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“Canada, for its part, has expressed particular interest in supporting the process of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR), regional peacebuilding efforts, the establishment of regional projects for refugees, the fight against the proliferation of, and the illicit trafficking in, small arms and light weapons, demining efforts and combating the illegal exploitation of natural resources. The Minister for Cooperation and Development of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the other co-Chair of the Group of Friends, has pledged â‚¬5 million to the fund. She has also offered to provide training for diplomats from member countries at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations.”
2006-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5603 (2006) · source
“Partners believe that the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region is a forum with the potential to promote peace, security and development in the region. The representative of Canada, who co-chairs the Group of Friends, reaffirmed the Group's support for the establishment of the regional follow-up mechanism, which will help to fund the mechanism until June 2007. Beyond June 2007, the Group of Friends will continue to support the process technically, politically and diplomatically. Germany will also continue its assistance throughout 2007 through the German Agency for Technical Cooperation. It will also provide about $1 million to assist the secretariat of the Conference.”
2006-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5603 (2006) · source
“In that regard, we foresee the conclusion of a memorandum of understanding between the future secretariat of the Conference and the secretariats of the various regional bodies. 3 In addition to the advice and guidelines provided by the President and the Council, as well as the political will of the Governments and peoples of the region, the support of development partners was another major factor that facilitated the fulfilment of the goals of the preparatory process leading up to the Conference. That was made possible in particular through the Group of Friends of the Great Lakes Region and through the application of another principle of the preparatory process, namely, partnership. During the Nairobi Summit in particular, development partners welcomed the signing of the Pact.”
2006-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5603 (2006) · source
“In addition to the contributions made by those institutions, their involvement made it possible to ensure consistency and complementarity between the projects of the Conference, on the one hand, and the projects of the regional economic communities, on the other, during the preparatory phase. It also established the foundation for a division of labour between the Conference secretariat and the secretariats of regional economic communities as regards the next phase of the Pact's implementation. The implementation of projects and programmes of action on economic development and regional integration was entrusted to the various regional economic communities on the basis of their areas of competence and their respective areas of operation.”
2006-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5603 (2006) · source
“The principle of inclusiveness has also been manifested in the involvement in the preparatory work for the Pact of relevant organizations and regional institutions, in particular the African Accounting Council, the Central African Economic and Monetary Community, the East African Community, the Southern African Development Community, the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, the African Development Bank (ADB), the African Economic Community, the New Partnership for Africa's Development and the residual secretariat of the Economic Community of the Great Lakes States (CEPGL).”
2006-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5603 (2006) · source
“Collective political will was also evidenced in the regional preparatory committee, which is a regional technical body, as well as in the inter-ministerial regional committee, which was responsible for the political supervision of the preparatory process leading up to the Conference. The participation of non-governmental actors continued at the Dar es Salaam and Nairobi Summits. With regard to the implementation phase of the Pact, non-State actors have already drafted and adopted guidelines for the participation strategy and established autonomous follow-up committees.”
2006-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5603 (2006) · source
“That collective political will was also reflected in the course of the preparatory process in the strict and innovative application of the principle of inclusiveness. That entailed the participation of non-governmental actors alongside governmental authorities, including young people, women, civil society organizations, the private sector and religious organizations. Those actors have contributed at every level of the technical and thematic working groups, which developed the various 06-67407 elements of the Pact, namely, projects, programmes of action, protocols and the fund.”
2006-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5603 (2006) · source
“That spirit is also reflected in the decision to establish the headquarters of the secretariat in Burundi, the nomination of Ambassador Liberata Mulamula as the first Executive Secretary, the approval of the scale of assessments for the secretariat, the institutionalization of the special fund for reconstruction and development and the pledges of voluntary contributions to launch the fund and implement the projects that have been announced both by countries that are members of the Conference - including Tanzania, which has committed itself to provide $500,000 to the fund, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, whose President has pledged $1 million to launch the fund - and by bilateral and multilateral development partners, to which I shall return.”
2006-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5603 (2006) · source
“The preparatory process that was recently completed was led by the United Nations in accordance with the Security Council's guidelines and with the active, coordinated participation of all United Nations agencies. Diplomatically speaking, the Nairobi summit was characterized, more than that in Dar es Salaam, by what the late poet-President called the "common desire to coexist". That was reflected in the solemn adoption of the Pact on Security, Stability and Development and in the two-fold commitment to ratifying it speedily and to respecting its spirit and letter in good faith pending its ratification. It is also reflected in the decision to establish, almost immediately, the political mechanism to follow up the Pact and to establish the secretariat within three months of the signing of the Pact.”
2006-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5603 (2006) · source
“Above all, at their side, too, was this Council, which, since the Rwanda genocide of 1994, has supported and promoted with an active and ongoing policy the various attempts to settle the conflict by negotiation. It has provided for the deployment of a number of peacekeeping missions in the region, and critically and attentively supported compliance with and implementation of the peace agreements, as well as Governments, institutions and transitional mechanisms. The Council has also exerted all its influence on the course of national and regional 06-67407 events through its deliberations and decisions in New York and its various working missions to Central Africa and the Great Lakes region. Finally, I need hardly recall that the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region was the Council's initiative, supported by the African Union.”
2006-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5603 (2006) · source
“Turning that page of despair and opening a new chapter of regional and national destiny, managed by Governments and non- governmental stakeholders from the entire region, we find a future built on the basis of a regional vision - a proactive future set forth in Dar es Salaam in 2004 through the declaration adopted at the first summit and laid out in greater detail in Nairobi in December 2006 through the Pact on Security, Stability and Development in the Great Lakes Region. The countries of the region and their regional initiatives are incontrovertibly the prime actors and laureates of that great event. At their side was the Group of Friends of the Great Lakes Region, whose financial, technical, political and diplomatic support was outstanding.”
2006-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5603 (2006) · source
“The interest of the Nairobi summit with regard to United Nations and, more specifically, Security Council action is four-fold: historical-political, diplomatic, substantive and forward-looking. As to the historical-political facet, the summit was the outcome of multisectoral and converging efforts to turn the page on what seemed for decades to be an ineluctable spiral of violence, conflict, war and humanitarian and social tragedy.”
2006-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5603 (2006) · source
“That is the content of the recommendations with which the Secretary-General concludes the report that it has been my privilege to present to the Council. Allow me to conclude on a personal note. The Great Lakes region, in its current configuration, encompasses the States of central Africa, of eastern Africa and of southern Africa - three of the five regions of Africa - which means that bringing peace, security, stability and development to the region will make a fundamental contribution to ensuring that the same process takes place on the African continent as a whole.”
2006-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5359Resumption1 (2006) · source
“It will then be incumbent on the United Nations, on the basis of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General's strategy of preventive diplomacy and with the support of the international community, and in cooperation with the African Union, to support and assist the region in the establishment of a regional follow-up mechanism and in the implementation of the Pact - the linchpin of the entire process. It is only through such an effort by the United Nations and on that basis that the Conference - to whose preparatory process the countries of the region and the international community have devoted so much effort - will yield dividends of peace, security, stability and development to the benefit of the peoples of the Great Lakes region, which have suffered so much.”
2006-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5359Resumption1 (2006) · source
“Largely as a result of the sustained work of the African Union and of the small team of the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary- General for the Great Lakes region, significant progress has been made during the last two years of the process, following the last report of the Secretary- General, in developing concrete and realistic projects and in strengthening confidence among countries of the region. We are nearing our goal. The Secretary-General believes, therefore, that the Council must continue to support the preparatory process of the Conference in general and the work of the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in particular. Every effort should also be made to ensure the convening, as soon as possible, of the second Summit and the adoption of the Security, Stability and Development Pact.”
2006-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5359Resumption1 (2006) · source
“That is a prerequisite if the Great Lakes region is to persuade the international community of its determination to transform the region into a zone of peace, security, stability and development, which would make it the first proving ground for the work of the new Peacebuilding Commission. The ministerial meeting to be held at Bangui from 21 to 23 February 2006 will be an opportunity to take specific measures to normalize diplomatic relations and to implement a number of projects and protocols. The report of the Secretary-General notes that the task of pacifying and stabilizing the region and promoting development there is an immense but achievable one.”
2006-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5359Resumption1 (2006) · source
“It is therefore imperative that member States of the Conference agree on a date for the second Summit as soon as possible so as to demonstrate political will and maintain the process's momentum. They must continue to respect the letter and the content of the provisions of the Dar es-Salaam Declaration. The presence of those Ministers who are here today is undeniable proof of the importance that the countries of the Great Lakes region and their neighbours and partners attach to this process. But the international community is expecting to see other strong signals of a steadfast political and financial commitment at the highest levels of the member States of the Conference.”
2006-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5359Resumption1 (2006) · source
“Finally, the international community - mainly through the Group of Friends of the Great Lakes Region - has been the preferred partner of the Conference since it was established. The preparatory process has generated enthusiasm and hopes commensurate with the scope of the challenges to be met to pacify, stabilize and develop the region. In that context, postponing the second Summit at the request of a member State, has, despite the legitimacy of that request, affected the momentum of preparations for the second Summit, which had been scheduled for the end of 2005. It undermines the process, given the risk of that postponement being perceived as a lack of political will. It also increases the likelihood of the preparatory process's being disrupted and has unpredictable and significant financial implications.”
2006-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5359Resumption1 (2006) · source
“Therefore, it might seem difficult to isolate and limit the Conference's sphere of action to addressing peace and security issues - although, chronologically speaking, the urgency of those issues naturally calls for priority and immediate action. Participation from the outset by all the region's forces and by African subregional organizations and taking their concerns into consideration - a regional first at that level - enabled us to bring the entire region together in support of the Conference and to place the preparatory work under the seal of transparency, consensus and pragmatism. Moreover, the entire United Nations family, including the missions in the region, and the lead agencies of the Conference's four themes are participating fully in the process.”
2006-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5359Resumption1 (2006) · source
“As the Dar es-Salaam Declaration recalls, although poor governance, systematic violations of human rights, policies of discrimination, exclusion and political, social and economic marginalization or marginalization based on gender, the use of violence for conquering or conserving political power and impunity for crimes are all related to the theme of democracy and good governance, they are - together with the worsening of poverty, economic stagnation and the illegal exploitation of natural resources - among the major causative factors of the insecurity, conflicts and wars that have ravaged the region.”
2006-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5359Resumption1 (2006) · source
“Here, I should emphasize once again the close links that exist among the priority projects corresponding to each theme and among the projects corresponding to the four themes of the Conference, within the framework of an approach based on human security.”
2006-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5359Resumption1 (2006) · source
“As the protocols and priority projects indicate, the draft Security, Stability and Development Pact for the Great Lakes region seeks to address the root causes of insecurity, conflict and instability in the region through an integrated regional approach and by emphasizing the links among the four themes of the Conference. These projects and protocols might have seemed numerous during the first phase of the Regional Preparatory Committee's work. However, on the basis of ministerial directives, the Committee subjected them to a rigorous priority-setting exercise at its meeting in Luanda in September 2005.”
2006-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5359Resumption1 (2006) · source
“In addition, Conference actors have always sought to integrate, in a practical manner, the highly important cross-cutting themes of gender, HIV/AIDS, human rights, the environment and human settlements into the protocols and priority projects. Once it has been signed, the Pact must be subjected to the test of implementation. To that end, the countries members of the Conference have planned to establish a simple regional follow-up mechanism, whose activities must be supported by the United Nations and the African Union. It is already agreed that its role will be to supervise the implementation of the Pact, to work to prevent, manage and resolve conflicts in the region and to maintain close working relationships with the regional and international institutions involved in implementing the Pact.”
2006-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5359Resumption1 (2006) · source
“Other projects are related to the development of existing infrastructures, such as road, railway and river transport corridors. The one and only protocol concerns the specific zone for reconstruction and development, whose creation was announced by Conference member States in the Dar es-Salaam Declaration. Finally, in the area of priority humanitarian and social issues, the projects focus on the pioneering protocols on protecting and assisting internally displaced persons, on the property rights of repatriated persons, on sexual violence against women and children and on humanitarian workers' access to populations in need.”
2006-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5359Resumption1 (2006) · source
“In addition, three protocols - on preventing crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, on combating the illegal exploitation of natural resources and on judicial cooperation - complete this picture. With respect to economic development and regional integration, the priority projects include a mechanism for the certification of natural resources, which is the operational interface of the protocol on combating the illegal exploitation of natural resources; a regional microcredit project; the relaunching of the Economic Community of the Great Lakes Countries; and a framework project establishing cross-border developmental zones to strengthen regionalism and development among States and border populations through cooperation initiatives concerning cross-border natural resources.”
2006-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5359Resumption1 (2006) · source
“A third project is related to managing the common border between Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Uganda. Those are specific and concrete border cooperation projects that combine State security with human security, and their implementation brings together governmental actors and local populations. The other priority projects, in keeping with the Dar es-Salaam Declaration, seek to support, harmonize and strengthen the initiatives of existing regional mechanisms in areas such as combating the proliferation of small arms and light weapons, countering terrorism and transnational crime, demining and combating anti-personnel mines. In the area of democracy and good governance, the priority initiatives are based on the project for a regional centre to promote democracy, good governance, human rights and civic education.”
2006-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5359Resumption1 (2006) · source
“The region's countries have chosen a number of protocols and priority projects, which are combined in action plans corresponding to each of the Conference's four themes. The report submitted for members' consideration summarizes those priority documents. With regard to peace and security, the protocol on non-aggression, mutual defence and peaceful resolution of conflict is emphasized. That protocol is accompanied by a series of priority projects, all of which are related to joint border security management based on an innovative security architecture that divides the Great Lakes region into 12 cross-border security zones. Those projects include the disarmament of armed groups in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the disarmament of farmers in border regions between the Sudan, Uganda and Kenya.”
2006-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5359Resumption1 (2006) · source
“It is in that context that the joint secretariat of the Bureau of the African Union and the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes Region is responsible for preparing, coordinating and ensuring follow-up on all mechanisms, operations, documents, meetings and other priority Conference activities and for implementing all of that in order to give substance to the Security, Stability and Development Pact by supporting the preparation and finalization of action plans, projects and selected priority protocols. In that context, the Special Representative carries out political activities in support of member States, preventive diplomacy and confidence-building measures intended to preserve and strengthen the atmosphere of trust essential for continuing the Conference preparation process.”
2006-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5359Resumption1 (2006) · source
“It is made up of the national coordinators of the 11 member countries, as well as of national representatives of women, youth and civil society, and submits its recommendations to the Regional Inter- Ministerial Committee. The technical thematic clusters are the technical organs of the Conference, composed of experts from the Great Lakes region, assisted by experts from the United Nations system, the Group of Friends of the region and regional and subregional economic communities. Those experts are responsible for elaborating projects and protocols.”
2006-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5359Resumption1 (2006) · source
“It also liaises with the Group of Friends of the Great Lakes Region and the international community in general, using its good offices to resolve the most difficult questions relating to projects and protocols, prioritizing such protocols and action plans and mediating complex and sensitive political and diplomatic issues. The last meeting of the Regional Inter-Ministerial Committee before the second Summit will take place in Bangui from 21 to 24 February 2006, during which priorities for the draft Pact will be finalized and adjusted. The Regional Preparatory Committee is the executive body of the Conference. It coordinates the technical preparation of the action programmes, protocols and projects to be submitted to the second Summit.”
2006-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5359Resumption1 (2006) · source
“The Regional Inter-Ministerial Committee, which will be led by Tanzania, which chairs the Conference process, until the holding of the second Summit, is made up of 11 member country ministers in charge of the organization of the conference - nine of whom have honoured us with their presence today in this Chamber - as well as of ministers from neighbouring co-opted countries, several of whom are also taking part in today's meeting. The Regional Inter-Ministerial Committee has met to shape, consider and approve the work of the Regional Preparatory Committee.”
2006-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5359Resumption1 (2006) · source
“It was the first comprehensive regional political document prepared jointly by Governments and non- governmental actors in which leaders offered a candid diagnosis of the ills of the region and agreed on a forward-looking regional vision of peace, security and development, formulating guiding principles and policy priorities on the four key themes of the Conference and charting a road map for the elaboration of a Security, Stability and Development Pact in the Great Lakes region, which is to be concluded during the second Summit. In the Dar es-Salaam Declaration it was also decided to establish a mechanism for formulating action plans, protocols and specific, achievable and measurable projects. The mechanism has three components: a Regional Inter-Ministerial Committee; a Regional Preparatory Committee; and technical thematic groups.”
2006-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5359Resumption1 (2006) · source
“That regular framework for diplomatic, political and technical cooperation at the regional level has been conducive to the emergence and strengthening of a climate of trust among the countries members of the Conference, which has helped to facilitate the preparatory work for the second Summit - the Nairobi Summit - originally scheduled to take place in December 2005 but delayed until 2006 at the request of a country member of the Conference. The first Summit of Heads of State and Government of the International Conference was successfully held at Dar es-Salaam on 19 and 20 November 2004, and marked the end of the first phase of the process. The Dar es-Salaam Declaration was an important milestone for the region.”
2006-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5359Resumption1 (2006) · source
“Some important progress has been made in that process since November 2003, and the Council has been kept regularly informed, here at Headquarters and during visits on the ground. The most important advance, of course, was the holding of the first Summit of the Conference, at Dar es-Salaam in November 2004. Furthermore, thanks to the momentum generated by the Conference process, the regional political dialogue that began in 2003 has continued to make progress.”
2006-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5359Resumption1 (2006) · source
“I should like at the outset, on behalf of the Secretary-General, to join previous speakers in expressing congratulations and gratitude to you, Madam President, for having taken the initiative to organize this important meeting, and to thank your country for the diligent and active manner in which is has been chairing the International Conference on the Great Lakes region. The report of the Secretary-General (S/2006/46), which it is my honour to introduce to the Council, follows up on his report to the Council of 17 November 2003 (S/2003/1099), in which the Secretary-General described the state of the preparatory process for the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region.”
2006-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5359Resumption1 (2006) · source
“Turning to social and humanitarian matters, the main areas of concern are: demining; refugees; natural disasters; pandemic and epidemic AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis; and education for peace and tolerance. The Dar es Salaam summit is to conclude with the adoption of a declaration which will also incorporate a follow-up mechanism. An inter- ministerial committee will be set up tasked - in the interim between summits - with creating a programme of action and a protocol to implement the Dar es Salaam declaration. Finally, in the light of that protocol and programme of action the stage will be set for the Nairobi summit to be held in 2005.”
2004-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5065 (2004) · source
“Priority areas in the area of governance include the rule of law and the criminalization of divisive and corrupt policies and practices. In the domain of economic development and regional integration, the main issue is, first and foremost, that the Great Lakes region needs to be considered as an economically integrated region with clearly developed strategies for transport, telecommunications, agriculture and electrical power supply. There is also a need to promote food self- sufficiency. Finally, the Great Lakes region should be designated as a special reconstruction zone so that the international community can establish an economic and social development fund for the region; this is reminiscent of what was done in Europe following the Second World War.”
2004-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5065 (2004) · source
“Under peace and security, there are a number of sectors: education for peace; a joint management strategy for border issues; the involvement of social actors in the prevention, management and settlement of conflicts and reconstruction; common strategies to combat crime; regional mechanisms for non-aggression and for the implementation of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programmes; and political mechanisms for combating sexual violence and for combating crime in general. Turning to the issues of democracy and governance, the priority sectors for democracy appear to be, first, the promotion and protection of human rights in the three main areas of education, monitoring and sanctions; secondly, multicultural education; and, thirdly, the institutionalization of rights and of the role of women in government.”
2004-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5065 (2004) · source
“It is one of inclusion, in which the United Nations is involved through all its relevant departments, programmes and specialized agencies. The African Union, the subregional organizations and development partners - through the Group of Friends of the Great Lakes, headed by Canada and the Netherlands - are also involved, as is civil society in the various countries. Finally, as concerns the various sectors - peace and security; governance and democracy; economic development and regional integration; and humanitarian and social issues - in the light of the two Regional Preparatory Committee meetings that have been held, we see a number of sectors to which I would like to refer.”
2004-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5065 (2004) · source
“The third is the centralization of women's rights and their role in peace and security of course, but also in governance and democracy and in promoting economic development. The fourth area is the promotion of joint strategies and policies in the priority sector of the Conference's four themes. Finally, the fifth area is that of returning to the borders in the Great Lakes region their natural purpose. This goes beyond providing administrative and political separation lines between two States. Borders must become a framework for political, economic and social cooperation in order to lay the foundations for peace. I have mentioned just a few points that have emerged from the preparatory process, but let me also mention the dynamic of the preparatory process.”
2004-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5065 (2004) · source
“This is along the lines of the preamble to the constitution of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, which reminds us that "since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed". Education for peace is thus crucial to a region that has suffered such upheaval because of war. Secondly, on the social level, there is the fight against endemic and pandemic diseases. AIDS affects all of Africa, but more specifically the Great Lakes region. This is true also of malaria and tuberculosis. Epidemic and pandemic diseases require a multidimensional approach taking into account not just health issues, but also the social, political and security dimensions.”
2004-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5065 (2004) · source
“At the beginning of the regional process, there were some questions that were particularly delicate, not to say the object of confrontation. Now, two regional meetings have been held, and we are moving towards consensus, even on the most delicate issues. The third result has been the emergence of a number of priority areas. The Conference itself is built on four priority areas: peace and security; governance and democracy; economic development and regional integration; and social and humanitarian issues. However, we can identify several priority areas that transcend these four categories. The first is education for peace, tolerance, multiculturalism and democratic values.”
2004-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5065 (2004) · source
“This inclusive regional preparatory process has yielded some results, the first of which is of a political nature. There has been a geographical broadening among countries participating in the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region. We moved from six to seven at the time of the 20 November 2003 Security Council meeting, and now there are 11, with the addition of Angola, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic and the Sudan. This enlargement is very important in ensuring the consistency and unity of the Conference, because our goal from the start was to bring together everybody, whether they affected or were affected by the situation in the Great Lakes region. The second result has been the trend towards common positions on the part of all of the countries.”
2004-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5065 (2004) · source
“These were the women's regional meeting in Kigali, the young people's regional meeting in Kampala and the non-governmental organization regional meeting in Arusha. Finally, other special meetings, organized by religious organizations, trade unions and parliamentarians, have enabled sectoral input to the preparatory process, which is designed to be an inclusive one. That entire process has given rise to ideas and suggestions for the regional preparatory meeting. It is on the basis of those ideas and suggestions that an initial draft text of the Dar es Salaam declaration was considered in Kinshasa and will be finalized in Kampala before being submitted to a meeting of foreign ministers to be held on 16 and 17 November in Dar es Salaam, just before the summit.”
2004-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5065 (2004) · source
“The second part will contain protocols and programmes of action, which will be prepared between the two summits by a ministerial committee at the request of the Dar es Salaam summit. We are now at the stage of preparing the declaration. Since the Security Council's last meeting on this issue, we have been holding preparatory meetings at the regional level, in three different settings. First of all, the Regional Preparatory Committee, made up of representatives of national preparatory committees, met at Bujumbura and at Kinshasa, and it will meet from 8 to 10 November in Kampala. Afterward, special regional meetings have been held to enable three specific categories of society to offer their particular input to the preparatory process.”
2004-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5065 (2004) · source
“By fortunate coincidence, the Security Council will be holding a particularly important meeting in Africa at the same time, on the subject of the Sudan. Thus, in the course of that one week, Africa will be given very special attention. The Dar es Salaam summit will be followed in 2005 by a second and final summit in the context of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region. After the second summit, an agreement on security, stability and development in the Great Lakes region will be adopted. The agreement will have two constituent parts. The first will be the Dar es Salaam declaration, which is expected to be adopted at the first summit, describing the general framework, the political options and the guidelines and directives offered by the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region.”
2004-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5065 (2004) · source
“On 20 November 2003, the Security Council held a meeting (see S/PV.4865) to consider the report of the Secretary- General on preparations for an international conference on the Great Lakes region (S/2003/1099). There have been many developments since that meeting took place. A fact sheet in that regard has been sent to members of the Council, and I will therefore not describe the various events in detail. The fact sheet is helpful, in that I believe that the Council has allotted me 15 minutes to brief it on the current situation. I shall confine my comments to those 15 minutes. It is just less than a month until the first meeting of heads of State or Government in the context of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region. The summit is to be held at Dar es Salaam on 19 and 20 November.”
2004-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5065 (2004) · source
“I also wish in particular to thank Cameroon and other countries that have referred to the necessity of providing adequate resources for the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary- General for the Great Lakes Region and have assured the Office that that would be reflected in the presidential statement to be issued at the end of this meeting.”
2003-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4865 (2003) · source
“We intend to involve them because, at the end of the day, this process should also be theirs, taking into account the important impact that economic development and regional integration can have on their business. Last but not least, I would like to thank all the countries that have expressed their support for the preparatory process in general, the African Union and the United Nations partnership - especially the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes Region.”
2003-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4865 (2003) · source
“The representative of Germany raised the issue of how the involvement of civil society, especially women, will be ensured. What I can add to the report and my presentation is that the gender dimension will be kept. We are currently in the process, for example, of recruiting a consultant on gender issues for the Office of the Special Representative in order to ensure not only that the meeting of the women will be prepared in a timely manner, but also that, in our daily work in the preparatory process, my Office will take into account the gender dimension. As to the involvement of the private sector and other sectors in the conference, I want to say that we are in contact with the labour unions and the private sectors in several countries of that region.”
2003-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4865 (2003) · source