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first: 2000-02-09
most recent: 2004-06-14
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“Before I begin, I want publicly to recognize Tunisia's extraordinary contribution to the cause of peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In addition to personnel of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC), Tunisia has dedicated three of its finest diplomats to this effort. I refer, of course, to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Kamel Morjane, Assistant Secretary-General Hedi Annabi and you, Mr. President. We are deeply grateful to the Government of Tunisia for devoting so much of the coming month to the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and we pledge our full support and cooperation. I join in welcoming President Kabila to the Security Council and to New York.”
2001-02-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4271 (2001) · source
“The report of the Panel of Experts clearly establishes the links between ongoing support for the RUF and continuing violence and suffering in Sierra Leone and the region. We, as a Council, must act to break that link and to re-establish peace and security in a region beset for too many years with conflict and human hardship. We look forward later on in this discussion to hearing Minister Captan's remarks, and those of other nations of the region. I have been frank about the nature of the problem we must address. Let me conclude that we are interested in results - in concrete change, not declarations. My Government will welcome the day when we are convinced that Liberia has become part of the solution instead of a force for further suffering and instability.”
2001-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4264 (2001) · source
“The message I hope the Minister will receive from this meeting is that the question before this Council is not whether, but how best, to deal with the role of his Government in the region and to convince it to turn from supporting and directing the RUF to becoming part of the solution. The answer lies in specific actions and not in more patience with empty promises. The sanctions we have proposed mirror steps recommended in the report of the Panel of Experts. They are designed to undermine the Government of Liberia's ability to conduct war against its neighbours. They will not visit hardships on the people of Liberia. Indeed, we note that several courageous Liberians have risked their lives to call on us to adopt these sanctions.”
2001-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4264 (2001) · source
“Our Security Council mission to the region in October heard very clearly, and warned, about Liberia's continuing role. Liberia and its proxies are looting the natural resources of Sierra Leone and fomenting continuing conflict. Its behaviour is a key factor ofinstability in the region and must be changed. We have heard proposals - read of proposals - from Foreign Minister Captan on implementing the Panel's recommendations, and we have heard demands that we treat the Liberian Government as innocent until proven guilty. I hope that the Foreign Minister will take a message back to Monrovia that the Council is unanimous in its belief that the Government of Liberia bears major responsibility for the strife in Sierra Leone and the destabilization of the region.”
2001-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4264 (2001) · source
“We note the recent announcements of the Government of Liberia that it is disengaging from Sierra Leone and ending its support for the RUF. We will examine this closely. But we are concerned that these last-minute announcements in the face of imminent Council action, after months of discussion, are a calculated ruse designed to divide the Security Council rather than to signal any genuine change of policy. It is instructive that it took the possibility of sanctions to move the Government of Liberia to even declaratory action. The steps announced thus far are unconvincing and not sufficient. There is no argument within the Council, or indeed within the international community, I believe, on the facts. The Government of Liberia created and now sustains the RUF.”
2001-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4264 (2001) · source
“Our deep historical roots to Liberia are already well known in this Council. The thousands of American development workers, Peace Corps volunteers, missionaries and other friends who have served the people of Liberia are saddened to see what has become of the country that once welcomed them. The tens of thousands of American citizens of Liberian origin now residing in the United States are justifiably concerned for their country of origin, their families and their friends. Regrettably, we are forced to support new measures against the Government of Liberia because of its illegal support for insurgents in Sierra Leone, its use of one of the world's most repugnant insurgencies as a proxy, its illegal exploitation of the natural wealth of Sierra Leone and its promotion of instability in the region.”
2001-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4264 (2001) · source
“The Council has begun to consider a draft resolution, proposed by my Government and the United Kingdom, to impose new, multilateral sanctions against the Government of Liberia. Let us be clear on one point: the measures proposed in the draft resolution on Liberia are intended to impact the Government of Liberia. They are designed to bring an end to President Taylor's ongoing support of the RUF and his continued engagement in illicit arms-for-diamonds trafficking. The goal of the proposed sanctions is to target the support system of the presidency and Government leadership, and each proposal was selected with that goal in mind. Ambassador Eldon has outlined the specific measures that are contained in the draft resolution. We do not seek these restrictive measures out of animosity towards the Liberian people.”
2001-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4264 (2001) · source
“We are intent on ending the illicit arms-for-diamonds trade that has caused so much devastation and human suffering in Sierra Leone and throughout West Africa. We welcome the upcoming visit of Economic Community of West African States Ministers. We will work hard with Council members, the United Nations and countries of the region to bring the Panel's recommendations into being and to deal firmly with illegal trade and with sanctions violators. I regret that the Security Council has been given a report that is critical of one of our founding Members. It is particularly troubling for the Government of the United States that Liberia, which once championed the cause of Namibian independence, is complicit in the dismemberment of Sierra Leone and the destabilization of Guinea.”
2001-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4264 (2001) · source
“The Panel had only four months in which to complete its tasks, yet it succeeded in addressing complex issues involving networks and operations that make a point of either disguising or hiding their activities. The Panel concluded that there is unequivocal and overwhelming evidence that Liberia has been actively supporting the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) at all levels. This confirms the information that I and other Security Council members received during the Council's mission to Sierra Leone in October. The Panel also focused on the crucial role of conflict diamonds in the arms trade. Controlling the flow of conflict diamonds and illicit arms is essential in order to end the fighting and destabilization in Sierra Leone and its neighbouring countries.”
2001-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4264 (2001) · source
“The United States welcomes today's Security Council consideration of the report of the Panel of Experts on Sierra Leone Diamonds and Arms. We commend the Panel's Chairman, Martin Chungong Ayafor, and the other Panel members for their excellent work, completed under difficult circumstances. My delegation also wishes to commend and to thank the Sierra Leone sanctions Committee Chairman, Ambassador Chowdhury, and the members of the Bangladesh Mission for their valuable and persistent efforts to ensure today's Council consideration of the Panel's report. In addition, I would also like to welcome Liberian Foreign Minister Captan to today's discussion.”
2001-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4264 (2001) · source
“My delegation is willing to look at new ideas to bolster this process, but as I have stated, we do not confuse mechanisms and more meetings with substance, cooperation and partnership. We all know the problem; it has been around for a while. We are willing to work very hard to address it, and we suggest that we proceed to do so without further delay.”
2001-01-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4257Resumption1 (2001) · source
“We need to continue that effort, since this work is at the heart of providing real capabilities to the problems we have been discussing. We should work to make Security Council resolution 1327 (2000) a reality. It contains good ideas and good intentions, and we need to work to bring them into being. I want also to echo the suggestion of the representative of Pakistan and others that, as we are going through this effort, we take a look at the resources of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, not only to make sure that it has the resources it needs for mounting an operation but also the resources required to conduct effective liaison with the Security Council and the troop contributors.”
2001-01-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4257Resumption1 (2001) · source
“We are confident that we can improve on this partnership without doing so. We can use existing mechanisms. We can find ways to have more interactive exchanges between the troop contributors, the Secretariat and the Security Council. The troop contributors should take the initiative when they feel it appropriate, or when an individual troop contributor, for that matter, feels the need to so do. In that regard, I applaud the Deputy Secretary-General's comments this morning about her openness, and that of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, in that regard. That is the right attitude, and it should be taken advantage of. We have accomplished a great deal in the past six months with the Brahimi report and follow-up to strengthen the Department of Peacekeeping Operations as well as United Nations peacekeeping operations.”
2001-01-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4257Resumption1 (2001) · source
“A good example - the best one that I have seen so far and one that others have also cited this morning - was the series of meetings that we had in connection with the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) this fall and the Security Council mission that Visited UNAMSIL, where we had good informal and informed exchanges that really did fit the parameters that I have just been discussing. My delegation is open to new ideas to build a better process and to overcome inertia. Our other overriding concern has to be that Security Council efficiency and fulfilment of responsibilities is maintained, as is set out under the Charter. Several people spoke about that also this morning. We would not think it wise to blur the responsibilities of the participants in this partnership or to hinder Council decision-making.”
2001-01-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4257Resumption1 (2001) · source
“The bottom line here is that we should all want the means of exchange that works, that informs the troop contributors adequately and on a timely basis, that really provides input to Security Council decision- making, that improves implementation and improves the clarity of mandates and, at the end of the day, that produces clearer goals and better performance. This will require meaningful, interactive exchanges among the troop contributors, the Secretariat and the Security Council.”
2001-01-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4257Resumption1 (2001) · source
“It does not necessarily mean new mechanisms as such. We have lots of mechanisms and there are lots of ideas that have been floated and tried in the past. We can have regular meeting upon meeting upon meeting in various orders and sequences, but they risk becoming, as at least one speaker said this morning, ritualistic if we do not put the proper content and spirit into them. I also want to note i in connection with those who spoke about the effectiveness of United Nations operations and the need to ensure the security of peacekeeping operations - that the United States remains the largest contributor of United Nations civilian police, with well over 800 personnel deployed to United Nations peacekeeping operations. Therefore we are more than sympathetic with the concerns of troop contributors for the safety of their personnel.”
2001-01-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4257Resumption1 (2001) · source
“I think our shared goal, as it came out this morning as well, is that we want to make the operations of peacekeeping more effective and more efficient. To do that, we need a real partnership, and that requires somewhat of a change in mentality, I think, as some of the speakers noted this morning. We need the troop contributors, the Security Council and the Secretary- General to look at each other as partners in a common endeavour with a common purpose. I want to recall Ambassador Heinbecker's exhortation this morning about integrating authority with risk. I think that is a very good way to look at the issue. This requires input, will and commitment from each participant in this partnership to make it work better. That means meaningful and active participation, thought and some consideration for the other partners.”
2001-01-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4257Resumption1 (2001) · source
“It is obvious - and I do not think this is a question of ill will on anybody's part; in fact, I am quite sure it is not - that the situation is still not satisfactory, as has been made clear repeatedly over the years and was made perfectly clear this morning. Let me add that the situation is not satisfactory from our point of view, either. We have given lots of thought to the need to improve the exchange of information. The members of the Security Council need, and the United Nations as a whole needs, stronger cooperation between the troop-contributing countries and the Security Council and, I would add, between the Secretary-General and the Secretariat. We have at least three major actors here, not just two.”
2001-01-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4257Resumption1 (2001) · source
“Mr. President, we want to welcome you to the Council and to give Singapore its due for having taken the initiative to organize and convene this discussion, which I found very interesting this morning, as, I am sure, did my colleagues. I have taken heed of the suggestion that we take advantage of the lunch period to think about some of the items that were broached this morning by the troop contributors who spoke. There were a lot of recommendations and a lot of thoughts advanced. As the paper the presidency produced points out, there is already a long history of decisions in regard to the question of how consultations between the Security Council and the troop contributors should be organized.”
2001-01-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4257Resumption1 (2001) · source
“In closing, we would like to welcome the Secretary-General's appointment of former Danish Defence Minister Haekkerup as his new Special Representative in Kosovo. We would also like to wish Bernard Kouchner all the best, thank him for his tremendous efforts and applaud his significant success in implementing Security Council resolution 1244 (1999).”
2000-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4249 (2000) · source
“In the coming months, UNMIK should continue to press ahead with regulations that will further define the responsibilities of Kosovo's autonomous institutions. The United States supports Kosovo-wide elections in the spring of 2001, with the participation of all groups in Kosovo. Democratic changes in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia have helped encourage this participation and provide hope that a multi-ethnic, democratic Kosovo governed by the rule of law will prevail. Continued progress on the issue of the Kosovo detainees will help promote reconciliation. We urge the Government in Belgrade to press ahead with the passage of an asylum law for the release of Kosovar political prisoners, and we call for a full accounting of the missing.”
2000-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4249 (2000) · source
“We recognize that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Government has shown considerable restraint and responsibility in dealing with this problem, especially during a hard-fought political campaign in the run-up to elections on 23 December. Not everyone has acted so responsibly, and we would caution against exaggerated charges and calls for military action that have emanated from some on both sides of the Kosovo border. In Kosovo itself, as the Secretary-General's report makes clear, elections have opened the door to continued progress on the political front. The municipal assemblies have been constituted. Minority representatives have been appointed. The Joint Interim Administrative Structure is operational.”
2000-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4249 (2000) · source
“There is no better sign of this commitment than the enhanced cooperation between UNMIK, KFOR and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia authorities through the Joint Implementation Commission. In that connection, I note that at a 17 December meeting of the Joint Implementation Commission the Commander of KFOR briefed Federal Republic of Yugoslavia officials on what KFOR has done and is doing regarding the Presevo Valley. He also stressed that the use of force is not the solution. Clearly, the only lasting solution to the problem is a political one. In that respect, we urge all sides to continue to exercise restraint, and we welcome the beginning of a dialogue with local community leaders and the establishment of a joint commission under Deputy Prime Minister Covic to investigate the problem.”
2000-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4249 (2000) · source
“My Government has joined KFOR and UNMIK officials in urging the Kosovar Albanian leadership to use its influence with these groups to encourage them to cease all violent activity. In November Secretary of State Albright sent a letter to the leading Kosovar Albanian figures warning in the strongest terms against further violence in Presevo region. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary-General Robertson also raised the issue with Kosovo's leadership when he recently visited the area. We welcome the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Government's expressed commitment to respect is obligations under the military-technical agreement and in Security Council resolution 1244 (1999).”
2000-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4249 (2000) · source
“Annabi has described some of the steps taken by the United Nations Interim Administration in Kosovo (UNMIK) and the Kosovo Force (KFOR), including immediate steps to cut off the material and political support for the armed ethnic Albanian extremist groups and to enhance KFOR's surveillance and monitoring of the border along the ground safety zone. KFOR has interdicted weapons and supplies and detained more than 30 individuals S/PVAZA') suspected of being involved in illegal activities. In addition, Mr. Kouchner has signed new regulations that increase the authority of KFOR and UNMIK to expel or detain anyone suspected of aiding armed insurgents in the border area.”
2000-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4249 (2000) · source
“I would like to thank Mr. Annabi for his informative briefing. I would also like to welcome Foreign Minister Svilanovic to the Security Council and thank him for his remarks as well. He raised a number of interesting points. I would like to assure the Foreign Minister that the Council has very much heard the concerns of his Government about violence in the ground safety zone and in certain municipalities in southern Serbia. We, too, are extremely concerned and have condemned these acts of violence. Mr.”
2000-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4249 (2000) · source
“The Council has acted wisely this evening on an ill-timed and inappropriate draft resolution. The draft resolution failed because it lacks sufficient support, as the vote shows. Had there been a chance of it passing, my delegation would have cast a veto. The Council's lack of support for and refusal to adopt the proposed resolution is an important signal. Now is the time to support renewal of negotiations and dialogue, and not for actions that will not in fact advance the cause of peace and that do not have the consent of the parties. Israeli and Palestinian delegations arrived tonight in Washington and talks begin tomorrow. We will work hard to help rebuild confidence and trust and to restore dialogue, and we will also work hard to support what Palestinians and Israelis agree would be useful.”
2000-12-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4248 (2000) · source
“We hope that the Government of Iraq will cooperate across the board on these and other humanitarian issues. The problem is not lack of resources. Indeed, the Government of Iraq has given up almost $300 million in converting currency from dollars to euros, and, according to the oil-for-food programme, it should give up some $500 million in this phase by stopping the flow of oil. This means some $800 million will be sacrificed which could have benefited the people ofIraq. We look forward to the implementation of this new six-month phase of the programme. We will continue to work in this Council to gain Iraqi acceptance of its obligations to the international community.”
2000-12-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4241 (2000) · source
“Specifically, we suggested that those funds be directed towards malnutrition in children, including the establishment of supplementary feeding centres, the purchase and provision of targeted nutrition supplies and breast-feeding education programmes; for health and nutritional support for internally displaced persons; for specific health infrastructure support for the southern governorates, including Basra; for infrastructural improvements in the health and education sectors; and for the purchase and use of children's vaccines and health and nutritional support for orphaned children resident in other institutions. The focus ofthis effort should be on the priorities identified with the Secretary-General and by United Nations personnel on the ground.”
2000-12-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4241 (2000) · source
“The Secretary-General should also give priority to making arrangements associated with essential human needs, as requested in resolution 1284 (1999) and in the draft resolution, as well as for the oil industry. We would view submission of arrangements for the oil industry only as incomplete, and the draft resolution calls upon the Government of Iraq to cooperate in the implementation of all such arrangements. The Security Council agreed in September to transfer funds from the United Nations Compensation Commission for strictly humanitarian projects, and this draft resolution does that. For that move to have real meaning, those funds must be used in a way that takes into account the key elements of the humanitarian needs of the Iraqi people, as well as the needs of the victims of aggression.”
2000-12-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4241 (2000) · source
“On the contrary, during the negotiation of this new phase of the programme we have seen numerous Iraqi attempts to avoid, rather than accept, obligations to the international community. This is clearly unacceptable and works to the detriment of the Iraqi people. In this draft resolution the Council underscores that arrangements for the purchase of locally produced goods and for the cash component of the oil sector are subject to the Council's approval and are desirable. Funding the cash component in the oil sector is linked conceptually to the need for cash components in all sectors. As the Secretary-General made clear in his report, a cash component is essential for all sectors of the programme. Making progress on this is important and has been a priority for some time.”
2000-12-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4241 (2000) · source
“While the Security Council implemented every humanitarian paragraph in resolutions 1284 (1999) and 1302 (2000), the Government of Iraq denied thousands of its citizens the opportunity to perform the hajj, submitted virtually no contracts for the health, water and sanitation, education or oil sectors for phase VIII ofthe programme, proposed a conversion of the escrow account from dollars to euros, which will cost the humanitarian programme hundreds of millions of dollars, and initiated a housing sector distribution programme that ignores those most in need of housing assistance, against the understanding of the Secretary- General. Council agreement to Iraq's requests, such as the conversion of the escrow account, has reaped few benefits.”
2000-12-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4241 (2000) · source
“The United States is pleased to support this latest expression of the Council's efforts to improve the humanitarian situation ofthe Iraqi people. We continue to believe that the oil-for-food programme is meeting the needs of the Iraqi people while denying the Baghdad regime access to funds it would use to further threaten its neighbours. The oil- for-food programme can be improved, and the changes which we have agreed to today reflect our interest in making those improvements. But the most effective change would be for the regime to stop obstruction and implement the relevant humanitarian sections of resolution 1284 (1999), which are intended to improve the operation ofthe oil-for-food programme.”
2000-12-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4241 (2000) · source
“The Agreement on Cessation of Hostilities makes explicit the commitment of the parties to determine their common border if a quick agreement cannot otherwise be reached. Indeed, that commitment appears no fewer than five times in the Agreement on Cessation of Hostilities. The United States remains committed to supporting the efforts of the United Nations and the OAU to achieve a permanent, lasting peace. The President's special representative, Mr. Anthony Lake, will continue to engage with Minister Messahel of Algeria and with the leaders of Ethiopia and Eritrea to bring a just and lasting settlement to this conflict.”
2000-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4227 (2000) · source
“As I think we would all agree, Blue Helmets should never be seen as substitutes for peace agreements, but as the creators of opportunity to achieve a durable peace. The growing United Nations presence in Ethiopia and Eritrea should calm tensions and create an environment for the search for solutions. While the search for improved bilateral relations may continue in perpetuity, the presence of United Nations peacekeepers should not. Likewise, the Council must work to ensure that peacekeepers provide the catalyst for progress and not an excuse for procrastination. We welcome Foreign Minister van Aartsen's suggestions on appropriate confidence-building measures - such as the return of prisoners of war - which could be taken both to help resolve outstanding humanitarian issues and to move the parties closer toward a final accord.”
2000-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4227 (2000) · source
“We urge them to extend their full cooperation to UNMEE in the implementation of its mandate and to exercise every restraint. A credible United Nations presence will serve as a confidence-building measure that we hope will promote trust and bolster the peace negotiations. The United States support for UNMEE remains strong, and we are pleased that deployment is under way. While we welcome these signs of progress, a final peace settlement must be achieved. Several outstanding issues need to be resolved. An agreement on the delimitation and demarcation of a common border is a critical component to a final peace agreement. This element will be essential if the peace between the two neighbours is to be self-sustaining and beneficial to the people of both countries.”
2000-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4227 (2000) · source
“We should also acknowledge all the other Member States that have made or will make significant troop contributions to the Mission. The landmark Agreement on Cessation of Hostilities, which was negotiated under the auspices of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and signed by the Foreign Ministers of Ethiopia and Eritrea at Algiers on 18 June, is a major step towards a final, peaceful settlement of the conflict. By all indications, the Governments of Ethiopia and Eritrea have held true to their commitments and continue to respect the Agreement. We must take advantage of this opportunity to lay the foundation for a durable peace. It is now incumbent upon all of us to encourage the parties to sustain the political will necessary to achieve a comprehensive and lasting settlement.”
2000-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4227 (2000) · source
“We would like to thank and commend the Dutch presidency for calling this important open briefing. In particular, I would like to thank the Dutch Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. van Aartsen, for his thoughtful presentation, and also to thank the Secretary-General for his comments. We applaud the commitment of the Netherlands to advancing peace between Ethiopia and Eritrea. Mr. van Aartsen's efforts complement the efforts of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and our own continuing intensive assistance to Ethiopia and Eritrea with respect to concluding a final peace agreement. We wish to congratulate the Netherlands on its substantial contribution to the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE), and on the appointment of Major-General Patrick Cammaert as UNMEE Force Commander.”
2000-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4227 (2000) · source
“The dramatic political changes in the region over the past months bode well over the long term, but we will have to continue to work for further progress. In the meantime, as we try to take best advantage of the inexorable larger trends in the region, we cannot allow Dayton implementation to be blocked by obstructionists and undermined by corrupt elements working behind the scenes. It is critically important for the High Representative and the international community to be prepared to act forcefully to ensure that those who are opposed to Dayton are not in a position to block the full implementation of the peace accords.”
2000-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4222 (2000) · source
“The Serb Democratic Party (SDS), which has expressed its virulent opposition to the Dayton accords since 1995, appears to have won the presidency of the Republika Srpska. The situation in the Republika Srpska Assembly, however, is more mixed and important decisions remain to be made about governing coalitions. We will continue to urge that obstructionists be kept out ofthe Government. We have reports of illegal campaign activity by the SDS in Srebrenica. This only reinforces our belief that the SDS continues to be controlled by those who are committed to seeing Dayton fail. We hope that over time the political situation in the Republika Srpska will change. It will take time for the Republika Srpska to recover from the scars of Milosevic's years of propaganda and mischief-making.”
2000-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4222 (2000) · source
“I want to thank Under-Secretary-General Guehenno for his excellent briefing. We welcome reports that this election was free and fair, apart from some disturbing incidents in Srebrenica and the illegal campaign activity by the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ). We are encouraged by the early results in the Federation that show slow and steady progress for their moderate, multi-ethnic parties, which continue to improve their position at the expense of nationalist parties. It appears that the influence of the hard-line parties in the Federation has continued to decline, as we have seen in each successive election in Bosnia and Herzegovina since 1996. Unfortunately, though, it appears that the results in the Republika Srpska are more disappointing, although that was not unexpected.”
2000-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4222 (2000) · source
“The longer the United Nations fails to live up to its potential and allows peacekeeping shortcomings to go unfixed, the longer innocents will suffer and the greater danger that controllable conflict will become entrenched crisis, with even higher risks and costs to the international community.”
2000-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4220 (2000) · source
“The Secretary-General realized this when he took the initiative to convene the Brahimi Panel. Now he has shown real leadership and determination by presenting a practical implementation plan and a compelling case for an emergency resource request to put Brahimi's recommendations into action. We have an obligation to respond positively. At a minimum, we should ensure that the resources the United Nations needs - in particular to plan, support and manage its vital military, civilian police and operational functions for peacekeeping - are on- stream by the end of the year. There can be no doubt that the task before us is as difficult as it is important. Progress is possible only if we do more than make speeches. For people in areas of conflict, it is often the difference between life and death.”
2000-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4220 (2000) · source
“This is at the very heart of this roadmap and will be a key to our success, as will our determination that our mandates be based on frank, accurate and detailed advice. Once we have decided to send peacekeepers on a mission, this resolution underscores the need for them to be able to act and react when necessary to ensure that they carry out the mission's goals successfully. We have said time and again that rapid deployment of a peacekeeping operation is essential, and today we have given concrete meaning to this oft- cited aspiration by calling upon all relevant parties to strive to meet specific timelines and by welcoming the Brahimi proposals on improving the United Nations rapid deployment capacity, including through the standby arrangements system. Still, we must do more.”
2000-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4220 (2000) · source
“So it is just that simple. We must all work together and we must all do our fair share. Unless we all share the political will to make peacekeeping succeed, no amount of structural changes will make much difference. The resolution before us sends a clear message that the Security Council is ready to do its part. We have taken many important decisions in this document, all of which share a common thread - that saving peacekeeping is a common responsibility, one that depends on all of us working together. In particular, today's resolution provides the roadmap for us to fulfil our responsibility to produce clear, credible and achievable mandates that reflect both the realities on the ground and the availability of resources. The Council is already implementing a pledge to improve consultations with troop-contributing countries.”
2000-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4220 (2000) · source
“There are two strands to the peacekeeping reform effort that must be addressed simultaneously: the way the Department of Peacekeeping Operations works and the way we finance peacekeeping operations. On financing, we are pursuing important work in the Fifth Committee and elsewhere to make the peacekeeping scale fairer, up-to-date and equitable. We are making progress, though slowly, but I am confident that we will find a fair solution this year. The other question is how to fix peacekeeping operations. The Secretary-General's Panel on United Nations Peace Operations, led so ably by Ambassador Brahimi, provides a practical blueprint of how to do that. The report reminds us that United Nations peacekeeping, perhaps more than any other United Nations function, works only when all relevant actors join together with common purpose.”
2000-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4220 (2000) · source
“We all know that the United Nations most challenging and important operations face desperate shortfalls in terms of troops, equipment and training; and we all know, as the Brahimi Report so vividly illustrated, that the capacity of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations to plan effectively, to manage and to backstop peacekeeping is severely inadequate. Unless we move decisively, those who threaten peacekeepers across the globe may draw the conclusion that the United Nations lacks the will, cohesion and even the capability to perform this basic function. Unless we move decisively, peacekeeping - the core function of the United Nations - will fail. Ambassador Holbrooke has often noted that the crisis between capacity and demand is a train wreck waiting to happen. This is still true.”
2000-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4220 (2000) · source
“Last September, at the Millennium Summit, leader after leader reiterated the critical importance of peacekeeping and, at our historical Security Council Summit, we renewed our commitment to peacekeeping and re-energized our resolve to making it work efficiently and effectively. This Council demands a great deal from its peacekeeping operations. We have placed demands on the United Nations to conduct complex, difficult and dangerous operations projected to cost over $3 billion this year. Our ability to send a strong political message today will be seen as the test of whether our professed commitment to United Nations peacekeeping and to the people who depend on it is genuine and enduring.”
2000-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4220 (2000) · source
“This year more than ever, we have reaffirmed our commitment to peace and security in Africa and have mandated three new operations there. There is no doubt that United Nations peacekeeping remains at the core of this institution's responsibility. Whether peacekeeping succeeds or fails will be the ultimate standard by which the world will judge the United Nations. That is because, for all of the important things the United Nations system does around the world - from the work of the United Nations Children's Fund and the United Nations Development Programme to the World Health Organization - everyone looks to this Organization to keep the peace.”
2000-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4220 (2000) · source
“Today, the Security Council takes a critical step forward with the adoption of this resolution implementing the Brahimi Report's core recommendations relating to the Council's work. This reflects two months of hard work by the Council's Working Group, under the extraordinary leadership and determination of Ambassador Curtis Ward of Jamaica, and we want to congratulate him and his colleagues. One cannot overestimate the importance of today's actions. Since 1948, there have been 53 United Nations peacekeeping operations in nearly all corners of the world. Thirty-five of those occurred in the past decade; 15 are currently under way, including the "big five and a half": Kosovo, Congo, Sierra Leone, East Timor, Ethiopia/Eritrea and the doubling of the force in South Lebanon. These are all major operations that did not exist just 14 months ago.”
2000-11-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4220 (2000) · source