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Hassoumi Massaoudou

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2021-05-07
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2021-05-07
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  1. “In conclusion, I would like to thank China for having chosen this theme for today’s debate today, and I reaffirm that, more than ever, the world today needs strong regulatory institutions. While it is true that the defence of national interests governs the foreign policies of States, those national interests are better defended through cooperation, complementarity and solidarity, rather than through opposition and confrontation.”

    2021-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/456 (2021) · source

  2. “And finally, the lessons learned from the serious social, economic and political consequences of the coronavirus disease pandemic, particularly with regard to international peace and security, must give us, as the Chairperson of the African Union Commission and the Secretary-General of the United Nations have so aptly put it, a unique opportunity for “a renaissance of multilateralism”, based on institutions capable of acting decisively, on the basis of a global consensus for our common welfare. The pandemic therefore calls on us to strengthen bilateral, regional and interregional partnerships. It also calls on us to develop better coordination with both United Nations agencies and international financial institutions. The time has come to strengthen the links among peace, security — in a broad sense — and development.”

    2021-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/456 (2021) · source

  3. “I would like to take this opportunity to welcome the partnership that exists between the United Nations and the African Union, which plays an eminently positive role in the promotion of multilateralism. It is our hope to see this partnership further enhanced through the promotion of confidence-building measures and dialogue to support conflict prevention and resolution efforts on our continent.”

    2021-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/456 (2021) · source

  4. “Cybercrime and so many other problems specific to our century must be addressed judiciously and without complacency, just as we did with the coronavirus disease pandemic and climate change, which is another rampant pandemic. Dealing with these security risks will require a major paradigm shift and, above all, political will and a change of mindset within the Council. As a Council, our objective is not only to manage conflicts; we have a fundamental responsibility to prevent them. It is therefore essential, in that respect, to understand the causes, effects and complexities of the changes that can impact our world. Secondly, we must strengthen coordination and cooperation between the United Nations and regional and subregional organizations.”

    2021-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/456 (2021) · source

  5. “All countries, large or small, rich or poor, are full members of the international community and, as such, are entitled to be fairly represented in this decision-making organ. My country fully subscribes to the African Common Position, as expressed through the Ezulwini Consensus, which calls for the full representation of Africa in the Security Council — with at least two permanent seats and a single status for all permanent members, including the right of the veto. Beyond the question of reforming the Security Council, there is also the question of the other Bretton Woods institutions, such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. The time has also come to extend the scope of the Security Council’s action to take into account other emerging challenges that could jeopardize international peace and security.”

    2021-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/456 (2021) · source

  6. “In view of all of this, allow me to make some recommendations to strengthen international solidarity and cooperation and promote the use of multilateralism in order to address the peace and security issues currently facing the international community. First, there is a need to restore confidence in a system that is too often perceived as unfair and unrepresentative of certain countries and continents. How else can it be understood that the African continent, which accounts for more than 50 per cent of Security Council meetings, 60 per cent of its outcome documents and 70 per cent of its resolutions with Chapter VII mandates, has no permanent representation on the Council?”

    2021-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/456 (2021) · source

  7. “Eight months later, as we see a glimmer of hope in the wake of a pandemic that has highlighted the inadequacies of our tools of global governance and laid bare the shortcomings of the system, including within the Security Council, the time has come to breathe new life into multilateralism by providing the United Nations system with the means to adequately fulfil its tasks. Indeed, the world as we knew it in the aftermath of the Second World War is different from today’s world, and our instruments in their current state are no longer sufficient to face the challenges of pandemics — as shown by the coronavirus disease pandemic, poverty, climate change, terrorism and organized crime, and the misuse of new technologies.”

    2021-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/456 (2021) · source

  8. “Chapter I of the Charter of the United Nations, which sets forth the principles that underpin multilateralism, and to which my country, the Niger, is firmly committed, calls on all States Members of the United Nations to give priority to collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, with due regard for the sovereign equality of all its Members. That is why my country has never ceased to reiterate its firm commitment to that ideal and to lend its ongoing support to strengthening the principles of the Charter and to the international system, with the United Nations at its core. It was also for that reason that my country organized a high-level debate on the same theme during its presidency of the Council in September (see S/2020/953).”

    2021-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/456 (2021) · source

  9. “As this is the first time I address the Security Council in my capacity as Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of the Republic of the Niger, I would like to express my thanks and my readiness to continue to work with each of your countries. I would also like to convey to you the sincere thanks of His Excellency Mr. Mohamed Bazoum, President of the Republic of the Niger, for the congratulations that your various countries have addressed to him following his election as President of the Niger. As previous speakers have reminded us, the United Nations is the crucible par excellence of multilateralism and the appropriate framework for its maintenance.”

    2021-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/456 (2021) · source