It's the Borrell Doctrine: The EU must be 'less angelic' and supply lethal weapons to African allies if there is any hope of defeating terrorists
"We are not here to make war," he said Friday."We are here to try to help people to defend themselves."
Borrell, however, said he had heard the AU's clear preference for"African solutions to African problems" and that he was also taken by comments made by the AU Commission chairperson, Moussa Faki, during aAt the close of the plenary session, Faki told his EU colleagues including Commission President Ursula von der Leyen that in response to “violence and the guns of terrorists that continuously kill civilians and sabotage positive developments, we also need guns and arms.
"You will not attract investment and you will not build a country without security, and security requires strength, and strength requires arms," Borrell said."And I think the European Union is not a military union, it is not there to do the war. But if we train troops and we send these people to fight, better to send them well-equipped. No?"
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen listens to African Union Commission Chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat | Michael Tewelde/AFP via Getty Images "We are strengthening our engagement, not only on security — also on development, humanitarian, political," Borrell wrote in his blog post Friday."And we are ready to go even further in the future."
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