We are closing…
(BRUSSELS2) Two European crisis management missions (PeSDC) are being closed: in South Sudan (EUAVSEC) and in Iraq (EUJUST Lex). The decision should be endorsed by the foreign and defense ministers of the "28" on Monday and Tuesday (18 and 19 November).
The airport security mission in South Sudan (EUavsec South Sudan), should thus end its activities in mid-January next year. Either at the end of his first, and only, one-year term. The ambassadors failed to agree on its renewal. It must be said that this mission has not really proven its effectiveness. And no one among the delegations "really fought" to find an extension to this mission, according to several diplomats contacted.
The assistance mission for the rule of law in Iraq (EUJUST Lex) must also close its doors at the end of the year. Here we find ourselves in another scenario. This mission has almost 10 years behind it. Started in 2005, it had a double objective. On the one hand, to reconcile the Europeans with themselves and with Iraq, after the "schism" of 2003 which had seen. On the other hand, to help Iraq rebuild its police and justice functions after the war and the regime of Saddam Hussein. Executing its "off shore" missions - through training in Europe or in neighboring countries - the mission had recently been present in the country. But the return of the heightened climate of violence has somewhat hampered its smooth running in recent months. " It's difficult recently dropped a member of the mission contacted by B2.
The problem posed today is: what to do after these two missions? Who will take over? And there the question remains...
All the details, and below, of these closures on the B2 club
Given the current situation in Iraq, no one should be proud of the results of the ridiculous EU mission in this country! Especially since it gave rise to a real scandal when the Council agreed, with the complicity of the European Parliament, to finance from EU budget appropriations private military companies even though no democratic debate has not yet been initiated on the position that the Union should adopt with regard to these mercenary companies subject to no clear legal framework and whose reclassification at the end of their lucrative contracts rarely takes place in economic activities 'normal'!
Regarding South Sudan, effectiveness remains difficult to establish!
This will also be the same for the EU training mission for Malian soldiers, since the latter had already been trained by the United States before the whole process that led to the current disorders of which it is to fear that they will not know effective answers before a long time, too many actors and too many contradictory interests contributing to make them improbable!