Publication:

Joint Communiqué of the Fifth Trilateral Meeting of the African Union, European Union and the United Nations, 22 September 2024, New York, USA

The three organizations reaffirmed their commitment to promoting effective multilateralism, and looked forward to the Summit of the Future on the theme ‘multilateral solutions for a better tomorrow’ scheduled on 22 and 23 September in New York. They discussed peace, development and humanitarian efforts in the Sahel, the Horn of Africa, and the Great Lakes region, with a particular focus on how to scale up humanitarian and development support to fragile contexts, including in Sudan where over 25 million people are facing acute hunger. They also exchanged views on migration, including in the context of the African Union-European Union-United Nations Tripartite Task Force on the Situation of Migrants and Refugees in Libya. They further commended the adoption by the Security Council of resolution 2719 (2023) on predictable financing of African Union-led peace support operations, and expressed their commitment to working together towards its operationalization. Moreover, they discussed actions needed to support countries facing the double vulnerability of climate change and conflict to build the required resilience and effectively respond to climate-related security threats.