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El-Amine

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1999-09-30
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1999-09-30
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  1. “The efforts to improve the situation and the economic and political restoration of the central authorities have to be supported. The international financial authorities and our various partners must agree to resume their dialogue with Moroni and apply themselves more to the task of breathing new life into the governance of public affairs, because it would be fatal if, on top of the secessionist crisis, the State were to be weakened. There would be no way to save the fragmented country, and the Comoros would therefore become a kind of Somalia, which would be a danger to the rest of the world. I hope that the voice of reason will be heard and that together we can help the State of Comoros find the strength to defend the interests of its people.”

    1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption3 (1999) · source

  2. “Can we now ascertain who has been financing the separatists for more than two years if Anjouan has no resources of its own? Who is providing the weapons? Who is maintaining the militias and the various armed factions? There are gray areas which need to be clarified if we want to avoid permanent instability in the Indian Ocean, which would cause lasting tensions. The helping hand of the Comorian authorities, the flexibility in their desire to reach a final response respecting everyone's desires, the consolidation of peace, security and democratic freedoms and the oft-repeated affirmation of the desire to preserve the security and the rights of the Anjouanese in Grande Comore have not had any effect on the stubbornness of the separatists. The State must be consolidated.”

    1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption3 (1999) · source

  3. “The direct dialogue between the powers in Moroni and the Anjouan group reflected the desire of the Comorian head of State to find in these meetings among Comorians the necessary energy to conclude a peace of the brave that would benefit and unite all. Dialogue continues to be our watchword. The new authorities are convinced that an independent Anjouan has no future. The island will be only a tool in the service of various traffickers, a staging post for money- laundering and perhaps even a toxic waste depot controlled by the international mafia. The economy of the region, security, peace and stability will thus be threatened. Thus, the efforts being made in Moroni and the good offices of the pan-African organization must be supported by the United Nations and the entire international community.”

    1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption3 (1999) · source

  4. “The Comorian Government endorsed the recommendations and the resolutions of the thirty-fifth summit of the OAU, held in Algiers, and is working feverishly to set up as soon as possible republican and democratic institutions. We urgently appeal to the international community to support this transparent process of institution-building. I should like to pay tribute to the OAU, to the countries of the region - particularly South Africa - to France and to the entire international community for their solid commitment to helping Comorians recover their unity within their common borders. But now we have to go beyond defending principles and ask ourselves whether the deterioration of the crisis is not partly due to the complicity of separatists.”

    1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption3 (1999) · source

  5. “The delay aroused the wrath of certain Grande Comore extremists, who rose up when the delegations returned to Moroni. The delaying tactics and the total abdication of the political authorities in the face of this situation only made the climate more and more tense and unbearable. The feelings of hatred and xenophobia towards our innocent brothers in Anjouan culminated in a mass exodus of our Anjouanese brothers to their island of origin. Our country recently came close to a humanitarian disaster, but, fortunately, avoided it due to the actions of the national development army. A transition Government was immediately set up to establish peace and to lay solid foundations for a state of law, in the framework of the implementation of the Antananarivo agreements.”

    1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption3 (1999) · source

  6. “Thus, the problem is more economic than political, and any initiative to resolve it must necessarily take into account both aspects at once. In this connection, we were pleased to welcome the special session on small island States, and we took due note of all the commitments made. In the Comorian crisis, the mediation initiated by the OAU led to the organization of an inter-Comoros conference, which was held in Madagascar five months ago and which gave rise to enormous hopes for a happy outcome of this crisis. Agreements, which we believed to be an ideal framework to preserve the unity of the Comoros, were drawn up and placed before the parties involved in the crisis for signature. To the surprise of all, the separatist delegation did not sign those agreements and asked for a delay in order to consult its base in Anjouan.”

    1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption3 (1999) · source

  7. “It must be emphasized that this unfortunate and disagreeable choice of the separatists was motivated by the precarious economic situation and by anxiety and despair about a gloomy and negative future, with an economic life dominated by an agricultural sector threatened by a slump in the sales of its products, public finances characterized by considerable deficits, a chronic deficit in the balance of payments, a very heavy external debt, salary arrears of sometimes more than six months per year, resource limitations that make it impossible for the Government to take proper charge of education and health in a country where the number of young people is more than 65 per cent of the population, widespread unemployment, and so on. In other words, this was a legitimate problem to deal with, but the way it was done was unacceptable.”

    1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption3 (1999) · source

  8. “The Secretary-General of the OAU and the representative of Algeria referred to this matter. For more than two years this archipelago has been undergoing a unique crisis, which has challenged the very foundations of the State and threatened its unity and territorial integrity. One of its islands revolted, proclaiming sometimes that it would join the former colonial Power and sometimes that it was for independence, pure and simple. The Comorian State can in no way accept the Balkanization of the archipelago. When the matter was brought before the Organization of African Unity, it spared no effort to reach a peaceful, just and durable solution.”

    1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption3 (1999) · source

  9. “The commitment clearly expressed here in favour of the African continent cannot but encourage and strengthen the efforts already made by the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and regional groups, and safeguard what has been achieved by African preventive diplomacy. We have followed with great interest the exhaustive report presented by the Secretary-General; we also welcome and commend the tangible results obtained so far in the resolution of conflicts in Africa. My country, the Islamic Federal Republic of Comoros, has not been spared the crises which are tearing apart children of the same family, the same region and the same country. That is why I wished to participate in this open and pragmatic discussion, to shed more light on the situation in the Comoros.”

    1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption3 (1999) · source

  10. “Mr. El-Amine (Comoros)(sp0ke in French): I am honoured to speak before this Council and to convey to you, Sir, my warm and sincere congratulations on your presidency of the Security Council. Your country has always lent an attentive ear to the problems faced by the African continent. Your initiative in convening this meeting of the Security Council to consider the situation in Africa is a good omen for us. We believe this to be a strong message from the Security Council to the international community on the eve of the third millennium, and hope that this message will mark the end of an era of tragedy, conflict and poverty in Africa.”

    1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption3 (1999) · source