Senior UN and EU officials hold talks on crisis management
Following up on an agreement reached last year between the United Nations and the European Union (EU), officials from both organizations today held a daylong meeting at UN Headquarters in New York on joint efforts to manage emerging crises.
Following up on an agreement reached last year between the United Nations and the European Union (EU), officials from both organizations today held a day long meeting at UN Headquarters in New York on joint efforts to manage emerging crises.
A UN spokesman reported that Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Hédi Annabi is heading the UN side of today’s EU-UN Steering Committee talks, which focus on ways to implement the Joint Declaration on UN-EU Cooperation in Crisis Management.
Signed on 24 September by Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy, acting as the EU Presidency, the text constitutes a detailed plan on how to best coordinate efforts in emergency situations. It defines the respective roles of each in military and civilian relief operations and disaster situations.