If the officials of the three institutions work together almost daily, their leaders have not sat around the same table for four years: Antonio Guterres for l’HIMthe President of the AU Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, and the Commissioner for Peace and Security Bankole Adeoye and for the EU, the President of the European Commission, Charles Michel, and his Minister of Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell.
They will spend 90 minutes together, an exception in the schedule ofAntonio Guterres which has a series of bilateral meetings every 20 minutes this week, specifies our correspondent in New York, Carrie Nooten. They should discuss Africa’s candidacy for the G20, the situations in the Sahel, the Horn of Africa or the Great Lakes. But also migrations, as well as the necessary solidarity between Europeans and Africans.
The European Union could also send a strong political signal, if it officially declares itself in favor of a reform of the international financial architecture, and offers to accede to the request of African countries in this direction. Finally, another big issue should be mentioned: the financing of African peace operations, directly from the regular budget of the United Nations. This is a proposal pushed by Ghana, currently in the Security Council. China and the United States are working to slow things down even though they know very well that the UN will not accept as long as the AU missions do not align with the demanding criteria of the Nations united.
An objective of influence for the EU
The other objective during this tripartite meeting is to respond to the aspirations of the new South, also called the ” Sud global “. What interest does the United Nations, the African Union and the European Union have in the face of China, which is advancing its pawns on the global chessboard? The main interest is for the European Union, believes Bertrand Badie, professor emeritus at Sciences Po Paris and author of When the South reinvents the worldreleased by La Découverte.
« The European Union, which had invested a lot just after independence in the 1960s in concluding agreements with the countries of the South and which is somehow seeing its influence decline. A regression which can be explained at the same time by the failure and disappointment that this cooperation has caused over the decades, but a failure which also attempts to lead to a new international relationship in which this South-South solidarity takes away from Europe in particular an influence that it believed to be monopolistic. It has failed and it is failing more and more. Europe’s share of investments in Africa and in trade with Africa is tending to decline significantly. So, Europe is chasing what was an achievement it particularly valued in order to try to reconstitute it. »
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