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2002-01-29
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  1. “Unfortunately, we Africans have answered only with a deafening silence that can be heard everywhere. In establishing its council of elders, the African Union has understood and recognized that conflicts, be they dormant or active, can be resolved only by political means - in other words, negotiation, early warning and good offices. In closing, I would insist on the need for the international community to take urgent measures to address the humanitarian crises sorely afflicting many States in Africa and throughout the world, as reflected in the brilliant plea made this morning by the leaders of the African Union Commission.”

    2008-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5868Resumption1 (2008) · source

  2. “The greatest attention should be given to strengthening African peacekeeping capacities, particularly in terms of planning and managing training operations for civilian, military and police personnel, as well as logistical support. Regional organizations, in particular the African Union, should have the ability to be more alert to potential conflicts so as to be able to avert them and to take all necessary measures, in close collaboration with the United Nations, and in particular the Security Council. We need to make better use of preventive diplomacy and strategic anticipation if we are to be able to fulfil our commitments. The entire world is listening to the African continent today, as for instance with regard to the electoral processes in Zimbabwe and, earlier, in Kenya.”

    2008-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5868Resumption1 (2008) · source

  3. “The Dakar Accord- concluded on 13 March 2008 in the presence of the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the Chairman of the African Union Commission, and with the strong support of the Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference and all the States of the Islamic ummah - needs important logistic and financial resources if it is to be successful. Senegal therefore strongly supports the proposal contained in paragraph 76 of the Secretary-General's report of 7 April 2008 on the relationship between the United Nations and regional organizations, in particular the African Union, in the maintenance of international peace and security.”

    2008-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5868Resumption1 (2008) · source

  4. “The delicate issue of funding arose during the operations in the three African missions in Burundi, Somalia and Darfur. It should be considered in depth so that we can find a solution. Any solution should, however, take equal account of the start-up phase of missions and their long-term viability. There is a similar concern with regard to implementing the key provision of the Dakar Accord between Chad and the Sudan concerning the peace and security force to monitor the long common border between those brotherly countries.”

    2008-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5868Resumption1 (2008) · source

  5. “However, as all are aware, Africa does not always have the necessary resources to assume such a burden, nor does it always remain concretely engaged by providing, quantitatively and qualitatively, the forces necessary to the success of its interventions. The case of Darfur also raises the issue of striking a balance between the urgent need to act to stop atrocities and due respect for the initiatives of such regional organizations as the African Union. African solutions for African problems represent a noble and praiseworthy approach, but they should not add to the unbearable suffering of the victims of conflicts in Africa. In the face of the urgency that has been recognized by the United Nations and the African Union, action needs to be taken immediately.”

    2008-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5868Resumption1 (2008) · source

  6. “In that respect, at their 2006 summit, the heads of State and Government of the African Union called on the United Nations to consider, within the framework of Chapter VII of the Charter, the possibility of funding, through contributions by its Member States, peacekeeping operations deployed by the African Union or under its authority, with the consent of the United Nations. That invitation demonstrates the resolve of African leaders to take responsibility for conflicts as soon as they break out and to intervene relatively quickly when the United Nations cannot do so. The case of Darfur is a perfect illustration of that approach.”

    2008-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5868Resumption1 (2008) · source

  7. “That complexity requires synergy and dynamic interaction between the United Nations, which has the primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security, and regional organizations, which are a complementary tool to the activities of the Organization. In that respect, Chapter VIII of the United Nations Charter clearly sets out the modalities for cooperation between the Security Council and regional organizations. In that regard, we should welcome the high quality of the partnership between the African Union and the United Nations. That partnership is all the more necessary given that Africa contributes almost 35 per cent of contingents and hosts almost half of all peacekeeping operations, including the largest and most complex.”

    2008-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5868Resumption1 (2008) · source

  8. “Mr. Gadio (Senegal) (spoke in French): On behalf of President Abdoulaye Wade of the Republic of Senegal, whom it is my honour to represent, I should like at the outset warmly to congratulate South Africa and President Thabo Mbeki on having again this year convened an open Security Council debate on the relationship between the United Nations and regional organizations, in particular the African Union, in the maintenance of international peace and security. I should also like to commend the leadership of President Kikwete of Tanzania, the acting Chairman of the African Union. The interest that all Member States have shown in today's debate is justified by the complex nature of conflict situations in Africa and throughout the world.”

    2008-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5868Resumption1 (2008) · source

  9. “Let us hasten to act, rather than always react, so that the shadowy network, which shamelessly brings together unscrupulous arms merchants and blood-stained mercenaries allied with some of our leaders, will dissolved once and for all and so, that West Africa, reconciled with itself, finds again the virtuous path to peace and prosperity. On this hopeful note, Mr. President I congratulate you again on choosing this a critical topic. I wish you success in your presidency, with so many pressing items on the Security Council's agenda this month.”

    2003-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4720 (2003) · source

  10. “Fifthly, a special United Nations mechanism should be established to control inspections for West Africa, complemented by the creation of international commissions of inquiry, certain of whose conclusions could be submitted to the International Criminal Court. Senegal would particularly like to hear the opinion of members of our forum, especially our development partners on the Security Council. In conclusion, real progress still must be made if we wish to extract our subregion from the quagmire of the dual ills of the proliferation of small arms and light weapons and mercenary activities.”

    2003-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4720 (2003) · source

  11. “Secondly, there is a need for transparency in commercial and brokerage activities linked to arms; a ban on centres for training specialized mercenaries in subversive activities, who are discretely called "private military companies"; measures to bring to justice mercenaries involved in criminal activities related to terrorism and to extradite them, in keeping with domestic law and international instruments. Thirdly, there is a need to promote programmes for the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of former combatants, who might be tempted to engage in mercenary activities. Fourthly, monitoring the transfer of small arms between States that produce and those that purchase them should be strengthened, in particular by using a twin tracking and marking system.”

    2003-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4720 (2003) · source

  12. “While commending warmly my friend and bother Francois Fall, I would like to emphasize several other measures that my delegation believes should be taken and that the international community should initiate or support so as to stop once and for all the proliferation of small arms and light weapons and mercenary operations. First, there is a need to strengthen and strictly apply all instruments concerning the proliferation of small arms and light weapons and mercenary activities and to review the Organization of African Unity Convention on mercenaries, given the new manifestations of this scourge and its links to terrorism. There should also be a mechanism to identify and trace the illegal flows of small arms and light weapons.”

    2003-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4720 (2003) · source

  13. “West Africa also calls for United Nations inspectors and international fact-finding commissions that will be able to prove without any shadow of doubt the bloody crimes of some political regimes in the subregion so that those regimes can be ostracized from the community of civilized and peaceful nations and disarmed or neutralized, one way or another. There lies the only legitimate debate today for the millions of displaced persons, children crippled by shameful mines and inconsolable weeping mothers from countries that have been abruptly overwhelmed by rebellions that destroy our already fragile futures.”

    2003-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4720 (2003) · source

  14. “In so doing, at a time when the international community's attention is riveted by the Iraqi crisis, Guinea was quite right to recall just how pressing this critical problem is in West Africa, since it has a direct impact on the lives of millions of people. Senegal, all the same, believes that an end must be put to the subregional omerta - the code of silence, which continues to be the hallmark of political regimes in our subregion who, in plain sight of all, have mastered the art of spreading this widespread curse of small arms and those who use them - professional or apprentice, large or small - whom we call mercenaries. We know these regimes. The international community often points a finger at them. The supreme irony of it all is that we are the ones who sometimes come to the defense of such regimes.”

    2003-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4720 (2003) · source

  15. “In that connection, we would like to commend the excellent leadership of our countryman Mr. Ibrahima Sall. We encourage him to continue his fight as he makes his appeal to the international community for more resources. I can only add to that incomplete list by mentioning the Organization of African Union's adoption of the Convention for the Elimination of Mercenarism in Africa, which is one of the most important instruments available to combat this terrible phenomenon. Five months after the Security Council held a public meeting on small arms and light weapons the Guinean presidency had the very good idea of re- examining this point, adding a question that goes hand in hand with it: mercenary activities.”

    2003-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4720 (2003) · source

  16. “Faced with all those dangers, it is welcome that both the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Union have been proactively developing appropriate instruments. In fact, for a number of years, West Africa has been giving high priority to combating the illicit traffic in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects. The determination of the leadership of our subregion was embodied in the 1998 adoption by the ECOWAS Abuja Summit of the Moratorium on the Import, Export and Manufacture of Light Weapons. That important progress was supported by the establishment of the Programme for Coordination and Assistance for Security and Development (PCASED), which, along with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), aims at establishing a culture of peace and security in the ECOWAS region.”

    2003-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4720 (2003) · source

  17. “West Africa has already been a theatre of operations for those pathetic individuals, who have illustrated the hideous damage they can do in their flagrant denial of fundamental human rights in places such as the Biafra region of Nigeria, Benin and Guinea. We must make no mistake about it. As stated in 1997 by Mr. Enrique Bernales Ballesteros, Special Rapporteur on mercenaries for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, mercenaries have the terrible ability to "undermine the maintenance of public order, the sovereign exercise of State authority and a nation's territorial integrity". Added to those burdens are the economic disruption and the fratricidal division of the mercenary phenomenon.”

    2003-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4720 (2003) · source

  18. “Wherever they have appeared, they have brought with them death and desolation, undermined efforts at economic and social development and compromised attempts at conflict resolution that have been the result of implementing acidulously negotiated agreements. Moreover, they have always served to promote the rise of both domestic and foreign criminal gangs, which have been lured by the appeal of easy money obtained through extortion and murder. That picture is made all the more sombre by the recent emergence of mercenary war dogs who have come from distant and neighbouring lands, often brandishing the title of agents of "military companies". That euphemism is hardly convincing, judging from their terrible ability to be disruptive in the countries where they are brought to work.”

    2003-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4720 (2003) · source

  19. “Before going any further, I would like to invoke and embrace the memory of our fallen friend and companion Mr. Kofi Panou, former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Togo, who fought at our side for peace and security in our subregion and on our continent. The eruption of identity-based and irredentist movements, the increased appetite for certain natural resources - both on and beneath the ground - domestic, social and political schisms and trans-border conflicts have resulted in the illegal influx of a large number of small arms and light weapons into West Africa and in the rise of mercenary operations. Those weapons are accessible, inexpensive and easy to use. There are over 500 million such weapons throughout the world, and they have been employed in every conflict to beset West Africa.”

    2003-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4720 (2003) · source

  20. “Mr. Gadio (Senegal) (spoke in French): First of all, I would like to extend my warm and fraternal congratulations to you, Mr. President. We are very proud to see you, an African, in a leadership role at the Security Council - which finds itself at a major crossroads in this month of March 2003. May God continue to guide and inspire you in your sensitive but noble mission. My delegation associates itself with previous speakers in commending the very wise and appropriate choice of today's topic, which sums up a concern shared in the West African community, given that we are determined to find long-lasting solutions to the twin problems crucial to peace and security in our subregion. Those problems are the proliferation of small arms and light weapons and the activities of mercenaries.”

    2003-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4720 (2003) · source

  21. “In conclusion, I wish to reiterate, and emphasize, the readiness of ECOWAS and of Senegal to cooperate fully with the United Nations for the eradication of conflicts and the economic flourishing of our continent. In renewing our profound gratitude to the Security Council for its wise and timely decision to devote this meeting to Africa, I would like to nourish the hope that the international community will take an active part in the efforts of the sons and daughters of our continent for the advent of an Africa reconciled with itself and freed from the yoke of poverty. The African renaissance is surely under way. It is possible if we Africans, first of all, and the Council along with us, firmly believe in it.”

    2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460 (2002) · source

  22. “Indeed, the prospects for peace, stability and economic prosperity could well turn out to be illusory without genuine democracy and real rule of law in the African countries. Because of this concern, the heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), meeting in Dakar on 20 and 21 December 2001, at the twenty-fifth session of the Summit Conference, reaffirmed their commitment to promote a more calm political and social environment based on democracy, tolerance and the acceptance of differences and political compromises. They also decided to advance the concept of border countries, based on continuing dialogue at the highest level, and the implementation of joint programmes for social and economic development, as well as the establishment of basic infrastructure with a collective plan.”

    2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460 (2002) · source

  23. “We are expecting, in discussion with our partners, to show that the playing field is not level; if Africa does not resolve the infrastructure gap, Africa will not have a chance. It will remain marginalized, and that is what NEPAD was intended to prevent. It is within the framework of this struggle for the rebirth of our continent that His Excellency Mr. Abdoulaye Wade, President of Senegal, called for regional sectoral meetings in Dakar yesterday, 28 January 2002, in order to identify in each region of Africa projects in various priority sectors - infrastructure, the environment, new information and communication technologies, energy - before their consideration by the next NEPAD conference on financing, to be held at Dakar from 15 to 17 April, and by the G-8 Summit in Ottawa from 26 to 28 June.”

    2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460 (2002) · source

  24. “By opting for a strategy of breaking with aid and debt, our leaders have recalculated the continent's priorities and have brought out pragmatic and realistic objectives aimed at, inter alia, filling the gap in resources, increasing domestic savings and attracting private foreign capital to ensure financing of infrastructures, agriculture, education and health, and drastically reducing the digital divide with the North. If you will allow me a very brief parenthesis here, Mr. President, I wish to say that increasingly in the speeches of country development partners, we have noted that in their listing of NEPAD priority sectors the infrastructure sector often is not mentioned, and that concerns us greatly. Africa considers the infrastructure sector as a high priority; indeed, as NEPAD's highest priority.”

    2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460 (2002) · source

  25. “We therefore have high hopes in this respect. While the efforts made by the Africans themselves are important, it is worth noting that a determined commitment by the international community on our side, recognizing the role of poverty and a certain type of political culture as latent causes of conflict, could help find a comprehensive solution for this scourge. I also wish to appeal to friendly countries and the donor community to actively participate in renewing the continent through consistent support for the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD).”

    2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460 (2002) · source

  26. “Abdoulaye Wade, President of Senegal and the current Chairman of ECOWAS, who, as a dedicated and loyal champion of political compromise and social peace, will spare no effort in working towards these objectives. In this framework, together with his brothers from the Mano River Union, he intends to pursue his initiatives so that peace and stability ultimately win the day in this region. As the Council is aware, the three heads of State- President Tejan Kabbah of Sierra Leone, President Taylor of Liberia and President Conte of Guinea 4 have confidence in the mediating efforts of President Abdoulaye Wade. They believe that they all can meet very soon to engage in confidence-building, to develop their personal relationship and to overcome the tensions and conflict situations we have seen in this part of Africa.”

    2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460 (2002) · source

  27. “In the case of Guinea-Bissau, and in other cases in our subregion and our subcontinent, we deem equally important the continued strengthening of cooperation between the United Nations on the one hand and the Organization of African Unity and subregional organizations on the other in the area of conflict prevention, management and resolution. In this respect, we are gratified to see the upcoming establishment in Dakar, following the relevant recommendation of the report of Ibrahima Fall, of a United Nations Office in West Africa. I am convinced that this will, inter alia, help us better to address the problem of peace and security in our subregion. Here I should like to assure the Council of the readiness, determination and commitment of Mr.”

    2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460 (2002) · source

  28. “Indeed, to require that small African country - whose soldiers are believed to number between 35,000 and 45,000 and which has experienced numerous conflicts and civil wars - to meet the criteria of good governance and transparent administration, inter alia, before receiving international assistance could lead to a catastrophic situation. If the concept of conflict prevention has any meaning, it should be applied as quickly as possible, and in the best possible way, to Guinea-Bissau. I should like to reiterate, however, that Secretary- General Kofi Annan has repeatedly demonstrated his deep concern and his personal interest in resolving the crisis in Guinea-Bissau. To that end, he needs the involvement of the international community.”

    2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460 (2002) · source

  29. “This is a typical case, in which the international community, as it sometimes does, is standing by without taking urgent action while the seeds of a potential conflict are sown. This is akin to trying to save the few billion CFA francs which might be necessary tomorrow to save Guinea-Bissau, and then investing 10 times more once it is too late - when the tensions that are gripping that key West African country have done their damage. Let me say that Mr. Abdoulaye Wade, President of the Republic of Senegal - together, of course, with the Secretary-General of the United Nations - is continuing to appeal to the international community for urgent assistance to Guinea-Bissau, in order to help it pay salaries and to resolve its disarmament problems.”

    2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460 (2002) · source

  30. “The quest for lasting peace in Africa has always been at the heart of the concerns of the United Nations. Clear testimony of this fact is the outstanding report of the Secretary-General, Mr. Kofi Annan, entitled "Causes of conflict and the promotion of sustainable peace and durable development in Africa". We fully share his conviction of the need to tackle the roots of this evil, and we believe that careful follow-up of the processes of political normalization is an imperative need, in particular in countries such as Guinea-Bissau and Sierra Leone, where peace remains fragile. Allow us here at the outset to refer to the highly instructive example of Guinea-Bissau in terms of conflict prevention.”

    2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460 (2002) · source

  31. “Mr. Gadio (Senegal) (spoke in French): As Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), it is my pleasure, first of all, to convey to you our great pride and to express our heartfelt congratulations on the outstanding manner in which you have been discharging your mandate, with, of course, the valuable support of all of our colleagues from the Security Council. Allow me also to say how greatly ECOWAS and my country appreciate the Council's kind and generous decision to devote a special meeting to the situation in Africa. Indeed, this initiative is all the more commendable in view of the fact that, at the dawn of this new millennium, the African continent continues to face major challenges in three areas: peace, development and good governance.”

    2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460 (2002) · source