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  1. “Finally, my delegation urges the Security Council to consider the imposition of sanctions on any country that violates the resolution on the exploitation of mineral resources in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. As the brotherly people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo anxiously look to the Security Council for assistance, we urge the Council to give urgent consideration to this matter with a view to finding lasting solutions to the vexed issue of illicit exploitation of the God-given wealth of these countries.”

    2001-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4437Resumption1 (2001) · source

  2. “Accordingly, Nigeria supports the Panel's call for international donors to consider submitting to the Security Council, within the shortest possible time, a comprehensive programme for financing development in the region. Nigeria favours the recommendation that a moratorium be declared for a specific period of time on the purchase and importation of precious products, such as coltan, diamonds, gold, copper, cobalt, timber and coffee, originating from areas where foreign troops are presently located in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This would be in addition to the standardization of the certificates of origin for mineral resources from these areas, to be monitored by the World Diamond Council, the United Nations Forum on Forests and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.”

    2001-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4437Resumption1 (2001) · source

  3. “We therefore believe that concerted efforts should also be made to reassure neighbouring countries like Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi of their own security. It is only through such collective action that the smuggling of mineral resources along the porous borders could be checked. In this regard, Nigeria supports the recommendation contained in the report, which stresses the need for the countries in the Great Lakes region to put in place effective controls and legal mechanisms to address the smuggling of resources. My delegation also believes that the Bretton Woods institutions and international donors should play effective roles in helping to rebuild the economy of the region by injecting investable funds for infrastructure and general development.”

    2001-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4437Resumption1 (2001) · source

  4. “My delegation is concerned about the revelations in section V of the report, which discusses recent developments and their implications, particularly those relating to the stated roles of Zimbabwe and Rwanda in the Congo and their possible effects on the security concerns of Rwanda and Burundi, as well as on the prolongation of the war. We want to state that such developments - if confirmed - would not be in the interests of our collective desire for peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The problems in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are multifaceted and cannot be dealt with in isolation. The solution should take into account the larger problems of general peace and security in the entire Great Lakes region.”

    2001-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4437Resumption1 (2001) · source

  5. “In paragraph 56, the report of the Panel establishes a link between the exploitation of resources and the continuation of the conflicts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The emergence of various splinter rebel groups, such as the Uganda People's Defence Forces, the Mouvement de liberation congolais and the Mayi-Mayi, has been linked to the struggle for the control of such resources as coltan, gold and diamonds in the Beni and Bafwasende areas, as well as in other areas of the Congo. However, what is more worrying is the fact that, according to the report, some neighbouring countries have been supporting these rebel groups, mainly because of the attraction of winning concessions to exploit those mineral resources.”

    2001-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4437Resumption1 (2001) · source

  6. “It is also true that most countries in Africa endowed with such natural resources as gold, diamonds and oil have also suffered a similar fate of the illegal exploitation of their mineral wealth, to the disadvantage of those countries and their peoples. In some countries, like Sierra Leone, Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, available natural resources which would have served as catalysts for economic growth and development, are used as rewards for warlords who wage wars to gain control of those resources. These warlords have made enormous profits through the indiscriminate granting of concessions to their cronies to satisfy pressing political needs and exigencies. Consequently, these countries have become increasingly impoverished as a result of persistent corruption, patronage and lack of accountability.”

    2001-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4437Resumption1 (2001) · source

  7. “This debate provides us with an opportunity to share our views on the illicit exploitation of the mineral resources that legitimately belong to the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the consequent prolongation of the ethnic conflicts in the Great Lakes region. We note with interest the remark contained in paragraph 10 of the report that the history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, regardless of the political system or governing authority in place, has been one of systematic abuse of its natural and human resources, such that a country noted for its vast natural resources was reduced to being one of the poorest and debt-ridden by the early 1990s. This is indeed unfortunate.”

    2001-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4437Resumption1 (2001) · source

  8. “The Nigerian delegation is particularly delighted to see our sister country, Mali, and you, Sir, our friend, Ambassador Moctar Ouane, in the chair as President of the Security Council for the month of December. We have implicit confidence in your competence and ability to successfully guide the work of the Council. In the same vein, we would like to commend Ambassador Patricia Durrant of Jamaica for the effective manner in which she conducted the affairs of the Council last month. Today's debate on the report (S/2001/1072) of the Panel of Experts on the Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources and Other Forms of Wealth of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is greatly welcomed by our delegation.”

    2001-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4437Resumption1 (2001) · source