The country asked to regain its full sovereignty on its national waters. The operations carried out under the aegis of the United Nations should end within three months, according to a Security Council resolution voted on Friday.
Le Monde with AFP
Somalia finally gained success. The country had requested to finish with the antipiratery operations led off its coast. The UN Security Council has accepted its request, Friday, December 3, extending only three months, against annual renewals until then, the authorization made to warships to fight against piracy off. Somalia.
A resolution written by the United States in this sense, which seems to foresee an end in 2022 of the international military commitment off Somalia, has been approved unanimously of the 15 members of the Council.
France has lamented “a time too short” that will not allow the national operation atalating to function properly and could lead to a “safe vacuum risk”. Thanks to this authorization from the United Nations, “no attack has been to be deplored for four years,” said Sheraz Gasri, from the French diplomatic mission to the United Nations. Its position was supported by Estonia and Ireland that also regretted an extension too short.
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For Somalia, the absence of attacks on the contrary justifies the fact of putting an end to this UN authorization. The three-month period must “allow a transition to a bilateral maritime cooperation framework in Somali national waters,” said the Deputy Ambassador of this country with the United Nations, Abukar Dahir Osman.
While his country is in the election campaign, he mentioned the necessity he finds his sovereignty while saluting “a successful transaction that led to the eradication of piracy”. During the negotiations, according to diplomats, the Security Council encountered a farm opposition from Somalia for a renewal of the identical of the permission over one year.
The fight against sea piracy off Somalia is provided by the United States and the Atalante European Aeronaval operation that mobilizes vessels and marine surveillance aircraft. The latter operation, created in 2008, had been extended by the European Council until December 2022 under the mandate of the Security Council.
Always on Somalia, the Council will also decide before the end of the year on the mandate of AMISOM, the African Union Peace Operation, which expires on 31 December.
Discussions are underway on a reconfiguration of this mission. Somalia and the African Union do not have the same approach on one side, and Westerners are also not on the same line as Africans, augurusing difficulties to come to find consensus, according to diplomats.
According to one of them, the mandate of AMISOM, subject to a vote of the Security Council scheduled on December 21, could be extended only a few months to give time to research an agreement.