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Dhakkar

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2007-12-17
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2007-12-17
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  1. “We fully support the position taken by the Special Representative of the Secretary- General for Somalia. We fully endorse the need for the Security Council to move fast, and in the right direction - and now. We have faith in the United Nations system and in the Security Council. After all, part of Somalia was a United Nations Trust Territory, and the southern part gained independence with the help of the United Nations. There are many Somalis in the diaspora. There are many Somalis who have been in the United Nations system. We all have faith in the United Nations system. We hope that five or ten years down the road we will still have faith in the United Nations system.”

    2007-12-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5805 (2007) · source

  2. “Unfortunately, since the civil war, and since 1991, when the central Government collapsed, our pride has been crudely dented, but we have faith that we will come back and regain our strength. After all, we have one language, we have one history, we have one ethnic group and we have one religion. In many situations where I have been in my capacity as a former senior United Nations official for 23 years and as a part-time lecturer at New York University, I have been asked, "if you have all this homogeneity, what is the problem? What are you fighting about?" In many situations, I was able to explain, in two minutes rather than in two hours, what the problem was. So my third point, talking about directions for the Security Council, was to emphasize humanitarian assistance. I will be brief.”

    2007-12-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5805 (2007) · source

  3. “I take this opportunity to thank profusely the African Union, the Government of Uganda and the Government of Ethiopia for helping Somalia in its hour of need. Secondly, it should be possible, in this day and age, in the twenty-first century, for the Security Council to come up with an acceptable formula to move ahead on Somalia in the right direction in the political and security sphere. It is not in the interest of the United Nations system to find ways to delay real action on Somalia. Thirdly, of course, wherever there is conflict, there is a humanitarian disaster, and Somalia is no exception. It pains us to see Somalia for so long the subject of the worst possible headlines. The Somali people would like to move out of this situation. Those us who know us know us as proud people.”

    2007-12-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5805 (2007) · source

  4. “The only option is for the Security Council and the United Nations system to move in the right direction - not only to move in the right direction, but to do so with speed, in order to make up for lost time. It is no secret in Somalian and other circles that many Somalis - inside Somalia, in the neighbouring countries and all over the world - wonder why it is so relatively easy for the Security Council and the United Nations system to move faster and in the right direction in other places in the world where there is or has been conflict. Basically, we endorse the idea that the Security Council should move speedily in three directions. First, existing measures should be implemented: first of all, the deployment of African Union peacekeepers.”

    2007-12-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5805 (2007) · source

  5. “On behalf of the Permanent Representative of Somalia to the United Nations, who is not currently in New York, and in my capacity as officer-in-charge of the Mission, on behalf of the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia, and, indeed, on behalf of all the suffering people of Somalia, I would like again to thank the Security Council and its President for giving us an opportunity to participate in this discussion. At the outset, I would like to welcome the position taken by our colleague Ahmedou Ould Abdallah. We would like to offer him our full support in his worthy endeavours. We wholeheartedly endorse the last position he outlined, which is the only option.”

    2007-12-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5805 (2007) · source