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Baudin

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1999-09-30
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1999-09-30
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  1. “One is particularly persistent; I was thinking about it all night and again this morning. It leads me to remind the Council of a famous sentence by Mirabeau, one of the great orators of the French revolution, who said that in this world a defence can be found for anything - except inconsistency. I hope that as the twentieth century reaches its end we can together reflect on that truth.”

    1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source

  2. “We are continuing our work in this field, with the support of friendly countries, and in cooperation with the United Nations and the OAU. As the Council knows, since its independence Senegal has been contributing contingents to United Nations peacekeeping operations in Africa and elsewhere. We are determined to continue our excellent cooperation with the United Nations in this framework in order to ensure peace and security in the world. The resilience of African aspirations is such that the international community must act quickly and well. While we are of necessity convinced of this need, since everyone knows the facts of the African problems, some must move beyond the simple reflex reaction of posing the problems, without any real will to find the proper solutions. I had almost finished, but some student memories keep coming to mind.”

    1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source

  3. “Thanks to their cooperation, and the efforts of Japan and other friendly countries in this field, we have succeeded in training thousands of peacekeeping troops and in improving and increasing our logistic resources. Significant progress has been made in this field, thanks to the commitment of African countries and the support of our partners. Joint military manoeuvres have been organized among the armed forces of the countries of our subregion in order to train for possible future crises. The United States initiative to respond to crises in Africa, and the tripartite initiative of France, the United States and the United Kingdom to strengthen African peacekeeping capacities, known by the acronym RECAMP, have made African countries better equipped to participate in peacekeeping operations and in crisis prevention and management.”

    1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source

  4. “Given the drastic decline in official development assistance, the low level of financial flows towards Africa - approximately 3 per cent of global flows - the intolerable debt and debt servicing burden, which erodes the erratic and steadily declining income from exports, and the many obstacles to access of African exports to world markets, it is important that the United Nations and the international community strengthen their support for the continent and that exceptional efforts be made for the African countries involved in the twofold process of economic and political reform. Before concluding, I wish to restate sincerely my country's gratitude to our partners and friends - France, the United States and the United Kingdom - for their joint initiative in supporting our peacekeeping and conflict management efforts in Africa.”

    1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source

  5. “I also commend the Secretary-General's proposal to create a group composed of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the United Nations to study special support mechanisms for countries in a post- conflict situation, or those countries that are overwhelmed by waves of refugees created by instability in their region. It is of the utmost importance, in this framework, to take into account the situation of child soldiers. My delegation will have the opportunity to return to the question of the follow-up of recommendations of an economic and social nature in the report of the Secretary- General when it is examined in the General Assembly. Nonetheless, I want to emphasize the serious development constraints facing our countries.”

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  6. “How many crises did we considered resolved, only to see them re-emerge because of a lack of vigorous support for Governments to build peace and reconstruct what had been destroyed. If truth be told, post-conflict management remains one of the weak points of our joint action. It is hard to understand that countries emerging from a conflict should be treated routinely when it comes to assistance, financing or debt management, for example. They ought to enjoy special treatment; this is a fundamental prerequisite to ensure the success of efforts at reconstruction, reintegration of ex-combatants and national reconciliation.”

    1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source

  7. “To this end, my country wishes to appeal to our development partners for a considerable increase in the resources available to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), given the immensity and complexity of the UNHCR's tasks and responsibilities. My country, which actively participated in the adoption of the ECOWAS Moratorium on the Import, Export and Manufacturing of Small Arms, remains prepared to participate in the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms and to contribute to the establishment of appropriate regional and subregional registries. In the same spirit, we will be contributing to the success of the OAU regional conference on small arms decided upon by the Algiers summit. Equal importance should be attached to post-conflict peace-building.”

    1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source

  8. “Mechanisms for the exchange of information between the United Nations and OAU and between the United Nations and subregional organizations - the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC), for example - should be considerably improved. Even though the primary responsibility of maintaining security and the civilian and humanitarian character of refugee camps and areas always lies with the host State, the international community is duty bound to assist governments in this task and, above all, to bear the bulk of the costs to African States whose financial and logistic capacities are limited.”

    1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source

  9. “It is pleased also that the Security Council has decided: to strengthen its support for regional and subregional initiatives for the prevention, management and settlement of crises in Africa; create a support mechanism for the governments of host countries to enable them to maintain and preserve the security and neutrality of refugee camps; and to strengthen African peacekeeping capabilities. The provisions of Security Council resolution 1197 (1998), concerning the establishment within OAU of an early warning system based on the model currently being used by the United Nations and the strengthening of the OAU conflict management centre, must be implemented with all the required resources. Similarly, contributions should be made to finance the United Nations Trust Fund for that purpose and the OAU Peace Fund.”

    1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source

  10. “I must mention also the dangerous attempts by some countries to revise their border policies and their relations with neighbours. Revising borders calls into question the principle that the borders inherited from the colonial period must not be touched. These conflicts are made even more difficult by the huge rise in banditry, illicit trafficking in narcotics and psychotropic substances and the uncontrolled circulation of arms, especially small arms and light weapons, in a continent characterized by porous borders. Obviously the list cannot be exhaustive because there are so many explanations of the sources of tension and conflicts are multiple, complex and interacting. My delegation is pleased that the Secretary-General has taken the specificity of the African situation in his analysis and recommendations into account.”

    1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source

  11. “In addition to the conventional types of conflict which still persist, there are conflicts of a new type; they are a new generation of more complex conflicts, with new protagonists, stemming from domestic contradictions. Examples of this latter type are: fratricidal, political struggles between the opposition and those in power, with the militias in between, in defiance of the democratic rules of the game and the legally established constitutional order; mutinies by factions of national armed forces which start out as simple material or financial claims and mutate into political demands; the ethnicization of political and social life; the heightening of identity-related conflicts; and the problems stemming from the difficulties involved in managing armed ethnic bands, especially in refugee camps.”

    1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source

  12. “My delegation welcomes the high quality of the report of the Secretary-General (S/ 1999/ 1008) and we are delighted at the remarkable follow-up work by the Security Council, the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and the other organs and institutions of the United Nations on the recommendations contained in his earlier report (S/1998/318). We welcome also the important statement made within this forum by the Secretary-General of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), Dr. Salim Ahmed Salim, on the situation in Africa. It is of utmost priority that we should continue our consideration of the potential sources of conflict in Africa because the situation on the continent is evolving very rapidly.”

    1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source

  13. “Mr. Baudin (Senegal)(spoke in French): Mr. President, allow me to congratulate you on your well- deserved election. We in Senegal attach particular importance to it as we know both you and, of course, your country. Peace, security, political stability, the democratic rule of law and respect for fundamental human rights and liberties are all, I believe, necessary conditions for development. Senegal and its head of State, President Abdou Diouf, are committed to these principles on which we base our foreign policy choices and directions.”

    1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source