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Heads of UN Peace Missions Meet in Dakar


United Nations (New York)


PRESS RELEASE
13 June 2008
Posted to the web 13 June 2008


A high-level meeting of Heads of UN peace missions in West Africa will be held
in Dakar on 13 and 14 June 2008. The meeting will be chaired by Mr. Said
Djinnit of the United Nations Office for West Africa (UNOWA). Mr. Y.J. Choi of
the UN mission in Cote d'Ivoire, Ms. Margrethe Lųj of the UN mission in Liberia
and Mr. Shola Omoregie of the UN support office for peace consolidation in
Guinea-Bissau will participate.

The high-level meeting, which aims at furthering progress in harmonizing
policies and activities of the UN presences in West Africa, will review the
overall situation in the subregion and discuss specific cross-border issues of
regional interest.



The first high-level meeting of UN missions in West Africa was held in November
2003 in Freetown, Sierra Leone at which Heads of missions agreed to maintain a
regular mechanism of consultation. Welcoming this initiative, the members of
the UN Security Council have called for UN presences in West Africa to take
concrete steps towards the implementation of a regional approach, including
pulling together UN assets across the region and exploiting synergies between
the missions to achieve greater efficiency and cost-effectiveness. This meeting
is the thirteenth of its kind.


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