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Aboul-Gheit

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first: 1999-08-25
most recent: 2023-11-29
sittings or episodes: 72
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“We were deeply shocked once again at the Council's failure to stand firmly and resolutely against this Israeli violation of Council resolutions; this is a situation that has reached the point at which the Council is incapable of calling the occupying State, Israel, by name and refers to it in all its previous resolutions as the occupation State. Today we see the Council timidly referring in whispers to the violence of the controlling Power. The Council today is called upon to be resolute, to assume its responsibilities in accordance with the Charter of this Organization and not to allow the law of the jungle to overcome international law.”
2002-04-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4510 (2002) · source
“It attempts to impose hegemony and is using blind armed force, leaving the injured and the dead in the streets, preventing any assistance from reaching them and preventing their burial. In so doing, it is deepening hatred and is inciting extremism. Israel is attempting to delude the world, claiming that it raises the banner of democracy and the culture of peace. In fact, it practises an illegal policy of inhuman aggression. Yesterday the Council issued a statement to the press, declaring its deep concern at Israel's failure to implement its resolutions. It pointed out that the continuing violence by the Power controlling events on the ground is unacceptable.”
2002-04-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4510 (2002) · source
“We all see the Palestinian people attempting to resist the occupation forces. We are confident that the outcome will be what we have witnessed throughout the course of human history: the defeat of occupation forces and the victory of the right to self-determination. However, the question that remains is, how long the world will permit victims to fall and cities and towns to be destroyed and their inhabitants to be attacked. Israel continues its aggressive military operations against the Palestinian people, their infrastructure, churches, mosques, homes, schools and hospitals. Israel continues to refuse to implement the resolutions of this Council, 1397 (2002), 1402 (2002) and 1403 (2002). The Israeli Government continues to claim that it is extending its hand towards peace. However, it is actually using it hands to kill civilians.”
2002-04-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4510 (2002) · source
“Mr. Aboul Gheit (Egypt) (spoke in Arabic): By sheer coincidence, yesterday I was watching a documentary on the resistance to occupation in European cities during the Second World War. I saw members of the resistance, who Israel today dares to call terrorists. I saw the popular armed resistance against the occupation of the cities of Warsaw, and Arnhem, in the Netherlands, and other cities and villages in Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Norway, France and elsewhere. I was indeed profoundly saddened to see this attempt to reverse the truth, falsify criteria, blatant lies and other actions that attempt to circumvent international law and marginalize the role of international will embodied in Security Council resolutions. We all watch on television the continuing savage onslaught against Palestinian civilians, cities and towns.”
2002-04-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4510 (2002) · source
“All involved must shoulder their responsibilities - primarily the States members of the Security Council, and in particular the permanent members. They all bear a special responsibility, and they cannot forget, or claim to have forgotten, it.”
2002-04-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4506 (2002) · source
“The importance of those principles, as well as the need for them to be part of any settlement plan, must be reaffirmed. That would lead to a measure of confidence-building in this political process, which must be restarted after Israel's attempt to demolish it. This plan will lead us to negotiations on the details of such a just and comprehensive final settlement, whose elements we reviewed a moment ago. Once again, I reiterate that Israel's continued occupation, acts of aggression, attempts at repression and failure to recognize the Palestinian people's right to self-determination and to the establishment of an independent State on its land will only lead to further suffering by both Palestinians and Israelis. The forces of aggression, darkness and terror cannot be victorious.”
2002-04-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4506 (2002) · source
“They are well known to all of us and can be summarized as follows: first, Israeli withdrawal from the Palestinian territories occupied since 5 June 1967; secondly, the establishment of an independent, sovereign Palestinian State with East Jerusalem as its capital; thirdly, arrangements guaranteeing security for all parties on an equal footing in terms of rights and commitments; and fourthly, the establishment, after all withdrawals have been carried out, of comprehensive peaceful relations, good-neighbourly relations and constructive cooperation among the region's States and peoples on the basis I set out earlier - the Madrid formula of land for peace, endorsed by the international community and accepted by the parties. Or at least we thought they had been accepted by the parties.”
2002-04-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4506 (2002) · source
“To them, I say that the free world does not occupy the territory of others by force and does not subject other peoples to occupation. True democracies do not occupy the territory of others and do not commit aggression against what is not rightfully theirs. Let them stop the lies, because they can no longer convince anyone. The situation calls for a very conscientious and in-depth look at what is really required. Egypt calls for international action, through the Security Council, that would achieve a final and comprehensive settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict. What is required for the attainment of that objective is an agreement on the necessary elements of any settlement.”
2002-04-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4506 (2002) · source
“Israel is asking for peace, but under conditions tantamount to transforming the Palestinian people into splinter groups living in isolated bantustans in the service of the Israeli economy and Israeli society, or into refugees exiled from their land or prisoners allowed to stay there under aggression and tyranny. Those who speak of civilization and barbarism must learn from history that barbarism is, at best, the occupation of other people's territory, settler colonization and the killing or physical liquidation of those who resist or oppose. That is the true face of barbarism, which we thought we had left behind us 57 years ago. They speak of democracy and of the free world. They say they are part and parcel of democracy and of the free world.”
2002-04-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4506 (2002) · source
“Many Israeli government officials speak of peace. They speak of a desire to live in peace with the Palestinians. They say that they are extending their hand in peace. These are claims that no one in his right mind can believe any longer, in the light of what we see clearly on our television screens. Israel is asking for a unique kind of peace: a peace built on attempts to subdue Palestinians so that they will accept the occupation of their territories, which are subjected to forcible settler colonization by terrorist elements for whom armed force is a way of life.”
2002-04-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4506 (2002) · source
“Peace will not be achieved unless the Palestinian people obtain their rights in full. What is required today of the Security Council is for it to reaffirm its earlier resolutions. The Council must call for an immediate Israeli withdrawal from the Palestinian territories, an immediate lifting of the siege imposed on Palestinian cities and an end to all forms of aggression against the Palestinian people and its legitimate leadership. The Israeli Government must realize that all aspects of its aggression against Palestine are doomed to failure, because the Palestinian people will stand up forcefully to such aggression and will continue its resistance to end Israeli occupation of its territories. The occupation is the origin of the problem. It must be ended immediately if the region is to enjoy stability and calm.”
2002-04-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4506 (2002) · source
“Mr. Aboul Gheit (Egypt) (spoke in Arabic): The Security Council is holding an open debate for the second time in less than 96 hours in an attempt to find a way out of the tragic circumstances to which the people of Palestine are being subjected as a result of the continued Israeli acts of aggression inside the territories of the Palestinian Authority and inside the compound of its legitimately elected leadership. Once again, we would like to reiterate that Israeli defiance - its refusal to implement Security Council resolutions, most recent among them resolution 1402 (2002) - will lead to further deterioration. The peace and security of the Israeli people, which Israel claims to be seeking, will not come about unless security for the Palestinian people is realized.”
2002-04-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4506 (2002) · source
“Finally, there must be good-neighbourly relations between the two countries within secure and recognized borders. This is exactly what resolution 1397 (2002) called for, and we support all of its elements. In spite of this, we reaffirm that as long as occupation remains, as long as there is a desire to continue the settlement activity and to rely on the policies of force and violence, this sad situation will continue to represent a sword of Damocles hanging over the region. This will continue until Israel reaches the same outcome as that recognized by all occupation forces throughout history: domination and occupation will not achieve security for the occupier, for its citizens or for the sons of the defenceless Palestinian people.”
2002-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4503 (2002) · source
“Only yesterday the Arab nation presented an integrated and comprehensive vision of a just and final settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict that included the Palestinian question, which is the essence and cause of that conflict. Regrettably, Israel's answer was that of an arrogant Power. I would like to reiterate once again my country's conviction that the current armed action will not achieve for Israel and its people the security they seek. This attack will only complicate matters further and open the way for more reciprocal violence and loss of security for both parties. The objective all parties must work to achieve must be to end Israeli occupation and to establish a Palestinian State with its capital in East Jerusalem, with equal security for both sides.”
2002-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4503 (2002) · source
“Secondly, the Council should demand that Israel immediately withdraw from all cities and territories it has entered and end all its recent measures. Thirdly, the Council should call upon both parties to commit themselves to urgent implementation of the Tenet plan and the Mitchell recommendations, and to respond to all the efforts made by the parties concerned- foremost among which are those of the Secretary-General, the European Union, the Russian Federation, the United States and others - with a View to bringing acts of violence under control, ending armed confrontations and moving towards a negotiating process that will lead to a settlement. In this regard, we cannot allow for a repetition of what has taken place before, namely, wasting time and manoeuvring in the same way as during the 10 years since the Madrid Conference.”
2002-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4503 (2002) · source
“That occupation is the cause of all the suffering of the Palestinian and the Israeli peoples. As I have previously made clear, Egypt condemns all acts of violence that lead to loss of life and civilian victims in Israeli cities. But we also condemn most firmly all these reckless operations, the blind use of force and the arrogance of using force against the Palestinian people and its legitimate leadership. Egypt demands that the Security Council assume its responsibility under the Charter and that it send a clear message and vision that includes the following elements. First, the Council should call on Israel to refrain from any attacks on the legitimate Palestinian leadership represented by President Arafat and his aides and assistants in any way.”
2002-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4503 (2002) · source
“The real problem which Israel is trying to avoid dealing with is that the situation it now faces with the Palestinian people and its legitimate leadership is one in which a people is rejecting the continued occupation of its territory, cities and villages by armed force, and the Israeli Government perception that it can break the back of the national popular resistance of a heroic people against armed occupation through the blind use of brute armed force. That occupation by Israel and its settlers has been taking place since 5 June 1967. Israel's attacks and its blind use of armed force to terrorize and humiliate the Palestinian people and its leadership will be defeated by that heroic resistance and the steadfast, firm stand of the Palestinian people against foreign occupation. The problem is one of occupation, and only occupation.”
2002-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4503 (2002) · source
“Today's military operations by the Israeli army against the Palestinian territories, and its occupation of the headquarters of the Palestinian President in Ramallah - which is the temporary Palestinian capital until its move to East Jerusalem - are acts that reflect the narrow vision of the Israeli leadership and its inability to understand a situation that its own actions and behaviour have created.”
2002-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4503 (2002) · source
“Mr. Aboul Gheit (Egypt) (spoke in Arabic): My country, Egypt, feels a great deal of anger today over the arbitrary behaviour of the Israeli Government. That behaviour, if it reflects anything of any meaning, reflects the inability to perceive reality and that that Government's continuation of practices that have been rejected by the international community can only lead to further confrontation and violence and further loss of innocent lives on both the Palestinian and the Israeli sides.”
2002-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4503 (2002) · source
“Fourthly, the delegation of Egypt welcomes the approach suggested by the Secretary-General of establishing a committee of friends for Somalia based in Nairobi, with a parallel committee here in New York. While this initiative represents a step in the right direction, it should not be seen as in end in itself. Rather, it should be seen as a point of departure not only for coordinating and harmonizing the various approaches adopted by the relevant States and organizations but also for regaining the central role that the United Nations must play in pushing the peace process in Somalia, promoting national reconciliation and responding to the immediate and long-term needs of Somalia as it attempts to regain its normal place in the international community.”
2002-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4487Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Thirdly, the delegation of Egypt takes note of the comments of the Secretary-General's report on launching a peace-building mission in Somalia. While we appreciate the reasons and justifications that led the Secretary-General not to recommend deploying the mission to the country at this stage, we affirm that the United Nations must be ready to face the challenges and dangers it may confront in Somalia as it does elsewhere in the regions and countries where United Nations personnel are present. We cannot afford to wait for optimal security conditions to proceed with the deployment of the mission, especially as such reasoning would only lead us into a vicious circle dissipating any real hope of providing security, peace and welfare for the Somali people, who have known nothing but war and poverty for the last decade.”
2002-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4487Resumption1 (2002) · source
“If the international community is unable to take concrete steps to disarm and demobilize the militia elements whose intransigence obstructs the peace process - especially those in Mogadishu - then we expect the Council, at the very least, to take the initiative to implement its own resolutions by enforcing the arms embargo imposed by resolution 733 (1992) and by establishing a specific mechanism to monitor compliance with the embargo and to guarantee its enforcement. There is no excuse for the embargo imposed on Somalia to be the sole exception that elicits no interest, when we find the Council so eager to shoulder its responsibilities in enforcing the sanctions regimes it previously imposed on the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone, UNITA in Angola and others.”
2002-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4487Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Secondly, at a time when the efforts aimed at achieving national reconciliation are continuing and when the Transitional National Government is attempting to include as many of the factions as possible in the institutions established by the Arta process, those efforts are still being held hostage by the warlords to their personal interests, as well as by the armed hostilities that periodically erupt in different parts of the country.”
2002-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4487Resumption1 (2002) · source
“We therefore expect that the efforts the Council will be focused on the completion of the Arta process and the promotion of the national reconciliation process based on it. That should be done by encouraging and urging all Somali factions and groups to join the efforts of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in this framework, which we hope will be crowned with success at the reconciliation conference to be held at Nairobi next month. We also hope that the Council will invite all States that have influence on those factions to exercise that influence in a constructive manner so as to guarantee the participation of all Somali parties in the conference and ensure that it is a success.”
2002-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4487Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Mr. Aboul Gheit (Egypt) (spoke in Arabic): I would like at the outset to thank the Secretary-General for his latest report on the situation in Somalia. We also take this opportunity to welcome his decision to appoint Mr. Winston Tubman as his new Representative for Somalia. We wish Mr. Tubman every success in his efforts. We also wish to welcome Mr. Yusuf Hassan Ibrahim, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Somalia and wish him success in his efforts. Allow me here to highlight some specific points that are of importance to Egypt. First, in its presidential statement of 31 October 2001 (S/PRST/2001/30), the Security Council reiterated its support for the outcome of the Arta conference and the establishment of the Transitional National Government.”
2002-03-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4487Resumption1 (2002) · source
“This naturally leads us to demand once again a halt to all armed confrontation and the start of implementation of the Mitchell recommendations and the Tenet arrangements and all security plans and other agreements between the two parties in all their aspects. My country, Egypt, will continue to uphold this clear vision of how to achieve a just and comprehensive settlement to this conflict. It will continue to uphold its obligation to work seriously and constructively in order to effectively contribute to bringing about this noble objective - a comprehensive and just peace for all the peoples and States of the region.”
2002-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4478 (2002) · source
“These final and just objectives for a satisfactory settlement should be acceptable to all parties. We are fully confident that the Palestinian and Arab parties have adopted such an approach in all the stances and positions they have taken since the Madrid summit of 1991. What is left to be done is that the Israeli side should also announce its adoption of this approach. Any attempt to implement the final objectives in a conflict that has lasted for more than 100 years requires the return of the parties to the negotiating table. They also need to consider how to implement these objectives pragmatically.”
2002-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4478 (2002) · source
“The whole Middle East is aspiring to a permanent and comprehensive peace. For this peace to be achieved and to be permanent, Egypt stresses the need for the following elements. The first is a full Israeli withdrawal from Palestinian and other Arab territories occupied after 5 June 1967. Secondly, the Palestinians should be given the right to self-determination and the establishment of their own independent and viable State, with East Jerusalem as its capital. Thirdly, there should be mutual recognition of the right to security of all the peoples and States of the Middle East through agreed arrangements that are equitable for all parties. Fourthly, good-neighbourly relations and constructive cooperation among all people and States of the region should be established in all areas.”
2002-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4478 (2002) · source
“It should be equitable for both Palestinians and Israelis at the same time, so that both Palestinians and Israeli citizens can sleep at night in security and peace. The destruction of Palestinian institutions and the killing of Palestinian leaders and citizens will not halt the spiral of violence in the Middle East. The destruction of the Palestinian economy and infrastructure in the occupied Palestinian territories will not end the will of the Palestinian people to continue their struggle. Therefore, the Security Council faces a real challenge today - a challenge to the credibility of the international community's conscience, its capacity for fact-finding in the Palestinian territory and its ability to intervene to end the flagrant violence perpetrated by the Israeli occupying forces.”
2002-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4478 (2002) · source
“Peace in the Middle East cannot be permanent except through the full implementation of the relevant Security Council resolutions, in particular resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973), and the complete withdrawal from occupied Arab territories and the respect for the principle of land-for-peace according to the concept established in the Madrid Conference of 1991. Bringing about a permanent peace in the Middle East requires recognition of the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination and the establishment of an independent, Viable and secure Palestinian State on the occupied territory in the West Bank and Gaza, with East Jerusalem as its capital. Security cannot be the monopoly of one party.”
2002-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4478 (2002) · source
“The bombing, violence, destruction and death which the Palestinian people are living through in the West Bank and Gaza, the siege imposed on the legitimate leadership of the Palestinian people, the flagrant violent acts to which thousands of Palestinian civilians are exposed daily, the victims, killed and injured, are all due to the Israeli Government's belief that violence and repression alone are capable of suppressing the Palestinian people's legitimate rights to self-determination; that the Israeli occupation of S/PV.4478 Palestinian and Arab territories can continue; that the popular rising of the intifada seen in Palestine during the last 18 months can be put down by brute military force; and that violence can be perpetrated against innocent and unarmed Palestinians.”
2002-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4478 (2002) · source
“Mr. Aboul Gheit (Egypt) (spoke in Arabic): The Security Council is meeting today to consider the deteriorating situation in the occupied Palestinian territory. The situation has reached such a low that it has become impossible for the Security Council - the conscience of the international community and the voice of international legitimacy - to remain silent with regard to what is happening.”
2002-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4478 (2002) · source
“The second is the full and integrated implementation of the New Partnership for Africa's Development, as it is only through the alleviation of poverty, the inducement of economic growth and the promotion of sustainable development throughout Africa that we will be able to eradicate the root causes in which terrorism finds fertile ground to breed.”
2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460Resumption1 (2002) · source
“While we certainly find no justification whatsoever in resorting to military means to target any African State in the context of the ongoing response to the events of 11 September, we feel that the way ahead should focus on two priority areas. The first is assistance in the implementation of the OAU Convention on the Prevention and Combating of Terrorism, adopted at the Algiers Summit in 1999. Here, we feel that the Counter-Terrorism Committee established by Security Council resolution 1373 (2001) can play a useful role through a structured mechanism of interaction with the OAU.”
2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Fifthly and lastly, the tragic events of 11 September have left many in Africa sceptical and afraid that the international community may lose interest in the continent, changing its priorities and aspirations to others that may be deemed to be more immediate in nature. While we are confident that this will not be the case 4 as this important meeting amply demonstrates- we should also stress that the most effective way of ensuring that Africa remains the partner that it is in the global fight against terrorism lies in ensuring that Africa is a prosperous, peaceful and stable continent where terrorism will never find a home.”
2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460Resumption1 (2002) · source
“We are all in agreement that there has to be a minimum degree of peace for United Nations Blue Helmets to keep, but at the same time there will certainly be instances when the Council will be confronted with challenges in which it must take the calculated risk of deploying operations in conflict situations where there may be little peace to keep, but where operations may nonetheless assist in the implementation of a peace agreement or prevent a massive humanitarian crisis. In this context, the Council's response to the crisis that erupted in Sierra Leone in May 2000 is one that we hope will be emulated, should a similar challenge arise elsewhere in the continent.”
2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460Resumption1 (2002) · source
“While we have come a long way since that recognition, and while the United Nations has shown some inclination to assume its responsibilities through establishing and deploying operations such as the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone, the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea and the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, there is still an evident degree of hesitation on the part of the Security Council to assume its full responsibility in establishing operations in Africa when they are required, with the mandates they require and in the strength and size that they require.”
2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460Resumption1 (2002) · source
“While the OAU has been able in the past to deploy limited missions to a number of regions, the leaders of Africa clearly recognized, as long ago as 1993, that those conflicts that deteriorate to the extent of requiring collective international intervention and policing, the assistance or, where appropriate, the services of the United Nations will be sought under the general terms of the Charter.”
2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Here we would suggest, as a first step, that the Security Council also involve representatives of the OAU in the missions it dispatches to Africa. Perhaps the planned mission of the Council to Ethiopia and Eritrea in February can serve as a useful opportunity for putting such a mechanism into practice. Fourthly, the OAU certainly has little capacity to assume responsibility for peacekeeping; that is one area in which we feel that the Security Council should reassert its responsibility.”
2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460Resumption1 (2002) · source
“It was as recently as December 1999- at the end of a similar meeting organized by the Council and presided over by the Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom - that the conclusion was reached to try and institute regular and more structured consultation and coordination between the Council and the OAU and regional bodies. Suggestions put forward at the time included joint envoys and missions; staff exchange; working groups; and more regular meetings between the Security Council, the OAU and subregional bodies. Egypt believes that these conclusions are no less valid today than they were two years ago. The presence of Mr. Essy today is a welcome example of what can be done in this vein.”
2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460Resumption1 (2002) · source
“There is, however, a limit to what the OAU can attain, and it is thus incumbent on the Security Council not only to support the efforts of the OAU and the various initiatives undertaken by Africans at the regional and subregional level, but also to assume the primary responsibility when Africa is unable to bear the heavy burdens that accompany peace-making, peacekeeping and peace-building efforts. Thirdly, while there is clearly a need to objectively define what Africa expects from the United Nations and what the United Nations expects in return from Africa, there is also a need to institute a practical mechanism of consultation between the United Nations and the OAU. Such a mechanism already exists between the secretariats of the two organizations; it is now time to institute a similar one between the OAU and the Security Council.”
2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Accordingly, this responsibility must be exercised throughout Africa no less vigorously than it is being exercised in Afghanistan, East Timor, Kosovo, Bosnia and elsewhere. The Organization of African Unity (OAU) has played its part to the best of its ability. Through its Mechanism for the Conflict Prevention, Management and Resolution, it has undertaken a number of wide- ranging tasks. The OAU has been, and is still, deeply involved in efforts to resolve conflict and reduce tensions in the Comoros, Angola, Somalia, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and elsewhere.”
2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460Resumption1 (2002) · source
“For the Council to be truly responsive to Africa's needs, it must display the needed enthusiasm and take concrete measures commensurate with all of Africa's conflicts, and not just with some of its challenges. Secondly, while we are all in agreement that the Organization of African Unity, the various subregional organizations and individual African States have to assume growing responsibility for tackling their own problems and resolving their own conflicts, we must also be in agreement in affirming that Africa's efforts should in no way allow the United Nations in general or the Security Council in particular to abdicate their responsibilities towards the continent. We have all, as Member States, conferred upon the Council the primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security.”
2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460Resumption1 (2002) · source
“It is from this standpoint that we find that the Security Council's approach towards Africa has been lacking in uniformity and has been plagued by selectivity; given the interrelated nature of many of Africa's problems, there is no reason why the Council should be so eager to resolve the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea while ignoring the conflict in neighbouring Somalia; there is no rationale for the Council to play a primary role in the Democratic Republic of the Congo while assuming a secondary one in the Central African Republic to its north and in Burundi to its east; and there is no justification for the Council continuing its pivotal activities with respect to Sierra Leone while neglecting the growing insecurity within neighbouring Liberia and along that country's borders with Sierra Leone and Guinea.”
2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460Resumption1 (2002) · source
“First, the Security Council must not shy away from assuming its responsibilities in terms of addressing the various conflict situations that afflict the continent, and it must display the necessary political will in a uniform, consistent and non-selective manner, irrespective of the magnitude of the challenges that lie ahead. The Council must, first and foremost, implement what it has already pledged to do with regard to Africa, as reflected in the declaration adopted by the Council at the level of heads of State or Government in September 2000 (resolution 1318 (2000), annex).”
2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460Resumption1 (2002) · source
“We have seen how it has become the primary advocate in the struggle to eradicate the combined scourge of HIV/AIDS and malaria in Africa, and we have seen how it can play a pivotal role in harmonizing the many initiatives aimed at promoting Africa's economic and social recovery and at helping the continent to help itself. While those efforts are certainly welcome and appreciated, we must, however, ask ourselves whether the United Nations could in fact do more, and it is from that perspective that I would like to make the following specific remarks.”
2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460Resumption1 (2002) · source
“But before doing so, I would like to take this opportunity to recognize that the United Nations, through its organs and agencies, has indeed come a long way in re-establishing the primary role it played in Africa after the end of the cold war and revitalizing its performance in the numerous fields that have made it an indispensable partner of the continent. We have seen that the United Nations is indeed capable of displaying the required political will to contribute to the resolution of three of Africa's most destructive conflicts: those in Sierra Leone, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and between Ethiopia and Eritrea.”
2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460Resumption1 (2002) · source
“(spoke in English) The Secretary-General of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and its current Chairman have both spoken eloquently before this august Council on behalf of our continental organization and its member States. They highlighted the priorities on which the international community must focus in the coming period and the challenges that we must overcome in accordance with our collective responsibilities and duties under the Charter. It is for that reason that I would like to confine my statement to a number of specific remarks in terms of what we expect, or hope for, from the Security Council.”
2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Mr. Aboul Gheit (Egypt) (spoke in Arabic): It gives me great pleasure, Sir, to convey to you the sincere congratulations of His Excellency Mr. Ahmed Maher El Sayed, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Egypt, on your country's assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. We appreciate your presiding over this important meeting and your personal interest in organizing it. Since Mr. Maher El Sayed was unable to accept your generous invitation to participate in this meeting, it is my honour to deliver this statement on his behalf, given the importance and priority of the issue before us for the Government of Egypt.”
2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460Resumption1 (2002) · source
“While we welcome the coordinated and comprehensive approach taken by the Secretariat in support of the West African region, we would like to reaffirm the need to respect the delicate balance among the Security Council, the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and other United Nations bodies, in terms of their original mandates, their spheres of competence and their legislative mandates, in monitoring and supervising any activity carried out by the United Nations in implementation of the recommendations of the mission.”
2001-12-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4439 (2001) · source