POLITICS | UGANDA | AU

 KAMPALA - Uganda will starting today January 19th – 20th, 2022 host the ninth Ministerial-level meeting of the African Union Committee of Heads of State and Government on the Reform of the United Nations Security Council at the Commonwealth Speke Hotel-Munyonyo.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement on Wednesday noted that the objective of this Meeting is to; provide the opportunity for C-10 Foreign Ministers to take stock of the recent developments in the ongoing Intergovernmental Negotiations (IGN) at the UN General Assembly, and to map out a forward-thinking strategy for constructive engagement around the Common African Position.

The Ministry noted that the African Union Committee of Ten Heads of State and Government (C-10) was set up by the African Union (AU) with a mandate to advocate and canvass the African Common Position on United Nations Security Council (UNSC) reform.

The African Common Position, also known as Ezulwini Consensus and the Sirte Declaration is named after a valley in Swaziland where the agreement was made by African Leaders in 2005, before it was adopted at an Extraordinary Session of the Executive Council of the African Union in Addis Ababa.

The ultimate objective of the C-10 is to unanimously and unequivocally chart out a common African position and build the momentum required for Africa to demand its rightful place within the United Nations system.

The Meeting which will officially be opened by H.E Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, the President of the Republic of Uganda will be composed of two segments namely; the meeting of Permanent Representatives from New York and Addis Ababa on Day 1 which will precede the Meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs on Day 2.

It will further set the stage ahead of the 35th Summit of the C-10 Heads of State and Government, scheduled to take place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in February 2022, to discuss and adopt its outcome for subsequent submission to the closed-door session of the Assembly.

The C-10 is currently chaired by His Excellency Julius Maada Bio, President of the Republic of Sierra Leone who also doubles as the Coordinator of the Committee of Ten. 

Members of this Committee include the Heads of State and Government of Senegal, Algeria, Kenya, Zambia, Sierra Leone, the Republic of Congo, Libya, Namibia, Equatorial Guinea and Uganda.