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lines on the record: 127
first: 2010-09-23
most recent: 2013-09-27
sittings or episodes: 11
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“It should be possible for the Council to demand an end to all violence and to call for immediate and unhindered humanitarian access; to call on the Syrian Government to implement its own commitments to the League of Arab States by stopping military action, withdrawing its forces from towns and cities, releasing all political prisoners and allowing access to the media; to endorse the work of the Arab League and of Kofi Annan in his role as United Nations-Arab League Joint Special Envoy; and to support United Nations and Arab League facilitation of a Syrian-led political transition. I call again on the Council to adopt a resolution containing those essential elements. Beyond this Chamber, British experts are working in Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon to help document crimes against the Syrian people.”
2012-03-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6734 (2012) · source
“In the eyes of the overwhelming majority of the world, the Council has so far failed in its responsibilities towards the Syrian people. It has failed to address the brutal oppression of peaceful protesters by the Syrian regime. It has not yet put its weight and authority behind the efforts of the League of Arab States. It is time for the Security Council to show unity and leadership. It should be possible for the Council to call for an immediate end to the brutal repression and violations of human rights.”
2012-03-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6734 (2012) · source
“That includes being prepared to work with new elected groups that draw their inspiration from Islam, while holding them to the same high standards of non-violence, respect for human rights and willingness to respect the outcome of future elections that are expected of others. The third principle is that economic and political reform go hand-in-hand. Economic success is essential to support stability and prosperity. But, equally, there can be no long-term stability without greater political openness. Finally, the Arab Spring will be the work of a generation. We must show strategic patience in not turning away from the region. But all those good intentions will count for nothing if we cannot stand by our values or meet our responsibility in the most urgent crisis today. The situation in Syria casts a long shadow over this debate.”
2012-03-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6734 (2012) · source
“If not, we may see more of the violent ruptures that can follow when people demand rights that no amount of coercion will ever persuade them to abandon. The second fundamental principle is that we cannot dictate change from the outside, nor would we want to. There is no one model of democracy, and so it is for the people of each country in the region to determine their future in accordance with their different cultures, traditions and political systems. But no Government anywhere in the world can justify violence against its people or say that the fundamental democratic principle - the right of citizens to chose and to change their representatives - does not apply in its country. In Britain we will always stand for that vital principle. And so we must also respect the choices that Arab citizens make through the ballot box.”
2012-03-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6734 (2012) · source
“That is not a new concept; it was enshrined in the Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations and in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the General Assembly 64 years ago. It is a truth that Governments ignore at their peril. And it is proven by the experience of many countries. The Arab Spring reconfirms what history warns, that when Governments respond with an iron fist to the irrepressible dreams, legitimate demands and unconquerable hopes of their citizens, they are doomed to fail in the long term. Repression is a policy of failure, and it cannot build stability. All Governments in the region should embrace peaceful reform and make decisive moves in the direction of greater political and economic freedom.”
2012-03-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6734 (2012) · source
“But that strengthens the case for helping Arab nations to build their institutions, open up their economies and create strong civil societies, where such assistance is requested. Britain is doing its part in that regard. Our Arab partnership initiative is supporting projects in 10 different countries. The international community can do more on an even greater scale, through international financial institutions, the Group of Eight and regional organizations. The European Union has made a bold offer of support to the region, which must now be implemented in full. We believe that, as we build on those efforts, we should be guided by three clear principles. The first is that demands for human rights and freedom are universal and will spread by themselves over time, because they are fundamental human aspirations.”
2012-03-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6734 (2012) · source
“But if, instead, we turn away from the region, if we downgrade our expectations and allow pessimism to prevail, if we send a signal that repression and violence will be tolerated, or if we allow Syria to descend into civil war or to remain convulsed by violence, then immense opportunities will be squandered and some of the worst fears about the region's future could be realized. We can see today positive developments that seemed unthinkable two years ago - such as in Tunisia, the first democratically elected Parliament since the 1950s, with 24 per cent of the seats held by women; in Libya, a new Government after 40 years of one-man rule; and in Morocco, freer elections under a new Constitution. Some of those countries face immense challenges, and there will be setbacks as well as progress in the years ahead.”
2012-03-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6734 (2012) · source
“The Arab Spring, as it has become known, is already the most significant event of the early twenty- first century, with deep implications for international peace and security. It is therefore right that it is debated by the Security Council. Some people regard it with fear and consternation, but in Britain we view it in a strongly positive light. It raises the prospect of the greatest enlargement of human freedom since the end of the Cold War, and of a Middle East that in 20-years' time could be made up of open, prosperous and stable societies. If this scenario were also to include peace between Israelis and Palestinians - a need underlined by the events in and around Gaza over the past few days - and include a negotiated settlement of the nuclear crisis with Iran, then the case for helping it become a reality is even stronger.”
2012-03-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6734 (2012) · source
“I thank the Secretary-General for his statement. 3 I shall now make a statement in my capacity as Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. I am grateful to the Secretary-General for his briefing. It is an honour to preside over this special meeting of the Security Council on the Middle East. The United Kingdom has convened this meeting for two important reasons. The first is to call for intensified international efforts to support political and economic freedom in the Middle East while respecting the sovereignty of Arab nations. That includes meaningful assistance to Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen and Libya and they strive to make a success of their transitions. The second is to call once again for urgent, essential Security Council action to stem the bloodshed in Syria.”
2012-03-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6734 (2012) · source
“I wish to warmly welcome the Secretary-General, Ministers and other representatives participating in this meeting. Their collective presence is an affirmation of the importance of the subject matter to be addressed. The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. I give the floor to the Secretary-General, His Excellency Mr. Ban Ki-moon.”
2012-03-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6734 (2012) · source
“The Security Council has thus concluded the present stage of its consideration of the item on its agenda. The Council will remain seized of the matter. The meeting rose at 9.50 a.m.”
2012-03-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6733 (2012) · source
“I also wish to draw the attention of Council members to document S/2012/139, which contains a letter dated 7 March 2012 from the Secretary-General addressed to the President of the Security Council. It is my understanding that the Council is ready to proceed to the vote on the draft resolution before it. I shall put the draft resolution to the vote now. A vote was taken by show of hands. In favour: Azerbaijan, China, Colombia, France, Germany, Guatemala, India, Morocco, Pakistan, Portugal, Russian Federation, South Africa, Togo, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America. The President: There were 15 votes in favour. The draft resolution has been adopted unanimously as resolution 2040 (2012). I shall now give the floor to the representative of Libya.”
2012-03-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6733 (2012) · source
“In accordance with rule 37 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite the representative of Libya to participate in this meeting. The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. Members of the Council have before them document S/2012/l46, which contains the text of a draft resolution submitted by France, Germany, Morocco, Portugal, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America. I should like to draw the attention of the members of the Council to document S/2012/ 129, which contains the report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Support Mission in Libya.”
2012-03-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6733 (2012) · source
“We should unite behind the Arab League plan, and that is what I urge all members of the Council to do this week. We should remain seized of the situation in Syria, returning to the matter if the violence still continues. To fail to do so would be to undermine the credibility of this institution, betray the Syrian people, snub the Arab League and fail in the Council's responsibilities.”
2012-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6710 (2012) · source
“We all agree that the rights of minorities in Syria must be safeguarded and respected. We all agree that military action would not be an appropriate response to the complex situation in Syria, something this draft resolution makes absolutely clear. We all welcome the work of the Arab League. So, based on agreeing on all those things, now we must have the will to match such agreement by being able to agree on a draft resolution. Even as we meet, the gravest of crimes are being committed in Syria. Responsibility for those crimes lies overwhelmingly at the door of the Syrian authorities. But if the Council cannot agree to adopt a resolution condemning the violence, backing the Arab League and enabling a peaceful resolution, then that failure of the Council will be judged by the people of Syria and of their region.”
2012-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6710 (2012) · source
“There will be no reform or political progress in Syria while such violence continues. There can be no doubt that the violence is worsening; the risk of civil war is intensifying; and the threat to the stability of the region is growing. With each day that passes, finding a way back from the brink will be harder, and innocent lives will be needlessly and wrongfully lost - deaths which the Council could help to avert by acting in a united manner. Today, as I understand it, we all agree around this table that the Security Council has a role to play. We all want a peaceful political solution that ensures the stability, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Syria. We all agree that this process should be led by the people of Syria themselves, with the support of their region and the international community.”
2012-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6710 (2012) · source
“It is not acceptable to try to blame the situation in Syria on everyone else, from outside intervention to the Gulf States, to French diplomats, to Lawrence of Arabia - this does not excuse such repression and violence, which is shame on any nation. We know about those crimes because they have been documented by impartial bodies of the United Nations. How long will Syrian families have to live in fear that their children will be killed or tortured, before the Security Council adopts a meaningful resolution? How many people need to die before the consciences of all world capitals on this subject are stirred? The people of Syria cannot afford to wait while more false promises and half-measures from their Government are accompanied by brutality on the ground.”
2012-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6710 (2012) · source
“When a draft Security Council resolution was put forward in October and vetoed here (see S/PV.6627), 3,000 people had died. We believe that today, nearly 6,000 Syrians have died in appalling circumstances. That includes, as we have heard, 384 children. Between 30 and 100 people currently die every single day from the violence in Syria. They will be dying as we speak. Thousands more are enduring torture, imprisonment and sexual violence, including the rape of children. The representative of the Syrian Arab Republic spoke about the idealism of children in his country in the 19505 and 19605, without noting the irony that the descendants of those children, the children of 2012, are now being tortured and murdered in the name of their own Government.”
2012-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6710 (2012) · source
“But it should, in our view, put the leaders of Syria on notice that measures will be considered by the Council if there is not an immediate end to the violence and if the Arab League plan continues to be ignored. That warning is important. For too long the Syrian Government has promised reform and continued the violence. At any time over the last 10 months they could have stopped the bloodshed; they could have seized the initiative; they could have introduced bold and lasting reform that meets the aspirations of Syrians for greater political freedom. But the facts over recent months speak for themselves. When the Council adopted a presidential statement (S/PRST/2011/16) on Syria in August last year, the death toll stood at approximately 1,000.”
2012-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6710 (2012) · source
“Members of the Council have often called for Arab leadership in the past, and that should be respected now by all nations of the world. Can any member of the Council today claim to be in a better position to judge how best to support peace and stability in Syria than these Arab nations themselves? The draft resolution does not propose imposing change on Syria from outside; it calls for the Syrian people to be allowed to make their choices for themselves. It does not call for military action and could not be used to authorize it. Indeed, the Secretary- General has stressed that the plan of the Arab League specifically does not include any outside intervention. It does not contain coercive measures. It is not a Chapter VII draft resolution.”
2012-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6710 (2012) · source
“It has done so after three months of engagement, described by the Secretary-General, with all sides in Syria; after multiple visits to Damascus by ministerial delegations from Arab nations; on the basis of the work of over 150 Arab League monitors inside Syria; and in the light of their own deep understanding of their own region. The Arab world is now asking the Security Council to put its weight and authority behind the plan. This is not the West telling Syria what to do. It is not the permanent members of the Security Council seeking to impose their view. This is the Arab nations calling on the Security Council to help address the crisis in Syria and the threat that it poses to the stability of their region. The Secretary-General has come here and urged us not to let the Syrian people down in their plight.”
2012-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6710 (2012) · source
“Its plan is at the heart of the draft resolution put forward by the Kingdom of Morocco, with the full support of the United Kingdom and, I think, with the support of the majority of Security Council members. If implemented in full, the Arab League plan would lead to an end to all violence against Syrian civilians and attacks against Syrian State institutions. It would remove the major stumbling blocks to reform and give confidence to the Syrian people. It would start an inclusive Syrian-led political process that would allow the Syrian people to determine their future peacefully, and it would lead to a national unity Government and elections. Syria needs a path out of conflict and misery, and, with this plan, the Arab League has provided one that is credible and viable.”
2012-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6710 (2012) · source
“I, too, thank the Prime Minister of Qatar and the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States for their reports and their powerful words, and we are all grateful to you, Mr. President, for presiding over this debate. Our task as a Council is clear: we must address the horrifying violence that has engulfed Syria for the last 10 months, which is an unmitigated tragedy for the people of that country and a real threat to international peace and security, and we must do so in a way that gives the greatest possible chance of a peaceful and lasting solution. The League of Arab States has proposed a way to achieve this, and it should be congratulated and supported in doing so.”
2012-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6710 (2012) · source
“In parallel, we must intensify our work to build up the United Nations capacity for preventive diplomacy. This means greater cooperation between United Nations agencies to identify threats and the regular attention of the Security Council on countries at risk. We support the United Nations increasing use of mediation specialists and special envoys, and we welcome the Secretary-General's call to increase the number of senior female mediators in line with resolution 1325 (2000). Above all, United Nations Member States must be prepared to invest early on in supporting fragile States where requested, as well as to react rapidly when a crisis arises. Such preventive action saves lives, protects fundamental human rights and helps preserve peace. These are indeed our essential tasks.”
2011-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6621 (2011) · source
“The consequences of inaction would weigh heavily upon us if we were to turn a blind eye to killings, abuses and repression. In Libya, we must support the National Transitional Council's efforts to rebuild the State and chart a new course for its country. I welcome the Council's decision last week to mandate a United Nations mission for Libya. Attention must now be given to the United Nations role in coordinating international efforts at the request of the Libyan Government and in support of its own plans. In the Sudan, we must work more effectively to establish a strong position to respond to the worrying levels of violence in Darfur, Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile state. And in Yemen, the United Nations should continue to use its good offices to help mediate a peaceful settlement and an end to the appalling violence.”
2011-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6621 (2011) · source
“To cement peace, it often takes generations, and so where we are engaged, we must guard against turning our attention and resources away too soon. Looking forward, I believe that we must apply these three lessons - political will and leadership, international legitimacy and investment in conflict prevention - to the immediate challenges we face. Each case will be different, but we need to apply conflict prevention efforts in a way that is flexible and according to our best ability to influence the situation on the ground. For instance, in Syria the United Kingdom believes that a response from the Security Council is long overdue. The time has come for a resolution demanding an end to violence and real political reform that applies effective pressure on the Syrian authorities to this end.”
2011-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6621 (2011) · source
“We are enshrining in our law our promise to spend 0.7 per cent of our national income on alleviating poverty elsewhere and ensuring that an increasing proportion of it contributes to conflict prevention. By 2015, 30 per cent of our official development aid will support fragile and conflict-affected areas. In the United Kingdom, we are also using our new National Security Council to become better at anticipating conflict, and we can share our analysis with others. We also emphasize the need for strategic patience in supporting States that are emerging from conflict. Our experiences from the western Balkans to the Horn of Africa show that a hard-won peace must be preserved and not taken for granted.”
2011-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6621 (2011) · source
“Such legitimacy and wide support, themselves the product of diplomacy, must always be our goal, even when in the short term this can make it harder for nations to act. The third lesson is that we must develop our capacity to anticipate and react to developing conflict, both as individual countries and here at the United Nations. The United Kingdom is now placing great emphasis on effective conflict prevention. This means not waiting for problems to become crises but using our network of embassies as an early-warning system and our role in international organizations to help resolve disputes and create agreements. We know that development is an indispensable component of conflict prevention, so in Britain we will not retreat an inch from our commitment to spend more of our national income on development.”
2011-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6621 (2011) · source
“We must encourage sustainable peace through mediation and dialogue, through support to local conflict-prevention efforts, or through more coercive measures, as the situation demands. Military action may be necessary, as has proved the case in Libya, but it is a last resort and is appropriate only in certain circumstances. Britain is not calling for this, for instance, in the case of Syria. The second lesson is that actions to prevent conflict must have a strong legal basis and attract regional support, as we did in Libya working with the Arab League and with a clear United Nations resolution. We must also work with the grain of the societies we are dealing with, recognizing that each situation is different and that we cannot impose solutions.”
2011-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6621 (2011) · source
“Without international will and leadership, we risk failing in our duty to uphold international peace and security, giving comfort to the perpetrators of crimes while causing victims to despair. The increasing frequency of internal conflicts rather than conflicts between States presents different challenges but does not remove our responsibility to protect the civilian population. The impact of conflict is devastating and is not confined within national borders. Lives are lost, people displaced, trade links severed, economies crippled, and crime and terrorism can flourish. The consequences are a burden on us all and a danger to all. We have a responsibility to use all the means available to the United Nations to prevent conflict and to ensure that it does not escalate.”
2011-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6621 (2011) · source
“It led many to abandon the Al-Qadhafi regime, so hastening its demise, and it allowed the Libyan people to seize the opportunity to determine their future. In Cote d'Ivoire, acting with the unanimous support of the Security Council, United Nations peacekeepers undertook limited military operations to protect civilians. The United Nations demonstrated zero tolerance for attacks against civilians and United Nations peacekeepers and for the desperate acts of a ruler seeking to cling to power against the wishes of the people. These experiences hold lessons for us as we seek to improve the role of the United Nations in preventive diplomacy, because the first lesson is that the will to act is the vital ingredient in conflict prevention.”
2011-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6621 (2011) · source
“The resolve and effectiveness of the United Nations is tested whenever lives are threatened. When conflict looms, the world looks to the United Nations for a decisive response to prevent violence through agile and creative diplomacy, to stop aggression, to end conflict when it does happen and then to help keep the peace, and be prepared to stay the course so that fragile countries do not lapse back into war. I think we have shown this year that the United Nations can take a lead in saving life and protecting civilians. In Libya, we mustered legitimate diplomatic, economic and military pressure to prevent a regime from waging war against its people and to deter its members from committing crimes. Our swift action prevented a humanitarian catastrophe, saving the lives of thousands of civilians.”
2011-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6621 (2011) · source
“There are no more speakers inscribed on my list. I would therefore like once again to thank Foreign Minister Karti and Mr. Amum for their participation in today's debate. In accordance with the understanding reached in the course of the Council's prior consultations, I should now like to invite Council members to informal consultations to continue our discussion of the subject. The meeting rose at 12.45 19.141. 10-64056”
2010-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6425 (2010) · source
“I now give the floor to His Excellency Mr. Henry Okello Oryem, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in charge of International Affairs of Uganda.”
2010-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6425 (2010) · source
“I now give the floor to Her Excellency the Honourable Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State of the United States of America.”
2010-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6425 (2010) · source
“Access for humanitarian workers and peacekeepers must be improved and kidnappings in Darfur must end. In the coming months, there will be few greater challenges for the international community, the United Nations and the Security Council than the Sudan. What we have heard today from our four briefers convinces me that there can be peace and stability in the Sudan if the parties commit to peace. They will receive the strong support of the international community if they do so. The United Kingdom stands ready to play its part, based on our historic and enduring commitment to all the people of the Sudan, to seize the opportunity for the secure future their country deserves. I now resume my functions as President of the Council.”
2010-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6425 (2010) · source
“I welcome the United Nations planning to prepare for humanitarian contingencies around the referendum, and I encourage the Sudanese authorities actively to support those preparations. Much international attention is understandably focused on North/South issues in the Sudan. But we must not lose sight of the situation in Darfur, where hundreds of thousands have suffered and died. We must work intensively with all the parties involved towards a peaceful and inclusive political settlement, addressing the violence and insecurity, including by combating impunity and supporting the peace talks in Doha. I welcome the role played by the Joint Chief Mediator, Djibril Bassole, and the support of the Government of Qatar. I urge all parties to participate in peace talks to put a definitive end to the misery in Darfur.”
2010-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6425 (2010) · source
“The United Kingdom, with others, has taken a leading role on the handling of the Sudan's international debt. The United States has made a series of bold and imaginative offers of early action towards normalization of its relationship with Khartoum, which we welcome strongly. The African Union continues to play a vital role in helping the North and South to bridge their differences. The Arab League and the Inter- Governmental Authority on Development are also making important contributions. The United Nations, with over 30,000 peacekeepers on the ground in Darfur, the South and along the border, is central to the international community's work in the Sudan. Its role is vital, giving political support to the negotiations, practical support to the referendum process and protection to civilians.”
2010-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6425 (2010) · source
“We will continue strongly to support President Mbeki's efforts to help the parties reach agreement. As we have heard, that must include an agreement on Abyei as a matter of urgency. Tensions there have been rising. We must ensure that it does not become the flashpoint it has been in the past. The United Kingdom urges the parties to work with the communities on the ground to reassure them that their rights will be protected whatever political agreement is reached. We urge both the North and the South to ensure that their military deployments in the area do not contribute to instability. The international community must also be ready to support the parties' work on the long-term issues affecting each side beyond the referendum, and whatever its outcome.”
2010-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6425 (2010) · source
“Today, President Mbeki summarized for us his invaluable work to bring the parties together to address issues of fundamental and long-term importance to the North and the South, including citizenship, security arrangements, natural resources, assets and liabilities and the border. Success depends on the actions of the parties themselves, and I welcome the commitments made by both parties at the high-level meeting here in New York on 24 September, in the framework agreement that President Mbeki is helping to negotiate, and in their statements here today. In recent weeks, both sides have made concessions and stated their determination to avoid a return to war. We should not underestimate how difficult this process is for the parties involved, but I do not believe that any of the remaining differences on the key issues cannot be bridged.”
2010-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6425 (2010) · source
“As we have heard from the Secretary- General and President Mbeki this morning, there has been progress in recent weeks. I welcome the arrival of the Secretary-General's high-level monitoring panel in Khartoum to monitor the process so far and the work of the domestic and international observers. Voter registration began as scheduled yesterday, the first of a series of essential steps. Early indications suggest that registration is proceeding in an orderly manner, and we must all encourage the timely and calm completion of that process. We have also been encouraged by political talks between the parties over the past few weeks. Good progress is clearly being made.”
2010-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6425 (2010) · source
“The international community must now come together and support the parties as they work to cement the gains achieved in the past six years. A stable Sudan will help build security and prosperity in the region. It will mean that the Sudan does not again become a base for terrorism or a source of refugees fleeing to neighbouring countries. Most important, it will help the Sudanese people receive the tangible benefits of peace that have eluded them for so long. Britain's Secretary of State for International Development visited the Sudan last week. He made clear that we are determined to help improve the lives of the Sudanese people, but only if peace is kept and conflict avoided will development succeed and those lives be truly improved. We are now in the final stages of preparation for the referendums.”
2010-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6425 (2010) · source
“I welcome the intense interest shown by all those who have travelled long distances to be present today and the enthusiasm that I have encountered in other Security Council members to hold this meeting. We are all only too conscious of the tragedy of the Sudan's past - over 50 years of suffering, more than 2 million people dead and many millions displaced, not only in the South but also in Darfur, where conflict continues, in Eastern Sudan and other marginalized areas of the country. The 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement brought the Sudanese parties together in an unprecedented manner. They put aside their differences and ended 40 years of civil war, opening the prospect for a new stage in the Sudan's history.”
2010-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6425 (2010) · source
“This is a defining moment for the Sudan and its people as they enter the final stages of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). It is a period of great risk and, therefore, a situation that the Security Council cannot ignore, but it is also a time of opportunity and a chance to achieve greater stability in the Sudan that the world cannot let go by. It is vital that the international community stand united and steadfast in its support of the CPA. In the United Kingdom, we are therefore very grateful for the outstanding international leadership being provided by President Mbeki, the United Nations Secretary-General, Special Representative Menkerios and Joint Special Representative Gambari.”
2010-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6425 (2010) · source
“I should point out for those watching the video screens that we have been joined by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Sudan, Mr. Haile Menkerios, and the Joint Special Representative for the African Union and the United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur, Mr. Ibrahim Gambari, and that they will join in the consultations to take place after the meeting of the Security Council. I will now make a statement in my capacity as the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. I regard this meeting as the most important event of the United Kingdom's presidency of the Security Council this month, and I am pleased that we have agreed the presidential statement (S/PRST/2010/24) that I read out earlier.”
2010-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6425 (2010) · source
“I would like to thank Mr. Mbeki for his briefing and for all of the work that he is undertaking, and particularly for speaking to the Council from such a distance. Although we could not see him, let me assure him that we listened very carefully to what he said. I take back everything I said about a power failure in Johannesburg. We will blame New York, instead, for all of the technical difficulties. I now give the floor to His Excellency Mr. Ali Ahmed Karti, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Sudan.”
2010-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6425 (2010) · source
“I thank the Secretary-General for his statement. I am now hoping to give the floor to Mr. Thabo Mbeki, Chairperson of the African Union High-Level Implementation Panel for Sudan. We cannot see him on the screen since there has been a power failure in Johannesburg, but I believe he can hear us and that we may be able to hear him.”
2010-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6425 (2010) · source
“The Council affirms that the core objective of the international community and all stakeholders in the Sudan is the peaceful coexistence of the people of the Sudan, democratic governance, rule of law, accountability, equality, respect, human rights, justice and economic development, in particular the establishment of the conditions for conflict affected communities to build, strong, sustainable livelihoods." This statement will be issued as a document of the Security Council under the symbol S/PRST/2010/24. I welcome the presence of the Secretary-General, His Excellency Mr. Ban Ki-moon, and invite him to take the floor.”
2010-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6425 (2010) · source
“The Security Council underlines the importance of increased participation of women in the Sudanese peace processes. "The Council notes the considerable humanitarian, early recovery and peacebuilding needs of the Sudan and encourages the Sudanese authorities and international donors to fulfil their pledges to address them. "The Security Council underlines that full and timely implementation of the CPA is essential to peace and stability in the Sudan and the region and to future cooperation between the Sudan and the international community, and recognizes that enduring cooperation between the parties will be essential for the benefit of all Sudanese people.”
2010-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6425 (2010) · source
“"The Security Council welcomes improved relations between the Sudan and Chad and encourages them to cooperate further in order to contribute to peace and stability in Darfur and the wider region. "The Security Council encourages full implementation of the Eastern Sudan Peace Agreement, including the provisions regarding rehabilitation, recovery and development, and welcomes the initiative of the Government of Kuwait to hold a conference on investment and development in Eastern Sudan in December 2010. "The Security Council calls for respect for international law, international human rights law and humanitarian law; protection of freedom of expression; humanitarian access across the Sudan, including in the border areas; and an end to all harassment of civil society.”
2010-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6425 (2010) · source