Critics have lost sight of the key message of the World Humanitarian Summit in the Secretary-General’s report: the plight of the people in humanitarian crises is not a fallout from global affairs; it is a global affair.
Does the fundamental construct of humanitarian action need to change from providing aid to facilitating people’s access to help?
Member states still agree on the need to counter terrorism in all its forms and manifestations with the sort of reinvigorated, networked multilateralism the Secretary-General called for during the seventy-fifth session of the General Assembly.
The end of Operation Barkhane will leave MINUSMA with a heavier burden in countering terrorism and violent extremism in the Sahel.
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