Over the past few years, the relationships between the United Nations (‘UN’), regional and sub-regional organizations in maintaining peace and security in Africa have evolved. The African Union (‘AU’) began coordinating enforcement actions conducted by African sub-regional organizations with the authorisation of the UN Security Council (‘UNSC’), which maintained its political control over them. The UN Charter and relevant legal regimes of those organizations seem to allow this kind of relationship. Such a trend may explain, in part, the UNSC’s most recent practice of authorising regional and sub-regional enforcement actions under Chapter VII of the UN Charter, instead of Chapter VIII. In carrying out those authorised military operations, African regional and/or sub-regional organizations perform their own statutory powers and pursue their own statutory objectives at the continental level. They do not act as ‘decentralised organs’ of the UN.

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联合国与非洲区域和次区域组织在维护和平方面的“三角”关系

在过去几年中，联合国（“联合国”）、区域和次区域组织之间在维护非洲和平与安全方面的关系发生了变化。非洲联盟（“AU”）在联合国安理会（“UNSC”）的授权下开始协调非洲次区域组织开展的执法行动，联合国安理会（“UNSC”）保持对这些组织的政治控制。联合国宪章和这些组织的相关法律制度似乎允许这种关系。这种趋势可能在一定程度上解释了联合国安理会根据《联合国宪章》第七章而非第八章授权区域和次区域执法行动的最新做法。在执行这些授权的军事行动时，非洲区域和/或次区域组织在大陆层面行使自己的法定权力并追求自己的法定目标。它们不充当联合国的“权力下放机构”。