European Union External Action Service
Strategy for Security and Development in the Sahel
SUMMARY
This Strategy has four key themes:
- Firstly, that security and development in the Sahel cannot be separated, and that helping these countries achieve security is integral to enabling their economies to grow and poverty to be reduced.
- Secondly, that achieving security and development in the Sahel is only possible through closer regional cooperation. This is currently weaker than it needs to be, and the EU has a potential role to play in supporting it.
- Thirdly, all the states of the region will benefit from considerable capacity-building, both in areas of core government activity, including the provision of security and development cooperation.
- Fourthly, that the EU therefore has an important role to play both in encouraging economic development for the people of the Sahel and helping them achieve a more secure environment in which it can take place, and in which the interests of EU citizens are also protected.
Vollständiger Text:
sahel_strategy_en
http://www.eeas.europa.eu/africa/docs/sahel_strategy_en.pdf