Consolidated EU package in support of AMIS II

Javier Solana, EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), conveyed today information on additional EU support to the African Union's AMIS II mission in the Darfur region of Sudan at the international Pledging Conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

The following elements represent a basis for the consolidated EU package in support of AMIS II.

Support in the area of Police:

- Support to AMIS II CIVPOL chain of command (Senior police advisors in Addis Ababa, the Head of Mission in Khartoum, the office of the Police Commissioner in El Fasher, and Police Sector Commanders);

- Assistance to pre-Deployment and In-Mission Training for CIVPOL Personnel;

- Assistance to the AU in developing its longer term capacity to plan and conduct police operations by providing support to the development of a police unit within the Secretariat of the AU.

Planning and Technical Experts:

- Work with AU Member States to select experienced African officers for the AMIS II Chain of Command and to provide financing for them;

- Provide operational and logistic planners for AMIS headquarters in Addis Ababa, Khartoum and El Fasher.

Airlift:

- Provision of strategic and tactical airlifts and airlift co-ordination to assist with the Force rotation and AMIS II expansion.

- Strategic,

Lift of at least two African Battalions (pending further contributions)

- In-theatre transport

Tactical lift 2-4 rotations per week, (deployment, including of logistic assets, sustainment

Offered aircraft (two An 2; two C212)

Logistic Support:

- Provision of vehicles, communications equipment, mobile generators and other required materiel; (water road tankers and medical supplies, personnel equipment sets)

- Provision of logistic planners, in support of the Darfur Integrated Taskforce (DITF) and particularly the Joint Logistic Co-ordination Centre in El Fasher.

Training, Assistance and Advisory Teams:

- Provision of teams to assist AMIS II in preparing the additional personnel and those rotated, pending further contributions;

- Training already identified in particular for the Senegalese Battalion in early July and Nigerian component mid-June,

- Training of pilots for the offered aircraft (two AN 2, two C212s).

Aerial Observation:

- Providing aerial observation capacity for AMIS II.

Media Support:

- Assistance to the AU to develop the AU media strategy.

MILOBS:

- Provision of additional monitors.

Financial:

- Provision of financial support, pending further contributions;

- At least additional 1 million Euros for civilian aspects to be updated later,

- 57 million Euro still available from the African Peace Facility to support the enhancement of AMIS II (salaries, rations for soldiers, fuel and insurance).

In providing this offer to the African Union, the EU will seek transparency and complimentary with the partners and major contributors of the international community.

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• Intervention de Solana, Secrétaire Général du Conseil de l'UE, Haut Représentant pour la PESC - Addis Abeba (26/5/2005)
• Commissioner Michel to participate in Pledging Conference for AU Mission in Sudan/Darfur (25/5/2005)
• Conclusions of EU External Relations Council - Sudan (23/5/2005)