International Team of Special Envoys for the Great Lakes | Team of International Envoys | Team of International Envoys and Representatives for the Great Lakes region of Africa | Team of International Envoys for the Great Lakes Region | Team of Special Envoys to the Great Lakes region of Africa

EU Special Representative for the African Great Lakes Region | European Union Special Representative for the African Great Lakes Region | EUSR for the African Great Lakes Region

Nairobi Declaration | Nairobi Declaration on the Problem of the Proliferation of Illicit Small Arms and Light Weapons in the Great Lakes Region and the Horn of Africa

Regional Conference on Security, Stability and Development in the Great Lakes Region of Central Africa

Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region of Central Africa

5. Considers it desirable to seize the opportunity presented by the election on 10 September 2012 of the new Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, with a view to working – helped by the Strategic Framework for the Horn of Africa and with the support in the region of the EUSR, as well as that of the EEAS and national diplomats and of the African Union – in favour of the establishment of normal diplomatic and economic relations between Ethiopia and Eritrea and of the resolution of the Somali crisis, since this would benefit the development of the whole region; notes that the Great Lakes region, which borders the western fringes of the H ...[+++]orn of Africa, is also one of the most unstable in the world, including some severely underdeveloped countries that are plagued by armed violence - e.g. the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) - and even by wars with one or more of their neighbours - e.g. the tensions between the DRC and Rwanda, which is part of the Horn of Africa in the wider sense; stresses that in implementing the European strategy for the Horn of Africa we cannot ignore its possible repercussions for the much-needed development of the neighbouring regions (notably the Great Lakes region, Central Africa and Southern Africa).

G. whereas a new facilitator, Abdoulaye Bathily, was appointed by the UN Secretary‑General as a replacement for Said Djinnit, the UN special envoy to the Great Lakes region, who has stepped down from his role as facilitator of the political dialogue between the ruling party and those who do not want Pierre Nkurunziza to stand for a third term; whereas the ruling party is refusing to take part in the political dialogue which has resumed under the aegis of the new facilitator and the ‘facilitation’ group consisting of representatives o ...[+++]f the UN, the African Union (AU), the EAC and the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR);

CAR staff presentations at a range of international conferences (EU, UN, OSCE and regional organisations, including African Union, Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Regional Centre on Small Arms in the Great Lakes Region, the Horn of Africa, and Bordering States (RECSA)).

The Commission regards it as a priority to develop an action programme in the Western Newly Independent States (Ukraine/Moldova/Belarus) as regards transit regions and in sub-Saharan Africa (Great Lakes/East Africa) as regards regions of origin.