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  1. “Mr. Ka (Senegal), Chairman of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (spoke in French): I wish at the outset to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of October. I am certain that under your wise guidance the work of the Council will proceed in a constructive, effective and successful fashion. I wish also to congratulate your predecessor, Ambassador Moctar Ouane, Permanent Representative of Mali to the United Nations, on the exemplary way in which he guided the work of the Council in September-which is to say during the historic millennium Summit.”

    2000-10-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4204Resumption1 (2000) · source

  2. “Further, pursuant to the understanding reached in the Council's consultations of the whole on 30 November 1998, the statements to the press made by the President following consultations of the whole of the Council have also been included in an annex. Finally, as the President has pointed out, the draft report before the Council was distributed by the Department of Political Affairs on 21 August 2000. Subsequently, the Secretariat took note of a number of proposed changes, which have been transmitted to the members of the Council as a corrigendum. That concludes my very brief introduction of the draft report to the Council.”

    2000-08-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4192 (2000) · source

  3. “Mr. Fall (Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs) (spoke in French): The draft report before the Council has been prepared and presented both in conformity with Articles 15 and 24 of the United Nations Charter and in line with the revised format agreed upon by the Security Council in 1974 and further revised in 1985, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997 and 1998. The draft report presents the activities of the Council in a concise manner. It should be noted that, in addition to the extensive coverage provided in part V on the work of the subsidiary organs of the Council, the annual reports of the sanctions Committees are to be found in appendix XII of the report, in accordance with the note by the President of the Security Council of 30 October 1998.”

    2000-08-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4192 (2000) · source

  4. “I am glad that the Security Council can, through its political and moral influence, unequalled at the international level, have a positive effect on the course of events.”

    1999-11-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4067 (1999) · source

  5. “The work of this meeting indicated that the situation within and outside Burundi was precarious and that the United Nations must act urgently to ensure that the peace process continue. Mr. Prendergast is currently continuing his mission, which he began in early November by going to Ethiopia, where he met with the Secretary-General of the OAU and governmental authorities. He then went to Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda and Zimbabwe, and he is currently in South Africa. His mission should end on 16 November, after which he will submit his report to the Secretary-General and will be available to the Security Council to brief it on the outcome of his mission. Therefore, today's meeting is very timely.”

    1999-11-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4067 (1999) · source

  6. “It would also seem that there is consensus that negotiations ought to continue on the basis of what has already been achieved through Arusha. As the Secretariat announced at the last briefing, the Secretary-General asked Mr. Prendergast to visit the region early this month to seek the views of the main actors on the steps to be taken to pursue the peace process and to consider, along with the United Nations, what the international community can do to move the peace process forward. As members of the Council know, just before visiting the region, Mr. Prendergast chaired a meeting here in New York attended by all the special envoys of the United Nations, the United States, other countries and the Organization of African Unity involved in the issue of Burundi.”

    1999-11-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4067 (1999) · source

  7. “We have learned today that the summit has been postponed because of the inability of some participants to attend. The Burundian Government, for its part, has requested assistance from the Secretary-General and the international community in seeking mediation. The Government has taken some steps. It would wish to see a South African Mediator, though some parties to the conflict, FRODEBU and CNDD in particular, have rejected that option. One may already note, however, the broad consensus that seems to be emerging among the Burundi parties and the countries of the region that some mediation mechanism must be established as soon as possible. What remains to be decided is if this is to be a single Mediator or a college of mediators.”

    1999-11-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4067 (1999) · source

  8. “Having obtained this support, the mediation organized, immediately following Mr. Nyerere's funeral, a series of consultations in Dar-es-Salaam from 25 to 30 October. The Government, UPRONA and the National Assembly of Burundi did not attend, having predicated their participation on the nomination of a new Mediator. According to information received in recent days, the mediation foresees the resumption of the work of the four committees in Arusha as of 15 November. This resumption is predicated on the convening of the summit planned by President Museveni, who currently chairs the regional initiative for peace in Burundi. The proposed dates for the summit vary, but that of 17 November is most often heard. The meeting is to be held in Arusha. The sole item on its agenda would be the naming of a new Mediator for the peace negotiations.”

    1999-11-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4067 (1999) · source

  9. “But if the international community in general, and the United Nations in particular, are to provide such assistance, it is absolutely essential that insecurity cease hindering the free movement of humanitarian personnel and that all parties to the conflict - and I emphasize all parties - respect the neutrality and work of those who are risking their lives to help the people of Burundi. So much for the situation within Burundi. As to the situation outside the country, as I mentioned earlier, the death of Mwalimu Nyerere on 14 October created a dangerous political vacuum. The Arusha peace process has ground to a halt. Several initiatives have been undertaken. President Benjamin Mkapa has sent mediation emissaries to countries of the region, seeking support for continued negotiations.”

    1999-11-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4067 (1999) · source

  10. “Thirty health centres have been closed and destroyed and the remaining 287 are hardly able to provide the most basic services. Women's health indicators in Burundi are among the lowest in the continent. Half of all children are not vaccinated against the measles and more than a third are not protected against polio, diphtheria or tetanus. One child in five suffers malnutrition. In Bujumbura alone, AIDS has orphaned over 45,000 children, and almost half of all children of primary-school age do not attend. The United Nations and the international community must consider how to help the people, even in the course of phase IV of the United Nations security system.”

    1999-11-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4067 (1999) · source

  11. “The disastrous situation of these 830,000 people further deteriorated when humanitarian activities were stopped by the implementation of phase IV following the tragic incident at Muzyie, in which two of our colleagues were murdered. In addition to the suspension of humanitarian activities, projects financed by the United Nations system have also been curtailed, aggravating a very disturbing and precarious socio-economic situation. Last week, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations drew the international community's attention to the threat of famine in Burundi posed by drought and by peasants' difficulties in reaching their fields. The United Nations Children's Fund is deeply concerned over the situation of women and children in Burundi.”

    1999-11-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4067 (1999) · source

  12. “Since mid-September, some 304,000 people have been regrouped into 58 regroupement camps, where health care and food are deplorable, when they are available at all. Some 20 sites have been visited and 183,168 people have received some humanitarian assistance. In fact, however, we have very little information about the other camps, which are inaccessible because of either their security situation or, in the case of 13 such sites, their location. Again, as I have said, we cannot speak today of only 304,000 people who have been regrouped in the 58 regroupement camps to which I have referred. The total number is estimated to be 830,000.”

    1999-11-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4067 (1999) · source

  13. “Recently, this generalized insecurity has been heightened by another worrisome problem: the departure of many Burundians for Tanzania, where they will swell the ranks of refugees, already estimated at more than 300,000 people. An integral element of this security situation is the policy of regroupement. This policy of regroupement affects approximately 830,000 people today. The Government maintains that it has no other option for protecting civilians, isolating them from the rebellion and securing the capital. It claims that the situation is improving in protected areas, which it wishes to reduce while returning peasants to their land. In fact, conditions in the camps are deeply worrying.”

    1999-11-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4067 (1999) · source

  14. “This polarization of positions also risks affecting the upcoming series of negotiations, which might become an arena for confrontation without concessions between the delegations, which would have the predictable result of further delaying the signing of a final Arusha agreement. On top of this internal political situation, marked by a hardening of positions, the security situation remains uncertain, volatile and above all disturbing. Just to give one illustration, for about 10 days now various districts of Bujumbura have been subject to half a dozen attacks that have led to deaths, fires and looting. Such acts of violence have also been occurring with regularity in the provinces of Muramvya, Cibitoke, Kayanza, Ngozi and Bubanza. Numerous attacks and ambushes have been carried out since the beginning of the month in these various regions.”

    1999-11-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4067 (1999) · source

  15. “The other camp is accusing the Government of being at the root of the current hardening of positions and of seeking to divide the political groups so as to perpetuate the status quo. This second camp is lobbying for the continuation of discussions at Arusha under regional supervision. The Government and the Parliament, initiators, creators and actors in the national partnership for peace, no longer seem to be on the same wave length and apparently no longer subscribe to the guidelines established by the agreement on the political platform of the transitional regime.”

    1999-11-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4067 (1999) · source

  16. “At the political level Burundi is facing a worrisome internal crisis, and the political partnership is faced with serious difficulties that threaten its very survival. The fragmentation within the Front pour la democratie au Burundi (FRODEBU) certainly poses a great threat to the partnership. We are now observing a hardening of positions that recalls in many ways the situation during the period before the partnership. It seems there are now two opposing camps that have different views about how to pursue the Arusha process. The first of these camps is asking in particular that the negotiations take place outside of Tanzania and is requiring that priority be given to ending the hostilities.”

    1999-11-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4067 (1999) · source

  17. “Since the Secretariat's previous briefing of the Security Council, given last 22 October during informal consultations, the basic situation regarding the peace process in and around Burundi has not changed. The process remains at a very critical stage. It gives rise to little optimism, on the one hand, internally, because of political tensions, insecurity and the deterioration of the humanitarian situation, and on the other hand, externally, because of the political vacuum created by the death of the Facilitator, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere. With the Council's permission, I would like to focus this briefing on these two facets: the internal situation and the situation with regard to the Arusha process. The internal situation remains disturbing both at the political level and at the levels of security, economy and humanitarian issues.”

    1999-11-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4067 (1999) · source

  18. “It also lists the meetings of troop-contributing countries chaired by the President of the Security Council during the period under review. The draft report was circulated by the Assistant Secretary- General for Political Affairs on 27 August 1997 to the current members of the Security Council and also to the respective members whose terms of office expired on 31 December 1996 - that is, Botswana, Germany, Honduras, Indonesia and Italy - for review and comments, if any. Corrigenda containing changes proposed by Council members and by the Secretariat have also been circulated to Council members.”

    1997-09-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3815 (1997) · source

  19. “Mr. Fall (Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs) (interpretation from French): The draft annual report of the Security Council for the period 16 June 1996 to 15 June 1997, to be submitted to the General Assembly of the United Nations in pursuance of paragraph 3 of Article 24 and paragraph 1 of Article 15 of the United Nations Charter, has been prepared by the Secretariat in line with the revised format agreed upon by the Security Council in 1974 and further revised in 1985, 1993 and 1994 and 1995. The present format of the draft report before the Council provides a guide to the activities of the Council in a concise manner. As requested by the Security Council, it contains in its introduction more information about the work of each of the Sanctions Committees than has previously been done.”

    1997-09-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3815 (1997) · source