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  1. “I and the many innocent victims in my community and all over the world have suffered from the terrible yet preventable reality of the misuse and proliferation of small arms and light weapons. It is up to the members of the Security Council to work with the international community to prevent others from being subjected to such horrible suffering. On behalf of all the victims, I urge every member of the Security Council to adopt a resolution on small arms and light weapons, because we perish or survive at their will.”

    2015-05-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7442 (2015) · source

  2. “First, all United Nations Member States should fully honour all their commitments under the Programme of Action and ensure that they follow up on its Biennial Meetings and Review Conferences on progress achieved, including the International Tracing Instrument. Secondly, all Member States should ratify the Arms Trade Treaty and implement it robustly in order to ensure the establishment of strict new international standards. Similarly, all States should ratify the Firearms Protocol. Thirdly, all States should actively promote and support a full role for women as participants and decision-makers in addressing the proliferation and misuse of small arms and ammunition, including in disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programmes and in conflict prevention, conflict resolution and peace processes at all levels.”

    2015-05-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7442 (2015) · source

  3. “That assistance can and should take many forms, from helping to ensure that stockpiles - whether in the largest national armoury or the smallest village police station - are secured, to assisting the victims and survivors of armed violence, whether conflict- or crime-related. Member States should also ensure that preventing and combating small arms and ammunition proliferation and misuse are fundamental elements of the mandates of all peacekeeping operations, and they should support the work of civil society in its efforts to combat the harmful consequences of small arms and ammunition proliferation. Civil society played a pivotal role in resolving the conflict in Cote d'Ivoire and can do so elsewhere as well. In that regard, I would like to make the following three recommendations to the Security Council.”

    2015-05-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7442 (2015) · source

  4. “It is an undeniable fact that the illicit transfer, accumulation, diversion and misuse of small arms and their ammunition are key factors in the human costs resulting from destruction and destabilization. Every United Nations Member State must do all it can to ensure that it is meeting all relevant international obligations and commitments related to controlling the movement and misuse of small arms and light weapons and stemming the flow of arms into conflict zones. It is more vital than ever that States be encouraged to implement the United Nations Programme of Action and the Arms Trade Treaty in order to slow if not eliminate the proliferation of small arms and light weapons. They must do more to enhance and strengthen international cooperation and assistance.”

    2015-05-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7442 (2015) · source

  5. “Similarly, illegal weapons and ammunition coming from the abandoned arsenals after the fall of Al-Qadhafi in Libya started to pour into the region - and presently continue to flood our region and fuel terrorist movements in Mali, the Niger, Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon. As a consequence, democratic institutions are severely destabilized and organized crime is spreading rapidly. It is therefore urgent, if we are to avoid the entire region being engulfed in protracted and unresolvable conflicts and overwhelmed by horrific crime, that the international community mobilize to counter this problem and act quickly to curb the proliferation of such weapons in Africa and the world.”

    2015-05-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7442 (2015) · source

  6. “Electoral dispute in my country led to a strong anarchic distribution of weapons and ammunition by some political leaders and district leaders. Those weapons and their ammunition had entered the country, in violation of a United Nations arms embargo, from neighbouring countries as well as trafficking networks. The cost in human life was well over 3,000; the total cost to the country is beyond any estimation. Obviously, the ease of access to weapons and ammunition acquired by illicit means, by leakages from legal stockpiles, from military and police stock, and even by local manufacturing, were the main factors in this tragic toll.”

    2015-05-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7442 (2015) · source

  7. “I also experienced the consequences of the collapse of Government control, where power fell to groups of young, lawless offenders who had no difficulty getting hold of arms and ammunition and who, without any reason, would not hesitate to take life or to indulge in all forms of abuses on a terrorized population, particularly women and girls. All public infrastructure was destroyed, the population deprived of water, electricity and food. Families were separated, and hospitals were overwhelmed and unable to cope with the flood of the wounded. Many owed their salvation to the courage of some women who, at great risk to their lives, ventured out to bring a handful of cassava semolina, called attieke, to feed the families.”

    2015-05-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7442 (2015) · source

  8. “I will never forget the tears on her face depicting her pain and the shame of having been a victim of forced prostitution and rape. We were all victims of those armed men, who would set up multiple barricades so that they could plunder passengers and traders of their property, and often of their lives. And we ask the question: Where do these weapons and their ammunition come from, these weapons that enable all this violence, all this suffering? Following the post-elections armed conflict in 2010 and 2011, I personally witnessed multiple abuses, the lifeless bodies lying in the middle of the roadway, the destroyed and burned buildings and the streams of haggard and displaced refugees fleeing Abidjan by the thousands for an unknown destination, leaving behind the entire fruit of a life-time of hard work.”

    2015-05-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7442 (2015) · source

  9. “I was peacefully sleeping in my room at the University of Bouake, where I was in my first year of law school, when I was abruptly awakened by weapon fire from all sides. Some frustrated individuals who had been denied Ivorian citizenship had decided to take up arms - too readily available - to make their claim. We were terrorized for days, hunted like animals, without water, without food, without receiving help, constantly living in the fear of being killed. And we were not the only ones. The rest of the inhabitants suffered as well, regardless of age, sex or status. We all paid the price, but for what? And why? When I returned to the neighbourhood, one of my neighbors was forced, in order to feed her family, to yield to the intimidation and threats of armed individuals.”

    2015-05-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7442 (2015) · source

  10. “Let me begin, Mr. President, by expressing to you and your colleagues in the Security Council my sincere gratitude for giving me this opportunity to speak to the Council today. I am here not only in my capacity as President of the West Africa Action Network on Small Arms in Cote d'Ivoire and as a representative of our global network, the International Action Network on Small Arms, but mostly and especially as the voice of the millions of innocent victims of the illicit transfer, accumulation, diversion and misuse of small arms around the world, especially in Africa. My country, Cote d'Ivoire, and its people have suffered particularly because of this during the last decade. I remember like it was yesterday, when this nightmare began.”

    2015-05-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7442 (2015) · source