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“The work we are doing strongly supports and complements the priorities set by the Security Council in resolution 1410 (2002) and the work of UNMISET. The way in which the Council has handled the situation in Timor-Leste since the tragic and chaotic days of August 1999 has demonstrated that the United Nations, in this as in other areas, is fully capable of successfully handling very complex tasks. For more than three years, the Council and the international community have been adroit and generous in their handling of the situation. During that period, the situation in Timor-Leste has greatly improved. The United Nations mission there has evolved from peacekeeping to peace-building.”
2002-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4646 (2002) · source
“Those involved in the sub-national governing structure should receive support and guidance on operational matters. In this respect Ireland's development cooperation programme, Ireland Aid, has undertaken to help the Government develop terms of reference for a study on decentralization options. Ireland is closely involved in a range of development cooperation programmes in Timor-Leste. We have been so since 1999, and last year we opened a representative office in Dili. Our experience there has shown us that bilateral aid is crucial to the future development of Timor-Leste. That country had already been identified by Ireland's Development Aid programme as a priority for reconstruction and rehabilitation activity.”
2002-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4646 (2002) · source
“The Secretary- General's report also confirms that UNMISET is on target with the development of Timor-Leste's defence forces, although it stresses that continued donor and bilateral support will be necessary for this progress to continue. It is natural that UNMISET has concentrated on the central institutions of government, as mandated in resolution 1410 (2002). We all agree on the need to strengthen the capacity of the central Government, something essential to the functioning of the new State. At the same time, however, we should not overlook the fact that 80 per cent of the population is rural-based. This has implications for local institution-building and, by extension, for the consolidation of the legitimacy of authority.”
2002-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4646 (2002) · source
“In view of the ongoing difficulties, Ireland would encourage the widest possible cooperation between the Government and the international community to address the most urgent needs. A situation in which a majority of the prison population is being held for long periods without trial because the court system does not function properly needs to be addressed with the utmost urgency. The significant progress in training and developing the Police Service is encouraging. So too is the news that an UNMISET-led mission is to assess the longer-term policing needs. This is the sort of work the Security Council should promote.”
2002-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4646 (2002) · source
“Timor-Leste is unquestionably a very poor country. The fact that only 23 per cent of its modest budgeted revenue is locally generated puts into stark focus the challenge Timor-Leste faces in creating a sustainable economic environment. As many have remarked this morning, it is clear the donor community will have an essential role to play well after the current phase of immediate post-independence engagement. It is no particular surprise that the justice sector is struggling. We cannot expect a country with a long colonial history, which suffered much Violence before independence, to produce overnight a functioning justice sector. The justice sector is a highly important face of authority, however, and has a particularly critical role to play in maintaining the confidence of the people in their institutions.”
2002-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4646 (2002) · source
“Ireland welcomes the establishment by the two countries of the Joint Ministerial Commission and the fact that they are jointly addressing issues such as border demarcation and access to Timor-Leste from Oecussi. The test of the Commission and, more broadly, of the resolve of the two countries will be in the implementation of equitable solutions to these issues. Additionally, a just outcome for those who committed serious crimes in 1999 will be important for the positive development of relations between the two countries. Such an outcome would also be good for both societies. It is right to focus on the many positive developments of the sort I have mentioned, but it is right for the Council not to ignore the very real challenges remaining in Timor-Leste in addressing which the Council can still play a role, through UNMISET.”
2002-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4646 (2002) · source
“The Government's National Development Plan, in our View, reflects a balanced course for the country's medium-term economic and social needs. Ireland admires the judgement of the authorities in Timor-Leste for giving priority to the protection of human rights. The rejection of the death penalty is an admirable example of the direction in which the country intends to go. Timor- Leste is meeting, as Ambassador Sharma said, the highest standards expected of a democratic State. We applaud the manner in which President Gusmao and his Government are approaching foreign policy, particularly Timor-Leste's crucial relationship with Indonesia.”
2002-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4646 (2002) · source
“Ireland associates itself fully with the statement that will be delivered shortly by the representative of Denmark, on behalf of the European Union. The report of the Secretary-General highlights that remarkable progress has been made in a number of important areas and that the benchmarks set out in the plan for UNMISET are being met. The work of nation- building is proceeding well. At the same time, the report also highlights the considerable challenges facing the new State and rightly points out that the continued engagement of the international community is essential to ensure that Timor-Leste has the chance it deserves to seize the opportunity history has given it. The Government and the people of Timor-Leste are to be congratulated for the way in which they have set about building their future.”
2002-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4646 (2002) · source
“May I first express appreciation to Special Representative Sharma for his briefing on the United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor (UNMISET) and, as other colleagues have already done this morning, to thank Ambassador Sharma and the men and women of UNMISET for their work, which is being carried out in the highest traditions of the United Nations. I would also like to extend a warm welcome to the Permanent Representative of Timor-Leste, Ambassador Guterres, for the first time since his country joined the United Nations on 27 September. Membership of the United Nations is a recognition of nationhood and of having a place among the peoples of the world - a moment of arrival, as for any new Member State, for the people of Timor-Leste.”
2002-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4646 (2002) · source
“My delegation continues to work to support political stability in the region as a whole on the basis of economic reform, democracy and respect for human rights. We support the efforts of Special Representative Steiner and UNMIK to implement resolution 1244 (1999). We support, as Ambassador Cunningham said earlier, a Security Council mission to Kosovo in the near future. Along with our partners in the European Union, we will continue to promote integration and regional cooperation through the Stability Pact and the stabilization and association process, as well as in our bilateral engagement with the region. It is now essential that political leaders in Kosovo play their part in ensuring progress towards European integration, including through the promotion of reconciliation and dialogue.”
2002-11-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4643 (2002) · source
“It was important also to hear Prime Minister Rexhepi at the conference commit his Government to building a viable, multi-ethnic Kosovo in which all citizens would have access to public services and which supported the return of internally displaced persons and refugees. Of course, the existence of parallel structures continues to pose obstacles to progress. It is essential that all judges, prosecutors and security forces work within legitimate structures and contribute to upholding the rule of law in Kosovo. We welcome efforts by UNMIK to change the political dynamic so as to provide an incentive to dismantle those structures and to encourage all communities to participate in the joint institutions. We support the concept of decentralization and ongoing efforts to draw up plans on a wide consultative basis.”
2002-11-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4643 (2002) · source
“However, much more needs to be achieved if Kosovo is to become a multi-ethnic, democratic entity with a fully functioning economy. While progress has been made towards the goal of economic sustainability, there remains a risk of undue aid-dependency. UNMIK and the Provisional Institutions must guard against that risk. However, donors must not use the risk of aid- dependency as an excuse to reduce assistance to Kosovo too prematurely. Yesterday's conference demonstrated donor awareness of the need to consolidate the gains made so far and to create conditions whereby economic interaction helps to break down the ethnic barriers which, unfortunately, still pertain in Kosovo.”
2002-11-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4643 (2002) · source
“Despite improvements in the security situation and the pace return of refugee and internally displaced persons, there continue to be difficulties with the integration of minorities. Too many still live in conditions that are incompatible with basic standards of human rights. We support UNMIK's efforts to increase sustainable refugee returns and stress the need for even closer cooperation with Belgrade on this vital issue so that returnees can live in normal, secure conditions. The donors conference on Kosovo, co-hosted in Brussels yesterday by the European Commission and the World Bank, provided a valuable opportunity to take stock of the positive developments since the adoption of Security Council resolution 1244 (1999).”
2002-11-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4643 (2002) · source
“Nonetheless, democracy is democracy, and all elections bear their own messages. The main message from this election is, more than ever, that the building of a democratic and multi- ethnic society in Kosovo represents the only possible way forward. Ireland continues to support Special Representative Steiner's policy of "Standards before Status", and we welcome the development of mechanisms within UNMIK and the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government to track progress towards achieving the benchmarks. The Provisional Institutions should demonstrate their readiness to assume governmental functions by working to achieve a culture based on the rule of law, to tackle crime and violence and to ensure economic progress. It is clear that ethnic tensions continue to cause enormous problems in Kosovo.”
2002-11-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4643 (2002) · source
“We condemn the three killings, including that of the President of the Municipal Assembly, which marred what would otherwise have been a relatively safe and secure process. The low turnout no doubt bears witness, in part, to the overriding interest of voters in improving their standard of living rather than focusing on issues of final status. It is also due, as Under- Secretary-General Guehenno said, to confusing political signals, as well as uncertainty on likely tangible benefits from participation in the elections. The Council issued a statement prior to the elections which called on all Kosovo Serbs to facilitate progress towards building a democratic society by ensuring that their interests were properly represented. We particularly regret, therefore, the low turnout in certain areas by Kosovo Serbs.”
2002-11-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4643 (2002) · source
“First, I wish to thank you, Sir, for convening this open meeting on Kosovo. I also wish to thank the Secretary-General for his detailed report on the activities of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), and Under-Secretary-General Guehenno for his comprehensive briefing about recent developments in the province. Ireland fully endorses the statement which the Ambassador of Denmark will deliver on behalf of the European Union. I will therefore comment briefly in my national capacity. We congratulate the people of Kosovo, UNMIK and all others concerned for having organized and held municipal elections on 26 October 2002, which were largely in line with international standards.”
2002-11-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4643 (2002) · source
“As we move forward in our support for the achievement of peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in the Great Lakes region generally, and in guarding against those forces that are undermining the peace, I would conclude by fully endorsing the underlying theme that runs through this report: justice and peace cannot rest on foundations of injustice and wrong.”
2002-11-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4642Resumption1 (2002) · source
“The Panel also recommends that the Council consider imposing certain restrictions on a number of business enterprises and individuals named in the report, but with a short grace period of several months before the restrictions are applied. That is a proposal my delegation will also carefully assess in the period ahead. It will, of course, be important for any actions in respect of any company or individual to be based on due assessment of evidence. We agree with the Panel recommendations on adherence of business enterprises to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) guidelines. As regards the need for a monitoring body to report to the Council, I can state that Ireland fully supports this proposal. That Panel's report is detailed and well documented. The recommendations are measured and fair.”
2002-11-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4642Resumption1 (2002) · source
“I should add that this latter caveat seems to my delegation a wise and appropriate one. It is the exploiters, not the innocent, who should feel the strength of international concern. The Panel recommends that implementation of this proposal would proceed in three stages, beginning with a grace period to permit verification of the compliance of all the parties to the conflict. Overall, this is an especially sensitive proposal, and the Panel rightly presents it in that light. We will consider it carefully with other Council members, not least bearing in mind, on the one hand, the clear need for disincentives against non-compliance and, on the other, the need to also fully safeguard the interests of poor people dependent on development funding support.”
2002-11-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4642Resumption1 (2002) · source
“It is stated in the report that there is "ample justification for donors to respond to a Security Council resolution - which might be necessary - which would propose certain reductions in official aid to promote peace and good governance". (para. 171) The Panel recommends that measures should also be aimed at making aid disbursements to Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda and Zimbabwe conditional on their compliance with the relevant agreements in the Lusaka peace process and on verifiable measures taken to halt illegal exploitation of the resources of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Non-compliance would automatically trigger a review and reduction of assistance programmes for those countries but, in the recommendation of the Panel, this should not cover sector-specific allocations.”
2002-11-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4642Resumption1 (2002) · source
“We agree also that a comprehensive economic and social development programme in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo be set up to assist a transition to a legitimate civilian administration. My delegation supports the proposal for a review by a special commission of all mining and forestry concessions and contracts signed since 1997. Ireland also agrees with the Panel that the Governments of the countries where the individuals, companies and financial institutions that are systematically and actively involved in exploitation activities are based should assume their share of responsibility. The recommendations of the Panel are measured and carefully calibrated in support of peace but in adamant opposition to further theft of resources that belong to the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.”
2002-11-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4642Resumption1 (2002) · source
“My delegation finds extremely persuasive the recommendations of the Panel to consolidate this progress by a set of agreements or initiatives on reconstruction and sustainable development to address the economic dimensions of the Lusaka peace process and to provide incentives for continuing progress. We fully support the proposal for a first set of initiatives involving quick-disbursing aid for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other Great Lakes countries involved in the conflict. We strongly support, as others have today, the convening of an international conference on peace, security and sustainable development in the region. We agree on the urgent need for reconstructing and reforming the State institutions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.”
2002-11-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4642Resumption1 (2002) · source
“14); that Rwanda has prepared for withdrawal by putting in place economic control mechanisms; that senior officers of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) have enriched themselves from mineral assets of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and that this pattern continues; that an elite network of Congolese and Zimbabwean political, military and commercial interests seeks to maintain its grip on main mineral resources of the Government- controlled areas. There is no need here to elaborate on the detailed findings of the Panel. My delegation will, of course, carefully listen to the arguments put forward by Governments, companies or individuals against whom a clear finger is pointed. What is important for all sides is to safeguard and strengthen the peace process.”
2002-11-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4642Resumption1 (2002) · source
“It is a frightening assessment of what happens when greed and rapaciousness spiral out of control and feast on the suffering and misfortune of others. It is the judgement of the Panel that, welcome as recent troop withdrawals from the Democratic Republic of the Congo by Rwanda, Zimbabwe and Uganda may be, "these withdrawals are unlikely to alter the determination of Rwanda and Zimbabwe, and Ugandan individuals, to exercise economic control over portions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo". (S/2002/1146, para.]3) Moreover, the Panel alleges that the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) "continue to provoke ethnic conflict" (para.”
2002-11-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4642Resumption1 (2002) · source
“All must cooperate fully and in every respect with the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC). The process of disarmament, demobilization, rehabilitation and reintegration (DDRR) must proceed with no impediments. And we in the Security Council, as we prepare to review the mandate of MONUC in support of the Pretoria Agreement, must play our part. The detailed findings in the Panel's report are shocking. Let me clearly say that Ireland finds the report compelling in its analysis and in its general conclusions. It names countries; it names individuals and companies; it points a clear finger against those who systematically plunder and rob the resources of the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.”
2002-11-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4642Resumption1 (2002) · source
“The Pretoria and Luanda Agreements, building on the Lusaka process, offer the best - indeed, the only- way forward to peace and stability in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. And yet, the progress achieved to date, while real, remains distinctly tenuous as recent violent clashes in the eastern and north-eastern parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo graphically illustrate. The situation in Ituri remains especially grave. All parties to the Agreements have an absolute duty to use their full influence to end military activity by all armed groups and militias under, or susceptible to, their influence. All sides must work, especially in the context of the current Pretoria talks, for an inclusive political agreement in the framework of the inter-Congolese dialogue.”
2002-11-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4642Resumption1 (2002) · source
“The Panel, in all its successive reports, has consistently and rightly taken the view that without a resolution of the broader conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Great Lakes region generally, it will be extremely difficult to achieve an end to illegal exploitation of the natural resources of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The situation is more complex than simple cause and effect. Violence and conflict fuelled the illegal exploitation of resources of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by foreign Governments and armies; exploitation, in turn, became in itself a prime factor in further exacerbating conflict and violence. Today, this exploitation and greed remains a powerful force against the achievement of peace and stability in a tortured land whose people want peace and deserve justice as part of peace.”
2002-11-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4642Resumption1 (2002) · source
“President, for convening this public meeting of the Council to consider the final report of the Panel of Experts on the Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources and Other Forms of Wealth of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (S/2002/ZJ46). I wish to express the warm appreciation of Ireland to Ambassador Kassem and his colleagues for their report. This has been a difficult task very well done, and we are in their debt. The representative of Denmark has already made a statement on behalf of the European Union, and Ireland, of course, fully associates itself with that statement.”
2002-11-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4642Resumption1 (2002) · source
“May I first extend the good wishes and full support of my delegation to you, Sir, as China assumes the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I would also like to thank very warmly the Permanent Representative of Cameroon and his colleagues for a presidency last month of skill and real achievement, which we appreciated very much. I would also like, on behalf of my delegation, to warmly welcome the Foreign Minister of Uganda to our meeting today. I thank him for his very comprehensive statement this morning. We look forward to the report of Judge Porter later this month. I would like to thank you, Mr.”
2002-11-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4642Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Accordingly, we believe that there should be continuous monitoring and evaluation of how different parts of the United Nations family are doing, and what steps could be taken to improve the system to ensure a fully consistent and coherent approach. Considerable progress has been made in the implementation of resolution 1325 (2000). A considerable distance still remains to be travelled. We in the Security Council, across the range of conflict and peacemaking issues, have no more urgent task.”
2002-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4635 (2002) · source
“The full involvement of women in negotiation of peace agreements is essential, as is the recognition of the particular needs of women and girls in the design and implementation of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programmes. On a national level, Ireland has been strongly supportive of Security Council resolution 1325 (2000), and we are anxious to see it fully implemented and taken forward. I might add that, from our own experiences of the peace process in Northern Ireland, we are fully aware of the immense contribution made by women's civil society groups doing what the Secretary-General once referred to as the work of building bridges, not walls. We believe that the issues raised in the Secretary- General's report are of the greatest importance.”
2002-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4635 (2002) · source
“Fourthly, it is equally important to ensure that gender issues are fully addressed in the transition from peacekeeping to peace-building, so that the promotion of equality and women's rights is integrated into the peace-building phase, as well as during humanitarian operations and the reconstruction process. My delegation notes with satisfaction the Secretary- General's recommendation concerning the importance of close consultations with women's groups and networks. From the Mano River Union to Burundi, we have seen the crucial role that women's groups play in conflict resolution. As the Secretary-General said earlier, the Security Council, in its missions to the Great Lakes region and elsewhere over the past year, have seen the value of this work first hand.”
2002-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4635 (2002) · source
“Thirdly, my delegation believes that an increase in the number of women participating in the military, civilian and humanitarian components of missions, including at the highest level, would have an important impact on the effectiveness of each mission. We note the Secretary-General's comments in the report about steps taken to increase the number of female staff in peace operations. We welcome the commitment the Secretary-General has given towards achieving greater gender equality in this area, while acknowledging the point he makes that Member States must also be active in this regard.”
2002-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4635 (2002) · source
“Secondly, it is essential to ensure that the necessary financial and human resources are made available for gender mainstreaming, including the establishment of gender advisers or units in multidimensional peacekeeping operations and capacity-building activities. Gender advisors should be deployed at the outset of peace operations, including at the planning stages, and should be sufficiently senior to have an influence on the decision-making process. We recognize the progress that has been achieved in East Timor, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Sierra Leone because of the presence of full-time gender advisers.”
2002-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4635 (2002) · source
“In fully agreeing with the Secretary-General's recommendations, I would like to emphasize a number of points of particular importance to my delegation. First, the main challenge ahead is to ensure that the recommendations and guidelines contained in the Secretary-General's report are implemented consistently, and to ensure that, where the United Nations system deals with peace-making, peacemaking, peacekeeping and peace-building, the gender perspectives are taken fully into account as a matter of course by the Departments centrally involved. My delegation believes that this is of central importance, and we welcome the recommendation in the report for explicitly incorporating gender mandates into all peacekeeping missions and provisions to systematically address this issue in all reports to the Security Council.”
2002-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4635 (2002) · source
“There are several main issues involved in our discussion here today: that resolution 1325 (2000) provides a blueprint for action in recognition of the essential contribution of women to the maintenance and promotion of peace and security; that we have travelled some distance institutionally in implementing resolution 1325 (2000), but that we still have far to go; that progress depends on implementing change not only in New York at United Nations Headquarters but in conflict areas, in prevention of conflict, in rebuilding after conflict around the world; that, in implementing the provisions of resolution 1325 (2000) we are tackling fundamental issues not only of justice and equity, but also of effective policy if conflicts are to be prevented and war-torn societies are to be restored; and that this issue and how to make strong and rapid progress are among the greatest challenges facing the United Nations and the entire international community today.”
2002-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4635 (2002) · source
“We are also grateful for the recommendations in the study coordinated by Assistant Secretary-General King as well as for the recommendations made by the independent experts commissioned by UNIFEM, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Elisabeth Rehn. They point the way forward. I would also add that my delegation fully agrees with the observations made by the Secretary-General in his report concerning the abuse of the human rights of women and girls and welcomes the recommendations he has made with a view to protecting those rights.”
2002-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4635 (2002) · source
“As Assistant Secretary-General Angela King said here last July (see S/PV.4589), sustainable peace and lasting security cannot be achieved without women's empowerment and full involvement. This is central to the work of the United Nations. As the Secretary- General put it to the Council before the adoption of resolution 1325 (2000), while the United Nations was set up to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, the Charter also proclaims the equal rights of men and women, and we must live up to both challenges or we shall not succeed fully in either (see S/PV.4208, p. 2). My delegation believes that the Secretary- General's report illustrates that this is one of the most important issues facing the entire international community today and that it must be at the forefront of our agenda.”
2002-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4635 (2002) · source
“First, Mr. President, I would like to thank you for convening this open meeting today on women and peace and security. I would also like to express the appreciation of my delegation to the Secretary-General for personally introducing his report (S/2002/1154) this afternoon. The representative of Denmark will shortly make a statement on behalf of the European Union, and Ireland, of course, fully associates itself with that statement. Resolution 1325 (2000) involved a two-fold dimension: the immense and disproportionate impact of armed conflict on women and girls, and also, crucially, as the Secretary-General emphasized in his remarks this afternoon, the central role women can and must play at the centre of efforts to resolve armed conflict.”
2002-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4635 (2002) · source
“A strengthened partnership between the United Nations system and Central Africa is one of the most important tasks facing this Organization in seeking to support peace and sustainable development in Africa. But this, in the main, will require political will by Member States, and we in the Security Council have our own critical role to play. We owe this to Central Africa and its peoples.”
2002-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4630Resumption1 (2002) · source
“But the general point stands: there is a need to relax conditionalities in post-conflict funding, to ensure the early release of funds promised by donors and to promote, as a matter of the greatest urgency, administrative capacity, investment in human resources and a reduction in the debt burden in the Central African region. Fourthly, the United Nations system and the international community must support regional economic cooperation in every way possible. This is something that the European Union is actively doing through the Cotonou Agreement. Building peace also means supporting the Central African region so that it has the chance to play its full and fair part in the African and world economies. Regional cooperation in economic programmes, the pooling of resources and the sharing of infrastructural costs makes eminent sense.”
2002-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4630Resumption1 (2002) · source
“We have also had donors not always following through on commitments made; the Central African Republic and Burundi are obvious examples in this respect. We need greater coherence, focus and commitment in this whole area. The new Security Council and Economic and Social Council working groups on conflict resolution in Africa will have an important role to play in this respect. The Central African subregion is as clear an example as can be found of this need for greater coherence and flexibility on the part of the international community. We have recently made encouraging progress. Decisions by the World Bank, the European Development Fund and other bodies in respect of Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, for example, are to be warmly welcomed. The Bank's conflict analysis framework is also to be welcomed.”
2002-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4630Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Thirdly, we need more coherence in the United Nations, including at the inter-governmental level, to support the national and regional peace-building and conflict-prevention efforts in Central Africa. This means not just the common country assessments in the United Nations Development Programmes addressing- as they do - conflict issues, but, critically, the international community backing this up with necessary resources. Too often in the Security Council we have received briefings from the Secretariat or the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs that have made reference to United Nations appeals for funding in conflict or peace-building programme areas having been - at best - only partially funded.”
2002-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4630Resumption1 (2002) · source
“But support by the international community cannot be desultory or timid; conflict prevention is not just about early warning systems or operational procedures, however important these are. It must also involve supporting structural conflict-prevention policies; the promotion of regional joint actions; and the deployment of necessary resources. The Secretary-General, in his July progress report on the implementation of recommendations in his report on the causes of conflict and the promotion of durable pace and sustainable development in Africa, rightly reminded us that mobilizing international support for peace is essential. This is especially true in Central Africa.”
2002-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4630Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Many steps can now be taken by the international community to help address root causes of the conflict, including by the early convening of an international conference on the Great Lakes region. Many challenges can be tackled effectively only by joint actions related to disarmament, demobilization and reintegration; the refugee tragedy in the region; economic reconstruction; issues of resources; and by strengthened cooperation. Consequences of war left to fester can all too easily lead to further instability and conflict. Secondly, the United Nations and the international community as a whole must strongly and actively support strengthened regional cooperation in Central Africa. The establishment of the African Union will, of course, lend support to this process.”
2002-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4630Resumption1 (2002) · source
“On regional cooperation and on cooperation between the United Nations and the subregion, there are four particular points I would like to emphasize on behalf of Ireland today. First, regional cooperation is a critical dimension in building peace in Central Africa. Much is already being quietly achieved in this area - as we heard from many ministers this morning - from joint training courses and joint border patrols to summit meetings on security matters. We have, however, seen all too clearly evidence in the subregion that intra-State conflict all too easily becomes inter-State conflict across the region. There are, in many cases, the closest ethnic and linguistic links between countries in the region. It can be no surprise, therefore, that the consequences of war and violence have spread in recent years to engulf much of the subregion.”
2002-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4630Resumption1 (2002) · source
“In particular, the revival of ECCAS is to be warmly welcomed. The regional organizations will have a major role to play in the period ahead in consolidating and anchoring the peace. At the ministerial meeting last August in Bangui of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa, ministers from 10 Central African countries emphasized the importance of the creation of the Council for Peace and Security in Central Africa (COPAX) and urged countries that have not yet ratified the related Protocol to do so without delay. Ministers also expressed their deep concern at the persistence of armed conflict in the subregion and the importance of strengthening regional relations, so as to lessen tensions and combat insecurity in the border areas.”
2002-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4630Resumption1 (2002) · source
“The cost has been countless lives lost, incalculable suffering, and economies, in large measure, destroyed. This has been a humanitarian disaster without parallel in our time. Now, despite all the daunting challenges, there is across Central Africa a real moment of opportunity and hope that can, in turn, allow rebuilding and healing. This is an opportunity that must not be lost. It is an opportunity that must be fully seized not just by all the countries of the Great Lakes region and of Central Africa but by the United Nations and by the world. The three regional organizations in the subregion - the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa, the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), and the Economic Community of the Great Lakes Countries - need to be strongly supported and encouraged.”
2002-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4630Resumption1 (2002) · source
“May I first express the thanks of my delegation to you, Mr. President, for organizing today's public meeting on strengthening cooperation between the United Nations system and Central Africa. May I also, again on behalf of my delegation, welcome the Ministers from the region to our meeting today. The Ambassador of Denmark has already made a statement to this meeting of the Council on behalf of the European Union, and Ireland, of course, fully associates itself with that statement. The world has an unfinished agenda of duty and of debt to the Great Lakes region and to Central Africa. As the presidency note for our meeting states, Central Africa has the sorry record of seven of its 11 countries being racked by devastating and ruinous conflicts over recent years.”
2002-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4630Resumption1 (2002) · source
“We would therefore favour strengthening the financing of DDR programmes through the expansion of measures covered under the budget for peacekeeping operations. Finally, let me say that small arms is an issue that, above most others, requires strong political will and leadership. We in the Council have made a good start, but we still have a good distance to go.”
2002-10-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4623 (2002) · source