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1. “Such bold steps prove that the Interim Authority is resolute in its objective of reinstating peace and stability in Afghanistan as well as creating the conditions for Afghans to lead a normal life. We also welcome the appointment of women to key positions in the new administration, including in the Cabinet. Council members recognize that the success of the Bonn Agreement will depend on the people of Afghanistan themselves. The Security Council welcomes the central role played by the United Nations in assisting Afghanistan and expresses its full support for the Secretary- General's Special Representative, Ambassador Lakhdar Brahimi, in the accomplishment of his mandate.”

   2002-01-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4461 (2002) · source

2. “First, the reconciliation, reconstruction and rehabilitation process should not be derailed by any outside pressure or intervention. Here we appeal to the international community to continue extending its valuable support to the Afghan Interim Authority in order to take the country away from the legacy of war, misery and instability. Secondly, it is high time that leaders and representatives of different ethnic groups within Afghanistan forwent their differences and invested in the construction of a nation with sound democratic credentials. The members of the Security Council take good note of the decree banning the cultivation, production, processing, abuse and illicit trafficking of narcotic drugs, which was issued on 17 January under your signature, Sir. Likewise, we welcome the decree on the rights of women.”

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3. “The Security Council will continue to support all efforts based on the Bonn Agreement, leading to the formation of a Government in Afghanistan that should be broad-based, multi-ethnic and fully representative of all the Afghan people and committed to peace with its neighbours. It is essential for the Afghan Interim Authority and for a new Government of Afghanistan to fully respect the basic human rights of all Afghan people, regardless of gender, ethnicity or religion. There is still a lot to do to assist the Afghan people in what appears to be one of the most challenging and imposing tasks of our time. For real success to be achieved in the Afghan political stabilization, we believe that the following two issues, among others, need urgent attention.”

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4. “It commends the efforts of those States contributing to the International Security Assistance Force and welcomes the progress the International Security Assistance Force is making in assisting in the restoration of security in Kabul and its surrounding areas. We emphasize that the United Nations and non- governmental relief operations must be allowed to operate in security and with full freedom of movement, particularly in those areas most in need of humanitarian assistance. In all its decisions, the Security Council has stressed the point that it is for the people of Afghanistan themselves to freely determine their own future.”

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5. “The Security Council reaffirms its wholehearted commitment to supporting the Interim Authority and the transitional process. In that light, we welcome the International Conference on Reconstruction Assistance to Afghanistan held in Tokyo and the efforts of the Afghan Support Group, as well as bilateral donors, as they are vital and integral to assisting the Interim Authority. Council members emphasize that rapid disbursement of assistance and good coordination in its delivery, in full cooperation with the Interim Authority, are essential. The Security Council expresses its concern about the episodes of lawlessness in Afghanistan.”

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6. “I thank Mr. Karzai for his kind words expressed to this institution. I shall now make a statement on behalf of the members of the Council. On behalf of the members of the Council, let me extend once again a warm welcome to the Chairman of the Afghan Interim Authority, Mr. Hamid Karzai, and his delegation to the Security Council. We thank you for your statement on the situation in your country. At the very outset, allow me to assure you of the Council's unqualified and unreserved support for your quest for peace, justice and stability in Afghanistan. The Council remains committed to helping advance this process, which is on the right track. We stand ready to extend the necessary assistance to the people of Afghanistan, who have suffered virtually every privation known to mankind and who deserve a better future.”

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7. “After the briefing, in View of the time constraints, I shall make a statement on behalf of all the members of the Security Council. I now give the floor to Mr. Karzai.”

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8. “In accordance with the understanding reached in the Council's prior consultations, I shall take it that the Security Council decides to extend an invitation under rule 37 of its provisional rules of procedure to His Excellency Mr. Hamid Karzai, Chairman of the Interim Administration of Afghanistan. There being no objection, it is so decided. Mr. Hamid Karzai, Chairman ofthe Interim Administration of Afghanistan, was escorted to a seat at the Security Council table. The President: On behalf of the Council, I extend a very warm welcome to His Excellency Mr. Hamid Karzai, Chairman of the Interim Administration of Afghanistan. At this meeting, the Security Council will hear a briefing by the Chairman of the Interim Administration of Afghanistan, His Excellency Mr. Hamid Karzai.”

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9. “Amara Essy, who have travelled all the way to New York to participate in this debate. I think the debate has been enriching, and that we are all going to leave New York with a better sense of what Africa needs and how we are going to solve the problems of Africa. I would also like to thank all the other Ambassadors and Permanent Representatives who have participated in the debate. I would like to thank them specially for the quality of their statements. There is no other business. The meeting rose at 6.35 pm.”

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10. “I thank the Secretary-General of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), Mr. Amara Essy, for his remarks. I hope that in the future it will be possible to have an imaginative format for collaboration between the OAU and the United Nations. There are no further speakers on my list. The Security Council has thus concluded the present stage of its consideration of the item on its agenda. The Security Council will remain seized of the matter. Before I adjourn the meeting, I would like to make two remarks. First, I would like to request Mr. Ibrahim Fall to circulate the summary he has given, on a without-prejudice basis, to all the members who have participated in the debate. Before I adjourn the meeting, I think it is my duty to express my sincere thanks to all the Ministers and to Mr.”

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11. “I thank Mr. Fall for the quality of his summary. I now call on the Secretary-General of the Organization of African Unity to make a few brief remarks.”

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12. “I thank the representative of Uganda for his kind words addressed to me. The next speaker on my list is Mr. Ibrahima Fall, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, who is going to make some remarks.”

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13. “I thank the representative of Kenya for the kind words he addressed to me. The next speaker is the representative of Uganda. I invite him to take a seat at the Council table and to make his statement.”

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14. “The next speaker on my list is the representative of Kenya. I invite him to take a seat at the Council table and to make his statement.”

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15. “I thank the representative of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya for his kind words addressed to the Chair. The next speaker on my list is the representative of Malaysia. I invite him to take a seat at the Council table and to make his statement.”

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16. “I thank the representative of Ukraine for his kind words addressed to me. The next speaker on my list is the representative of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. I invite him to take a seat at the Council table and to make his statement.”

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17. “I thank the representative of India for his kind words addressed to the Chair and to the team on the Security Council. The next speaker on my list is the representative of Ukraine. I invite him to take a seat at the Council table and to make his statement.”

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18. “I thank the representative of Jamaica for her kind words addressed to me. The next speaker on my list is the representative of India. I invite him to take a seat at the Council table and to make his statement.”

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19. “Before giving the floor to the next speaker, may I reiterate my appeal of yesterday for speakers to limit the duration of their statements as much as possible. At 5.30 pm. we will be holding consultations on the Middle East, and I hope to complete the list of speakers before then. The next speaker inscribed on my list is the representative of Jamaica. I invite her to take a seat at the Council table and to make her statement.”

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20. “The next speaker is the representative of Ghana. I invite him to take a seat at the Council table and to make his statement.”

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21. “I still have seven speakers inscribed on my list. I am sure that Council members will understand that there are quite a number of commitments this evening - I myself have some. If the Council members agree - and I hope you will agree - I intend to suspend this meeting now and to resume it tomorrow at 4.30 pm. I wish to inform the Council that the informal consultations on the Middle East will be convened following the conclusion of our discussions on the situation in Africa, which will, hopefully, be around 5.30 pm. I also wish to inform members that the Secretariat has confirmed that the live webcast of the Council's proceedings on this particular item will also be provided tomorrow. I hope that no one will object to the suspension of this meeting, and I thank you for your understanding. The meeting was suspended at 7.30pm.”

    2002-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4460Resumption1 (2002) · source

22. “I thank the representative of Sierra Leone for his kind words addressed to me. I now invite the representative of Canada to take a seat at the Council table and to make his statement.”

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23. “The next speaker on my list is the representative of Sierra Leone. I invite him to take a seat at the Council table and to make his statement.”

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24. “I thank the representative of Japan for the brevity of his statement. The next speaker inscribed on my list is the representative of Nigeria. I invite him to take a seat at the Council table and to make his statement.”

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25. “I thank the representative of C6te d'Ivoire for the kind words he addressed to me. The next speaker is the representative of Japan. I invite him to take a seat at the Council table and to make his statement.”

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26. “I thank the representative of Cuba for the kind words he addressed to me. The next speaker is the representative of Cote d'Ivoire. I invite him to take a seat at the Council table and to make his statement.”

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27. “I thank the representative of Tunisia for his kinds words addressed to me. May I crave the Council's indulgence by asking speakers to be as brief as possible, because we need to finish on time and to give all speakers on my list the chance to speak. The next speaker on my list is the representative of Bangladesh. I invite him to take a seat at the Council table and to make his statement.”

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28. “I thank the representative of Egypt for his kind words addressed to me on behalf of his Minister. The next speaker inscribed on my list is the representative of Spain. I invite him to take a seat at the Council table and to make his statement.”

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29. “Here, we welcome the statement made this morning by Baroness Amos of the United Kingdom, that Africa would be made the focus of the United Kingdom presidency next July. I now resume my functions as President of the Security Council. The next speaker is the representative of Egypt. I invite him to take a seat at the Council table and to make his statement.”

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30. “We have a vision of an Africa which is rid of conflicts and which is engaged in reconstruction - not only of bridges and infrastructure but also of a new mindset by which we will not continue to view the rest of the world as the source of our difficulties. We must claim ownership of our difficulties so that we can also claim ownership of our successes. We cannot do it on our own. We need assistance and support. There is a new brand of leadership in Africa which means what it says. The New Partnership for Africa's Development and the Constitutive Act of the African Union contain commitments and targets. We urge the Security Council to be seized of the concerns of Africa and to ensure that follow-up action pursuant to its resolutions is taken in time.”

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31. “Elections which are free and fair are regularly held; Governments that lost elections have transferred power peacefully; institutions are being revitalized; an independent and corruption-free judiciary and anti- corruption tribunals and bodies are being set up all over the continent; the rule of law is gaining at the expense of presidential fiat; the economy is being liberalized; the challenges of globalization are being appraised realistically; the emergence of civil society and human rights groups, free media, global communications and gender programmes; an enhanced role for the private sector; and the involvement of all State and non-State actors in the development process: that is news coming out of Africa every day. We do not accept that the destiny of Africa is poverty and despair. We are determined to escape that cycle.”

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32. “This problem must be addressed in a dispassionate and objective manner; we consider that Africa is mature enough to guarantee any outgoing head of State a minimum of personal security as well as adequate resources to lead his life in a dignified manner. We have embarked on a new paradigm for Africa.”

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33. “The setting up of a special war crimes court in Sierra Leone is significant for two reasons. First, it provides the victims of atrocities with the prospect of justice and the certainty of punishment for the offenders, irrespective of status or any other consideration; and secondly, it sends a message that crimes will not be forgotten and that the era of impunity has come to an end. Our experience in Africa has shown that heads of State cling to power because of the fear of what an incoming Government could exact from them by way of retribution or vengeance. In such circumstances they are prepared to go to any length to remain in power.”

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34. “The population picture will be significantly altered as a result of HIV/AIDS, with additional dangers to regional peace and security. The most significant development in recent African history was the decision taken by the OAU at the 1998 Algiers Summit to deny recognition to any Government which came to power through unconstitutional means. That concept is now an integral part of the Constitutive Act of the African Union. The message is unambiguous and unchallengeable. That is not to say that the provision is by itself sufficient to guarantee transparency in the peaceful transfer of power through free and fair elections, but it does deal a terminator blow to coups d'etat, whose impact on the present state of affairs in Africa has yet to be studied.”

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35. “The urgent establishment of an effective and workable early warning system is of paramount importance with regard to conflict prevention. Dealing with a full-blown conflict consumes too many resources, which we in Africa can ill afford. We have in Africa a reservoir of eminent leaders and former heads of State who can be entrusted with the task of surveying the continent and detecting signs of potential tension. No conflict or war gets started overnight. It should be possible to intervene before it is too late. The diagnosis is clear and unchallenged. Other speakers have catalogued the appalling statistics, and I do not propose to travel over the same ground. Africa is trapped: poverty, disease, conflicts, HIV/AIDS and a multiplicity of other problems demonstrate the magnitude of the task that we face in Africa.”

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36. “The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has a Protocol on Peace, Security and Defence, which has an organ to deal with conflicts in the subregion. SADC is determined to avoid conflicts in the region and to use the organ as an instrument for this purpose. We believe that whatever bad or negative happens in one Member State impacts adversely on all the other Members. In this respect, it is the duty of every Member to protect the region from tension and conflicts. With regard to the conflict in the Great Lakes region, SADC invited Uganda and Rwanda to a recent Summit meeting in Blantyre, although these two States are not members of SADC. Getting all the parties directly involved in the conflict around a table greatly helps, in our view, in confidence-building and instilling an element of trust among the concerned parties.”

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37. “This situation cannot endure, as this was not the dream of the founding fathers of the OAU. Hopefully, quite a number of conflicts are being resolved. The inter-Congolese dialogue is now scheduled to take place on 25 February 2002 at Sun City in South Africa, and the implementation of the Framework Agreement in the Comoros with elections in April also illustrates that patience is critical in the search for the resolution of conflicts. In West Africa, as many other speakers have pointed out, the improvement is visible, and peer pressure seems to be effective. The OAU has utilized its Central Organ of the Mechanism for Conflict Prevention, Management and Resolution with a fair degree of efficacy. The management of conflicts has taken various forms, and the OAU has adopted innovative mechanisms that have been more or less successful.”

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38. “From 1960 to date, more than 80 coups, 24 political assassinations and about 100 attempted coups are the legacy of our continent. Coups d'e'tat or assassinations became the only mode of changing Governments in many countries. That, unfortunately, became the recipe for instability, the death of democracy and the absence of any semblance of good governance. Africa has paid and is still paying an intolerable price for these man- made disasters. The unlimited power of the heads of State who became Presidents for life undermined the structure of the State, and the institutions crumbled. Whether the causes of conflicts are internal or external, the truth remains that more than 7 million Africans have perished in 32 wars, and we have nearly 10 million refugees and internally displaced persons in post-colonial Africa.”

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39. “While we welcome the attention, we wish to make it absolutely clear that Africa has undertaken major reassessments of an infinite variety of issues, with the result that a political transformation of the highest order is now in place. We are confident that the mistakes of the past will not be repeated and that the blueprint, as set out in the Constitutive Act of the African Union, as well as in the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), will not be departed from. Unfortunately, the boundless optimism that accompanied the independence of African countries is matched only by the scale of the frustration of that optimism. Many African heroes who fought for liberation rapidly succumbed to the temptations of lifelong presidencies, destroying in the process all that remained of a multiparty political system.”

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40. “We are concerned by the linkages of conflicts with the illicit proliferation of small arms and light weapons, with the illegal exploitation of natural resources and with the lack of success of sanctions regimes. We believe that the time has come for finalizing the review process on the sanctions regimes. In spite of the sanctions against it, UNITA still has the capability of carrying out terrorist acts, causing the deaths of hundreds of civilians. But at the same time, it is important that the collateral effects of sanctions on civilian populations be seriously studied. Before I go further, allow me to say that we are comforted by the interest that the G-8 has shown in addressing the immense problems that afflict Africa.”

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41. “We are encouraged by the efforts of the international community to address the root causes of conflicts in Africa, as identified in the report of the Secretary-General on the causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in Africa. We also note, however, that the provisions of Security Council resolutions 1170 (1998) and 1197 (1998) are yet to be implemented. We therefore propose that an ad hoc working group composed of Council members be set up to look into the implementation aspects, as well as the enhancement of cooperation and coordination between the Security Council and the Economic and Social Council.”

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42. “Africa as a whole has unanimously condemned the terrorist attacks of 11 September, and we are committed to taking all measures to eradicate not only the terrorists, but also the sources of terrorism. With the war against terror being won and with Afghanistan on the road to reconstruction, we consider, however, that the time has come to reactivate the spotlight on Africa. It is important to know that Africa is ready to undo the errors of the past and to shed the image of doom and gloom, which unfortunately keeps being projected throughout the world. The new breed of African leaders has the determination and the political courage to confront the truth and reality, however painful and harsh they may be.”

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43. “Amara Essy, whose presence here will hopefully develop into a permanent feature for consultation between the Security Council and the African Union in the days to come. Individually African countries have occupied and will continue to occupy the time and attention of the Security Council. This meeting, however, is a unique opportunity for the Council to address the issues of the continent as a package. What is of interest to us in these consultations is not the past, but what the future holds for Africa, a continent abundant in natural and mineral resources and yet desperately awaiting the attention and firm commitment and support of the international community in the field of political, economic and technological development.”

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44. “I shall now make a statement in my capacity as representative of Mauritius. Allow me at the outset to express, on behalf of my country, our deepest grief and sympathy over the tragedies that the people and the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo have endured in the aftermath of the volcanic eruption in Goma. Our sympathy and condolences also go to the Government and the people of Nigeria over the huge loss of lives caused by the bomb explosions of a military arms depot in Lagos. We highly appreciate the presence of those attending this special meeting on Africa and for the quality and content of their contributions. I would like to extend a special and very warm welcome to the Secretary-General of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), Mr.”

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45. “In view of the long list of speakers for this afternoon, I would like to appeal to all speakers to be as brief and concise as possible when making their statements. I trust that I can count on participants' understanding and cooperation.”

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46. “There are still quite a number of speakers remaining on my list, but, in View of the hour and if Council members agree, I intend to suspend the meeting and to resume it at 3 pm. sharp. The meeting was suspended at 1.30pm.”

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47. “I welcome to the Security Council the President of the Economic and Social Council, Mr. Ivan Simonovie, and give him the floor.”

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48. “I thank the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Morocco for his kind words addressed to me and to my country. The next speaker is Ms. R. T. Mabudafliasi, Deputy Minister for Environmental Affairs and Tourism of South Africa. I invite her to take a seat at the Council table and to make her statement.”

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49. “I thank the Vice-Minister for External Relations of Angola for his kind words addressed to my country. The next speaker is Mr. Tayb Fassi Fihri, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Morocco. I invite him to take a seat at the Council table and to make his statement.”

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50. “I thank the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of the Republic of Mozambique for her kind words addressed to me and to my country. The next speaker is the Vice-Minister for External Relations of Angola. I invite him to take a seat at the Council table and to make his statement.”

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