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Baali

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“Also, the causes of conflict should be carefully analysed and properly addressed in order to avoid the same causes giving rise to the same effects. These causes are numerous, and often relate to poverty, a source of frustration, despair and bitterness, as well as to a lack of democracy and to poor administration of public affairs. Particularly in the case of Africa, they can also relate to the injustice established by brutal colonization that did not respect human beings or the subtle balances established over centuries. They can relate too to the consequences of poor choices that may have been made, when emerging from the darkness of colonialism, by public authorities facing immense challenges and expectations that were as complex as they were urgent.”
2001-02-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4272Resumption1 (2001) · source
“That applies, of course, to the Security Council, which under the Charter bears primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security. But it applies also to the General Assembly and to the Economic and Social Council, which have a major role to play, as well as to the funds and agencies ofthe United Nations and to the Bretton Woods institutions, without whose involvement any effort in this sphere will be doomed to failure. In addition to those key players, it is appropriate also to involve the States of the region concerned and regional and subregional political and economic groupings, which possess a keener knowledge of the situation on the ground and whose influence on the course of events can be decisive.”
2001-02-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4272Resumption1 (2001) · source
“We must think together about the methodology to be followed and about the means to be put in place so that, once peace is restored after a given conflict, a process of peace-building can immediately be set in motion with a view to attaining lasting peace and stability. In other words, we must formulate and set up a comprehensive, integrated long-term strategy; this requires methodical organization, effective coordination, strict follow-up and, obviously, adequate financing. To that end, it is useful if not imperative that certain conditions be met both in the preparation and in the implementation of such a strategy. First of all, all those whose contribution is needed should be involved and should be able effectively to make that contribution.”
2001-02-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4272Resumption1 (2001) · source
“I wish also to express my appreciation and admiration to Ambassador Kishore Mahbubani of Singapore for his enormously successful presidency of the Security Council at a time when he was taking his first steps as a freshly elected newcomer to the Council. The item, Mr. President, on which you have called for a transparent and democratic debate is a timely one, because it comes before the Council in the wake of the rich discussions held at the Millennium Summit and of those prompted by the report (S/2000/809) of the Panel on United Nations Peace Operations chaired by Mr. Lakhdar Brahimi; it also lies at the heart of the whole question of peacekeeping.”
2001-02-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4272Resumption1 (2001) · source
“Mr. Baali (Algeria) (spoke in French): The Algerian delegation is delighted and proud to see this most important of organs meeting under the presidency of the representative of a country with so many strong links to our own, links forged over the centuries both in the struggle against adversity and in generous and fruitful exchanges that today move us towards a shared destiny. My pleasure is all the greater because for many years I have had the privilege of knowing you, Mr. President, as a talented diplomat who has placed his intelligence and his heart at the service of the cause of justice and progress and who will wisely guide the work ofthe Council towards the success we anticipate.”
2001-02-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4272Resumption1 (2001) · source
“These are also, I am sure, the expectations of the international community as a whole, and the Security Council has no right to disappoint it.”
2000-10-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4204Resumption1 (2000) · source
“In particular, an end must be put to the use of real bullets against a defenceless civilian population. The Israeli security forces must also immediately withdraw from the plaza of Al-Haram Al-Sharif and allow the third holy place of Islam to regain its serenity and tranquillity, and they must also must withdraw from the Palestinian towns where they are deployed. Finally, Israel, as the administering Power, must be put on notice to respect the Fourth Geneva Convention and to guarantee the security and protection of Palestinian civilians. These are our expectations - the expectations of my country, Algeria, which has stood, continues to stand and in the future will stand united with the fraternal Palestinian people, and which believes firmly that peace is the right strategy for the settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”
2000-10-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4204Resumption1 (2000) · source
“And we all know that a just, lasting and comprehensive peace cannot be achieved without the total, definitive withdrawal of the Israeli forces from the territories that have been occupied since 1967 and without the restoration of the Palestinian people's national, legitimate rights, including its right to create its own independent State with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital. In this difficult time when Palestinian civilians are victims of the brutality of the occupying forces, it is important that the Security Council rise to its responsibilities and fulfil its role and its mandate with regard to the Palestinian people and international law. In this connection, the Council must see to it that, as soon as possible, a stop is put to the illegal actions that the Israeli occupying Power is engaging in.”
2000-10-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4204Resumption1 (2000) · source
“We all know that the originator of this terrible tragedy was the commander who ordered the massacre of Sabra and Shatila and the invasion and occupation of Lebanon. We all also know that what he wished to achieve from these acts of provocation - which led to the tragedy that the people in the occupied Palestinian territories are now undergoing - was to scuttle the peace process and wreck for ever the chance of achieving a just and final settlement of the Palestinian question.”
2000-10-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4204Resumption1 (2000) · source
“If these painful images that the cameras have brought into each of our living rooms and that still haunt us and will haunt us for ever, even in this Chamber of the Security Council - if these images can serve some purpose, it is to convince us that, on the one hand, it is not acceptable that children are targeted, and, on the other hand, that as a matter of urgency we must do all we can to see to it that this shameful butchery stops as soon as possible and that the civilian population that has been the victim of the brutality of the Israeli occupying forces is protected. The acts that triggered the tragic developments that have been occurring in Al-Quds Al-Sharif and the occupied territories since last Friday are well known, as are those who are responsible for it.”
2000-10-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4204Resumption1 (2000) · source
“We all saw live on our television screens the unbearable sight of that 12- year-old child who was cruelly killed despite the supplications of his father and his father's vain attempts to protect his son from the bullets of the Israeli soldiers. What is still worse is that even the ambulance worker who tried to help found himself caught in the crossfire of the Israeli army and was killed.”
2000-10-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4204Resumption1 (2000) · source
“Children and adolescents, armed only with their faith in the justice of their cause, and having nothing to protect themselves besides the pathetic means of defence that nature offers them, are, in effect, facing an incredible deployment of force involving tanks, missiles and helicopter gunships. The result of this obviously unfair confrontation - can we really talk about a confrontation? - is that scores of innocent people, including very young children, including even today a 10-year-old child in the Gaza Strip - have been killed in cold blood by bullets. Meanwhile, to fight their murderers these young people have had only their fists and their stones, and even the ambulances bearing the flag of the Red Cross have been fired at. Over these past days we have all witnessed this barbaric behaviour of another age.”
2000-10-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4204Resumption1 (2000) · source
“If this regrettable trend continues, we may one day find ourselves reduced to contemplating the famous statement of a French revolutionary: "All we have left is the right to keep quiet and there has been talk of stripping us of that". This situation only makes the reform of the Security Council even more urgent. Perhaps it is time for us seriously to tackle this question. For several days now the populations of Al-Quds Al-Sharif and the occupied Palestinian territories have been the objects of a repression the likes of which has rarely been seen since the intifada.”
2000-10-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4204Resumption1 (2000) · source
“For a number of States Members of this Organization, and certainly for its weakest and smallest, the United Nations remains the ultimate forum in which they can, in all freedom and without fear, express their opinions, their expectations and even their frustrations and anger when the international community is incapable of protecting women and children from the deadly madness of men in the Middle East, in Africa, Europe or elsewhere. To restrict the right to speak and to prefer the secrecy of consultations - which may occasionally prove to be useful and necessary - to frank, transparent and open debate is undemocratic and contrary to the very principles of our Organization.”
2000-10-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4204Resumption1 (2000) · source
“As if it were not enough that the Council's way of doing business already causes sufficient problems and that its methods already need revision and improvement, attempts are now being made to restrict access to it. I wish to remind the Council that it is my understanding and that of the States Members of this Organization that it is the absolute right of any Member State to call for a public meeting and that it is also the absolute right of any State to speak in a debate and to adopt the tone it deems appropriate.”
2000-10-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4204Resumption1 (2000) · source
“I should like to make a few comments concerning the way the Security Council functions and its attitude towards deciding the timeliness of convening or not convening a formal meeting. Increasingly, the consultations of the Council have indeed been delayed and dragged out beyond measure over the question of whether or not to meet in public, even when a request for such a meeting has been submitted by one or several regional groups; over the principle of whether or not to involve non-members of the Council; over the issue of whether or not to limit, out of considerations that are not always well founded, the right of certain countries to speak; and even over the merit of calling on speakers to adopt a particular tone in debates.”
2000-10-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4204Resumption1 (2000) · source
“Mr. Baali (Algeria) (spoke in French): Despite the tragic circumstances in which this first meeting of the Security Council under your presidency, Sir, is being held, I should like to express my joy and pride at seeing you, a worthy son of Africa, following another worthy son of Africa at the helm of the Council. I am convinced that the great professional and human qualities that all of your colleagues recognize in you will enable you to conduct the work of the Council as brilliantly as did your predecessor, my brother Ambassador Moctar Ouane of Mali - who has earned our gratitude and admiration - during a particularly busy month, when heads of State and Government honoured us with their presence, including in this very Chamber. I thank you for the opportunity to participate in these deliberations.”
2000-10-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4204Resumption1 (2000) · source
“Kabila, during both the Algiers summit and the Security Council mission, to extend his Government's support to the facilitator. This is an important development that should help launch dialogue among the Congolese, the success of which will surely ensure the success of the peace process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as a whole. We believe that the settlement of practical matters relating to this, such as the choice of venue, participants and timetable for the dialogue, should be made as soon as possible. In this connection, the importance of this aspect of settling the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo requires the international community to give facilitator Masire its full political and financial support. The success of the peace process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo depends on it.”
2000-05-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4143 (2000) · source
“We are particularly encouraged by the progress achieved in recent weeks in the peace process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In this regard, the conclusion of an agreement between Rwanda and Uganda on the practical modalities for their 100- kilometre withdrawal from the Congolese town of Kisangani, as well as the provisions made in the course of the Security Council mission to the region last week, reflect the will of the parties to move irreversibly forward to strengthen the ceasefire and to create conditions conducive to deploying MONUC. The visit of Sir Ketumile Masire to rebel-held areas - his first since his designation as facilitator of the inter-Congolese dialogue - also represents a positive development following the commitment undertaken by Mr.”
2000-05-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4143 (2000) · source
“We pay tribute here to all countries that have contributed troops to MONUC. Their commitment is what has allowed the Department of Peacekeeping Operations to prepare for phase II. We wish to stress in particular the contribution made by Italy of air and river transport units, which will be decisive to the success of the Mission. On this occasion, we invite other countries with the means and equipment sufficient and appropriate to MONUC's needs to follow Italy's example. Similarly, we hope that the appeals regularly issued by the Department of Peacekeeping Operations for specialized units and equipment for air traffic control, fuel storage, first aid and fire-fighting will soon be heeded, especially by the developed countries.”
2000-05-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4143 (2000) · source
“We wish to encourage this while adding our voice to those who recommend that the lessons learned from other peace missions be taken fully into account in the context of the Congo. In stressing the need for speed in the deployment of the protection and logistic units of MONUC, we wish to emphasize the importance of the equipment and weapons that this force must have if it is to fulfil its mandate in the best possible conditions. The precarious state of the infrastructures and means of communication in the Democratic Republic of the Congo requires movement and transport capacities to be strengthened and adapted. An additional effort is essential in this respect to make these means available on time in order to ensure the deployment of forces within the agreed time-frame.”
2000-05-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4143 (2000) · source
“While stressing the need to accelerate preparations for creating the conditions necessary to holding the inter-Congolese dialogue under the facilitation of Sir Ketumile Masire, the summit appealed to the Council to hasten the deployment of MONUC, a prerequisite for consolidating the ceasefire and strengthening the peace efforts. The implementation of resolution 1291 (2000), in which the Security Council authorized the deployment of phase II of MONUC, should indeed be accelerated if we wish to avoid new disappointments in the Congo. In this connection, we are aware of the efforts being made by the Department of Peacekeeping Operations to complete the preparations for this deployment. We also know that the preparation of the groundwork for sending troops and equipment for phase II has made major progress.”
2000-05-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4143 (2000) · source
“The Algiers summit made it possible to carry out an exhaustive evaluation of the progress achieved in the implementation of the peace process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to reiterate the validity of the Lusaka Agreement and to call upon all the parties to the conflict to respect its provisions until peace is restored in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Great Lakes region. The Algiers summit also issued an appeal to States members of the OAU to contribute to the peace efforts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and announced the offers of troops made by South Africa and Nigeria to the United Nations.”
2000-05-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4143 (2000) · source
“In its capacity as an African country and as Chairman-in-Office of the OUA, Algeria is following with special attention developments in the peace process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to which, as members know, it actively contributes, whether through military observers or financing of the Joint Military Commission. It is in this context that the Chairman-in-Office of the OAU took the initiative of organizing a summit meeting on the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Algiers on 30 April, in which the Presidents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria and South Africa, the representative of the President of Zambia, the Secretary-General of the OAU, the facilitator, Mr. Masire, and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations participated.”
2000-05-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4143 (2000) · source
“Its accomplishment as quickly as possible will actually make a decisive contribution to strengthening the current ceasefire, to developing confidence among parties and thus to the orderly implementation of all the other provisions of the Lusaka Agreement, which remains the only guarantee of a return to peace in the region. In this connection, we welcome the entry into force of the ceasefire and disengagement agreement concluded at Kampala on 8 April 2000 by the Political Committee, and the signing of the status-of-forces agreement between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the United Nations. These two important achievements reflect the determination of the parties, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to move forward in the implementation of the Lusaka Agreement and constitute fresh proof of their commitment to peace.”
2000-05-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4143 (2000) · source
“The Council's visit, nevertheless, has enabled the representatives of the Council - and we welcome this - to transmit a message of the commitment of the international community to peace in the Congo and in the Great Lakes region in general, and also to take note once again of the formal commitment of the parties to the faithful and complete implementation of the Lusaka Agreement and to note firsthand the obstacles that emerge on the path to peace. The report prepared following that visit clearly shows that the rapid and complete deployment of phase II of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) remains more than ever the absolute priority.”
2000-05-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4143 (2000) · source
“That special meeting, in which the American presidency of the Council invested so much, has actually started to have an impact and to be reflected in concrete actions on the ground. This progress should be preserved and strengthened so that the momentum of peace created in this matter can be maintained and preserved. The recent useful and in many respects timely visit which members of the Council made to the region is precisely within this context. We would have wished that the ambassadors who visited Africa would be present today to hear our views on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I realize that they must be occupied with other important tasks, but I would have hoped that they would have been here to hear the views of the OAU.”
2000-05-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4143 (2000) · source
“Despite the appeals for a ceasefire by the Security Council and the Chairman-in-Office of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), fighting that has caused considerable loss of life continues to rage, and we can only express our dismay and sadness at this tragedy, which the OAU, with the support of the United Nations, the United States and the European Union, had for months sought to prevent by patiently laying the groundwork for dialogue between the opposing parties. Four months since the special meeting, organized by the Security Council on 26 January, major progress has been made in the implementation of the process to bring about a settlement of the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by the parties and the international community alike.”
2000-05-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4143 (2000) · source
“Mr. Baali (Algeria) (spoke in French): I thank you, Mr. President, for having organized this meeting to assess the developments in the peace process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo following the recent visit by the Security Council delegation to Africa. It is true that today's meeting is being held within a particularly serious context, at a time when the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone is being severely tested and when armed confrontation between Ethiopia and Eritrea has resumed, ending the de facto ceasefire which held for more than a year.”
2000-05-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4143 (2000) · source
“Increasing UNAMSIL's troop strength and giving it the weapons it needs is an essential imperative today. I should like to inform the Council of the willingness of certain members of ECOWAS, clearly stated at their 9 May summit in Abuja, to make the necessary troops available to the United Nations to strengthen its Mission in Sierra Leone. Countries with the necessary resources should, for their part, offer an appropriate logistic and financial contribution to UNAMSIL so that it can best discharge its revised mandate. This is a matter of urgency. There is danger in delay. Africa is willing to shoulder its share of the responsibility. It expects the Security Council to react firmly and resolutely, commensurate with the grave situation in Sierra Leone and its challenges.”
2000-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4139 (2000) · source
“We would therefore solemnly appeal to the Council to review urgently the UNAMSIL mandate and then adopt a new resolution placing UN AMSIL action within the context of Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, making it a peace-enforcement mission. What we ask of the United Nations is, of course, not to wage war against the rebellion, but rather that the Mission have the mandate, troops and weapons necessary to defend itself against attack by the enemies of peace. The United Nations soldiers have become the targets of rebel attacks. The force must also be able to discharge its mission to ensure and monitor compliance with the provisions of the Peace Agreement of 7 July 1999 and to protect the people against further outbreaks of violence.”
2000-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4139 (2000) · source
“Need I recall here that the many appeals by ECOWAS for significant international logistic and financial assistance for ECOMOG went unanswered? Troop contributors to ECOMOG, particularly Nigeria, had to finance out of their own national resources a very burdensome operation without the strong material support they were entitled to expect from the international community. This test of UNAMSIL shows very clearly that the mandate and resources available to it are not and never were adequate to the situation. We must all recognize here that, with the mandate and pathetically small resources at its disposal, that force is unable to preserve the peace in Sierra Leone or even to protect itself against provocation and acts of violence.”
2000-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4139 (2000) · source
“Less than a year ago, after much effort, ECOWAS was able, thanks to Togolese mediation and the spirit of compromise demonstrated by the legitimate Government of Sierra Leone, to see the Lome Peace Agreement concluded. This welcome development was to put an end to years of devastating civil war, a cycle of particularly brutal violence that reached its nadir in January 1999, when rebels attacked Freetown. Sacrifices made by the ECOWAS Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) force allowed it, at a difficult moment, to repel the attackers and protect people who had already been so sorely tried against further horror. Here, I would pay a well-deserved tribute to that force, whose work was a decisive factor in making the RUF rebels and Johnny Paul Koroma's partisans sit at the negotiating table and conclude the Lorne Agreement on 7 July 1999.”
2000-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4139 (2000) · source
“Our Organization's credibility is being seriously challenged, and it is in danger of having its authority reduced and its role in conflict settlement and the maintenance of international peace and security challenged. After the tragedies of Rwanda and Bosnia, the United Nations cannot afford another failure today. Images of Blue Helmets taken hostage, used as human shields or stripped of their weapons and uniforms by gangs of bandits are not acceptable. They are the very negation of all of the values that this world Organization personifies and a signal to the enemies of peace that the United Nations is not an institution that must always be respected or, if necessary, feared, but that it is a mere scarecrow, unable to make itself felt and to command respect.”
2000-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4139 (2000) · source
“In this context, in a message to the summit meeting of countries members of the ECOWAS follow-up committee, which met in Abuja on 9 May, he condemned the acts of violence and hostage taking against United Nations personnel, calling them intolerable attacks against UNAMSIL and against the commendable efforts of the international community to promote the implementation of the Lome Peace Agreement. What is happening today in Sierra Leone is one of the most serious crises ever to face the United Nations, at a time when it is just beginning to find its feet in a constantly evolving world in which it is called upon to become increasingly involved in the continent.”
2000-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4139 (2000) · source
“Faced with this challenge, our Secretary-General has actively sought to find ways and means of ensuring an appropriate reaction by the international community so as to establish a rapid reaction force that could reverse the events in Sierra Leone, and I pay him special tribute for doing so. We also know that he has constantly been in touch with African leaders, in particular the current Chairman of the OAU, in an attempt to find a way out of the crisis. President Bouteflika has, for his part, spared no effort since the beginning of the crisis, maintaining frequent contact with the leaders in the region, particular the leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), in order to cope with the challenge of the actions of the RUF.”
2000-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4139 (2000) · source
“It must also, as soon as possible, regain its prestige and credibility and restore its image, which has been so seriously damaged by the criminal acts of a band of outlaws. In Africa, we see these indescribable actions by the RUF as a serious setback to the cause of peace - which, thanks to work of our pan-African organization, had seen significant progress in past months - and as an unacceptable affront to the United Nations and an even more serious affront to the very concept of the maintenance of peace in the world in general and on our continent in particular.”
2000-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4139 (2000) · source
“Today, according to the information we have received, more than 230 UNAMSIL troops are still detained by the rebel movement, and an equal number are still missing. The people of Sierra Leone, who have undergone the worst of horrors and suffered enormously over the past eight years, are once again faced with the murderous madness of the men of Mr. Sankoh, whose commitment under the Lome Agreement was supposed to make him into a positive actor in the rebuilding of a new Sierra Leone. Faced with this unacceptable challenge, the United Nations must be extremely firm and act with all the determination that the seriousness of the situation requires. Clearly, it must demand and obtain the unconditional release of all UNAMSIL personnel currently in the hands of the RUF, and it must hold that movement responsible for their safety and well-being.”
2000-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4139 (2000) · source
“I should like to pay a well-deserved tribute on this solemn occasion to those countries that have contributed troops to the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) and to convey the sincere condolences of Algeria and the OAU for the lives lost during the tragic events that have taken place recently in Sierra Leone. Today, our Organization faces an extremely grave challenge. It is threatened as never before, in body and in soul, in its role as the last bulwark against injustice and arbitrary action, and in its action and will to preserve peace and security and to ensure that reason prevails. Over the past few days, we have witnessed an unprecedented explosion of violence in Sierra Leone caused by the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels, whose principal target was the United Nations Mission in that country.”
2000-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4139 (2000) · source
“Mr. Baali (Algeria) (spoke in French): First of all, I should like to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this important meeting on Sierra Leone in these particularly grave circumstances. On behalf of the current Chairman of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and on my own behalf, I should like to congratulate you warmly on your assumption of the presidency of the Council. I should also like to wish you well in your difficult and noble mission. I congratulate your predecessor, Ambassador Robert Fowler of Canada, on having so ably presided over the work of this Council last month.”
2000-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4139 (2000) · source
“In this regard, the Organization of African Unity is prepared not only to make its contribution, but also to provide its commitment. However essential these conditions may be, they should not be at the expense of another equally essential element: steadfast and scrupulous respect for the independence and sovereignty of the States concerned in these processes. Those principles are clearly established in the Charter that governs our Organization. In manifesting such respect, United Nations missions would enjoy greater support throughout the world and would, thanks to that legitimacy and support, gain credibility and effectiveness.”
2000-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4118 (2000) · source
“However, for practical and other reasons having to do with respect for the prerogatives and competencies of each of the United Nations bodies, the Economic and Social Council must be involved every time a question touches on economic and social development. At the dawn of this new millennium, the universal mission of the United Nations is being increasingly validated and reinforced, thereby giving the Organization broader activities and missions to carry out in the service of the community of nations. Post-conflict peace-building, given the diversity of the missions and actions it encompasses, must take place in a political context and optimal operational conditions in order to be effective. That context requires, among other things, the full and ongoing cooperation of the parties concerned and, clearly, of regional organizations.”
2000-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4118 (2000) · source
“Finally, the inclusion of post-conflict peace-building elements in the mandates of peacekeeping operations should not be seen merely as an operational measure to support the peacekeeping effort and to prevent the spread of conflict or the resurgence of war. While operational imperatives and the need to take quick decisions mean that the Security Council must assume a leading role, it should be pointed out that peace- building activities are not and cannot be the sole purview of the Security Council. The General Assembly has a key role to play here. We should recall that, during the discussions held in response to the proposals contained in the Secretary-General's 1995 "Supplement to an Agenda for Peace", a clear majority of Member States said they were in favour of entrusting these activities to the General Assembly.”
2000-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4118 (2000) · source
“Thirdly, the mobilization of adequate financial and technical resources by international financial institutions, in particular by the World Bank, should be encouraged and steadily continued so as to ensure the significant support of these institutions for the efforts of the international community. The other programmes and agencies of the United Nations system - such as the World Food Programme, the United Nations Children's Fund, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the World Health Organization - should continue to play an important role in providing expertise and resources, while they seek to improve coordination of their activities.”
2000-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4118 (2000) · source
“Secondly, this comprehensive vision requires at least two essential conditions. First of all, disarmament and demobilization should be carried out by the parties to a peace or ceasefire agreement and through direct cooperation with the United Nations peacekeeping mission, which should have a sufficiently broad mandate to enable it to carry out its tasks. Reintegration should then be given greater attention, for the reasons we have given here, and should in future be financed through United Nations mission resources and no longer on the basis of voluntary contributions, which are so unpredictable and often fall short of the requirements of operations. It remains understood that the practice of setting up special trust funds could be continued, but such funds should provide assistance supplementary to the main effort.”
2000-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4118 (2000) · source
“After this relatively brief overview, I would like to share with the Council some observations that I hope will be useful to its deliberations. First, the inclusion of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programmes into peacekeeping operations should take place on the basis of a clear, concerted approach that includes the authorities of the country concerned as an element of the post-conflict peace-building effort. Disarmament, demobilization and reintegration measures can take place only within the framework of a broader programme and as part of an effective and ambitious peace-building strategy. Those measures, which are essentially operational in nature and aimed at preventing a resumption of hostilities, should be part of a more global vision that addresses deals with the real causes of conflict.”
2000-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4118 (2000) · source
“The unpredictable nature of these funds contrasts with the importance of the overall financial effort deployed in the context of the peacekeeping operation, considering that the financing of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration represents a relatively small amount compared to the overall resources committed. In our view, this situation deserves in-depth discussion on how the financing of these programmes can as a rule be included in peacekeeping budgets, particularly with regard to the reintegration component. Once the burden of having to find financing had been lifted, the implementation of these extremely important programmes could then be carried out according to a predetermined plan and finalized by offering ex-combatants in the programmes the possibility of true reintegration into productive society.”
2000-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4118 (2000) · source
“The implementation of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programmes, particularly in Africa, relates to a crucial problem that recent experience has highlighted: the financing of operations to reintegrate ex- combatants. This is the third phase of the process - after demobilization and disarmament - and, despite its important and decisive impact on the success of the entire post-conflict peace-building effort, it has thus far not been dealt with properly on an ongoing basis. It is regrettable that the financing of these programmes, and in particular the aspect relating to the reintegration of ex-combatants into civil society, is dependent on special trust funds and on international appeals.”
2000-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4118 (2000) · source
“The lessons learned from recent experience highlight the difficulty of making real progress in the areas of demobilization and disarmament if we do not control and channel these illicit flows of arms, which foster tension and make it possible for various rival groups to rearm and to rebuild their potential to wage war. It is therefore essential that, simultaneously with the process of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the framework of MONUC, the question of the illegal circulation of weapons in the Great Lakes region be considered based on a regional approach, and that the effectiveness of the arms embargo imposed by the Council on groups in the region be the subject of constant scrutiny and improvement.”
2000-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4118 (2000) · source
“Disarmament operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are made even more difficult by the fact that the situation in the country is related to a regional and international problem that will be the subject of a United Nations conference in 2001: the illicit circulation of small arms and, in some cases, the violation of arms embargoes imposed by the Security Council. The proliferation of armed groups and bands in the Great Lakes region has been made possible in recent years by the availability of significant and uncontrollable quantities of arms.”
2000-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4118 (2000) · source