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Garang

lines on the record: 32
first: 2004-11-18
most recent: 2004-11-19
sittings or episodes: 2
sources: un-security-council

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“I appreciate the interventions of the President of Kenya and of President Museveni, both of whom took the time to address these important meetings.”
2004-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5082 (2004) · source
“Every time we conclude a peace agreement, we think we have reached the summit, but then we realize that there is another hill in front of us. We hope that, by signing a comprehensive peace agreement, we shall have surmounted the last hill, and we hope that the flat ground ahead of us will contain no minefields, so that we can proceed with the task of development for our people. Again, we assure the Council of our commitment to the memorandum of understanding that we have just signed and of our appreciation of the resolution that the Council has adopted. As I have said, it is now our common baby, as a product of the Security Council. Finally, I wish the best to all the Sudanese people. I wish them the gift of peace as we approach Christmas and the end of the year. I also wish the best to the people of the region.”
2004-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5082 (2004) · source
“On behalf of the SPLM/SPLA and the people of the Sudan, we welcome the participation of the members of this world body, the Security Council, in this great Sudanese project, which involves a paradigm shift in politics, in the economy and in society, as we chart a course towards a new Sudan of peace, justice, stability and prosperity for all. That is the only way we can keep the Sudan glued together in all its diversity. Again, Mr. President, I congratulate you. I congratulate the members of the Security Council, General Sumbeiywo and the IGAD envoys and leaders, the Troika, and the African Union and thank them for all the contributions they have made to get us this far. It has been a tortuous journey since we started in 2002 at Machakos, coming to Naivasha. We have been faced with hill after hill.”
2004-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5082 (2004) · source
“It is not what it means to the Security Council, or to the SPLM, or to the Government of the Sudan, but what it means to individuals as they put their lives back together, and what tangible benefits they reap as a result of peace. We will do our best to act as catalysts for people to realize their aspirations. I wish to impress on the Security Council and on its members, as representatives of their respective countries and regions, that the Sudan offers great opportunities. We have vast resources, including far- reaching ideas, that will be unlocked by the comprehensive peace agreement which we have just pledged to reach by the end of the year.”
2004-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5082 (2004) · source
“In that connection, I want to express my appreciation for the role played by Norway as it prepares for the donors conference. We appeal to you, who represent countries and regions, to generously contribute and to generously pledge at the donors conference. However, pledging is one thing, and releasing funds is another. I want you to pledge and also to release funds, otherwise, as Mr. Danforth said earlier, these would be empty promises. Those are your commitments - the commitments of the international community - to help the Sudan regroup and move towards reconstruction and development, so that the people of the Sudan, who have suffered for so long, can find tangible benefits in peace. Peace, to me, is what it means to each individual.”
2004-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5082 (2004) · source
“In order for us to maintain the unity and territorial integrity of our country - a country that is characterized by diversity - we must implement the six protocols that we have signed, and those six protocols must lead to greater peace for our country, so that there is peace in Darfur, there is peace in eastern Sudan, there is peace all over our country. Peace will be meaningless unless it leads to tangible benefits for individuals and society as a whole. The issue of the reconstruction and development of all areas of the Sudan, especially the war-affected areas of southern Sudan, the Nuba Mountains, the Blue Nile, Abyei, Darfur and other areas, is of paramount importance, and we will need - and we expect - the Council's assistance in that regard.”
2004-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5082 (2004) · source
“We have signed an agreement on wealth-sharing, where, again, we will need considerable assistance, as we will in implementing the agreements on power- sharing, on the two areas of the Nuba Mountains and the Blue Nile, on Abyei, and on the issue of the right of self-determination at the end of the interim period. These agreements are reflective of the diversity of the Sudan, which we try to accommodate in these agreements, because failure to manage diversity is what led to those generations of war and generations of suffering.”
2004-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5082 (2004) · source
“We will do our best to sort out these difficulties and to put our country back together, so that we can join the community of nations in peace, development and prosperity. We will need assistance in the implementation of the agreements that we have signed. We have signed the one that is in front of the Council, on security arrangements. The security arrangements encompass a broad range of issues: the building of the army; demobilization, the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR); taking care of ex-combatants, so that they can go back to normal civilian life - a productive life that befits the sacrifices that they have made.”
2004-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5082 (2004) · source
“Peace in the Sudan is good for southern Sudan, it is good for the new Sudan, it is good for the Nuba mountains, it is good for the southern Blue Nile and Abyei, it is good for the Sudan as a whole, it is good for Darfur, it is good for the region, it is good for Africa, and it is good for the world community. We will, as I say, do our best to fulfil our commitments. We also appeal to the Council to do its best also to fulfil its commitments. We will need a great deal of assistance, as the Sudan has been fractured for a long time. This is the twenty-second year of the war, and before that we were at war for 17 years. That is 39 years out of the 48 years of our independence. There must be very serious issues at stake for any community to subject itself to generations of war.”
2004-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5082 (2004) · source
“As concerns the resolution that the Council has just adopted, we, the parties, may not fully realize at this time that it represents a much stronger action than, say, sanctions on which the Council might not have achieved consensus. But there is a consensus on this, and I say that it is much more serious because it is a commitment by the parties to reach a political settlement by 31 December. That implies that, if the parties do not adhere to their commitments, there could be much more serious consequences than sanctions would entail. That is my meaning. In that regard, I wish to express to the Council the full commitment of the SPLM. to do its best not to disappoint the Council, the Sudanese people, the region or the world community.”
2004-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5082 (2004) · source
“This resolution will create the momentum for peace in the Sudan - instead of momentum for war, various resistance groups springing up here and there in the Sudan, and, ultimately, national disintegration. That will be averted by moving towards peace and generating that momentum, so that, instead of splintering, we will have greater unity. Resolution 1574 (2004) sends a message to the Sudanese people, who have suffered for so long - the people of southern Sudan, the people of the Nuba mountains, of the southern Blue Nile, of Abyei, of Darfur, of eastern Sudan and of the Sudan in general. Their long suffering is at last coming to an end, so that they can put the pieces of their lives back together and so that we can once again hear the happy singing of children on their way to school.”
2004-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5082 (2004) · source
“Mr. Garang: Let me begin, Mr. President, by expressing my appreciation for the initiative that you took to bring the Security Council to Kenya. Let me congratulate all the members of the Security Council for the achievements they have just accomplished: the signing of the memorandum of understanding between us and the Government of the Sudan, and the unanimous adoption of Security Council resolution 1574 (2004). The Council's trip to Kenya, as is clear now, was not in vain. Achieving a comprehensive peace agreement for the Sudan by the end of the year will lead to greater peace for the Sudan, as many of us have emphasized. The memorandum of understanding and resolution 1574 (2004) anchor the Sudan peace process in the Security Council. I heard earlier that a Council member was its midwife, so now it is the Council's baby.”
2004-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5082 (2004) · source
“We would also like to pay tribute to the Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD); to Ambassador Sumbeiywo and his envoys; to the IGAD member States; to the IGAD Partners Forum quartet, composed of Italy, Norway, the United Kingdom and the United States; to the Government of the Netherlands; and to the African Union for their unrelenting efforts in search of a just and lasting peace in the Sudan. Finally, I salute President Kibaki for taking the time to attend this important meeting.”
2004-11-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5080 (2004) · source
“The Sudanese people eagerly await the outcome of the Security Council's deliberations and hope that members will not leave Nairobi without sending them a message of hope for Christmas and the New Year. For our part, we pledge - as did my brother, First Vice- President Ali Othman Taha - that we hope to give Christmas and New Year's presents to the Sudanese people, to the region and to the world by concluding and signing the Sudan peace agreement before the end of this year.”
2004-11-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5080 (2004) · source
“assures the Council as well as assuring the Government of Sudan that the movement would play a positive role and work in partnership with the National Congress Party and other political forces in the country to bring comprehensive peace to all parts of the Sudan. Allow me, on behalf of the suffering people of the Sudan, to conclude by thanking you most sincerely for having organized and held this historic and rare meeting in our neighbourhood, in Nairobi, in Kenya. This signifies your recognition and awareness of the gravity of the internal Sudanese conflicts and the dangers that they pose to the region and to international peace and security.”
2004-11-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5080 (2004) · source
“The four main remaining issues outstanding in the two annexes can be resolved in a matter of days. The situation in the Sudan is sufficiently serious for the two parties to appreciate the urgency of a quick conclusion of the Naivasha process and signing of the comprehensive peace agreement in the shortest time possible. Furthermore, the parties could use this comprehensive peace agreement as a basis for making a fair and lasting peace for the country as a whole, including Darfur and eastern Sudan, applying and adapting the agreements to the particular situation, as well as using the new political dispensation to maintain peace and stability and the territorial integrity of our country during the interim period. We firmly believe that this is the way out of the current Sudanese crisis and debacle, and the SPLM.”
2004-11-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5080 (2004) · source
“We therefore call upon the Security Council - and we have agreed on this with Vice-President Ali Othman Mohamed Taha and General Sumbeiywo - to pass a resolution in this city of Nairobi, that, inter alia, recognizes, endorses and declares the six protocols signed thus far by the Government of Sudan and the SPLM. as binding and irrevocable commitments that the parties may not under any circumstances renegotiate and that they must implement. This is in addition to the Council's urging of the parties to expeditiously complete negotiations on the two annexes and sign the comprehensive peace agreement by a specified date. As I have already said earlier, I see no serious obstacles that would prevent us from signing the final peace agreement by the end of this year, 2004.”
2004-11-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5080 (2004) · source
“This overall situation, if left unchecked, can eventually cause the Sudan to implode and degenerate into statelessness and serious insecurity, the consequences of which for the whole region are obvious. The only way to avert this looming tragedy is to expedite the Naivasha process and speedily conclude the comprehensive peace agreement on the Sudan, and then to install a broad-based coalition Government of national unity that can best deal with such threats. It is imperative that the international community do its utmost to consolidate the Sudan peace process.”
2004-11-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5080 (2004) · source
“Both parties are therefore best advised in the interest of our country to desist from anything that might undermine implementation of the peace agreement. Before I close, I come to an issue of grave concern to the Sudan and to you in the Security Council. You are undoubtedly aware of the fact that our country is in dire straits. This situation in Darfur is rapidly degenerating into chaos and anarchy, as the government counter-insurgency policy and campaigns in that region have seriously boomeranged and continue to spiral out of control. Furthermore, the Government has recently foiled a coup attempt, and the prospects for fresh insurgencies emerging in other parts of the Sudan are increasing.”
2004-11-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5080 (2004) · source
“This is necessary to rectify any shortcomings without renegotiating the agreement. Through international guarantees and assistance, the international community will play a significant role in the implementation of the Sudan peace agreement, and the present meeting of the Security Council in Nairobi is a positive signal that we very much welcome and appreciate. We appeal to the international community to assist us in the faithful implementation of the peace agreement. Even if one of the parties to the agreement feels that there are too many risks associated with the agreement, in the final analysis, the cost of non-implementation of the agreement would be much higher than the cost of implementation for the whole country.”
2004-11-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5080 (2004) · source
“will work energetically in partnership with the National Congress Party and all other political forces in the Sudan to ensure timely, free and fair legislative and presidential elections, as shall be agreed in the remaining implementation modalities. In this context, we are committed to the preservation of peace, stability and the territorial integrity of the Sudan during the interim period, and to ensure the holding of a free, internationally-monitored referendum on the right of self-determination for southern Sudan towards the end of the six-year interim period. We remain fully committed to the implementation of all aspects of the peace agreement and will make full use of the Assessment and Evaluation Commission throughout the interim period to assess and monitor the implementation of the peace agreement.”
2004-11-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5080 (2004) · source
“This is also a paradigm shift in Sudan's economic development, so that we will address the issue of rural development as the majority of our people - 98 per cent of the people in southern Sudan, for example - live in rural areas. We will have a paradigm shift in the observance of human rights and freedoms as endorsed by the parties in the comprehensive bill of rights in the power-sharing agreement. The SPLM. will seek to participate effectively in the coalition Government of national unity and other levels of government to ensure the realization of a new political dispensation in the Sudan. In this context, the SPLM.”
2004-11-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5080 (2004) · source
“Once more, I want to assure you that the SPLM. is willing and ready to work with the other party to resolve the outstanding issues in the two annexes and bring the process to a speedy closure. We will work in partnership with the National Congress Party in establishing a new coalition Government of national unity in accordance with the six protocols. The SPLM. views the agreement as a prelude to the beginning of the process of the democratic transformation of the country, a paradigm shift in the politics of the country, so that Sudan accepts all its citizens equally - whether they are Christians or Muslims, whether they of Arab origin or indigenous Africans, they are all Sudanese.”
2004-11-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5080 (2004) · source
“That also should not be a problem. It's a problem that we can, I believe, also easily solve. In summarizing this part of my presentation, I want to state the SPLM. position in unequivocal terms. The Government of Sudan and the SPLM. have a core agreement already in place in the form of the six protocols and, as is stated in the Nairobi Declaration of 5 June 2004, we consider the Sudan peace agreement essentially already completed. The two outstanding issues in each of the two annexes of the ceasefire agreement and implementation modalities should not take time to resolve, especially in view of the very precarious situation our country is in, and the fact that peace has a price and we prepared to pay that price. That is why we have negotiated in Naivasha with our counterparts, our compatriots in Naivasha, over the last one plus years.”
2004-11-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5080 (2004) · source
“Regarding the second annex, on implementation modalities for the agreement, sufficient progress has been generally achieved with respect to the two areas of the Nuba Mountains, Southern Blue Nile and Abyei. Further good work needs to be done to bridge the gaps in relation to power-sharing. However, one obstacle in the implementation modalities is that there are two main outstanding issues that must be resolved in the wealth-sharing protocol. First, the Government of the Sudan proposes a system for the transfer of funds that seeks to pay in local currency the share of the government of the southern Sudan of its oil revenues. That is also a problem that can, I believe, easily be solved. The other issue is the sharing of information on existing oil contracts. That is also something that we have agreed on in the wealth- sharing agreement.”
2004-11-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5080 (2004) · source
“The second outstanding issue in the ceasefire agreement - although relatively less problematic than that of funding the armed forces - is the time frame for incorporating other armed groups into SAF or SPLM/A structures, depending on their individual choice, as stipulated in the security arrangements agreement signed by the parties in September 2003, which states in paragraph 7 (a) that the process of the integration of other armed groups should be accomplished before the comprehensive peace agreement comes into effect so that by then there will be only two armed forces - the SAF and the SPLM/A - as agreed upon. That is also an issue that we can resolve.”
2004-11-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5080 (2004) · source
“The other party's position on this issue is both untenable and inconsistent with the meaning and the spirit of the security arrangements framework agreement during the interim period, because it limits funding from national coffers to the Government army component of the National Armed Forces, completely ignoring the funding of the other component of the Sudan National Armed Forces - that is, the SPLM/A - leaving it to be funded by the government of the southern Sudan, which is a subnational-level government and therefore is not responsible for funding national institutions, including the SPLM/A. However, I believe this is an issue that we, the parties, with the assistance of the mediators and the international community, should be able to resolve, because obviously the SPLM/A must be funded during the interim period.”
2004-11-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5080 (2004) · source
“It was precisely for that reason that the SPLM/A settled for only 50 per cent of revenues from oil extracted from the southern Sudan and only 50 per cent of non-oil revenues collected by the central Government in the southern Sudan, so as to enable the national Government to retain sufficient financial resources to meet national obligations, including expenditure on the National Armed Forces.”
2004-11-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5080 (2004) · source
“Under the ceasefire negotiations of the first annex, there are two outstanding issues, the cardinal one being the funding of the armed forces - both the SPLM/A and the Government army. According to section 1 (b) of the security arrangements protocol, which we have signed, it has been agreed that the two armed forces - the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the SPLM/A - are to be "considered and treated equally as Sudan's National Armed Forces during the Interim Period". That entails funding from the national treasury in all their aspects the two armed forces and the joint integrated units that will be constituted from them.”
2004-11-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5080 (2004) · source
“Obviously, therefore, the two annexes that remain - on a comprehensive ceasefire and on implementation modalities - should not be stumbling blocks to closing the deal. One makes agreements in order to implement them, and we made the agreement in order to end the war. I want to assure the Council that the SPLM/A is willing and prepared to work with the other party to move swiftly to complete and sign the framework comprehensive peace agreement in the shortest time possible. We in the SPLM/A have absolutely no reason to cause any delays. On the contrary, and in the interests of our country, we have every reason to expedite the process and to sign the final agreement today rather than tomorrow.”
2004-11-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5080 (2004) · source
“It is our hope that the meeting of this body in Nairobi will expedite the swift closure to the peace process in the Sudan of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) so that we can also reach a comprehensive peace agreement for the whole country. The core of the peace agreement, in the form of six protocols, is already in place. The task that remains to finalize the agreement on a comprehensive ceasefire and the modalities for implementing what we have agreed. These will form annexes to the peace agreement. The parties - the Government of the Sudan and the SPLM/A - signed the six protocols with a view to implementing the agreement and with the primary aim of ending the war.”
2004-11-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5080 (2004) · source
“First and foremost, I would like to thank the Council wholeheartedly for having invited the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) to this significant and historic Security Council meeting on the Sudan, Somalia and other African affairs, so that we can share our perspective on the peace process and on the situation in our country in general. I understand that this is the fourth time in its history that the Security Council has met outside its New York Headquarters. We appreciate this significant gesture and concern. Indeed, this is another momentous occasion in the history of our country. I would like to take this opportunity to reaffirm our unwavering commitment to the peaceful resolution of all conflicts in the Sudan.”
2004-11-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5080 (2004) · source