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Australian Assistance to Restore
Peace and Stability
in Sudan
Australia will join an international force under the United Nations African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) to help implement a plan to restore peace and stability to the strife-torn region of Sudan. The force is mandated to ‘take necessary action’ to protect civilians and humanitarian workers, and to support implementation of the 2006 Darfur Peace Agreement
Subject to Sudanese Government agreement, nine military officers of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) will serve with UNAMID Headquarters, demonstrating the high level of confidence that the UN places in the ADF.
Australia's involvement in Sudan, where an estimated 300,000 people have died from the combined effects of war, famine and diseases since 2003 and an estimated 2.7 million people have been displaced, shows the Australian Government’s commitment to the United Nations (UN) and to restoring peace and stability in Darfur.
The Australian Government has pledged an additional $5 million dollars in humanitarian assistance to the people of Darfur, bringing Australia’s contribution to Darfur to more than $62 million since 2004, and has also provided $11 million to address spill-over effects of the conflict into neighbouring countries.
Australia's Strong Record of Involvement In the UN
This year marks the 60th Anniversary of UN Peacekeeping, which the Foreign Minister, Stephen Smith, recently acknowledged in a Ministerial Statement in Parliament.
The commitment to UNAMID is another demonstration of Australia's long-standing tradition of contributing to UN peacekeeping operations.
Australia has made many contributions to efforts to resolve international disputes by supporting peace and humanitarian operations under the auspices of the UN but also as part of other multinational efforts, for example:
- more than 30,000 Australians have served around the world as peacekeepers;
- Australian peacekeepers have made contributions to UN peacekeeping operations in Africa, Europe, Central America, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region;
- Australia is currently the 12th largest financial contributor to the UN peacekeeping budget; and
- the non-UN peacekeeping operations to which Australia has contributed include the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) in Sinai, the International Force in East Timor (INTERFET) and the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI).