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1999-09-30
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  1. “We should heed the statement made by the representative of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya to the effect that the United Nations should not invest resources in a situation that it does not control. Let us avoid all double standards in international relations. The Sudan has honoured and continues to honour its commitments. Let others do the same. "Once again, in expressing our appreciation for the wise leadership of South Africa in calling for the convening of this historic meeting, we also express the hope that its results will encourage our peoples' aspirations to stability, peace and security."”

    2008-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5868 (2008) · source

  2. “Since July 2004, when it was first dispatched, primarily to monitor the implementation of the Ndjamena ceasefire agreement, the mission has experienced the situation on the ground and fully understands it. "The only way to fully resolve a dispute is politically. It is now up to the Security Council and the AU Peace and Security Council to convince the rebels to heed reason and not the logic of guns. Effective and constructive negotiations are essential to a permanent and comprehensive settlement in Darfur. "We wish to address the issue of impunity. Pressure should be brought to bear on the rebel groups living in the territories of our neighbours, and they should be convinced of the need for the option of peace. Amnesty ought not to be granted to those who take advantage of the situation in Darfur to smuggle children out of the country.”

    2008-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5868 (2008) · source

  3. “We believe this to be the ultimate example of the primacy of regional organizations in peacekeeping and their ability to achieve great things despite a lack of resources and capacities. They fully understand and, indeed, live in close familiarity with the root causes of strife. They also fully understand the values, culture and heritage of local communities. Perhaps the founders of the United Nations, in drafting Chapter VIII of the Charter, grasped the importance of all those dimensions to the international and regional success of regional and subregional peacekeeping efforts. They are the best way to achieve international peace and security. "The Sudan was therefore most eager to support the African mission, as reflected in the Abuja Agreement.”

    2008-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5868 (2008) · source

  4. “"Secondly, as to the building of capacities in mediation and political settlement, we have always believed that the United Nations should take practical and concrete steps to exploit the respective capacities of regional organizations, particularly the AU, in mediation, negotiation and peacemaking through political settlements in order to begin resolving African problems in an African context and enabling regional organizations to achieve peace through financial, moral and political support from the United Nations, including the provision to the AU of all available information on peacemaking. "Thirdly, with respect to support for regional peacekeeping capacities, I would stress above all the experience of the AU Mission in the Sudan.”

    2008-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5868 (2008) · source

  5. “"We believe that understanding the true root causes of African disputes will speed the way to their settlement, particularly since the continent's conflicts are rooted in the lack of development, poverty, a shortage of resources, and such natural phenomenon as desertification, drought and numerous climate change phenomena that have sapped our development efforts. All such root causes give rise to internal crises.”

    2008-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5868 (2008) · source

  6. “"However, any observer of the Security Council's role in that regard will find that the Council's response in taking preventive measures to avert and mitigate the escalation of tensions is far more subdued than the speed with which it dispatches peacekeeping operations, although we know that preventing disputes requires far fewer resources than peacekeeping. We therefore believe that cooperation with the African Union requires, first and foremost, emphasis on preventive diplomacy and the strengthening of the appropriate African Union mechanisms, particularly the regional early warning system, the Panel of the Wise and the African standby force.”

    2008-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5868 (2008) · source

  7. “"Effective cooperation with regional organizations, and the African Union more particularly, requires a reordering of support priorities and a building of capacities that take the following elements into account. "First, preventive diplomacy and conflict prevention must be promoted and strengthened. As we know, those are very important elements that include political, development, humanitarian and social dimensions in which the role of the United Nations and the Security Council dovetails with those of regional and subregional organizations, the States concerned, non- governmental organizations and civil society actors.”

    2008-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5868 (2008) · source

  8. “The panel should take up the possibility not only of direct financing through the United Nations scale of assessments, but also of establishing a specific fund to that end. "In expressing our thanks to the Secretary- General for the importance he has attached to resolving African problems and for his relentless efforts to develop cooperation with the African Union, we would stress the need for priority always to be given to the peaceful - and, more specifically, the political - settlement of disputes. Peacekeeping requires that there be a peace to be kept. In that respect, we believe that support for regional peacemaking capabilities must be prioritized, because political settlements are the mother of all solutions to all conflicts.”

    2008-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5868 (2008) · source

  9. “The Sudan is determined to cooperate with the United Nations in the field of peacekeeping, whether in the framework of the Naivasha Agreement or under the Darfur Peace Agreement. That places us in a special position to talk about the item before the Council at today's meeting. "Providing consistent, sustainable and predictable financing and, resources is the fundamental challenge facing the international community and today's Security Council summit meeting. We therefore express our full support for Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's proposal to establish a joint African Union-United Nations panel to consider the resources necessary to support the African Union's peacekeeping operations, including funding, logistics and equipment on the ground.”

    2008-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5868 (2008) · source

  10. “Those changes have included the establishment of the African Union and its various associated institutions, including the Pan-African Parliament, the Economic, Social and Cultural Council, the Peace and Security Council, the African Peer Review Mechanism and the New Partnership for Africa's Development, among others. This is unquestionably a reflection of Africa's determination to reform the United Nations, including the Security Council, in order to make it more transparent and effective, to 30 promote democracy in international relations and to respond to new facts and challenges on the ground that did not exist when the United Nations was established in the middle of the past century.”

    2008-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5868 (2008) · source

  11. “As members know, this is the fifth time that the Security Council has met at the summit level since the establishment of the United Nations, in 1945. With its long and unique experience and wise leadership, South Africa is the country most worthy of putting forward such an important initiative to promote concerted efforts to settle disputes and build peace on behalf of the international community. That heritage is a source of pride for Africa as it repeatedly leads the world's peace-loving States to international achievements, such as the elimination of apartheid in your country of South Africa. "Following the many political, economic and social changes that have taken place on the continent, Africa is now strongly playing an important and historic role on the world stage.”

    2008-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5868 (2008) · source

  12. “Mr. Ismail (Sudan) (spoke in Arabic): Mr. President, on behalf of your brother President Omer Hassan Ahmad Al-Bashir, I have the pleasure to express our sincere gratitude for the kind invitation to participate in this important debate on the relationship between the United Nations and regional organizations, in particular the African Union (AU), in the maintenance of international peace and security. I should like to inform the Council that an urgent domestic matter has prevented President Al-Bashir from taking part in this meeting. He has entrusted me to deliver the following message. "Allow me to express the appreciation of the Government and the people of the Sudan for the positive and historic initiative of South Africa and you yourself, President Thabo Mbeki, to hold this summit meeting.”

    2008-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5868 (2008) · source

  13. “In conclusion, in view of the gravity of the accusations levelled against the Sudan these days, which are fuelled by some who work against my country, let me repeat that the Sudan does not have any objection to receiving a mission of the United Nations and the European Union, the Organization of African Unity, the Arab League or the Organization of the Islamic Conference to investigate these accusations levelled against the Sudan regarding the slave trade. We are perfectly willing and ready to cooperate with such a mission and to deal positively with the results it might obtain.”

    1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source

  14. “The Sudan opens its doors to any country or organization that believes that this practice or this phenomenon exists on its territory. It is perfectly willing to cooperate in fighting this phenomenon. Let me reiterate that we welcome a Canadian delegation that would visit the Sudan in this connection. We again ask the Security Council to send a fact-finding mission to investigate the strike against the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical plant, which was launched by the United States. We hope that Canada will set an example by upholding values and principles and that it will support that request.”

    1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source

  15. “I ask the Canadian Minister to give me the name of just one person who was enslaved and the names of those who bought him. In view of the gravity of the accusations made in the statement of the Foreign Minister of Canada against my country and taking into consideration that Canada is a member of the Security Council and that this matter can seriously harm the Sudan's reputation and destroy the image of the Sudanese people, I ask the Canadian Government to send a fact-finding mission so that it can ascertain the falsity of these allegations and restore respect to my country. This grave phenomenon, if found in any society, is the worst insult against that society. We cannot deal with this through clamorous media or such unfounded accusations, but through close cooperation that will eliminate it.”

    1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source

  16. “It has displaced over half the population of that region to the North, particularly Khartoum, where all the diplomatic missions and the offices of the United Nations and of non- governmental organizations are located. Anyone who lives in or has visited our country knows that all religious and ethnic groups live in peaceful coexistence there. Christians and Muslims, southerners and northerners are all treated equally. Many senior personalities and officials of regional and international organizations who have visited our country can vouch for that. Foremost among these is the Secretary-General of the OAU, who is among us now and who visited southern Sudan and its capital, Juba. He was witness to the peaceful coexistence of all inhabitants there.”

    1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source

  17. “These officials include the Vice-President, a southern Christian; four federal ministers, including the only woman on the Council of Ministers, a southern Christian who is Minister of Labour and Humanitarian Affairs; the Deputy Foreign Minister, who is an Anglican Bishop; over 60 members of the federal Parliament; all the governors and ministers of the 10 southern States; hundreds of senior officers of the Army and the police force; academicians; ambassadors and diplomats. The Sudanese ambassadors to Rome, Oslo, Bonn and Dar es-Salaam are all Christians from the southern Sudan, as are dozens of other diplomats. Even the Deputy Chief of Mission to Ottawa is a southern Christian. The tragic war in southern Sudan is due to the rejection of the repeated ceasefires by the rebel movement.”

    1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source

  18. “When these allegations were repeated, we appealed to the Organization of African Unity (OAU) through its Secretary-General, who is present at this meeting, to dispatch a fact-finding mission to seek information on the subject of these allegations concerning the slave trade. I cannot help but wonder how dozens of senior officials from the southern part of my country, where these practices are alleged to occur, can all be unaware of their occurrence?”

    1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source

  19. “Article 20 the 1998 Sudanese Constitution provides that every human being has the right to life, freedom, the security of his own person, dignity and honour in accordance with the law. He is free and cannot be enslaved, forced to work, humiliated or tortured. Article 163 of the 1991 Sudanese Criminal Code provides for the punishment by imprisonment and fine of all who attempt to force others to work. In the wake of the allegations made in some European capitals, I met with European ambassadors in Khartoum and asked them to provide us with any information at their disposal on the existence of this practice in my country. They all denied that they had any such information and that this practice exists in the Sudan.”

    1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source

  20. “This is a phenomenon that we are working hard to overcome and eliminate. In that respect, I would call the Council's attention to the convening, in Khartoum last July, of a workshop on the ways and means of stopping and preventing such conflicts. It was attended by representatives of certain United Nations bodies and non- governmental organizations and by civil and governmental leaders. The workshop's recommendations have been implemented by my government and forwarded to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Government of the Sudan has treated these allegations very seriously. We believe that slave-trading is a heinous crime against humanity and a horrendous violation of all values and of all revealed religions.”

    1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source

  21. “As members know, the Economic and Social Council Committee on N on-Governmental Organizations has adopted a resolution recommending the withdrawal of the consultative status of CS1, in view of that organization's excesses and violations of the rules governing its relationship with the United Nations. A draft resolution submitted by the members of the European Union to the Commission on Human Rights in Geneva last March on the situation of human rights in the Sudan, which included a tribute to the progress made by my country in that respect, made no mention of allegations concerning the slave trade. It referred to kidnappings that occur during tribal conflicts over water, pasture and agricultural land, which occasionally erupt in some remote regions of the Sudan regardless of the ethnic similarities or differences of the tribes concerned.”

    1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source

  22. “The Ministerial Council of the Arab League met this month in Cairo and looked into the misleading malicious media campaigns launched by certain suspect organizations, such as Christian Solidarity International (CS1), against my country, as well as the falsehoods and allegations that have been made concerning the slave trade in the Sudan. CS1 is an organization that seeks to foment sectarian strife among the Sudanese - Christians and Muslims alike - and to incite hatred. The Council unanimously decided that the misleading campaign is aimed at destroying the Sudan's image, destabilizing the country and arousing sectarian strife. It called for opposition to this campaign. A copy of the resolution has been sent to the President of the Security Council.”

    1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source

  23. “I thank him for his interest in the affairs of the Sudan and would not wish to end my statement without addressing his reference to the slave trade in my country, which was surprising and amazing indeed. Canada is almost the sole country to make these allegations against the Sudan in the Council. Canada has no resident diplomatic representation in the Sudan and has sent no official delegation to our country in recent years to uncover the facts. I would also mention that my country hosts over 50 foreign diplomatic missions, including 20 Arab and 10 European embassies, a resident envoy of the European Union and a similar number of African and Asian embassies.”

    1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source

  24. “Assistance has not equalled the level required, nor have enough resources been made available for the projects of rehabilitation, development and reconstruction. We would like to reaffirm that if insufficient attention is paid to this aspect, the door for renewed conflicts will remain open. Experience has proved beyond any doubt the urgent need to pay attention to socio-economic projects during the transitional period in areas where relative stability has been established. There is no need to wait for a comprehensive peace; development would thereby be playing a supportive role in bringing about such peace. I have taken note with interest the statement made by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Canada, which contained a reference to my country.”

    1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source

  25. “The killing of four staff members of the International Committee of the Red Cross last April - an incident condemned by the international community and the Secretary-General - is still fresh in our minds. From this rostrum we appeal to the international community and to the Security Council to pressure the rebel movement to join the peace process and to adopt sanctions similar to those that have been adopted against the rebel Savimbi in Angola. The Non-Aligned Movement, at the ministerial meeting that took place during this session of the General Assembly, declared Savimbi a war criminal. The Secretary-General's current report stresses the importance of socio-economic development in dealing with the causes of conflict. However, we feel that not enough attention has been paid to this aspect.”

    1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source

  26. “It recently proclaimed a comprehensive ceasefire in preparation for peace and reaffirmed its commitment to provide basic human rights for all its citizens in the war-torn areas. Today, from this rostrum I declare - and I will repeat this declaration in my statement before the General Assembly this evening - that the Government of the Sudan is willing to declare a permanent ceasefire for the whole of the south of the Sudan. If the rebels accept this, we will then ask the relevant organizations to separate the warring forces, to supervise the ceasefire for humanitarian reasons and to allow the initiative of IGADD to succeed in achieving a peaceful solution to the problem. The rebel movement has rejected a ceasefire, is obstructing the routes for humanitarian assistance, and is killing relief workers.”

    1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source

  27. “In this context I would like to refer to paragraph 102 in the follow-up report issued by the Secretary- General on 25 September, which refers to the conflict in southern Sudan. Let me note that everyone knows that there is an ongoing conflict in the south of my country. This is one of the crises bequeathed to us by colonization. Its flames were fanned by the warlords and the rebels, and this conflict has now gone on for more than 50 years. Since it came to power, the present Government has made serious, tireless efforts to achieve peace in the south. It has welcomed all good offices and initiatives in this respect. It has also accepted the Declaration of Principles as a basis for negotiations between it and the rebels within the context of Inter-Governmental Authority on Drought and Development (IGADD).”

    1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source

  28. “As for paragraph 18 of the report, on identifying international arms merchants, we believe that our efforts would be better served if we identified manufacturing and exporting businesses and their means of export, in order to lay the foundations for an international regime to control the manufacture and export of such weapons and the trade in them. Last year, when the Secretary-General submitted his first report on the causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in Africa, he mentioned many of the causes of these conflicts. These included the legacy of colonialism, economic reasons and other external factors that led to these conflicts and their continuation. He also highlighted the relationship between peace and development.”

    1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source

  29. “In this respect we would like to reaffirm the necessity of taking into consideration the Views of the Member States of the United Nations on sanctions because, in the final analysis, they are directly concerned. In this regard, the report does not take into consideration the resolution adopted by the General Assembly by consensus in relation to "An Agenda for Peace". As for the problem of the illicit flow of small arms and light weapons, my delegation would like to recall the necessity of finding a solution to this problem, by dealing with it through a mechanism that, by means of effective supervision, would stop rebel movements and gangs from getting hold of these arms and weapons.”

    1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source

  30. “We would have liked to see the text of these proposals in the body of the Secretary-Generals follow-up report. We would also have liked to see to what extent this report has taken into consideration the views of the States that are not members of the Council, particularly those views expressed during earlier debates on the causes of conflict in Africa and those that contained valuable ideas on the sanctions system and on the role of regional organizations and other issues. As for the part on targeting sanctions, the report of the Secretary-General refers to the efforts of non- governmental organizations and to the symposiums that some countries have sponsored on this particular topic. The Secretariat provided technical support to this symposium, as is mentioned in paragraph 12 of the report.”

    1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source

  31. “Paragraph 2 of the report states that "The Security Council established its own ad hoc Working Group to review the recommendations in the report pertaining to peace and security. The Working Group developed concrete proposals for action on: (a) support for regional and subregional initiatives in the areas of conflict prevention and maintenance of peace; (b) establishment of an international mechanism to assist host Governments in maintaining the security and neutrality of refugee camps; (c) strengthening of Africa's peacekeeping capacity; (d) strengthening the effectiveness of arms sanctions regimes imposed by the Security Council". In this connection we would like to thank the Council for its interest in establishing the ad hoc Working Group to study and submit proposals on the aforementioned points.”

    1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source

  32. “Mr. Ismail (Sudan) (spoke in Arabic): My delegation would like to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month, which abounds with activity and international meetings. We would also like to express our appreciation to you for holding so many open debates on many current subjects of ongoing concern and interest for the international community. Our appreciation and thanks also go to the Secretary-General for his progress report on the implementation of his recommendations regarding the main causes of conflict in Africa - the subject of this debate. My delegation studied carefully the report of the Secretary-General contained in document S/1999/ 1008. We would like to make the following brief remarks in the hope that they will advance the discussion.”

    1999-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4049Resumption2 (1999) · source