UNOAU participated in the fifty-third Ministerial meeting of the United Nations Committee on Security Questions (UNSAC) in the Central Africa Region convened in Yaoundé, Cameroon on 3 June. The Ministerial meeting which was preceded by the meeting of the Experts held on 30 and 31 June, was opened by the Foreign Minister of Cameroon, Lejeune Mbella Mbella. The participants included representatives of Angola, the Republic of Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Gabonese Republic, the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, the Republic of Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe and the Republic of Chad.

The Ministerial meeting received the progress report on the implementation of the recommendations of the fifty-second meeting held in November 2021 and discussed the achievements, difficulties, and challenges, as well as recommendations for continued support from Member States. The implementation report elaborated on the outcome of the field visit to Bujumbura, from 28 to 31 March 2022, which aimed at learning from the Burundi disarmament and Small Arms and Light Weapons Control efforts. The meeting welcomed the geopolitical and security report on the Central Africa region presented by the ECCAS Commission, which noted a generally stable political context in the region with a declining economic and financial situation marked by the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic and the ramifications of the war between Russia and Ukraine. The Ministers discussed the need to promote disarmament in Central Africa, to counter terrorism, and violent extremism, address cross-border transhumance, maritime security issues in the Gulf of Guinea, climate security issues in Central Africa and the impact of hate speech on peace and security in the region.

In his statement on behalf of United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA) as the UNSAC Secretariat representative, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) to the African Union Parfait Onanga-Anyanga underscored that UNSAC in its thirty years of existence has achieved tangible results in several areas and established regional preventive diplomacy tools in support of peace and political stability in the region. He commended the progress made in the ongoing political transition in Chad and called for continued political dialogue to address the situation in Cameroon’s North-West and South-West regions as well as in the Central African Republic. He encouraged the Committee to continue to ensure a better alignment of UNSAC's mandate with the vision of the new ECCAS Commission and the preventive diplomacy mechanisms of the sub-regional body. In their final communique, the Ministers adopted a declaration in support of the transition in Chad, and re-affirmed their support for peace efforts, national reconciliation and reconstruction in Central Africa Republic. The Republic of Cameron assumed the Bureau’s Presidency from Gabon, while the Ministers proposed to convene the 54th UNSAC meeting in November 2022, at a venue yet to be determined.