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  1. “Mr. Amon-Tanoh (Cote d'Ivoire) (spoke in French): As this is the first time I take the floor before the Security Council since the sudden passing away of our compatriot and friend and Council members' colleague, Ambassador Bernard Tanoh-Boutchoue, Permanent Representative of Cote d'Ivoire to the United Nations, I would like to convey to members the gratitude of the President of the Republic, His Excellency Mr. Alassane Ouattara, and that of the people and the Government of Cote d'Ivoire for the sincere solidarity extended to our country by the Security Council, as well as for the Council's tribute to the deceased and for all the tokens of friendship that they continue to extend to his family and to our country. Allow me to congratulate your country, Mr.”

    2018-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8243 (2018) · source

  2. “The Council should provide increased support to entities in that fight, such as the Group of Five for the Sahel and the African Union Mission in Somalia, in which the United Nations is not ready to engage. In the light of the new challenges facing our States and the role the United Nations must play together with us, there is an urgency to forge ahead with Security Council reform in order to strengthen its legitimacy and its acceptance by all. Only a strong Security Council that reflects today's world will encourage States to shoulder their primary responsibility to maintain international peace and security.”

    2018-02-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8185 (2018) · source

  3. “These new developments oblige the United Nations to redefine its functions and methods by focusing on ways to prevent crises, expand partnerships and broaden the scope of its activities for peace and security. As Secretary-General Antonio Guterres underscored, "Prevention requires us to address root causes across the three pillars of the United Nations: peace and security, sustainable development and human rights. It must be the priority in everything we do." (A/7I/PV.60, p. 13) Cote d'Ivoire believes that the much-needed reform should also involve closer cooperation between the United Nations and regional organizations, which would be an asset in the fight against terrorism.”

    2018-02-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8185 (2018) · source

  4. “I would point to the most important steps, including a political agreement and the authorization of the parties prior to the deployment of the United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire; a sanctions regime, including an embargo against arms and diamonds, as well as individual sanctions; the authorization to use force to destroy heavy weapons threatening civilians; and respect for the political agreement and the ballot results certified by the United Nations. The international peace and security system, derived from the Charter, is at a crossroads. It should provide new responses to global challenges, such as terrorism and climate Change. My country calls upon the Council to take stock of its impact on international peace and security.”

    2018-02-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8185 (2018) · source

  5. “While those responses remain imperfect, they are in many cases the only ones that have saved millions of people and led to success in many countries, including Cambodia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mozambique, Namibia, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Sierra Leone, C6te d'Ivoire, Liberia and Haiti. My country can attest to the effectiveness of the range of provisions of the Charter concerning the maintenance of international peace and security when they enjoy the necessary legitimacy and legality and are accepted in good faith. The success of the United Nations Operation in cote d'Ivoire, which we celebrated in this Chamber, was the culmination of a process in which all the measures set forth in the Charter and adopted by the Security Council were put into practice in my country.”

    2018-02-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8185 (2018) · source

  6. “For my country, the use of force to maintain international peace and security must be authorized exclusively by the Security Council in order to give it the legal authority necessary to prevent any type of excess and abuse. The leaders of our world Organization and its Member States have always courageously found in the painful events we have faced, as well as in the Charter, the instruments and means to rebound and reform the system to maintain peace. It is hard to speak of the change in our Organization's response to global disorder without highlighting the profound and multidimensional transformations of peacekeeping operations, inspired by the lessons of the Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia and the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, which the Brahimi report (S/2000/809) brought to light.”

    2018-02-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8185 (2018) · source

  7. “That issue, which remains relevant, especially in the light of the paralysis of our Council when facing the most serious crises, is central to the doubts concerning the effectiveness of the instruments of the Charter. Indeed, the effectiveness of those instruments is sorely tested when confronting serious human rights violations and mass crimes such as those perpetrated in Somalia in 1993, Rwanda in 1994 and Bosnia in 1995, even though a peacekeeping operation was present on the ground. Beyond peacekeeping operations, the issue of the legality and necessity ofthe use of force also arises with regard to armed interventions by coalitions formed to act in the name of peace.”

    2018-02-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8185 (2018) · source

  8. “By signing the Charter of the United Nations in 1945, the founding Members sought to create a new world order based on multilateralism and its mission to make peace a universal common good, the preservation of which has been entrusted to the United Nations and the Security Council, within the framework of its fundamental responsibilities. The proliferation of intra-State conflicts and civil wars is straining the United Nations peacekeeping system, established during the Cold War, in response to the problem of global insecurity. It raises as a priority the question of the legitimacy, legality and necessity of the use of force against a Member State, without the prior authorization of the Security Council, in order to prevent civilian massacres.”

    2018-02-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8185 (2018) · source

  9. “To that end, we must make conflict prevention a key component in how the United Nations operates in the area of peace and security. My delegation encourages training in and support for early warning mechanisms put in place by subregional and regional organizations, and support for the establishment of prevention mechanisms by civil society structures. We must, however, recognize that the efforts of the international community to prevent conflict have not been enough to prevent the outbreak of conflicts in the world.”

    2018-02-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8185 (2018) · source

  10. “In that context, it is appropriate to highlight and commend the good offices of the Office of the Secretary- General, which constitute a fundamental element in conflict prevention and resolution through preventive diplomacy. The effectiveness of that instrument, however, lies in the ability of the Secretary-General to embody the moral authority of our Organization and his persuasive force, particularly in regard to the Security Council and General Assembly. Our Organization has transformed itself structurally so as to be able to detect the beginnings of conflict and ensure that conflict prevention and diplomacy are no longer discrete tools largely dependent on, inter alia, the good will of the parties and cooperation of neighbouring countries.”

    2018-02-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8185 (2018) · source

  11. “In such circumstances, it is necessary to assess the impact of the changing nature of conflicts and the emergence of new global threats on the effectiveness of the instruments of the Charter for the maintenance of international peace and security. Cote d'Ivoire is convinced that one of the greatest responsibilities of the international community today is the prevention of armed conflict, which, if properly managed, could save humankind from further suffering. It is in that spirit that the participants in the 2005 World Summit, held here at the United Nations, emphasized the pressing need to promote a culture of prevention.”

    2018-02-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8185 (2018) · source

  12. “The geopolitical changes of the world have reinforced the need to put the Charter and the Security Council at the centre of our reflections on international peace and security by going beyond the constraints of sovereignty - increasingly brandished by Member States - and prioritizing our obligation to end serious attacks on the right to life. The sustainability of the architecture of the maintenance of international peace and security is therefore based on the ability of the Charter to adapt to the requirements of each major period in history, as well as that of Member States to restore the strength of moral values in their relations.”

    2018-02-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8185 (2018) · source

  13. “Born from the resolve of States to protect people from further destructive conflicts, the United Nations is constantly working to maintain international peace and security. Its Charter advocates the peaceful settlement of disputes and regulates the use of the coercive measures it provides in the event of the persistence of a conflict. Our Council is therefore conversant with Chapters VI, VII and VIII of the Charter, in addition to the provisions of Articles 1 and 2 of Chapter I, on building and preserving peace.”

    2018-02-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8185 (2018) · source

  14. “President, 27 years after its liberation by an international coalition led by the Security Council, in accordance with the provisions of the Charter of our common Organization, is a strong symbol of the strength of our principles. My country, as a non-permanent member of the Security Council at that time, in 1990 and 1991, contributed significantly to the triumph of the law and the values enshrined in the Preamble to the Charter by playing a decisive role in the adoption of resolutions 678 (1990) and 687 (1991), seeking to end Iraq's annexation of Kuwait. C6te d'Ivoire's resolute affirmation of the founding principles of our Organization at a decisive moment in its existence reflects the deep values of my country and its faith in the ideal of the United Nations Charter.”

    2018-02-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8185 (2018) · source

  15. “Mr. Amon-Tanoh (Cote d'Ivoire) (spoke in French): At the outset, I should like to welcome the convening of this meeting on the maintenance of international peace and security and the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, the relevance and timeliness of which invites us to turn to the resources of the Charter and the Security Council for answers to the concerns of our world regarding peace and security. I also wish to express my sincere appreciation for the kind invitation to participate in this high-level meeting. I congratulate Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the quality of his statement, as well as the former Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, for his insightful contribution. The convening of this meeting by your country, Mr.”

    2018-02-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8185 (2018) · source

  16. “It must not make us forget that thousands of Ivorians have lost their lives so that the values ofpeace, unity, In conclusion. I would like to assure the Security conviviality and democracy might triumph in our Council of the determination of the Ivorian people to country. These women and men, torn from the bosoms of their families, and who will miss out on the work of perfecting our nation, forbid us forever to allow new tragedies to visit our country. The meeting rose at 4.35 pm. defend and preserve the peace so dearly won, with the support of the friends of Cote d'Ivoire.”

    2017-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7957 (2017) · source

  17. “As may well be imagined, the cooperation that binds my country to the United Nations will survive the closure of UNOCI and remain an important vehicle for the international community's support to the Ivorian people. To that end, we hope that more resources will be allocated to the country team so that it can fulfil its mandate in better conditions. At the same time, we call on our bilateral and multilateral partners to maintain their commitment to our country and to help us face the major challenges facing all nations today. Our friends must therefore remain more than ever mobilized alongside us in order to win together our tireless battles against poverty and youth unemployment, which are our Government's priorities. The success of UNOCI is the happy end to a painful sequence in the history of my country.”

    2017-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7957 (2017) · source

  18. “Our Government is working to that end through the full implementation of the Military Planning Law, whose adoption has been well received by professional soldiers. The success of the United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire and its closure will not slow down the pace of the Government's reforms. On the contrary, emphasis will be placed, inter alia, on consolidating the rule oflaw, strengthening the framework for combating impunity, and accelerating the appropriation of national reconciliation and social cohesion by the Ivorian people. Moreover, the President of the Republic is pursuing his policy of extending his hand and listening to the opposition, in the interests of the country.”

    2017-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7957 (2017) · source

  19. “After the final settlement of this issue by the Government and the adoption of strong measures for the benefit of the armed and security forces as a whole, ex-combatants no longer have any objective reason to disturb the tranquility of the Ivorians and the forward movement of the country. While they do not call into question the quality of my country's emergence from crisis or its important achievements, these ill-tempered movements remind us, as I said in February last year in this Chamber (see S/PV.7880), of the need to accelerate the reform of the security sector and the professionalization of the national army in order to identify and give several thousand soldiers a republican identity and ethos.”

    2017-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7957 (2017) · source

  20. “UNOCI leaves behind a stable and peaceful country endowed with strong and modern institutions, and whose economic dynamism, despite the difficult context of the cocoa market, allows the Government to make significant progress every day in fighting poverty and creating opportunities for its young people. Nonetheless, we are aware of the challenges ahead in the process of establishing stability and peace in our country once and for all. These include completing the construction of a genuinely homogeneous and republican national army. This process has been somewhat unsettled of late by ill-tempered movements of veterans claiming their bonuses.”

    2017-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7957 (2017) · source

  21. “It is also due to the exceptional synergy between UNOCI and the Government and to the unity and resolve of the Security Council and the international community, which have facilitated the implementation of the Council's resolutions in all confidence. I would also cite the strong human relations between the President of the Republic and the various Secretaries-General of the United Nations, the good relations established between the Department of Peacekeeping Operations and the Government, and the high quality of the Special Representatives appointed by the various Secretaries-General to Cote d'Ivoire. In that regard, I pay special and well-deserved tribute to Mrs. Aichatou Mindaoudou for her outstanding contribution to peace in my country and to the success of UNOCI.”

    2017-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7957 (2017) · source

  22. “I thank everyone for the kind words expressed to my country and for the welcome that was extended to us on our candidacy and thus our election to the Council. Allow me, in turn, to express to the Council and all the other States Members of our Organization the gratitude of the President, the Government and the nation of the Republic of C6te d'Ivoire. Time will certainly allow us to further clarify the elements that have led to the success of UNOCI. For the time being, we can rightly stress that the success of UNOCI arises from the convergence of several factors, including the political will and high sense of responsibility of the President of the Republic of Cote d'Ivoire, which have put the State and its resources at the service of peace in its country.”

    2017-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7957 (2017) · source

  23. “Today's celebration is of very special importance for us as it coincides with my country's election this morning as a non-permanent member of the Security Council for the 2018-2019 term. This is a symbolic moment, and we place great hopes on the lessons and experience drawn by Cote d'Ivoire from the 13 years of UNOCI's presence in my country and which will, in the course of our mandate in the Security Council, provide an example for other countries to follow. The meetings Ihave had with all the States Members of the United Nations over the past few months, and especially the past three weeks, have enabled us to share their expectations. We are confirmed in our decision to work within the Security Council in order to come up with coherent collective responses to the global challenges of our time through dialogue and mutual respect.”

    2017-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7957 (2017) · source

  24. “This is an opportune time for me to pay tribute to Secretaries-General Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon, who through their actions made a major contribution to resolving the crisis in Cote d'Ivoire. I would also like to pay tribute to the current Secretary-General and thank him for his support for my country in his previous functions and for the special attention that he has continued to pay to Cote d'Ivoire since his election. Our thanks also go to all the Member States that served on the Security Council during the crisis in my country and to all those that have made their troops available to UNOCI. In particular, I would like to pay tribute to those soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice for the return of peace to Cote d'Ivoire.”

    2017-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7957 (2017) · source

  25. “Mr. Amon-Tanoh (Cote d'Ivoire) (spoke in French): On behalf of the President of the Republic of C6te d'Ivoire, His Excellency Mr. Alassane Ouattara, and the Ivorian Government, I wish every success to the Bolivian presidency of the Security Council and pay tribute to Uruguay for the effective way in which it steered the deliberations of this important body last month. I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for the opportunity to address the Council on this occasion of historic importance to my country and the Organization. Indeed, rare are the moments when the success of a United Nations peacekeeping operation, such as that which brings us together today around the United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI), has been celebrated in the Chamber.”

    2017-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7957 (2017) · source

  26. “In his capacity as guarantor of our country's institutions, he will continue to work tirelessly to ensure the development of a modern, united and strong nation, led by rejuvenated Ivorians aware of the impact of their actions on the progress of their nation. In conclusion, on behalf of thc Ivorian people and the lvorian Government. 1 would like to once again reiterate to the members of the Security Council and to the entire United Nations system my sincere thanks and profound gratitude for the enormous sacrifices that have been made for my country.”

    2017-02-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7880 (2017) · source

  27. “The management of this situation demonstrated that we - the United Nations, regional economic communities and the African Union - must work together in order to ensure that democracy and the aspirations of peoples to freely choose their leaders prevail everywhere. UNOCI will remain a success story - a tremendous achievement whose lessons will inspire United Nations peacekeeping operations and the commitment of our Organization to peace around the world. The country that UNOCI will leave behind in June is a country that is standing on its own feet - a prosperous nation. It is the largest economy among the francophone countries of West Africa and one of the largest in the region. Its fate will be determined by the Ivorian people. The vision of the President of the Republic, which he has consigned me to convey, is clear.”

    2017-02-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7880 (2017) · source

  28. “As those present know, our candidacy was endorsed by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Union. It embodies the values that are at the heart of the work of the Security Council and of our Organization at a time when our world must show more solidarity and mutual understanding in the face of new threats. I would also like to take this opportunity to congratulate the Security Council on the steadfastness it has shown in managing the crisis in The Gambia and for its crucial support to ECOWAS. This made it possible to uphold the free choice of the people of The Gambia in electing President Adama Barrow.”

    2017-02-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7880 (2017) · source

  29. “Our country wishes to increase its participation in United Nations peacekeeping operations; in that regard, it is counting on the support of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations to strengthen the capacity of its forces in that area. Already, a deployable battalion will soon be able to participate in United Nations operations, with the help of our main strategic partners. Above and beyond that, and with its experience in crisis management and the philosophy of dialogue and peace - which has always underpinned its action in Cote d'Ivoire and throughout the world - the Ivorian Government asks Security Council members and all Member States to support its candidature for a non-permanent seat on the Security Council for the term 2018-2019 in the elections scheduled for June 2017.”

    2017-02-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7880 (2017) · source

  30. “We therefore welcome the deployment within the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali of the Senegalese rapid reaction force battalion, which has long served in our country, and whose capacities, together with those of all other forces, will be decisive against the terrorist groups that are destabilizing Mali and exerting great pressure in terms of security on our country and all the neighbouring countries of Mali. I have faith in our ability to go further in preventing the terrorist threat and strengthening the ability of our States to respond, if we remain unified. The countries represented here and the entire international community have given a great deal for the peace and reconstruction of Cote d'Ivoire. The time has come for Cote d'Ivoire to serve the cause of peace everywhere.”

    2017-02-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7880 (2017) · source

  31. “The Government now seeks to redistribute, through its inclusive development policy, the fruits of that growth to Ivorians, in particular to the most disadvantaged, while taking into account all the imperatives of development. The forthcoming drawdown of UNOCI should not end our collaboration. On the contrary, it should allow us to place our collective action in the framework of the fight against regional and global challenges. That includes terrorism, which struck my country in March 2016, following many others, and which constitutes a major threat to peace and security in our region and beyond. That notwithstanding, the terrorist attack in Grand-Bassam enabled my country to highlight the great ability of its forces to respond appropriately to this type of threat.”

    2017-02-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7880 (2017) · source

  32. “The President of the Republic, who is fully aware of these events, is working daily to resolve the deep- rooted causes. These measures also put the finishing touches on the ambitious reform of the security sector and consolidate the achievements of the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration process, which our country courageously carried out in record time and for which we provided more than 70 per cent of the funding. Cote d'Ivoire is riding an undying wind ofoptimism. The rate of growth of the gross domestic product over the past five years has been on average 9 per cent per year, and the cumulative amount of foreign direct investment remains high - an eloquent testimony to the renewed confidence of our partners in our country.”

    2017-02-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7880 (2017) · source

  33. “Cote d'Ivoire is a country that is secure and at peace. The mutinies of a small faction of the army, based on old demands of a corporate nature, cannot call that conclusion into question. However, they have motivated the Government, in particular through training and greater discipline, to accelerate the necessary professionalization of the armed and security forces with the entry into force of a law on military programming and internal security forces. The first decisions taken in that framework, which include the appointment of new leaders at all levels of our armed forces and security forces, as well as the improvement ofthe living and working conditions of our soldiers, will transform their daily lives and capabilities in a lasting way.”

    2017-02-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7880 (2017) · source

  34. “Since our last meeting (see S/PV.7681), the conditions that led to the lifting of the sanctions regime and the decision to draw down UNOCI have been consolidated further. The country inaugurated the Third Republic on 8 November 2016, following the adoption by referendum of the new Constitution on 30 October 2016. The Constitution of the Third Republic turns a final page on the crisis that our country experienced over the past decade. It strengthens national cohesion and the stability of the country. It provides Cote d'Ivoire with solid, credible and democratic institutions. That is demonstrated by the plurality of the first National Assembly of the Third Republic, which is characterized in particular by the return of the opposition and the presence of numerous figures in Parliament who are independent of political parties.”

    2017-02-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7880 (2017) · source

  35. “We also wish to congratulate and thank the entire staff of the United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) for its dedication to the cause of peace in our country. With four months ahead until the closure of UNOCI, on behalf of the Ivorian Government I take note with great interest of this thirty-eighth report of the Secretary- General and welcome the thorough implementation of resolution 2284 (2016), our road map. Since the adoption of that resolution, our country has undergone a substantial transformation that makes the definitive return to peace and our path towards development irreversible, in spite of the twists and turns that are inherent to the lives of nations and that can be seen around the world.”

    2017-02-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7880 (2017) · source

  36. “Mr. Amon Tanoh (Cote d'Ivoire) (spoke in French): At the outset, allow me to express on behalf of the President of the Republic of Cote d'Ivoire, His Excellency Mr. Alassane Ouattara, and the Government of Cote d'Ivoire, our best wishes for the succcess of the Ukrainian delegation during its presidency, and to pay homage to all Council members for their tireless efforts to maintain international peace and security. I would also like to reiterate the congratulations of the Ivorian Government to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for his outstanding election as head of our Organization. I also commend the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. A'ichatou Mindaoudou, for the quality of her briefing and the report submitted for consideration by the Council (S/2017/89).”

    2017-02-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7880 (2017) · source