Hard News on Committee Session #2

PSO External Funding Discourse from African Nations.

African Union discussed the importance of Funding, with many nations proposing many solutions to better the funding of such, a lot of delegates are willing to accept a proposal on an external funding in increasing PSO. In a massive crossing of opinions, Delegate of Senegal Believes that external funding is one of the most pragmatic solutions, as they believe that European nations would want to extend their hand to fund PSO, and is less reliable than external donors, as they believe African countries are more or less the same in conflicts and disaster. This solution is contradictory to Egypt’s opinion, which suggests that External Funding is conditional, which then could be unreliable. Many nations agree on this fact nations such as Mali, or Somalia are pointing out how this solution is not visible.

Many nations point out that financial stability should be achieved without any more risk to be of worry. CAR delegation brought out how EU funding poses more risk than benefits, as they believe that they should not rely fully, as there are certain conditions that are to be fulfilled in order to greatly benefit from this. CAR and Rwanda suggest that they should utilize their unified forces first in order to construct the best outcomes, before asking for Funding. Niger concluded the other delegates statements and with agreeing on some of the statements, they pointed in the direction of the Principles coined in the African Union. Widely accepted solutions were situated in the improvement of internal exponential growth first rather than expecting and relying on European funding.

In proposing alternative funding than that of external, Somalia suggests to search for sponsors in which to fund many security operations, in which to impose stability in peace, they propose their past conflicts as to where the funding could be headed and considered, inherently believing that collaboration could give some subsider in the form of a supervisory team. The delegate of South Africa contradicts the opinion of Somalia as they believe that asking from the IMF is the same as asking from the EU, CAR then corrects Somalia that the IMF does not recognize peace as their main direction in giving funding. inclined payment is what they prefer, they suggest to enforce the funding mechanism internally as they believe it is more reliable and would utilize the fullest of financial exposure. Uganda proposes utilizing private sectors, in spite of the low GDP many African countries are experiencing.