for two decades. It is currently run by the internationally recognized Transitional Federal Government (TFG), which is protected by AU peacekeepers while facing deadly attacks by Islamist insurgent group of Al-Shabaab.
The country is expected to end its transitional period on August 20 this year.
Meanwhile, African leaders "urgently appeal" to all the Tunisian parties to "work together, in unity, peace, consensus and respect of legality, towards a peaceful and democratic transition," according to the document.
Source - Byo24News
