YouSaid · the spoken record

Essy

lines on the record: 46
first: 1992-11-19
most recent: 2002-01-30
sittings or episodes: 3
sources: un-security-council

Every line below is reproduced as it was said and linked to the record it came from. Nothing here is summarised or generated. Directory · Search · Corrections

“I am leaving with much hope and I do not despair because I definitely think that Africa today has all the potential to succeed.”
2002-01-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460Resumption2 (2002) · source
“I remember that, 10 or 15 years ago, when a State held the presidency of the Security Council, the President would saunter over to the Delegates Lounge looking for conflicts because there was, in fact, nothing to do. There might be only a resolution on renewing peacekeeping in Cyprus. A month could go by without a meeting of the Security Council. It was almost tragic being president of the Security Council and not have a conflict to resolve. But today, the Council is overburdened. You are all very busy, but I hope that in a few years the Council will have fewer problems, that there will be fewer African issues and that we will find an Africa that is at peace. That is truly our most important wish. I would like to thank all of you.”
2002-01-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460Resumption2 (2002) · source
“I would therefore like to personally thank you, Sir, and all members of the Council for all the importance that they have given to this meeting. Today, - and I have become aware of this since my arrival in Addis Ababa - the OAU has relations with all the continents. And all the OAU summits are attended by a large number of delegations that arrive from all locations to show their solidarity with Africa. I encourage them to continue to do so. We will make an effort in the African Union to see that the hopes placed in Africa are truly not in vain and that, 10 to 15 years from now, the Council will have fewer problems. The Council is extremely busy today.”
2002-01-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460Resumption2 (2002) · source
“The New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) is an illustration of this. We have had plans in Africa: we have had the Lagos Plan of Action; we have had the Abuja plan. Now we have NEPAD, and I think that past failures will allow us to better grasp the future with NEPAD. Therefore, the only message that I would like to convey to one and all is that we truly attach much importance to the question of economic development. It is said that peace does not live happily with poverty, and as long as there is poverty there will never be peace. It is said that a person who is hungry has no ears. Therefore, I think that development questions must be effectively linked to questions of solutions to conflicts.”
2002-01-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460Resumption2 (2002) · source
“Europe has known enormous wars: the Hundred Years War, the Thirty Years War and the two world wars, and today all these States work together in the European Union. I think that the future of Africa will also proceed along these lines, where, tomorrow, with the Inga Dam in the Congo, we can have energy everywhere and combine our potential strengths. I think that this is the future of Africa. We should not despair. After 40 years of independence, I believe that we have the potential. We have the people. We have the heads of State. The Secretary-General said that in fact, the problem of Africa is not a problem of AIDS or the price of raw materials. It is a problem of leadership. I think that we have a leadership that is sufficiently able to understand the problems.”
2002-01-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460Resumption2 (2002) · source
“Statistics show that in order for poverty to be reduced by half, African countries would need a growth rate of 7 to 8 per cent. But, as the Council knows, the growth rate is 3, 4 or 5 per cent, whereas the growth rate of the population is 4 per cent. Therefore, the prospects are truly bleak. This is why the fact that we associate the questions of peace with questions of development proves that we have understood that the best way to resolve the problem is to settle the question of development. The African Union is the fruit of thinking that has been evolving for some time and is now becoming concrete with the Sirte Declaration. We are therefore going to South Africa with the creation of the African Union. For me, this is a source of great hope.”
2002-01-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460Resumption2 (2002) · source
“Africa knows its problems and how to resolve them; it needs the means to resolve them. During the cold war era, a great statesman once said that the one who dominates Africa will dominate the world. But I can say today that if we find a solution to the problem of Africa, we will find a solution to the problems of the world. There is a link between all the conflicts of the world today. I think that the Council devotes 60 per cent of its activities to Africa, and if we can solve Africa's problems, I believe that the Council could also breathe easier. This is why I believe that all other States understand that the African heads of State today have decided to take into their own hands the solution to the problem. It is true that when one takes a close look at Africa today there are reasons for concern.”
2002-01-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460Resumption2 (2002) · source
“I would like simply, in conclusion, to offer my sincerest thanks to you, Mr. President, for your commendable initiative to close out your mandate this month by dealing with African issues. I am gratified, because this meeting has allowed us all to draw attention to African issues. I think that through these discussions today, Asia, Latin America, every continent better understands African problems. When I return to Addis Ababa I will have the opportunity to hold a brainstorming session on the results of this meeting. We have learned much, and I am glad to know that many countries now understand our problems. This is reassuring. The message that I would like the members of the Council to come away from this meeting with is that Africa is a mature continent.”
2002-01-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460Resumption2 (2002) · source
“In this lofty task, the OAU will always be at its side in trying to build a world of peace and justice. Africa, through the OAU today and the African Union tomorrow, will unflinchingly and unfailingly work as a full partner in the context of these efforts towards peace, justice and development, which we all so ardently yearn for.”
2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460 (2002) · source
“There is only one organization, and that is the African Union. NEPAD deserves active support from our other development partners, including, in particular, the agencies of the United Nations system. I cannot end my statement without expressing my deep appreciation for the tremendous contribution made by the Security Council in the context of its growing role in the resolution of conflicts in Africa. I wish the Council every success in the lofty task with which it has been charged by the international community. In a fast-moving world characterized by rapid and profound upheavals, there is great potential for confusion. That is why the Council will remain the light that is guiding us in our march forward towards realizing the ideals of peace, security and development of humanity as a whole.”
2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460 (2002) · source
“They must create a political, economic and social environment conducive to ensuring the structural transformations that are required for people-centred development. I would like to stress that the initiative, submitted to the General Assembly last September, exists within the context of the African Union. Of course, it was initiated by heads of State, but at Lusaka we decided to integrate it into the framework of the African Union. Last week, in South Africa, I attended a seminar on NEPAD; how the OAU is becoming the African Union; and how NEPAD will be integrated into the African Union. In the document that we elaborated jointly with UNDP, a working group was created whose single goal is to focus on integrating NEPAD into the African Union. So there is no dichotomy, no competition.”
2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460 (2002) · source
“The Council will also be aware of the developments that took place in 2001 with respect to the launching of the New Initiative aimed at setting up a new global partnership between Africa and the developed world. Now called the New Partnership for Africa's Development, it is aimed at laying the foundation for a new partnership between Africa and the developed countries on the basis of mutual interests and common concerns. It is aimed also at strengthening democracy and sound economic management in the continent. The goal is for Africa to become an active partner in the new world economy, so that it will not be marginalized. The initiative aims to ensure the renewal of Africa and to promote development, while reiterating that this task is the responsibility of the African Governments and peoples themselves.”
2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460 (2002) · source
“African unity is not something that is accomplished by just one head of State, or even a few, but a long-standing dream that Africa has been trying to realize for a very, very long time - since the 18005, with DuBois, Padmore, Nkruma and Nyerere. For us, and for the African heads of State and Government, the African Union must not become OAU, part two. This is not a simple name change. We want it to reflect a renewed aspiration to integration on the part of African States and genuine progress towards African unity. It must have strong organs, including a commission that must be the driving force behind the Union and reflect the common and individual interests of the entire membership and their desire to build a Union that lives up to the hopes placed in it by the peoples of Africa.”
2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460 (2002) · source
“We are not carrying out this task in isolation; we are trying to involve all interested parties - not only African ones, but also all examples of integration, such as the Southern Common Market and the Association of South-East Asian Nations, in order to profit from their experience during this transition. All of this leads us to the South African summit on the proclamation of the African Union - a proclamation that is set to take place in June 2002 in South Africa. To succeed in its mission, the OAU will spare no effort to earn the trust of its member States to ensure cooperation, transparency and confidence among all actors as we proceed with this institutional transformation. We want to work in the spirit of African unity, which is so dear to all Africans.”
2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460 (2002) · source
“For instance, from 3 to 8 March, jointly with the Economic Commission for Africa, we will be holding the Third African Development Forum, under the theme "Defining priorities for regional integration". Thousands will attend: highly placed officials, ambassadors, ministers, parliamentarians, trade unionists, students, women's groups and top African experts on integration-related matters. In other words, we are making every effort to make the Union into a reality. I have also signed an agreement with the United Nations Development Programme to provide logistical backup to our secretariat in the transition process.”
2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460 (2002) · source
“Those consultations included representatives of the member States of the OAU at Addis Ababa and some of OAU's external partners, for example, the European Union, which we consider to be a model of economic integration. Those consultations, which were followed by seminars on these issues, allowed for an overall view of the structure of the African Union, its various bodies and their respective responsibilities. Draft texts on all of these organs, their spheres of competence and their methods of work are now being finalized. Last week in Addis Ababa a meeting of ambassadors and African experts was convened to consider those texts, which were drawn up by the secretariat. Further meetings are also scheduled.”
2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460 (2002) · source
“As is well known, the Constitutive Act of the African Union entered into force on 26 May 2001, following its ratification by more than two thirds of the member States of the OAU. At the Lusaka Summit in June 2001, at which I was appointed to head the organization, the African leaders charged me with the important mission of ensuring the transition from the OAU to the African Union and with setting up its principal organs - the Assembly, the Council, the Commission and the ambassadorial Committee charged with translating this reform into reality. Seeking transparency and wishing to promote trust, I immediately began to consult with political leaders and OAU staff with a View to implementing the Lusaka decision and to achieving this lofty mission.”
2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460 (2002) · source
“The OAU must play a more active role in the area of conflict prevention, management and resolution. In this context, we must endeavour to enhance the effectiveness of the OAU mechanism, as called for by the OAU Summit in Lusaka. All of these efforts and initiatives in the area of peace and security can have a genuine impact on stability in Africa only if they are accompanied by stronger and more determined support on the part of the international community, with a view to helping Africa to take up the many tremendous challenges facing it in the socio-economic field and as concerns development in general. I should like to take this opportunity to speak about the OAU's transition to the African Union and the New African Initiative, which has been renamed the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD).”
2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460 (2002) · source
“It is the most interested party that must address the crises prevailing on the continent. Because of this fact, the OAU has for some years been trying to assume its full share of responsibility. It has also been very dynamic in conflict prevention, management and resolution. Its efforts to find a solution to the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea met with outstanding success in the Algiers Agreements. Its firm commitment, since 1997, to stand by the Comoros parties in their efforts to reach reconciliation and restore constitutional order seems to be bearing fruit. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi and Sierra Leone, the OAU has made a key contribution to the efforts towards peace that have been deployed jointly with the United Nations and the relevant subregional organizations.”
2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460 (2002) · source
“If the increasing number of such initiatives reflects the commitment of African countries to peace, they still need to be coordinated more effectively. As for the role of the United Nations, I would emphasize the Council's primary role in the maintenance of international peace and security. The success of this partnership, which we all wish for, depends fundamentally on the will and ability of the Council to act as the guarantor of international peace and security. It depends largely on the commitment of the United Nations to work side by side with the OAU and subregional African organizations. In emphasizing the paramount responsibility of the Security Council, we must remember that Africa remains determined to shoulder the responsibilities that are its own.”
2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460 (2002) · source
“In this context, I would like to emphasize - not without pride and satisfaction - the spirit of collaboration, cooperation and coordination that inspired the efforts of the OAU, the United Nations, the European Union and other partners in their search for a solution to the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea. This exemplary coordination, based on a collective approach and a common vision of the means of conflict settlement, was very helpful in finding an effective solution and should, you will agree, be seriously considered as a model for addressing other conflicts, especially on the African continent. The partnership between the OAU and the United Nations must also ensure the necessary coordination of peace initiatives in Africa.”
2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460 (2002) · source
“Following on from this policy of partnership and cooperation that we are trying to define and build together, I would like to recall and emphasize the position of the OAU between the United Nations and subregional organizations in the maintenance of peace and security in Africa. Thus, the OAU and, even more, the African Union, plays a key role in promoting and coordinating activities deployed by regional entities. As we are considering ways and means to strengthen this cooperation, I would suggest a mechanism for consultations between the Security Council and the central organ of the OAU mechanism on conflict resolution.”
2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460 (2002) · source
“This must also extend to subregional African organizations, which have demonstrated their real commitment and availability to help in conflict management directed by our continental organization. Mme. Frechette has touched on this subject. The modalities of the partnership must be further refined, however, so that efforts at the subregional, continental and global levels are consistently harmonized and coordinated. In this spirit, I remain deeply convinced that in order to ensure an effective partnership, the United Nations must intensify cooperation with continental and subregional organizations, which are the very foundation of and key partners in any global approach to conflict settlement on the continent.”
2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460 (2002) · source
“Their proximity to hotspots and wars undoubtedly helps them identify more easily the causes of conflicts and the actors involved. This proximity also gives them the advantage of being able to anticipate the reaching of an agreement that is likely to end a crisis. That being said, this same proximity can also generate tensions and make certain situations more complex, in particular when neighbouring countries do not feel the obligation to remain impartial and become parties to the conflict. However, the challenge of security is that it requires the input and contribution of everyone. Therefore, we continue to advocate the strengthening of the partnership between the OAU and the United Nations.”
2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460 (2002) · source
“It is out of recognition of this that greater cooperation has developed between the OAU and the United Nations, and Kofi Annan has been personally involved in this area. His 1998 report was indeed a watershed, among other things, in its focus on the causes of conflict in Africa, and it attracted the attention of many Security Council members to the necessity of investing in the settlement of conflicts. Common cultural, geographic and historical factors are determining factors in conflict settlement. Our approach must consist in identifying them and using them to promote the means of conflict settlement. In the case of partnership with the United Nations, regional organizations and the OAU are increasingly sought after.”
2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460 (2002) · source
“The Secretary-General of the United Nations has often reiterated that the problems of international security - and the situation in Africa is one of the chief concerns - arise in a context different from that of 1945, when the Charter was adopted. From now on, it is not so much the security of States that is at stake, but the very existence of the State as an organized system of government. Today, there is as much need to guarantee the collective security of States as provided for under the Charter of the United Nations and increasingly taken over by regional and subregional organizations as there is need to ensure the global security of societies beset by civil war or other threats like organized crime and major pandemics like HIV/AIDS. The wars that continue to tear Africa apart often lead to both economic and social disaster.”
2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460 (2002) · source
“If no serious thought is given to improving the situation and allowing Africa to truly become part of the new international trade system, the marginalization of our continent could be seriously detrimental to its stability, security and development. As I have said, today's meeting is taking place at a very critical time, when conflict situations, particularly on the African continent, are characterized not only by their increasing number, but also by their complexity and the multiple internal, regional and international dimensions that they encompass. If there has been a significant drop in the number of inter-State conflicts in Africa, this development has been offset by the appearance of internal conflicts, for which the settlement mechanisms of the United Nations and the OAU do not always seem adequate.”
2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460 (2002) · source
“The ongoing reform of the structures, working methods and procedures of the central organ gives us an opportunity to improve performance and learn from experience. If, at the continental level, the fact that the OAU has undertaken work on conflict situations permits in many respects a certain optimism, yet at the international level there is a certain scepticism, which is a cause of concern for us. The globalization currently under way, and the profound technological changes that accompany it, illustrate clearly some of the handicaps Africa suffers from and highlight our fear of seeing our continent disconnected from the movement that is fashioning international relations and their current evolution.”
2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460 (2002) · source
“From this point of View, the contribution of the OAU is a natural result of the partnership it has established with the United Nations over the years. Without a doubt, Africa is aware that it needs to work together with the United Nations and other international, regional and subregional organizations to seek ways and means of strengthening peace in the world. To that end, many concrete actions to prevent, manage and settle conflicts have been carried out, and these have often resulted in solutions to preserve the peace. Without failing to recognize the many political and financial constraints, among others, that interfere with the functioning of the mechanism adopted by our continent in 1993, that mechanism, without a doubt, has nevertheless been extremely useful in reconciling institutional and programmatic approaches.”
2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460 (2002) · source
“At the top of our concerns are the problems in achieving peace and security and the conflict situations that unfortunately continue to characterize the African continent. This situation intervenes at a very particular international juncture, following the events of 11 September 2001, which have made the world aware more than ever that security issues are a vital concern, not only for certain countries and peoples, but also for the entire international community. This context lends even more significance to our meeting and also allows the Secretary-General of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) to insist on the part the continental organization intends to play in strengthening the instruments to combat terrorism and, in a more general way, to promote peace and security in the world.”
2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460 (2002) · source
“It is also an opportunity to exchange with all the members of the Council certain reflections on the crucial issues and on ways of overcoming the difficulties encountered by some of our African States. Thus, today's meeting itself will reveal the interest and the attention that the Council and, through it, the United Nations and its Secretary-General have devoted to the future of our continent. The recent decisions taken by the Council, particularly with regard to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, also indicate the resolute commitment of the Council, which cannot be separated from the unceasing efforts, day after day, of my friend Kofi Annan to secure a better future for Africa.”
2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460 (2002) · source
“Finally, I pay tribute to all members of the Council, entrusted by the international community to discharge the noble mission assigned to them by the Charter. I congratulate them on their work on behalf of peace and stability throughout the world and particularly in Africa. As it is early in the year, I extend to them my best wishes for a pleasant and happy year. The United Nations, and particularly the Security Council, have adopted the custom of regularly inviting the Organization of African Unity to address them on the situation in Africa. Such exchanges offer us an excellent opportunity to share the hopes and fears of a continent that, despite its apparent marginalization, continues to believe deeply in the ideals of the 1945 Charter.”
2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460 (2002) · source
“I am very moved to be in this Chamber again, where I have felt much joy and emotion in the past, given all the crises that we have had to address here. At the outset, I am very pleased, on my own behalf and on behalf of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), sincerely to congratulate the Republic of Mauritius on its assumption of the presidency of the Security Council. Through Mauritius, the entire continent of Africa is honoured and recognized as one of the main actors in international relations today. Addressing the other African members of the Council, Cameroon and Guinea, I wish to pay tribute to their commitment to Africa and to the international community as a whole and to their efforts to promote international peace and security. I also thank the Permanent Representatives of the outgoing African members, Mali and Tunisia.”
2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460 (2002) · source
“For Cdte d'Ivoire, the implementation of the sanctions decided on in Abuja is part of the logic of peace, namely, to contribute to the disarming and encamoment of the parties to the conflict. All these facts, the chronological reminders of the Liberian tragedy, show that, in accordance with the provisions of Article 52 of the United Nations Charter, ECOWAS has spared no effort to bring about a peaceful settlement of this conflict. It is now up to the Council to make a decisive contribution to this action taken by our subregional organization with a view to reaching the objective of peace in Liberia. My colleagues and I are confident that the Council will respond favourably to our request, which falls within the framework of the report of the Secretary-General entitled "An Agenda for Peace".”
1992-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3138 (1992) · source
“The presence of a United Nations observer group in Liberia, in the opinion of my delegation, could only help build confidence among the parties, which is what we want in order to promote the encampment and disarming of the factions. One of the goals of the Yamoussoukro IV Agreement is reducing to the lowest possibie level stockpiles of weapons on Liberian territery. The adoption of certain peaceful measures, together with an embargo on weapons headed towards Liberia, will have real effect only if these measures are part of broad international policing action. The success of such action would heip bring about a speedy settlement zo the problem of Liberia. President Houphoust-Boigny has always said that Cete d'Ivoire will always be working for peace and will not be on the side of war.”
1992-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3138 (1992) · source
“of ECOWAS, after the many ministerial meetings of the Standing Mediation Committee and the non-implementation of the various programmes of implemsntation of the Yamoussoukro IV Agreement, the Heads of States of ECOWAS had no choice but to resort to sanctions. In Abuja, they therefore decided to implement trese sanctions, starting on 5 November 1992, against all belligerent parties that Go not comply with the Yamoussoukro IV Agreement. To this end, it is imperative that, with the support of the Security Council, an effective cease-fire be put into effect speedily in Liberia and that the Secretary-General, in accordance with the request of the Heads of States of ECOWAS, be able to appoint in the near future a Special Representative who would work in close cooperation with ECOWAS in implementing the peace plan of Yamoussoukro IV.”
1992-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3138 (1992) · source
“Some early implementation of the programmes under the Yamoussoukro Agreement drawn up by ECOMOG following the Sunmit Meetings at Yamoussoukro, Geneva and Dakar was begun following the deployment of certain ECOMOG elements in various parts of Liberia. However, shortly thereafter, following incidents in the oreas under NPFL control, the situation reverted to the status quo ante. Given the stagnation of the situation and the escalation of confrontations, ECOWAS could only reaffirm the right of ECOMOG to defend itself against any armed attack, regardless of the source. After the many conferences of Heads of Stace and Government.”
1992-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3138 (1992) · source
“At the Dakar Sumit Meeting of ECOWAS, the Cete d'Ivoire also raised the problem of the faction known as the United Liberian Movement for Democracy (ULIMO), which was being used by the NPLF as a pretext to avoid implementing the encampment and disarmament of its troops. The ECOWAS summit mesting at Dakar thus brought the ULIMO faction into the negotiating process of thea Yamoussoukro IV Agreement and requested the Foreign Ministers of Benin, Senegal and Cete d'Ivoire to contact the movement and persuade it to commit itself to the spirit and letter of the Yamoussoukro IV Agreement. Following the meetings at Cotonou and the missions sent by the "ECOWAS Chairman to Sierra Leone and Guineas, agreement was obtained from ULIMO.”
1992-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3138 (1992) · source
“He offered & wealth of advice and suggestions tu relieve their fears and encourage then to go along with the process of encampment and disarmament, two conditions essential to the holding of free, fair and democratic elections. At the meeting of the Conaittee of Five on 16 and 17 September 1991 at Yamoussoukro, at the request of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) Senegal was invited and agreed to send a contingent to ECOMOG. Ironically. six Senegalese soldiers were to be killed at Vahun by NFFL during the creation of the buffer zone between Liberia and Sierra Leone.”
1992-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3138 (1992) · source
“Jiqmy Carter would visit Liberia to assist the electoral process in Liberia. We can state that some progress has been made with regard to the creation of the Interim Elections Commission and an ad hoc Supreme Court. Unfortunately, however, the same cannot be said with respact to the other elements of the Yamoussoukro Agreement, in particular with regard to the encampment and disarmament of the factions. On the basis of strict neutrality President Houbphouet-Boigny became fully involved in the mission entrusted to him by his peers. He entered into an ongoing dialogue with a11 factions to identify their respective concerns.”
1992-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3138 (1992) · source
“The Yemoussoukru Agreement of 30 October 1991 provided, inter alia, that the following tasks be completed prior to the holding of democratic elections: one, all entry and exit points into Liberia would be monitcred by ECOMOG forces; two, roadblocks snd checkpoints on the main Liberian highways would be removed to facilitate the free circulation of individuals; three, a buffer sone would be created along the Sierra Leone-Liberisa border under the control of the ECOWAS Monitoring Group (ECOMOG); four, all hostile foreign forces would be withdrawn from the territory of Sierra Leone? five, combatants would be disarmed and stationed in encampments under ECOMOG control; siz, an Interim Elections Commission would be created and, seven, en International Negotiator Network group under Mr.”
1992-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3138 (1992) · source
“Under the chairmanship of President Houphoust-Boigny, Cete d'Ivoire, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Gambia and Togo were appointed to the Committes of Five at the ECOWAS Summit Meeting at Abuja with a mandate to seek to re-establish in Liberia conditions in which peace and security might be restored and an environment propitious to free and democratic elections established. The Comittee of Five met on four occasions at Yamoussoukro in 1991 and once at Geneva. All the agreements reacaed at those meetings between the parties concerned, namely, the Agreement. of 30 October 1991 and the provisions added at the meeting held at Geneva on 6 and 7 April 1992, have beeu endorsed by ECOWAS, which has felt that the Agreement provided the best framework for a peaceful and lasting settlement of the Liberian conflict.”
1992-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3138 (1992) · source
“Unfortunately, that plan came to naught. The ensuing summit meetings held at Bamako, Mali, on 27 and 28 November 1990 and at Lome on 11 and 13 February 1991 did not resolve the crisis in Liberia. Given the impasse that had been reached and the repeated incidents along the border between Liberia and Sierra Laone, the Heads of State of the ' subregion met at Yamassoukro and called upon President Pelix Youphouet-Boigny, as dean of the area's leaders, to attempt to find a solution to the fratricidal conflict that was causing such bloodshed in Liberia.”
1992-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3138 (1992) · source
“Indeed, it was at the thirteenth conference of the ECOWAS Heads of State and Government held at Banjul, Gambia, from 28 to 30 May 1990 that ECOWAS was first seized of the problem in Liberia, where extremely violent disturbances had been the daily lot of the Liberian people since December of 1989. That intervention by ECOWAS in Liberian affairs had its roots in the provisions of article 4 B of the ECOWAS Mutual Assistance Protocol. The Standing Mediation Committee created at the Banjul summit meeting drew up the ECOWAS Peace Plan for Liberia. That plan advocated, first, an immediate cease-fire; secondly, the creation of a monitoring committees thirdly, the creation of a transitional government and, lastly, the holding within a period of 12 months of free presidential elections monitored by an ECOWAS observer group.”
1992-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3138 (1992) · source
“It has given rise to two presidential statenents, on 27 January 1991 and 7 May 1992, and, more recently, a statement by the Secretary-General on 2 November last. Today, at the unanimous behest of cre ECOWAS Heads of State, we have come to the Security Council to ask for a greater involvement by the int >rnational community in the search for a peaceful settlement to this destructive conflict that bas been devastating our subregion. In addition to its human dimensions, the conflict is also jeopardizing the overall policy of economic integration that is today the principal qoal of our subregional organization.”
1992-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3138 (1992) · source
“Mr. ESSY (Cote d'Ivoire) (interpretation from French): Allow me at the outset, Mr. President, to join preceding speakers in congratulating you on your assumption of your office and on the outstanding manner in which you are guiding the Council's discussions this month. Allow me also to extend my warm congratusations to your precedessor, Arbassador Jean-Bernard Merimee, who presided so effectively over the Council last month. My colleague from Renin, whose country is exercising chairmanship of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Authority of Heads of State and Government, has just presented the objectives of the mission entrusted to the ECOWAS Heads of State. His statement, of course, has our full support. The crisis in Liberia has been raised in the Security Council on several occasions.”
1992-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3138 (1992) · source