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  1. “The most concrete support that can be given to that process is to enable this force to operate and to create the conditions that will allow Cote d'Ivoire to return to full normalcy and peace and to be able - at the end of the process, in October 2005 - to conduct credible, free and fair elections, which we believe will be the most effective way of bringing this crisis to an end. I am grateful for the opportunity to have addressed the Council.”

    2003-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4746 (2003) · source

  2. “We are very grateful to the President and the other members of the Council for the opportunity they have given us to present our case and to say one fundamental thing: Cote d'Ivoire is an extremely important nation within the West African region. Both economically and politically, it is one of the most important States in West Africa. The Ivorians themselves have shown a willingness to try to find accommodation and understanding among themselves within the context of the very difficult circumstances in which they have found themselves during the last six months. It is our belief that it is the duty of the Community - and, indeed, if I dare say so, the duty of the international community as assembled here in the Council - to support the process that the Ivorians themselves have initiated.”

    2003-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4746 (2003) · source

  3. “Despite the willingness of ECOWAS to find a home-grown solution to the problem, the means available to the Community are not what they should be. It is for that reason that the Mediation and Security Council decided to mandate this group that is before the Council today to tour certain capitals and to come to this body to seek its support for the financing of this expanded force in Cote d'Ivoire. We began our journey yesterday in Washington, where, in our view, we had an extremely fruitful interchange. We have come here today, and from here we shall be going to Europe - principally to Paris, Rome, Berlin, London, The Hague and Brussels - to press the case for assistance in financing the force. The intention is to conclude our tour at Brussels on 12 May with a meeting of those who are interested in assisting - a donors' conference.”

    2003-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4746 (2003) · source

  4. “The mandate given to the original force was essentially a role in monitoring the ceasefire. It has now been decided that that mandate should be transformed to include several other elements: first, the protection of the new Government; secondly, the ability to patrol the borders, especially the western border of Cote d'Ivoire, which is a source of great concern; thirdly, responsibility for the demobilization and disarmament of the various militias in Cote d'Ivoire; and, lastly, the creation of the conditions that would allow the new Government to have full control of the national territory. Clearly, the redefinition of this mandate and the expansion of the force have obvious financial implications.”

    2003-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4746 (2003) · source

  5. “It has done so principally, first of all, by negotiating a ceasefire among those who are fighting, and also by contributing to the negotiations on a new Government of national reconciliation in Cote d'Ivoire. That Government is now in place, and the developments that have taken place since it came into being are convincing all of us that, indeed, Cote d'Ivoire is now returning to the path of normalcy and peace. It is, therefore, essential on the part of the Community to give the new Government and that process the maximum amount of support. It is in the light of that that the Defence and Security Commission of ECOWAS decided that it would be necessary to expand the force that was put into cote d'Ivoire from a force of 1,200-odd soldiers to a force of some 3,200 soldiers.”

    2003-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4746 (2003) · source

  6. “We are here as a result of a mandate given to us by the Mediation and Security Council of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to try to advance the peace process in Cote d'Ivoire. On 7 April, the Council mandated a team of Foreign Ministers of five ECOWAS countries - Guinea, a member of the Security Council, Senegal, Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana - to come to the West to apprise Governments and the Security Council of the measures that are being taken to try to consolidate the process of peacemaking in Cote d'Ivoire and to seek the Council's support for those measures. As the Council knows, since the crisis broke out in Cote d'Ivoire, ECOWAS has been active, within its means, to try to contain and stabilize the situation in cote d'Ivoire.”

    2003-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4746 (2003) · source