Publication:

Joint Communiqué of the Fourth Trilateral Meeting of the African Union, the European Union and the United Nations, 17 September 2023, New York, USA.

The three organizations discussed the situation in the Sahel, the Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes regions and called for a more robust action to solve ongoing crises. They expressed continuing strong support for predictable financing of African Union-led peace support operations mandated by the Security Council, through United Nations-assessed contributions. They also discussed actions needed to accelerate just transition and climate justice and, in this context, looked forward to an ambitious outcome of the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28). They welcomed the continued efforts of the European Union-African Union-United Nations Tripartite Task Force on the Situation of Migrants and Refugees in Libya and called for enhanced regional cooperation and solutions, which must place human rights and the dignity of migrants and refugees front and centre.