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Ali Ahmed Karti

lines on the record: 57
first: 2011-09-24
most recent: 2014-09-24
sittings or episodes: 3
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“It is now time to do so, and we have significant experience in that regard. It is time for the Organization to invest in peacemaking and peacebuilding by supporting developing countries and building the capacities of least developed countries so that they can achieve the MDGs and peace and development can supplement each other.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“At the same time, we condemn any attempt to identify terrorism with any religion, race or culture and call for the redoubling of efforts to enhance international and regional cooperation to stand up to terrorism. The phenomenon of terrorism can be addressed and overcome only through a balanced international system based on equality and respect for the established principles of international law and the Charter of the United Nations. In that context, we feel that any unilateral action based on politicizing terrorism will not eliminate but exacerbate it. There are numerous instances supporting that conclusion. In conclusion, the Sudan affirms that international and regional security is an integrated, interconnected system and that the Organization has invested enormous efforts and resources in peacekeeping operations.”
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“We recall that the drought and desertification that have hobbled Africa north of the equator are the living examples of the effcts of climate change, which have led to tribal conflicts over sources of water and pasture. The Sudan’s involvement in the United Nations Environment Programme over the past 40 years has been consistent with our concern in that regard. The Sudan remains in an effective global partnership in the fight against terrorism at the national level. We have come a long way in harmonizing our laws with international legislation and in working with international law and instruments relevant to fighting terrorism. We commit ourselves to those international laws and reaffirm our commitment against all forms and manifestations of terrorism.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“This year’s general debate coincides with the United Nations Climate Summit, the outcomes of which we hope will provide a strong impetus for the current efforts to address climate change and to turn the grave challenge facing humankind into an opportunity for joint action in order to achieve a binding international commitment to supplement the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, take practical steps towards a green economy, and reduce the carbon emissions that threaten the safety of our planet. In that regard, the Sudan, a State affected by the climate change phenomenon, accords special importance to the environment issue.”
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“Fourthly, we should launch feasible initiatives in North-South relations, such as funding food-security projects, where my country can play a pioneering and effective role in their success. Fifthly, we should help the United Nations and its various organs to play an effective role in achieving their desired development objectives by providing the mechanisms enabling them to do so.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“On the basis of those measures and in order to guarantee serving the objectives of development, my delegation feels it important to include the following requirements in the post-2015 development agenda. First, we should consider debt cancellation, providing the necessary funding and renouncing discrimination and exclusionary political considerations. Secondly, we should facilitate the transfer of development- related technology and information through advanced communications technology. Thirdly, we should suspend coercive measures, sanctions and all kinds of illegal measures imposed unilaterally by States outside the framework of international legitimacy.”
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“That is now under consideration by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, so that it can be applied throughout the Islamic States. However, we must affirm from this rostrum the importance of the commitment to a common responsibility in achieving development objectives, because the international community must support and assist developing countries, especially the least developed, which represent the segment more in need of support and capacity-building. That is why, in the light of declining development assistance, we hope that deliberations at this session culminate in our taking practical steps in financing development for developing countries, especially those emerging from conflict.”
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“A number of States were assigned to do so in order to promote peace and development after the end of the war. However, that agreement has not been implemented so far. In the Sudan, in the context of our established commitment to the MDGs, we have formulated the required policies, which have gone a long way towards promoting several poverty-eradication projects and initiatives, such as the establishment of a funding portfolio for small families and those with limited income; programmes to recruit graduates and young people in capital projects; the promotion of the role of women in governance and management; and the strenghtening of the role of the zakat fund in promoting quick and short-term funds and other projects, which have resulted in helping thousands of families to play a productive role in paying the zakat.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“Indications of the current situation in human development are that the Sudan has achieved concrete progress in several fields, especially in peace, health care, education and the standard of living. While acknowledging uneven degrees of progress between rural and urban areas, the Sudan has implemented a federal system to promote the role of local communities. However, such progress has been greatly damaged as a result of coercive and unilateral measures illegally and unjustifiably imposed against the Sudan, which have aggravated and delayed initiatives, thereby negating the Sudan’s role, and which continue to shackle the country’s economy. In that regard, I recall that the international consensus, achieved after the referendum in South Sudan that led to the separation of South Sudan, had been to cancel the Sudan’s debts.”
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“The year 2015 was designated as the deadline for eradicating poverty and for ensuring well-being. However, the achievements reached on the eve of the end of 2014 are still short of our aspirations, since poverty, suffering, need, environmental deterioration and unemployment persist. The agreement of the world’s leaders with regard to mitigating poverty requires that the obstacles to achieving such development be overcome. However, the development partners that drafted the Declaration have adopted actions that run counter to its provisions and to human rights. Such coercive measures as unilateral sanctions outside the framework of international legitimacy have flagrantly damaged the content of the Millennium Declaration. That has had an adverse impact on the noble principles and purposes of the Declaration.”
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“We fully accept and support the theme of the post-2015 development agenda as a major topic for discussion at this session. However, there remain only a few months until the end of 2014 and we still have not achieved all the MDGs. We nevertheless remain very hopeful that we can overcome the obstacles that have impeded us from achieving those Goals and that the deliberations will culminate in a thorough preparation for the development of viable post-2015 sustainable development goals. In the United Nations Millennium Declaration (resolution 55/2), adopted in 2000, the Heads of State and Government unanimously agreed a set of principles and goals that laid the foundation for an international partnership to put an end to people’s suffering and poverty.”
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“It has now reached a stage that requires the exceptional and prompt action of the international community in order to contain the situation and to move it forward towards sustainable peace in the Middle East, through the achievement of the legitimate and urgent demands of the Palestinian people, in particular the protection and reconstruction of what the Israeli war machine has destroyed. The entire world’s ongoing disregard for the genocidal war in Palestine and its failure to intervene to protect the Palestinians and their rights fuel extremism in the region and throughout the world. As long as the Palestinian people opt for a peaceful solution, it is imperative to support that direction in order to prevent despair from spreading and the pursuit of destructive solutions.”
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“In that context, we appreciate the experience of the joint border forces of the Sudan and Chad, the Sudan and the Central African Republic, and the Sudan and Libya as models of successful regional security cooperation between neighbouring States in the interests of peace and stability. In that connection, I would like to recall that in mid-October 2014, the Sudan will host a conference, in partnership with Italy, the European Union and the African Union, on preventing illegal immigration, smuggling and human trafficking. Concerning the situation in the Middle East, the question of Palestine has continued to present a real challenge for the international community for decades.”
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“Internationally, I underscore the trilateral cooperation among the Sudan, Ethiopia and the Arab Republic of Egypt in order to ensure the common enjoyment of the waters of the Blue Nile and to avert any negative repercussions in that country. In that regard, we also stress the efforts of the Sudan in the area of border control and demarcation with neighbouring States in order to strengthen the border posts and border monitoring and security and to prevent transnational crime, including illegal immigration and the illegal transfer of small arms and light weapons.”
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“The Sudan is participating effectively with the Intergovernmental Authority on Development so as to put an end to the war and to conclude a reconciliation agreement between the two parties to the conflict in South Sudan. My country has received more than 100,000 internally displaced persons from South Sudan. In that context, we recall the Sudan’s constructive efforts for the restoration of peace and stability in the Central African Republic, thereby complementing other international and regional efforts. The Sudan is also actively working with Libya’s neighbours in assisting the Libyan parties to reach an agreement on a solution to the Libyan crisis.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“We call on the international community to promote a positive and constructive role in support of the Sudanese economy, in particular by lifting the unilateral sanctions, and by cancelling the Sudan’s accumulated debt, in line with the aspirations for broader political participation. The Sudan has continued to play an effective and positive role at the regional level on the African continent, with a view to establishing peace and stability in neighbouring States. When a conflict broke out in the Republic of South Sudan, the Sudan adhered to the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of that country. The Sudan was the first State to provide humanitarian aid to those affected in South Sudan, and continues to do so.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“There followed a succession of organizational and procedural consultations in order to translate the statement of His Excellency the President into concrete steps. The initiative even found a positive response among the armed groups that still existed. I would like to affirm the State’s intention to move the dialogue forward in the hope of achieving a national consensus on the political future of the country. In that regard, we greatly appreciate the ongoing efforts of the African Union and the African Union High-level Implementation Panel on the three major political, security and economic tracks.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“On 27 January, His Excellency the President of the Republic of the Sudan, President Omer Al-Bashir, launched an initiative for an inclusive national dialogue, calling on the representatives of the Sudanese people to sit at the same table to discuss six major priorities: unity and peace, the economy, fundamental freedoms and rights, their identity, foreign relations and the issues of governance and the implementation of the outcomes of the national dialogue. The President’s appeal enjoyed an unprecedented response on the part of all political forces in the Sudan and the international community in view of the fact that both the Government and the opposition were convinced that dialogue was the only option at that time, as agreed by the people of the Sudan.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“At the outset, on behalf of the Republic of the Sudan, I would like to convey to Mr. Sam Kutesa our sincerest congratulations on his election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session. I also extend thanks and appreciation to his predecessor, Mr. John Ashe, for his wise and patient conduct of the deliberations of the previous session. We hope that this session will culminate in concrete results on important, universal issues, in particular the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the implementation of the post-2015 development agenda, which is a major topic of discussion at this session. Today, I address the Assembly at a time when the Sudan is on the threshold of an important new phase of comprehensive political participation that excludes no party, faction or group.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“We want a balanced, pluralistic and fairer system that will be able to deal with the challenges of the world of today, ensure respect for international law and for the noble principles of the Organization and attain the purposes and principles of the Charter — respect for the sovereignty of States and non-interference in domestic issues under any pretext whatsoever; the non-use of force; and the non-use of the threat of force against others.”
2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)
“The matter of reform of the Security Council is also of some importance for the Sudan, because that will mean that there is real reform in the United Nations. The Security Council today does not reflect the realities of the world. It adopts resolutions and takes decisions but not in a democratic and transparent way. It is therefore essential that there be comprehensive reform. Partial or transitional reforms are not possible. We support the African Union position on reform of the international system.”
2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)
“The matter must be resolved within the context of international legitimacy and the Arab Peace Initiative, but Israel has simply turned a deaf ear to proposals from the Arab sides. There has been a constant call for respect for international law. The reform of the United Nations and its principal and subsidiary organs is a matter of some urgency and importance. It is time for a practical process to start, with a clear work programme, so that the international system can act in a manner that is fair, transparent and effective, so that it can take up the challenges it faces. But no progress will be made in reform until the General Assembly can play its full part and exercise all of its powers without any intimidation from the Security Council.”
2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)
“Many of those that signed the Rome Statute have now become aware of the negative impact of the ICC and its destructive impact on stability and peace. The last African Union Summit showed that very clearly. Regarding the crisis in Syria, our position has always been clear. We call for peaceful dialogue among the Syrians themselves towards identifying a peaceful and permanent solution. We have always rejected violence and foreign interference. We condemn the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian conflict, and we support the Russian approach to resolving this matter. The question of Palestine — how to achieve justice and restore the rights of the Palestinian people and stop the illegal aggression by the Israeli authorities in that territory — is still a real challenge in the international arena. The prisoners must be released.”
2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)
“The Darfur conflict became a political issue only in the last decade because of external interference. There is a very close relationship between climate change and armed conflict in that respect. My country attaches paramount importance to the rule of law at the national and international levels. We make sure that our national laws and our legislature are in accordance with international instruments, laws and treaties to which we are a party. So from this rostrum, and based on our own experience, we reiterate our rejection of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Over the past decade or so it has been violating the principles of international law and justice. The ICC has been used as a political tool by certain parties in the international arena.”
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“As a victim of climate change, the Sudan believes that great attention should be paid to environmental issues and goals in the post-2015 development agenda. We would like to work with others through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The situation is deteriorating every year. We have suffered from climate change since the mid-1980s. We have suffered from recurrent cycles of drought in much of our territory, and that has also been a factor in slowing down our development goals. It has also created instability in many parts of our country because of conflict over pasture land and water supplies. That applies also in Darfur, where historically there have been tribal disputes and disputes over pastureland because of long periods of drought.”
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“Unfortunately, however, unemployment is not as low as we had hoped, and the unilateral economic sanctions have been a real obstacle to our making progress in development and in strengthening our economy. It has been particularly difficult for young people in the Sudan, who account for about 60 per cent of our population. The Sudan calls on the international community to live up to its promise to cancel the debt and to lift unilateral economic sanctions. The matter of the debt is one of the important goals of the post-2015 development agenda. Debt is a real burden for so many countries in the world. The Sudan is a prominent member of many international bodies dealing with the environment.”
2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)
“I should like to say that relations between the Government of the Sudan and United Nations bodies with regard to the humanitarian situation are now stable, so that humanitarian needs can be met. We reached an agreement with UNICEF on vaccinations against poliomyelitis and other diseases, and an agreement was reached as part of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. Regarding non-governmental organizations, the Sudan, like other Member States, is committed to the implementation of the development goals, including combating poverty. We have adopted policies on reducing poverty and on providing more jobs for young graduates. We are also developing a microfinance system for low- and middle-income people.”
2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)
“We trust the international community will be supportive of our efforts. We would like to extend our thanks to the African high-level mechanism and the Prime Minister of Ethiopia in this connection. I am happy to be able to report that the efforts of the Government of the Sudan and the international community vis-à-vis Darfur have made possible real and continuous progress in terms of stability and security. There has been a sharp drop in the violence there because those that signed the Doha peace agreement have lived up to their promises. Many of the armed groups joined the agreement later. The voluntary return of people who had left is also being organized and services are being provided.”
2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)
“On 27 September 2012, exactly one year ago, in Addis Ababa the two countries were able to sign nine agreements covering all matters of cooperation between our two countries. We included mechanisms for implementing the agreements in an accompanying document. We also set forth deadlines for reaching further agreements. At the most recent negotiating session between the two Presidents, in Khartoum on 3 September, and in the presence of Mr. Mbeki, the two Presidents came to an agreement on how to deal with all pending matters. They also appealed to the international community to cancel the Sudan’s debt and to lift the sanctions imposed on it. Turning now to the matter of unilateral sanctions, it is our hope that we will have strong and healthy relations with South Sudan, and we will spare no effort to achieve that.”
2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)
“Our various national institutions coordinate among themselves, and we have set up a national board for children. We have police who deal especially with the issues of youth and children, and we have a public prosecutor who specializes in this area. Once South Sudan was established, we immediately began to engage in neighbourly and fruitful cooperation with it. We have blood ties with it and a common border more than 2,100 kilometres long. About two thirds of the inhabitants of both countries live along the borders. The period following the independence of South Sudan was a period of some tension because of certain matters that had been left pending, so the two countries entered into very intensive negotiations.”
2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)
“To promote and strengthen human rights, we signed a national law to combat trafficking in human beings. We have many specialized institutions and mechanisms that work to defend women’s rights as well, so that women can participate fully in our society and in our State. That can be seen very clearly in the positive discrimination we have been pursuing vis-à-vis women, which has led to greater political participation by women at the legislative, executive and other decision-making levels. In 2010 we adopted a law on the rights of the child that is in accordance with the principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocols, so that we can promote the rights of children and protect them against any kind of violence or exploitation.”
2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)
“Today we are working to develop a solid economic system, even though we have to deal with the after-effects of economic sanctions that the United States unilaterally imposed on us. We have begun to take economic steps necessary to strengthen our economy and prevent it from collapsing. On the matter of human rights, I should like to share the opinion expressed by the Special Rapporteur on the Sudan. He recognized that progress had been made in various areas of human rights. These matters have been dealt with very seriously, and the recommendations will be dealt with in our policy. We are committed to the principles of human rights, and we have set up an independent national human rights commission in the Sudan, founded in accordance with the Paris principles, that cooperates with the relevant United Nations agencies.”
2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)
“The Sudan believes that the Organization and its specialized agencies will indeed devote the importance that is appropriate to such a crucial issue because development is essential to international peace and security, particularly in developing countries. As everyone knows, poverty, underdevelopment, climate change and a shortage of resources are some of the main causes of conflict in the world. The Sudan has made great strategic progress regarding peace, stability and prosperity for its people and has begun a political process that will lead to the adoption of a final constitution. After the peace efforts proved successful vis-à-vis the independence of South Sudan, we accepted the choice of its people.”
2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)
“I should like to warmly congratulate the President on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth session. I take this opportunity to extend my country’s thanks to his predecessor, Mr. Vuk Jeremi., for the excellent manner in which he guided the work at the last session. We also thank Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon and his team in the Secretariat for the sincere and diligent work that they have done for us. It is our hope that discussions during this session will be successful. The theme chosen, “The post- 2015 development agenda: setting the stage”, is important.”
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“However, the meeting of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union has highlighted the part that he has played in supporting peace between the Sudan and South Sudan and throughout our region. My delegation would like to say that this unjustified and unacceptable action sets a very serious precedent in the history of the United Nations. It requires that the whole membership take a firm position on this matter. This denial of the legitimate right of a Member State leads us to call on the Secretary-General to exercise his duty and responsibility to protect the rights of Member States under the Headquarters Agreement. If the matter were left up to the Sudan, then the same kind of thing could happen to any other Member State, and we would not like those rights to be violated.”
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“Specifically, it is a violation of the Headquarters Agreement signed in December 1946 with the host country. President Al-Bashir is known throughout Africa. He is known by all those who hold peace dear. He is known by everybody for what he has done — putting an end to the longest bloodthirsty civil war in Africa, inherited from the days of colonialism. The birth of the Republic of South Sudan is clear proof of his commitment to the implementation of the provisions of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. Despite the tremendous sacrifice made by giving up a valuable part of the territory, one rich in natural and human resources, President Al-Bashir has been prevented from participating in the work of the General Assembly.”
2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)
“Today, I address the Assembly at a time when I feel great uncertainty about the future of the Organization and the established rules governing the relations among its Member States. It was expected that yesterday the Assembly would hear, from this rostrum, a statement from President Al-Bashir, the elected President of the Republic of the Sudan. However, with deep regret I must report the refusal by the authorities of the United States, the host Government, to give entry visas to President Al-Bashir and his delegation, thus rendering him unable to participate in the work of the Assembly at this session. The fact that the authorities of the host country did not grant a visa to our President is a serious violation of the principles and purposes set forth in the Charter of the United Nations.”
2013-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 68 (2013)
“This will also allow bodies such as the Security Council to become a channel through which particular countries impose their own political agendas, especially with regard to international peace and security. Genuine reform of the Security Council and its working methods is therefore the only way to prevent it from being exploited by some countries in a 21 11-51390 manner that could cast doubt on the credibility and neutrality of the Organization, whose founders carefully drafted its Charter so as to make it the widest possible forum for consultation and debate — debate that requires cooperation and interaction among peoples, nations, cultures and civilizations in order to create a world in which values such as freedom, peace, security and justice can prevail.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“Moreover, the Palestinians’ request for recognition as a State is a legitimate right that seeks to confirm that, first, the United Nations is committed to its Charter and, secondly, to international law. This would also help to alleviate tensions in the region. The international community should consider the fact that there may be no one to negotiate with if it allows Israel to impose conditions on the world and to deprive the Palestinians of their legitimate rights. In conclusion, the reform of the United Nations, and in particular of the Security Council, is an urgent and compelling priority requiring speedy action. Without efforts to reform the Organization and its various entities, we will weaken the role of developing nations and have a negative effect on their national interests.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“This is because of Israel’s blatant defiance of the international community and because of the support and protection it enjoys from some powerful countries. This demonstrates that the Organization is incapable of standing up for the rights of peoples and to support their legitimate claims, as enshrined in the Charter. That has given the green light to the occupying authorities to continue with their settlement policies that seek to entrench the occupation and banish the Palestinian people, the owners of the land. The Sudan therefore fully supports the Palestinian National Authority’s decision to request full membership of the United Nations, which is their legal right, based on the right to self-determination, one of the principles of international law.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“The Sudan attaches the highest priority to the implementation of a series of national programmes designed to alleviate the consequences of climate change and to raise awareness as to its dire effects. The Sudan looks forward to participating actively and effectively in the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development to be held next year, in order to help strengthen international efforts to face the challenges of sustainable development with a collective will that reflects the aspirations of the whole world, developing nations in particular, for development and a decent life for their peoples. Various entities of the United Nations, including the Security Council, have adopted dozens of resolutions regarding the question of Palestine, none of which have been implemented.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“United Nations reports have emphasized the relationship between the negative impact of climate change and the intensification of conflict, especially on the African continent. We had also hoped that the efforts made in Copenhagen would have been successful and led to an agreement on how to address this phenomenon and avoid its negative consequences. We had hoped, too, that developed nations would assume their historic responsibilities in that regard by adopting specific strategies and action plans to tackle the root causes of climate change in a manner consistent with the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, adopted at the Earth Summit in 1992.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“I need not mention that Chapter VIII of the United Nations Charter clearly emphasizes the importance of regional arrangements in strengthening and maintaining international peace and security. We also wish to emphasize the importance of activating preventive diplomacy mechanisms and African peacemaking efforts. I refer in particular to the experience of the Panel of the Wise of the African Union, headed by former South African President Thabo Mbeki, which is playing a commendable role in the Sudan. This attests to the effectiveness of the role of regional bodies in settling disputes and achieving peace and security in African countries. The Sudan had hoped for international consensus on climate and environment issues, in particular because we have been directly affected by them, as has clearly been the case in Darfur.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“We also wish to highlight the importance of giving issues affecting the African continent a high priority on the development agenda of the United 11-51390 20 Nations, with a view to supporting and building the capacities of African economic institutions. This could be accomplished by reactivating the New Partnership for Africa’s Development initiative. Priority, support and financing should be given to projects aimed at combating poverty and endemic diseases on the continent, as well as to the relevant programmes linked to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. Since development and peace go hand in hand, we wish to emphasize the importance of supporting the institutions of the African Union, especially its Peace and Security Council and its other various mechanisms, to build early-warning conflict prevention capacities.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“In the countries of Africa, the crisis has notably intensified and exacerbated the difficulties plaguing the economies of developing nations, resulting in increased poverty and food shortages and the decline of social services. At a time when climate change is leading to natural disasters in many countries, I call on the General Assembly, all donors and the relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes to respond urgently to the devastating famine and the attendant tragic humanitarian situation, which is affecting some of our sister republics in the Horn of Africa, in particular Somalia.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“Similarly, from this rostrum, we call on all investors, without exception, to try to benefit from the Sudan and its promising resources, especially those other than oil, such as mineral resources and metals. We urge them to invest in the Sudan’s agricultural resources, taking into consideration the extent of the country’s arable land and its significant water resources. This is particularly important in the light of the food crises, famines resulting from drought and desertification, and the urgent global need for cereals and grains. The Sudan’s investment law has provided all necessary facilities to all foreign investors. The international financial and economic crisis has adversely affected most countries of the world.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“This is happening at a time when we aspire to have the support of the international community as we move towards that goal more openly and with greater determination to fulfil our natural role as an active and pioneering member of the international family. As a State emerging from conflict, we look forward to the contribution of the international community and its financial institutions in terms of debt forgiveness and support for development projects. That would be consistent with the measures being applied to all least developed countries, as well as to those emerging from conflict and moving into peacebuilding, which has now become a reality. The World Bank has put forward these and other requirements, and has stated that my country has indeed demonstrated compliance in that regard.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“It made a commitment to do so because of its desire for peace and stability. Consequently, it is a leadership that deserves respect and appreciation, not to be the target of attempts at incrimination or of the arbitrary levelling of accusations, for example, by the International Criminal Court. I need not recall the fact that the President is the leader of the Republic of the Sudan and was legitimately elected in fair and transparent elections conducted under the supervision of international and regional bodies. Moreover, the unilateral and unjustified economic sanctions adopted by the United States of America against the Sudan in order to weaken it and erode its development revival are but unjust and coercive measures against the people of the Sudan.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“We will give top priority to completing the return of internally displaced persons and refugees and to creating stable conditions for them through development, rehabilitation and reconstruction projects. We expected the Secretary-General to include a special paragraph in his statement to illustrate my Government’s commitment to peace, which was evident from the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement and the declaration of the Republic of South Sudan, which my Government was first to recognize as a State. We call on our international Organization not to be hoodwinked by the policies of some countries, which refuse to give credit where it is due. The Sudanese leadership, headed by President Omer Hassan Ahmad Al-Bashir, enabled the people of the South to exercise their right to self-determination.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)
“As the Assembly is aware, the Document has received considerable support from the international community. I wish to take this opportunity to reiterate our appreciation to our sister State of Qatar, the African Union and the League of Arab States, which spearheaded this initiative. We also wish to thank the Joint Mediation Support Team and all regional and international partners who contributed to the agreement. From this rostrum, I again emphasize that we will continue to implement our national strategy on Darfur on the basis of its five pillars: security, development, the resettlement of refugees and internally displaced persons, internal reconciliation and a comprehensive political settlement.”
2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)