Publication:

Communiqué of the 1129th Meeting of the Peace and Security Council, Held on 20 December 2022, on the Adoption of the Conclusions of the Inaugural Lessons Learning Forum on all AU Peace Support Operations (PSOs) and on the African Standby Force (ASF).

The Council adopted the Conclusions of the Inaugural Lessons Learned Forum and requests the AU Commission and the Regional Economic Communities and Regional Mechanisms (RECs/RMs) to draw practical lessons from the Forum to further enhance the institutional capacity of the AU PSOs and the ASF regional standby arrangements, as well as to use the identified lessons in reviewing and reconceptualizing the ASF Concept, with a view to ensuring its alignment with the AU Doctrine on Peace Support Operations (PSO) and also to ensuring the readiness of the ASF to address the contemporary complex, multifaceted and dynamic peace and security challenges facing the Continent.