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first: 1993-10-05
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“Therefore, the Council should encourage cooperation and coordination with neighbouring States, regional and subregional organizations, and international organizations. All those stakeholders mustjoin efforts to first and foremost promote the basic principle that sanctions are intended to help Member States, not to undermine them. Fourthly,Iwouldwishtomakesomerecommendations as a non-permanent member of the Security Council. For example, the decision that the sanctions committees should be chaired by newly elected members should be made at an early stage. That would allow members to prepare adequately, as they do not have time for an appropriate hand-over from the outgoing Chairpersons of the subsidiary bodies, or to choose their national experts to be included in their Security Council teams.”
2014-11-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7323 (2014) · source
“A regional consensus on the necessity and legitimacy of a sanctions regime can go a long way towards ensuring that they are effectively implemented. Secondly, presently the large majority of sanctions regimes are in Africa. Very often, the targeted States and their neighbours do not have the institutional capacity to implement the sanctions. It is therefore a challenge to translate those measures into a national regulatory system. There is thus a need to renew efforts and focus on ensuring that those crucial actors are better assisted in capacity-building and accessing technical assistance. Thirdly, as we know, the range of actors involved in the implementation of sanctions is broad and continues to expand as the sanctions evolve.”
2014-11-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7323 (2014) · source
“The increasing sophistication and complexity of the targeted sanctions measures that we enact require that we account for the practical challenges associated with implementation, which in our view include the following. First, we know that the legally binding nature of the Council's sanctions is not in itself sufficient to ensure their effective implementation. A commitment to compliance requires that sanctions be perceived as just and contributing to peace and security. However, what is often the case on the ground is the lack of knowledge about sanctions and the perception that they are punitive rather than preventive. We therefore see a need to establish, throughout the life of a sanctions regime, effective communication between the sanctions committees and the affected countries and regions on the purpose of the sanctions.”
2014-11-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7323 (2014) · source
“Sanctions have become more targeted and more sophisticated so as better to serve their remedial and preventative purposes. From 1966, when the Security Council first imposed sanctions, on Southern Rhodesia, as stated by our friend Jeffrey Feltman, to most recently, when targeted sanctions were imposed in Yemen in 2014 against those obstructing its stability, sanctions have continuously evolved in order to respond to emerging threats to peace and security. However, we all recognize that the first condition for the effectiveness ofa sanctions regime is to ensure that they are fully and faithfully implemented by Member States.”
2014-11-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7323 (2014) · source
“The review also reminded us that improving the effectiveness of sanctions requires a constant dialogue with those affected and those in charge of their implementation. I welcome the briefings delivered by Jeffrey Feltman, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, who heads the Department that is the focal point of the United Nations system on sanctions issues, and by Mr. Jiirgen Stock, Secretary General of INTERPOL - an important partner in the effective implementation of sanctions imposed by the Council. I wish to take this opportunity to congratulate Mr. Stock on his appointment. Under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, the Security Council is empowered with an important set of tools that it can use to carry out its mandate, and sanctions are among them.”
2014-11-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7323 (2014) · source
“At the outset, I would like to thank you, Sir, for your initiative in convening this briefing on the evaluation of sanctions. Such initiative has been a hallmark of your presidency and of Australia's tenure in the Security Council. It is also a coherent follow-up to your close engagement in the recently concluded high-level review of United Nations sanctions, which was sponsored by your country, together with Greece, Norway and Sweden. The high level of participation by Member States, including my country, and other stakeholders in the high-level review was a strong recognition of the important role United Nations sanctions can play in the maintenance of international peace and security.”
2014-11-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7323 (2014) · source
“It is therefore important that, in combating global terrorism, we pay attention to the most immediate to our respective populations. To conclude, terrorism and violent extremism remain a global threat to international peace and security. No country, however powerful it may be, can deal with that threat alone. Therefore, coordination among States, international assistance and cooperation, information exchange and the sharing of best practices are some of the best ways through which the international community can defeat the threat of terrorism and violent extremism. Rwanda is therefore committed to continuing to play its part in the region and beyond.”
2014-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7316 (2014) · source
“These measures can succeed only if the United Nations works hand in hand with regional and subregional organizations to enhance and sustain innovative mechanisms aimed at eradicating this scourage. Additionally, we should never lose sight of the fact that the core of this evil is always radical ideology, be it religious or political. While Rwanda has no yet been affected by ISIL or Al-Qaida terrorism, it is important to recall that, as stated by President Kagame at the recent Council summit on foreign terrorist fighters (see S/PV.7272), Rwanda has faced, even its capital city, terrorist activities carried out be elements to the so-called Forces democratiques de liberation du Rwanda, which has been based in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and driven by its genocidal ideology since 1994.”
2014-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7316 (2014) · source
“We have to work together to drain the bloody river that fuels terrorism and spreads death and devastation in our communities. Specific to our region, Africa, terrorism and extremism have spread to the Sahel and beyond, with unprecedented security and humanitarian consequences. Terrorism is increasingly becoming interconnected throughout Africa, from Boko Haram in Nigeria, Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb and Ansar Eddine in Mali, Ansar Al-Sharia in Libya, Al-Shabaab in Somalia and many others, from the Maghreb to the Horn of Africa, with links to Syria and other parts of the world. This is a worrying situation that threatens African stability. We need now to have proactive policies, mechanisms and concrete measures to prevent the further spread of these negative groups and eradicate them, while sustaining the resilience of communities.”
2014-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7316 (2014) · source
“Most terrorist groups such as Al-Qaida, Al-Shabaab and Boko Haram have been financing their activities through online fundraising, illegal taxes and extortion, as well as kidnapping for ransom. Others, such as ISIL and the Al-Nusra Front (ANF), have secured huge amounts of money from the illicit trade in oil. In that context, we call on all States to fully implement the presidential statement of 28 July (S/PRST/2014/l4) and ensure that their nationals and residents do not engage in any commercial or financial transactions with ISIL, ANF or other sanctioned entities. We recall also resolution 2133 (2014), which calls on all Member States to prevent terrorists from benefiting directly or indirectly from ransom payments or from political concessions.”
2014-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7316 (2014) · source
“To effectively curtain the growing trend of the mobilization and recruitment of young people into the ranks of terrorist groups, the Security Council and its subsidiary bodies must be vigilant and proactive. Using the example of the recent public announcement of anotherjihadist group in Egypt, Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, which pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) concerning Al-Qaida and associated individuals and entities should be ready to continue to impose sanctions against groups that support sanctioned entities such as ISIL. Another tool in addressing the threat posed by foreign terrorist fighters is financing.”
2014-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7316 (2014) · source
“Regarding foreign terrorist fighters in particular, it is important that countries of origin, transit and destination work together and agree on a common approach to prevent the recruitment, training and travel of these killers, in accordance with resolution 2178 (2014). In this regard, as terrorist organizations abuse civil liberties such as freedom of speech and freedom of the press, it is critical that all countries put in place appropriate measures to counter the dissemination of hatred ideology on social media and other information and communications tools. We need to ensure that fundamental rights and freedoms do not fuel extremism and lead to the violation of the most important right of all: the right to life.”
2014-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7316 (2014) · source
“Every terrorist, whatever his or her background, should be held accountable for widowing mothers and fathers, for orphaning children and for devastating communities. As we have said in the past, terrorism should never be identified with any religion, faith or culture. Terrorism is pure evil and should be combated as such. Nonetheless, religious and community leaders have an important role to play in combating terrorism and violent extremism. Those leaders should unequivocally dissociate themselves from terrorist activities, reject extremist and violent narratives, and protect young people from radicalization and recruitment by terrorist organizations.”
2014-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7316 (2014) · source
“In most countries, young people continue to face serious challenges related to education, poverty, unemployment, bad governance or discrimination. Through social media, extremist propaganda and religious radicalization, young people can easily be recruited and indoctrinated by jihadists and other extremists. Therefore any comprehensive approach against terrorism will require our continued resolve to address the political, economic and social challenges facing our societies. Nevertheless, the economic hurdles that our countries face should never be a justification for criminal activities. That would be an insult to the huge majority of law-abiding young people whose ambition is to face those challenges and improve their lives through education, employment, innovation, culture, sport or any other contribution to their society.”
2014-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7316 (2014) · source
“I take this opportunity to thank Ambassador Raimonda Murmokaite of Lithuania, Chair of the Counter-Terrorism Committee, and Ambassador Gary Quinlan of Australia, Chair of the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) concerning Al-Qaida and associated individuals and entities, for their respective briefings. Terrorism is a global threat that has affected all continents and all peoples without distinction, regardless of race, religion or social class. As the concept note for this debate (see S/2014/787, annex) reminds us, the average age of terrorists is much lower than the previous generation of terrorists, with many teenagers enrolled in terrorist organizations.”
2014-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7316 (2014) · source
“Madam President, allow me at the outset to welcome your initiative of convening this open debate on international cooperation in combating terrorism and violent extremism. The holding of this high-level debate only three months after the 24 September summit on foreign terrorist fighters (see S/PV.7272) and the adoption of resolution 2170 (2014) and 2178 (2014) are a demonstration of the deep commitment of the Security Council to follow through on its decision and address the ever-growing phenomenon of terrorism and violent extremism. Allow me also to welcome the presidential statement just adopted (S/PRST/2014/23). I thank the Secretary-General for his briefing and for his leadership in mobilizing the United Nations system in combating terrorism.”
2014-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7316 (2014) · source
“As the deadline given to the FDLR is fast approaching, I am nonetheless convinced that the overall momentum for peace, security and cooperation in the Great Lakes region is so strong that it will eventually enable MONUSCO's FIB and the supervision of the Council to live up to our collective expectation of a secure and stable Great Lakes region free of armed groups, including the last genocidal movement on our continent - indeed, in the world.”
2014-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7288 (2014) · source
“After 20 years, we are still talking about a genocidal force. We are all committed to that great phrase "never again". I believe that such questions are legitimate not only from the Rwandan or regional perspective but also from the broader perspective of the maintenance of international peace and security and ofthe responsibility to protect. In that regard, it would be unfortunate if the Security Council were to spend the next 20 years dealing with the FDLR and its consequences for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the region. Indeed, beyond the absolute need to restore peace and security in our region, I think that such collective inaction also further undermines the credibility of such a lofty organ as the Security Council. Despite that picture, let me conclude on an optimistic note.”
2014-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7288 (2014) · source
“Why cannot the Security Council follow up on the implementation of the multiple resolutions that it has adopted and hold accountable the United Nations force that it has established and to which it has provided a clear mandate. The consequential budget is more than $2 billion a year. I remember The Right Honourable Matata Ponyo Mapon telling us that if he could get a tenth of the MONUSCO budget, he could truly achieve a strong police force and restore security to the entire territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo as soon as possible. That is $2 billion per year, and we have been sitting in this Chamber for 20 years. That is insane and a humiliation. What do Council members want to tell their taxpayers today? To keep spending and feeding an Organization that is not doing anything?”
2014-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7288 (2014) · source
“I would wish to ask all of us why 20 years after our collective resolve of the abused phrase "never again" the Security Council is still struggling to find a lasting solution to the genocidal negative force whose leaders and members are among the perpetrators of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. Instead of addressing the main root cause ofinsecurity in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, why has the Security Council, which comprises at least five countries that have the required background on that situation - I am talking about the permanent members - prefer to manage that insecurity and focus on the consequences of the FDLR presence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo?”
2014-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7288 (2014) · source
“On the contrary, even recently at the summit of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region and the Southern African Development Community in Luanda, Angola - I would like to commend Angola for its leadership - the FDLR, through its allies in the region, attempted to ensure that military action against it is removed from the region's agenda, thereby contradicting the Security Council resolutions that I have mentioned above and its recent press statement SC/11586. Given the background that I have just provided, I have several questions that occur to me.”
2014-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7288 (2014) · source
“The Council may recall that the FDLR's delaying tactics, seen by some as commitments, compelled the ICGLR and SADC, at the request of the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other countries of the region, to decide in July to give the FDLR a six-month period, expiring on 2 January 2015, to disarm. However, as all stakeholders have now noticed, the FDLR never had any intention of disarming.”
2014-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7288 (2014) · source
“However, from a force of 3,500 combatants, the disarmament exercise that allegedly took place in North and South Kivu on 30 May and 6 June, respectively, comprised 188 low- ranking combatants and their dependants. Since then, the disarmed combatants have refused to relocate from Walungu and Kanyabayonga to a designated camp in Kisangani, where no disarmament has taken place since 2 July. On the contrary, acccording to our information, the FDLR continued to reinforce its troops, and around 200 additional elements have been recruited since May to replace those 188 troops.”
2014-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7288 (2014) · source
“In any case, the MONUSCO mandate includes the protection of civilians by ensuring that women, men and children are not used as human shields or deprived of security, health care, education and development. Military action to separate civilians from combatants is therefore imperative. Given that impasse, the FDLR could of course not miss that golden opportunity to achieve its objective. That genocidal movement continued to form alliances with subversive opposition groups against Rwanda in order to engage in activities aimed at gaining sympathy and support from the region. In May, the FDLR decided to adjust its stratgey by committing to voluntary disarm.”
2014-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7288 (2014) · source
“Furthermore, since the beginning of this year, various summits of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), alone and jointly with the Southern African Development Community (SADC), emphasized the need for disarmament and demobilization of the FDLR as well as the necessity of military actions against those unwilling to disarm accordance with resolution 2098 (2013). To justify FIB inaction against the FDLR, MONUSCO's senior leadership attempted to explain that military action against the FDLR was complicated because combatants were living among civilians. That is not true. As a matter of fact, we, Rwanda, provided extensive evidence to MONUSCO on the location of the FDLR military camps separated from civilian areas.”
2014-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7288 (2014) · source
“Unfortunately, despite the tough rhetoric by my good friend the Head of MONUSCO against FDLR, no concrete action against that genocidal movement has been taken or even planned by the United Nations force. In the meantime, the Peace, Security and Corporation Framework for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Region - under the good offices of the Secretary-General, whom I vigorously commend for having initiated it - was signed in Addis Ababa in February 2014. Through the Framework, the leaders of the region once again called for the neutralization of all armed groups, including, of course, the FDLR.”
2014-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7288 (2014) · source
“The Force was given not only a robust and offensive mandate, including, in the terms of sub-paragraph 12 (b), the task to "prevent the expansion of all armed groups, neutralize these groups and disarm them". In addition, huge support was provided in terms of equipment, technology and so forth. That essentially represented a third mandate for a third force in 14 years. Regrettably, upon deployment, the FIB chose to restrict its actions to against the recently created Mouvement du 23 mars (M-23) and once again failed to address the question of the FDLR. In November 2013, the M-23 was totally defeated and Rwanda hoped at that time that MONUSCO and its FIB would finally decide to implement resolution 2098 (2013), which we had sponsored here, and thereby move to subsequently neutralize the FDLR.”
2014-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7288 (2014) · source
“In 2010, that Mission was renamed by resolution 1925 (2010) as the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), with a mandate including to "support strategies towards a sustainable solution of the FDLR issue, including repatriation, reinsertion or resettlement in other areas, orjudicial prosecution as appropriate" (resolution 1925 (2010), para. 12 (fl). However, despite the clear mandate given by the Council, MONUC and then MONUSCO were unable - or perhaps I should say, unwilling - to fully implement it. It is in that context that the Council adopted resolution 2098 (2013) in March 2013, establishing Force Intervention Brigade (FIB) operating under MONUSCO.”
2014-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7288 (2014) · source
“Such actors have demonstrated on multiple occasions their hidden agenda to sanitize and preserve the F DLR in order to eventually destabilize Rwanda. To deal with the security situation in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, which includes the FDLR issue, on 30 November 1999 - almost 15 years ago - the Security Council established the United Nations Observation Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC), whose mandate was expanded by resolution 1291 (2000) to include the protection civilians "under imminent threat of physical violence".”
2014-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7288 (2014) · source
“We are not here to talk about simple negative forces such as the dozen armed groups operating in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, as recalled by all recent products of the Council. The FDLR is not the oldest negative force in the area, which has triggered the creation of a number of other armed groups, but it is also a genocidal movement that committed the unspeakable 20 years ago. Today the FDLR remains the main military and security threat to Rwanda and the Great Lakes region due to its genocidal ideology, the mass atrocities that it regularly commits against civilians in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and to its substantive structural with international networks and the active support it unfortunately enjoys from State and non-State actors.”
2014-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7288 (2014) · source
“I recall, in that regard, that my country introduced a draft resolution that became resolution 2150 (2014), which was sponsored and adopted by all 15 Council members. The resolution reminds us that leaders and members of the so-called Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) were among the perpetrators of the genocide. The resolution furthermore recalls that the FDLR "is a group under United Nations sanctions, operating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and which has continued to promote and commit ethnically based and other killings in Rwanda and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo" (resolution 2150 (2104), fourteenth preambular paragraph). This is the FDLR we are talking about it today. This is the FDLR we have been talking about for the past two decades.”
2014-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7288 (2014) · source
“I wish to welcome Mr. Said Djinnit, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General to the Great Lakes Region, and to thank him for his briefing to the Council. I also thank Mr. Martin Kobler, Special Representative of the Secretary-General to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Head of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) for his statement. I also recognize the presence of my colleague, the Permanent Representative of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In April this year, Rwanda, together with the whole world, commemorated the twentieth anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi (see S/PV.7155), which claimed the lives of more than 1 million of my compatriots in just 100 days.”
2014-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7288 (2014) · source
“My particular thanks go to my Security Council team at the Rwanda Mission, which worked hard to put together the draft report - of course, with the invaluable support and contributions of all Council members, to whom we extend our appreciation. We also express our gratitude to the Secretary-General and senior officials of his administration for their usual availablity to brief us, sometimes on very short notice. I also recognize the valuable support of members of the Security Council Affairs Divsion, mainly for the advice they accorded to us throghout the drafting process, including on Council statistics, as well as for ably servicing the meetings, which are the basis of the draft report.”
2014-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7283 (2014) · source
“It is our hope that the important records of the Council's business contained in this draft report will continue to be a guide to Council members, the larger United Nations membership, the Secretariat and to all actors serving the international community in the maintenance of international peace and security. Nevertheless, I do hope that in future the Council will consider how to improve its annual reports by assessing its effectiveness in the reporting period with concrete recommendations on how to act better and faster while maintaining international peace and security. In conclusion, allow me to express our satisfaction for the opportunity for Rwanda to document the Council's work.”
2014-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7283 (2014) · source
“During the reporting period, accountability for the most serious crimes was a permanent concern for the Security Council - through various country-specific debates and products, through meetings to discuss the work of the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda, and through meetings to consider reports of the Prosecutor General of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in accordance with the relevant resolutions concerning the situation in the Sudan and Libya. Unfortunately, during the reporting period, Council members could not agree on two draft resolutions on the work of the ICC in relation to the situations in Kenya and Syria.”
2014-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7283 (2014) · source
“At the same time, the Council debated specific issues such as the prevention of genocide on the ocassion of the twentieth commemoration of the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda; the Captain Mbaye Diagne Medal of Honour, named for the United Nations Assistance Mission For Rwanda peacekeeper who saved hundreds of people during the genocide; small arms; and war, its lessons and the search for permanent peace.”
2014-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7283 (2014) · source
“Turning to thematic, general and cross-cutting issues, the Council continued to hold regular open debates and other public meetings on human rights- related issues, such as the protection of civilians in armed conflict, children and armed conflict and women and peace and security; on security-related issues, such as non-proliferation and peacekeeping; and on post- conflict-related issues, such as peacebuilding, security- sector reform and the rule of law; and on working methods, including through the wrap-up sessions.”
2014-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7283 (2014) · source
“In that regard, the Council adopted resolution 2166 (2014) to condemn, in the strongest terms, that tragic incident, demand a full, thorough and independent international investigation and to stress that those responsible should be held accountable. As for Asia and the Americas, the Council continued to monitor the situations in Afghanistan and Haiti. It also adopted relevant resolutions to extend the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan and the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti.”
2014-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7283 (2014) · source
“On Syria, the Council adopted resolution 2118 (2013), relating to the destruction of the Syrian chemical weapons programme, as well as resolutions 2139 (2014) and 2165 (2014), relating to the humanitarian situation in the country. On Yemen, the Council adopted resolution 2140 (2014), which established the Sanctions Committee mandated to oversee the travel ban and an assets freeze imposed on Yemen pursuant to the same resolution. In Europe, the Security Council continued to follow the situations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus, and Kosovo, which remained generally calm and stable. However, in February 2014, the Council was seized with the conflict in Ukraine, which further escalated on 17 July with the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH-l7 in Donetsk oblast, resulting in the loss of 298 lives.”
2014-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7283 (2014) · source
“The Council also decided to establish the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic, which was created through resolution 2149 (2014) and deployed on 15 September 2014 to replace the African-led International Support Mission to the Central African Republic. On the Central African Republic as well, the Council adopted resolution 2127 (2013), which established the Committee mandated to oversee the arms embargo, travel ban and assests freeze imposed pursuant to the same resolution. The situation in the Middle East was also prominent on the Council's agenda following the eruption of the conflicts in Gaza and Iraq, as well as the worsening security situation in the Syrian Arab Republic and in Yemen.”
2014-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7283 (2014) · source
“However, the Security Council continued to follow closely the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where a number of other armed groups, including the Forces de'mocratiques de liberation du Rwanda and the Alliance Democratic Force, remain active in the eastern part of the country. Nonetheless, despite that progress in Africa, during the reporting period the Security Council had to deal with the outbreak of conflicts in the Central African Republic, South Sudan and Libya, which led to widespread human rights and humanitarian consequences. It is in that context that the Council reinforced the protection-of-civilians mandate of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan by adopting resolution 2155 (2014).”
2014-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7283 (2014) · source
“The continent registered some progress - in Sierra Leone, where the mandate of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office was successfully completed; in Somalia, where the national army, supported by the African Union Mission in Somalia, continued to make substantive territorial gains against Al-Shabaab; in Guinea-Bissau, where the constitutional order was restored, albeit still fragile; and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the Force Intervention Brigade was deployed pursuant to resolution 2098 (2013) to neutralize all armed groups. The latter led to the defeat of the Mouvement du 23 mars in November 23, which ended its rebellion through the Kampala process and the Nairobi declarations.”
2014-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7283 (2014) · source
“On 8 October 2013 in Ethiopia, the Security Council held one ofits annual consultative meetings with the Peace and Security Council of the African Union; the second meeting was held in New York on 7 June 2014. As was the case in years past, most of the Council's activities and efforts were focused on Africa.”
2014-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7283 (2014) · source
“It is on that note that I would like to express our gratitude to all Council members for their valuable collaboration in the process of drawing up the draft report. As confirmed by the Secretariat through the Director of the Security Council Affairs Division, this report goes down as one of the substantive reports of the Council agreed on in the shortest period. As stated in the introduction to the draft report, during the reporting period the Council held 238 formal meeting, of which 218 were public. The Council adopted 55 resolutions and 26 presidential statements, while also issuing 113 statements to the press. During the same period, the Security Council conducted two missions to the field, one to Africa in October 2013 - to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Uganda and Ethiopia - and another to Mali in February 2014.”
2014-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7283 (2014) · source
“I thank you, Madam President, for convening this meeting to consider the draft annual report of the Security Council, which will be issued as document A/69/2 and which covers the period from 1 August 2013 to 31 July 2014. I also thank you for giving Rwanda the floor as the delegation that coordinated the documentation of the Council's business during the reporting period. The process towards consensus on the draft report is representative of how productive the Council could be if its members were willing to always work towards a common interest That was the expectation of States Members of the United Nations when they mandated this organ to deal with the maintenance of international peace and security - a united, hence effective, Council.”
2014-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7283 (2014) · source
“To conclude, I would wish to recall that for all conflicts and crises in the Middle East, the genuine resolve and unwavering support of those who have real influence on the parties are prerequisites for any progress or breakthrough. It is therefore critical that regional and world Powers remain committed and coordinated so as to ensure lasting peace in the Middle East.”
2014-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7281 (2014) · source
“In same vein, Rwanda also welcomes the announcement of new assistance to the Lebanese army and encourages further assistance in priority areas. However, Rwanda expresses its concern over the prolonged vacancy in the presidency for over four months now, which increases the country's vulnerability in facing the mounting security, economic and humanitarian challenges. We express our appreciation for the efforts of Prime Minister Salam and his Government in ensuring stability in the country. We hope that the parties in Lebanon, with the support of the countries of the region, will overcome their differences and put an end to this constitutional gridlock.”
2014-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7281 (2014) · source
“The situation in Lebanon remains severely affected by the conflict in Syria, with cross-border shelling, arms smuggling and further influxes of refugees. The involvement of different Lebanese armed groups in the Syrian conflict, violating the Lebanese Government's dissociation policy, has raised tensions, leading to sectarian violence mainly along the Lebanese-Syrian border areas that have claimed civilian lives and seen the kidnapping of members of the Lebanese Armed Forces. We commend the Lebanese Armed Forces for containing threats to the country's security and stability, and we reiterate our call on all parties in Lebanon to continue to uphold the Baabda declaration and its dissociation policy.”
2014-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7281 (2014) · source
“In that context, Rwanda reiterates its firm support for the ongoing fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which commits mass atrocities against civilians, beheads journalists and humanitarian workers and persecutes religious minorities, including Christians and Yazidis. We believe that it is important that the Security Council, which has always been unanimous in its fight against terrorism-most recently in resolutions 2170 (2014) and 2178 (2014) - support the coalition led by the United States aimed at degrading and ultimately defeating ISIL. The fight to save the population of the Syrian town of Kobani from barbaric extermination, which is going on even as we speak, should be a reaffirmation of our collective responsibility to protect.”
2014-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7281 (2014) · source
“With respect to Syria, it is unfortunate that military confrontation continues to escalate to dangerous levels and that the three-and-a-half-year conflict has claimed the lives of over 190,000 people, with 10.8 million people in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. As we look forward to the briefing to the Council by Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura focusing on possible avenues to end conflict in Syria, we reiterate our call on all the concerned parties to resume the Geneva 11 peace talks, which is the only possible way to end the political crisis with its dramatic security, human rights and humanitarian consequences. However, it is clear that political talks with terrorist and/or genocidal forces should never be envisaged.”
2014-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7281 (2014) · source