THE COOPERATION BETWEEN THE UNITED NATIONS AND THE EUROPEAN UNION FOR CRISIS RESOLUTION ON THE AFRICAN CONTINENT

The UN cooperation with the European Union in crisis and conflict management in Africa is based on the provisions of Chapter VIII of the Charter and the EU-AU Agreements signed in 2000 in Cairo. The creation of the African Union in July of 2002 and the founding of the Peace and Security Council (CPSAU) in February 2004 allowed for the hope that Africa can dispose of its own capabilities of crisis and conflict management and of peace forces that were more efficient that those ones of the former Organization of African Unity. As a mediator in the peace negotiations in Darfur, the African Union decided, on the July 16, 2004, to establish the African Mission in Darfur (AMIS) for the surveillance of the ceasefire. But the extent of the difficulties, as well as that of the AMIS mandate, evolved rapidly.