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Idohou

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2005-09-20

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2005-12-19

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un-security-council

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1. “As long ago as the nineteenth century, Tocqueville hailed the movement of associations in American society as reflecting citizen participation which could generate social progress. But never before in human history has civil society asserted itself so ambitiously to participate in decision-making in the public sphere, in local communities, in national life and in international life. While public power as represented by the State embodies the exercise of State authority, and leads to a given reality, civil society, for its part, is the seat of the moral conscience and the place where the aspirations and expectations of the governed are voiced. Civil society is a driving force for public protest and even an additional actor, although its purpose is in no way to supplant the State's governing function.”

   2005-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5264 (2005) · source

2. “Mr. Idohou (Benin) (spoke in French): Mr. President, my delegation thanks your country for having organized this public debate, which allows us to reflect further on conflict prevention, following the adoption of resolution 1625 (2005) on this question at the Security Council summit held on 14 September 2005. We listened with genuine interest to the contributions of the representatives of civil society on its role, and we express our deepest appreciation to them. The emergence of civil society at the both the national and the international levels as an autonomous actor and as a force of change results from a remarkable awakening of the governed, and from progress in communications technology. This phenomenon is one of the essential characteristics of globalization. Organized society is hardly a recent phenomenon.”

   2005-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5264 (2005) · source