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Chirac

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2000-09-07
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2000-09-07
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  1. “It will assume its full responsibilities for peace. We have frequently spoken of the problem of globalization. I myself referred this morning to this problem and its tragic consequences of excluding a growing number of men, women and children and countries from the prosperity or from the dignity of being able to live in today's world. This can only be aggravated if we do not all together take the reins of globalization, which must be controlled and humanized. The twentieth century was the century of regained independence, and the twenty-first must be the century of reaffirmed dignity, shared prosperity and secured peace.”

    2000-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4194 (2000) · source

  2. “In order to maintain its full authority, the Council must be more representative of the real world. France supports an enlargement of the Council in both permanent and non-permanent membership, and also greater representation of the countries of the South. By deciding today to reform peacekeeping operations, the Security Council is also paying homage to all those who have given their lives for peace. I am thinking in particular of the three United Nations staff members that were killed in Timor yesterday. I am also thinking of all the soldiers who have fallen under the blue flag, the French soldiers in particular, and those who serve or have served the United Nations in Bosnia, Kosovo, Lebanon and elsewhere. We are committing the United Nations to a necessary and long-term task. France supports this effort.”

    2000-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4194 (2000) · source

  3. “Credible and respected peace agreements are the key to the effectiveness of the United Nations action. It is inadmissible for our Organization to be held hostage to conflicts, and it is not right that those who do not keep their word should continue to receive international aid. Here again, I am thinking of the Great Lakes region. The third orientation is strengthening the partnership between the Security Council, the Secretariat and regional organizations and initiatives. Some progress has been made. But, closer consultations at an earlier stage are critical when planning to call on the United Nations to facilitate implementation of an agreement or to take over a regional action. The fourth and last orientation is reforming the Security Council.”

    2000-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4194 (2000) · source

  4. “The United Nations finances need to be consolidated. All countries must pay what they owe, and expenses should be shared fairly. Then, we need to make sure that objectives are in line with the operating mandate and the resources provided. This means organizing consultations very early on between the Security Council, the Secretariat and the countries that contribute troops. Furthermore, States must provide the United Nations with the right quality and quantity of personnel and equipment. When developing countries help by sending troops, they should be able to get support from the developed countries that have resources for training and equipment. Finally, we increasingly have to deal with warlords or States that refuse to keep the commitments that they have made in peace agreements.”

    2000-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4194 (2000) · source

  5. “The lesson is that we must make better use of these restrictive measures, using them only in exceptional situations, defining our objectives more clearly and setting time-limits, open to renewal. Furthermore, sanctions must be proportionate to their objective and not carry morally unacceptable humanitarian costs, as we sometimes see today. They must be implemented rigorously, without creating inhumane and unacceptable side effects. The Security Council also decided on a large number of peacekeeping operations during the 1990s. Such operations tackled a substantially more diversified range of problems and tasks. Most ran into a great many difficulties. Like Mr. Brahimi, whose report I entirely endorse, I see four lessons to be learned. First of all, budget concerns must not be a paralysing constraint from the outset.”

    2000-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4194 (2000) · source

  6. “It has also become necessary to make embargoes more effective. More specifically, we need to set up a permanent body within the Secretariat to control diamond trafficking and probably trafficking in rare precious metals. Finally, we need to be concerned with consolidating peace in the long run. This means that the application of peace agreements will have to be based on strategies to rebuild the State and the economy, to be implemented by multilateral institutions. The second orientation is that we must improve the Security Council's means of action. In the 19903 the Security Council made unprecedented use of sanctions. But we must face the facts: the results have not been conclusive.”

    2000-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4194 (2000) · source

  7. “The first is that we must take on board all the consequences of the changing nature of conflicts, which are increasingly internal in origin. All too often, massive violations of human rights and humanitarian disasters hit entire regions. The Council must be able to respond. How can we prevent conflicts? The world community needs to tackle the causes, and when the causes are underdevelopment and lack of democracy, of the rule of law and of respect for human rights, the Secretary-General should be able to bring them to the Security Council's attention and use his power of mobilization. We must also tackle everything that finances and fuels conflicts, such as the illegal exploitation of natural resources, as we see in the Great Lakes region; drug trafficking; and small arms accumulations.”

    2000-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4194 (2000) · source

  8. “Peace is our primary objective and it is here, within the Security Council, that it must be ensured. Now that the cold war is over the conditions are right for our Council to fulfil its role. Yet, despite intense activities over the last 10 years, its results have been mixed. Along with its indisputable successes, the United Nations has been haunted by failures and by the image of peacekeepers taken hostage and humiliated. The Security Council has come under criticism and the assessment of peacekeeping operations has been harsh, but, it must be said, fair. What can we do and what must we do to enable the Security Council to better assume its primary responsibility under the United Nations Charter for maintaining international peace and security? I see four orientations.”

    2000-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4194 (2000) · source