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Ileka

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2000-01-10
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  1. “Throughout this area, to escape the Violence, people are fleeing into the forest, where, completely neglected, they are dying of malaria. It would be useful for the international community to get accurate figures of the number of people who have died, directly and indirectly, in the fighting throughout our national territory, and to study the impact of these deaths on the Congolese family. Congolese women have lost their lives, husbands, sons, daughters, brothers and fathers in this absurd war, which for three years now has allowed Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda to outrage the entire world with impunity. It is obvious that Congolese women are directly involved in the promotion of peace in their country.”

    2000-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208Resumption1 (2000) · source

  2. “Besides AIDS, it is worth noting here the resurgence of diseases such as malaria, now responsible for 500,000 deaths a year, many of which are of children under five years of age. The national maternal mortality rate is 1,837 deaths per 100,000 births, compared with 3,000 in the occupied provinces, which is one of the highest rates in the world. On 9 June the American non-governmental organization, the International Rescue Committee (IRC), announced that at least 1,700,000 people, out of a population of 20 million, in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo had died since 1 January 1999 as a result of combat and the breakdown of infrastructures. In the village of Moba, Katanga, alone, 47 per cent of infants under one year of age have died since 2 August 1998.”

    2000-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208Resumption1 (2000) · source

  3. “It was estimated at the end of 1999 that 1,100,000 adults and children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo had been infected with this fatal virus. Children orphaned by the disease are estimated to number 800,000, of whom 450,000 are still alive. In the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - the part occupied by Ugandan troops - in the space of two years the prevalence of AIDS has increased from 4.5 per cent, the national average, to 22 per cent. In other words, it has increased by five times. The catastrophe looming on the horizon is attributed to sexual contacts with Rwandan and Ugandan soldiers, who come from countries where the disease is widespread.”

    2000-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208Resumption1 (2000) · source

  4. “In addition to the incident in Mwenga, many cases of violations of women's rights have been recorded and denounced in white papers issued by my Government and in various reports of the Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mr. Garreton, the most recent of which revealed many cases of imprisonment of militant feminists, of the rape and beating of high school students for requesting the validation of their exams, and of rape of women prisoners. The criminal, barbaric and inhumane practice of mass rape is also responsible for the spread of HIV/AIDS. This scourge has ceased to be simply a health problem in my country. With its tragic consequences, it now has a worrying effect on development. AIDS is a significant obstacle to progress and national development.”

    2000-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208Resumption1 (2000) · source

  5. “Women have been massacred, as they were last year, during the week of 15-22 November 1999, in Mwenga, where the Arme'e patriotiqne rwandaise, assisted by armed elements of the Rassemblement congolais pour la de'mocratie, buried women alive, as ordered by their commander, Kasereka. Those women's crime: trying to resist the mass rape that the aggressors were getting ready to commit. Their punishment: they were bled white, their bodies coated with pepper, which was then inserted into all their bodily orifices - their eyes, their mouths, their noses, their ears and their genitals- before being thrown into a common grave.”

    2000-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208Resumption1 (2000) · source

  6. “It is used in some alloys to strengthen armour plating and spacecraft. This war has destroyed all the country's efforts to rebuild and revive its economy, efforts that could in particular lift women and the whole Congolese population out of the indescribable poverty in which they now find themselves. Today close to 80 per cent of the Congolese population is living in absolute poverty. Worse than the poverty is the inhuman and degrading ill-treatment of Congolese women by armed elements of the aggressor countries, which have made such ill-treatment a means of waging war.”

    2000-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208Resumption1 (2000) · source

  7. “The war has prevented many Congolese from pursuing a normal education programme. However, it has been proved that for a developing country such as ours schooling allows women to preserve their health and that of their families, plan their pregnancies and participate in the political, social and economic life of their country. Therefore, to deprive women of education is to do a kind of violence to them. Women and children have also been the object of attacks on the civilian population by the regular armies of Uganda and Rwanda during their three ruthless actions against Kisangani to expropriate the underground wealth of this region - not only gold and diamonds, but above all niobium. Though extremely rare in the earth as a whole, this metal is found in relatively large quantities in the eastern province.”

    2000-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208Resumption1 (2000) · source

  8. “Here I should remind the international community, through the Security Council, the principal United Nations body charged with the maintenance of international peace and security, that my country is the target of aggression by a coalition of armed forces from Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi, in flagrant violation of the Charter of the United Nations. This conflict, with its attendant violence, continues to create enormous movements of internally displaced persons and refugees, the vast majority of whom are women and children. One result of these exoduses is to increase considerably the poverty of the civilian population. Women and children are the main victims of this senseless, unjust war, which has done such harm to all aspects of life in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The education sector has been particularly affected.”

    2000-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208Resumption1 (2000) · source

  9. “My delegation dares to hope that the organs of the United Nations will be able to incorporate these concerns and work to promote increased awareness of the capacities of women, in particular those affected by armed conflicts, as well as their ability to contribute to the promotion of a gender perspective in all peace-building activities. Women must be involved in the conflict-prevention and conflict-resolution mechanisms so that they can give humankind the benefit of their ability to build consensus, resolve conflicts and build peace. There can be neither equality nor development without peace and justice.”

    2000-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208Resumption1 (2000) · source

  10. “However, a great deal remains to be done to recognize fully the role of women in peacekeeping and peace-building. My delegation supports the Windhoek Declaration and the Namibia Plan of Action, adopted last May, because they are valuable documents that should be applied, particularly in the implementation of the Brahimi report, in order to enhance effectiveness. It is absolutely essential that initiatives aimed at resolving conflicts and consolidating peace take into consideration women's concerns, experience and perspective.”

    2000-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208Resumption1 (2000) · source

  11. “These commitments were strengthened by the adoption of the Political Declaration and new measures and initiatives to implement the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, through which the General Assembly, as part of its effort to achieve a more just society, stressed in particular that peace is indissolubly linked to equality between women and men, as well as to development. My delegation is pleased that during the celebration of International Women's Day, the Security Council, in its presidential statement of 8 March 2000, stressed the complex links between peace, gender equality and the need for women to participate fully in all efforts to prevent and resolve conflicts. This recognition of women as an equal partner in the prevention of war could be considered a very significant step.”

    2000-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208Resumption1 (2000) · source

  12. “I also sincerely thank the Secretary-General, the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and the Advancement of Women and the Executive Director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) for their significant contributions this morning to the discussion, which is part of the momentum generated by the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, "Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century". That special session was a unique opportunity to marshal the efforts to reaffirm and ensure implementation of the commitments made at the Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing in 1995.”

    2000-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208Resumption1 (2000) · source

  13. “Mr. Ileka (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (spoke in French): My delegation is very pleased to see presiding over the Security Council the leading diplomat of a friendly country, Namibia, with which the Democratic Republic of the Congo has excellent, long-standing relations marked by mutual confidence and esteem. I congratulate you, Mr. President, on having devoted today's meeting of the Council to the issue of women and peace and security.”

    2000-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208Resumption1 (2000) · source

  14. “The international community is also duty-bound to assist the Democratic Republic of the Congo in its efforts to return to peace, to bring about an economic recovery and reconstruction of its infrastructure, including health and medical reconstruction, so that present and future Congolese generations can again hope for a better and more radiant future.”

    2000-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4087Resumption1 (2000) · source

  15. “The war has also witnessed an increase in a military practice that, to say the least, is of a strange nature, practised by the armed forces of Uganda - that is, the sending into the field of operations thousands of AIDS- infected or seropositive soldiers whose mission is to rape women and young girls in order to spread AIDS. The international community is duty-bound to end this crime against humanity committed by Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda on the territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This month of Africa and this year of the millennium provide the Security Council with an opportunity to shoulder its responsibilities with full knowledge of the facts in order to allow the Democratic Republic of the Congo to confront the twenty-first century with optimism.”

    2000-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4087Resumption1 (2000) · source

  16. “At the present time, both in the occupied provinces and the free zones, war is the main source of the general deterioration of the living conditions of the Congolese people, thus making it difficult, even impossible, for our people to have access to such things as basic health care. The Congolese people have thus become a feeding ground for all sorts of diseases, including viruses that had been unsuspected until very recently - the Ebola virus and the Marburg virus - and for which, just as for AIDS, there is no vaccine.”

    2000-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4087Resumption1 (2000) · source

  17. “In the eastern provinces this undesired presence was also the vector of sexually transmitted diseases and very clearly of the HIV/AIDS virus as well. Since 2 August 1998, my country has been undergoing the horrors of aggression on the part of an armed coalition of the regular forces of Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi. This war, with its accompanying suffering, displaced populations and new flows of refugees living in extremely precarious sanitary conditions, is a major contribution to the spread of AIDS. However, it is true that during the past year the leading cause of death in my country has remained malaria, closely followed by the direct victims of war and of AIDS. But the impact of this war should not be underestimated.”

    2000-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4087Resumption1 (2000) · source

  18. “Benefiting from consistent bilateral and multilateral cooperation, it developed with the assistance of the donor community an AIDS project which seriously attacked the effects of the virus and which was a success mainly in the field of prevention and access to information about AIDS. Unfortunately, in 1991 and 1993 my country underwent large-scale pillaging which destroyed that infrastructure. Furthermore, the nameless embargo which my country has suffered for more than a decade has made obsolete any hope of resumption of this cooperation, which was nevertheless beneficial to all the Congolese people. In 1994, my country was the unwilling host of millions of refugees who came mainly from neighbouring Rwanda. Their presence on our soil was a disaster ecologically, socially and economically.”

    2000-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4087Resumption1 (2000) · source

  19. “In sub-Saharan Africa, a region of which my country, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is part, the AIDS pandemic is now undergoing its greatest spread. The Governments of the region have indeed committed themselves to struggle to find various ways of preventing even greater spread. They continue to seek even more effective means to reduce the effects of AIDS, despite the enormous difficulties they are undergoing due to limited resources, which are always on a downward curve, to poverty and to all types of wars. Thus, my delegation welcomes the measures announced today by the Vice- President of the United States while expressing our hope that they will be put into effect quickly. In the past, my country was in the forefront of the struggle against AIDS in Central Africa.”

    2000-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4087Resumption1 (2000) · source

  20. “The opening of the meeting by the Vice-President of the United States of America is undoubtedly a sign of the growing interest his country has in committing the international community as a whole to an effective campaign against this virus which is decimating the entire continent. My delegation shares your view, Mr. President, when you say that the devastating figures on AIDS in Africa demonstrate that this is much more than a question of health. It is truly a question of security, as well as of the deteriorating economy and of poverty, because by decimating elites and creating millions of orphans, this disease is in effect creating and provoking economic and social crises which destabilize fragile societies and give rise to armed conflicts which themselves help to spread AIDS.”

    2000-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4087Resumption1 (2000) · source

  21. “Mr. Ileka (Democratic Republic of the Congo)(sp0ke in French): Mr. President, your presidency of the Security Council for this month has been placed under the sign of Africa. My delegation would therefore like to congratulate you for this praiseworthy initiative and take this opportunity to express our hope, which is entirely legitimate, that during this month many scourges now afflicting the African continent will begin to be solved in a concrete and credible way. My delegation would like to congratulate you as well for having organized this special Security Council meeting particularly devoted to the struggle against HIV/AIDS in Africa.”

    2000-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4087Resumption1 (2000) · source