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Abdoulaye Wade

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  1. “The dispatch of international forces to secure uncontested borders and the placing on stand-by' status of the parts of the territory on which there is no consensus would eliminate de facto the two approaches of occupier occupied' and aggressor aggressed'. I believe that this approach is all the more feasible and realistic in that Israel has declared itself prepared to return all the occupied territories 90 per cent of them first and then negotiating a border correction to compensate for the other 10 per cent. That would allow us to abandon the two theories, which can only eternally pit the two parties against each other and divide the international community. The greatest war of all time, that of 1939-1945, pitted French against German.”

    2003-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 58 (2003)

  2. “Let us not play this game, which is one of massacre for the parties to the conflict and of hide-and- seek on our side, where political and diplomatic interests cloud the search for an equitable solution. The aim of my proposal is to move beyond the subjective approaches of the two parties by introducing external action, specifically on the part of the international community. Instead of pursuing the course of mutual accusation which, it may be noted, leads nowhere because each party is subjective I would simply propose that we eliminate the two problems by merging them into a single, unique problem.”

    2003-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 58 (2003)

  3. “I should like to subscribe to this approach and, in the light of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, to make a modest contribution. It seems to me that there are two possible approaches to the conflict: that of the aggressor aggressed' theory and that of the occupier occupied' theory. If we seek to identify who is in one category and who is in the other, we find ourselves in a complete impasse. Unfortunately, that is what each of the parties is doing. In the first scenario, Israelis and Palestinians each claim to be the aggressed and accuse each other of being the aggressor. In the second, while Israel is undeniably the occupier, it justifies this state of affairs by pointing to the so-called aggression of Palestinians. Hence, we return to the first theory and set in motion an endless cycle.”

    2003-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 58 (2003)

  4. “Christians, far from suffering from any discrimination, are fully integrated into national life, to the extent that a Christian has been the President of our Republic for 20 years and supported by Muslims. That is why I myself have turned to great thinkers and theoreticians on the issue of conflict to see if their words might be useful to us. A compatriot of Jacques Chirac, Mr. Gaston Boutoul, invented the science of war and, more generally, of conflict known as polemology, the objective of which is to understand, through scientific analysis, the motivations and mechanisms of war and conflict. A sociological approach includes individual psychology, collective and social psychology, economics and the environment.”

    2003-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 58 (2003)

  5. “I have the feeling, however, that if we confine ourselves to issuing statements without making any real effort to find a concrete solution, the tragedy that is unfolding before our eyes in cycles of violence will last a very long time. The Israeli and Palestinian authorities have asked me, without my seeking it, to help them to settle this conflict, which is beginning to look like the Thirty Years War or even the Hundred Years War. Those authorities may recall simply that Senegal has resolved for itself one of the greatest contradictions of our time: the coexistence in one land of Muslims and Christians, who live in a ratio of 95 per cent to 5 per cent in our country.”

    2003-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 58 (2003)

  6. “However, if the words attributed to one Israeli authority are well founded, my country would warn against any attack on the physical integrity of President Yasser Arafat and against any decision of expulsion. 12 Any such act would have incalculable consequences. Senegal rejects and condemns violence in all its forms, regardless of who the victims and perpetrators may be or the reasons invoked, and reiterates its unfailing support for the establishment of an independent and sovereign Palestinian State within secure and internationally recognized borders, just as we have always recognized Israel's right to exist in the same conditions.”

    2003-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 58 (2003)

  7. “As Chairman of the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, Senegal remains gravely concerned by the deadlock in the peace process in the Middle East. Too much blood has been shed and too much suffering endured in that land holy to the three great revealed religions. And yet, one must face the fact that a peaceful solution is the sole, best guarantee of survival for all the peoples affected by daily death and anguish. We must pursue efforts to ensure a return to the negotiating table on the basis of the relevant resolutions of the Security Council, the principle of land for peace and the parameters established in the road map so that, at last, this long nightmare can yield to the oft-aborted dream of peoples who cherish peace and freedom.”

    2003-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 58 (2003)

  8. “As soon as I was informed of this, I cited the position of the African Union in calling for the military to relinquish power. President Kufuor, Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States; President Chissano, President of the African Union; President Obasanjo of Nigeria; and I immediately took the situation in hand. This led to the establishment of an entirely civilian Government. From this rostrum, I should like to make a solemn appeal to the international community. Guinea-Bissau, a fraternal country bordering on Senegal, needs immediate assistance. Only diligent and consistent economic assistance can create the conditions for a lasting return to social peace and political and institutional stability in that country.”

    2003-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 58 (2003)

  9. “Senegal, for its part, is complying strictly with the Declaration of Algiers of 1999, which enshrines the principle of excluding from the proceedings of the African Union any regime established in violation of internal constitutional order. Last July, it was on the basis of that Declaration and thanks to the vigorous reaction of African countries including mine that constitutional legality was re-established only a few days after a coup d'Ètat in Sao Tome and Principe. That example that precedent should serve as a lesson to anyone who might yet be tempted by this practice, which runs counter to democratic values. Only 10 days ago in Guinea-Bissau, a democratically elected President was deposed by a group of officers.”

    2003-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 58 (2003)

  10. “I encourage my Ivorian sisters and brothers to persevere on the path of reconciliation, cooperation and mutual confidence in order to safeguard that country's national unity and territorial integrity with the help of the ECOWAS interposition force under Senegalese command. In many respects, sources of concern persist on the continent, particularly in West Africa, formerly known for its stability. I am thinking in particular of those who would call into question democratically elected regimes. We must say forcefully that the time must be past for coups d'Ètat in Africa. Everyone must understand from now on that legitimate power, whose sole agent remains the people, cannot be acquired, preserved or transferred except by means of the ballot box that is, through the force of law, not the law of force or that of weapons.”

    2003-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 58 (2003)

  11. “Those two friendly countries, afflicted by so many years of civil war, seem at last to have embarked on the path of negotiation and dialogue, an essential condition for a definitive return to peace. Moreover, Senegal welcomes the Security Council's decision to send a peacekeeping force to Liberia in support of the troops of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), including the Senegalese troops already in place. In the sisterly Republic of CÙte d'Ivoire, Senegal welcomes the progress made in the national reconciliation process on the basis of the Linas- Marcoussis Agreements, in the hope that the incident that occurred two days ago will prove to be only a hitch.”

    2003-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 58 (2003)

  12. “In that spirit, Senegal took the initiative on 17 October 2001 to call for an African anti-terrorism summit with a view to strengthening cooperation in that regard at the continental level, thus joining its efforts with the Algiers Convention on the Prevention and Combating of Terrorism. It is still our conviction that Africa must not remain the soft underbelly of the system that is gradually being established to combat international terrorism in all its forms, in the wake of the armed conflicts and the humanitarian tragedies that have been causing bloodshed in the world. With regard to the situation in Africa, Senegal salutes the significant progress achieved in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in Liberia.”

    2003-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 58 (2003)

  13. “Two years ago, on 11 September 2001, the world discovered the new face of international terrorism, right here and in all its horror. Certainly, other bloody attacks have taken place, here and elsewhere, before and since those tragic events; even the United Nations has not been spared. The attack that cost the life of Mr. Sergio Vieira de Mello, High Commissioner for Human Rights, and those of many other United Nations staff, is a sinister reminder that the terrorist threat is now global in its targets and pernicious in its means of action. Indeed, a defender of human rights has been deprived of the most basic human right: the right to life. 11 Consequently, a collective, united, coordinated response is required at all levels.”

    2003-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 58 (2003)

  14. “Kofi Annan, and to tell him how proud I am of the spirit of initiative, commitment and resolve that he has displayed with vigour and determination in his noble mission in the service of our common aspirations to peace, universalism and solidarity. It is precisely in the name of those shared ideals that my country, Senegal, reaffirms once again its fervent support for the readmission of the Republic of China on Taiwan as a full-fledged Member of the United Nations. By doing that without calling into question the participation and the legitimate status of any other Member of the great United Nations family we would do justice to that country's 23 million hard-working and disciplined inhabitants, deeply attached to the values of peace, freedom and democracy enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations.”

    2003-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 58 (2003)

  15. “As a Vice- President at this session, Senegal, through me, expresses to the President its heartfelt congratulations on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth regular session. In that election, I see a mark of confidence and a tribute to his wonderful country, Saint Lucia, but also to our entire sister community, the countries members of the Caribbean Community. He may therefore be assured of Senegal's full cooperation in the exercise of his important duties. Let me also express my sincere thanks to his predecessor, Mr. Jan Kavan of the Czech Republic, for the decisive results achieved during his term of office. I should like to express my fraternal and friendly greetings to the Secretary-General, Mr.”

    2003-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 58 (2003)