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Jeremy Greenstock

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first: 1998-07-30
most recent: 2003-07-25
sittings or episodes: 194
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“The next speaker inscribed on my list is the representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I invite him to take a seat at the Council table and to make his statement.”
2002-07-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4568 (2002) · source
“The next speaker inscribed on my list is the representative of Costa Rica. I invite her to take a seat at the Council table and to make her statement.”
2002-07-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4568 (2002) · source
“I shall now call on the next four non-members of the Council. The next speaker is the representative of India. I invite him to take a seat at the Council table and to make his statement.”
2002-07-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4568 (2002) · source
“The next speaker is the representative of Denmark. I invite her to take a seat at the Council table and to make her statement.”
2002-07-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4568 (2002) · source
“The next speaker is the representative of South Africa, I invite him to take a seat at the Council table and to make his statement.”
2002-07-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4568 (2002) · source
“The next speaker inscribed on my list is the representative of New Zealand. I invite him to take a seat at the Council table and to make his statement.”
2002-07-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4568 (2002) · source
“The Council is meeting in response to a request contained in a letter dated 3 July 2002 from the representative of Canada, which was issued as document S/2002/723. As there is no list of speakers from among Council members, I invite those members who wish to take the floor to so indicate to the Secretariat as from now. With the agreement of the members of the Security Council, I intend to give the floor to the speakers inscribed on my list by alternating between Council members and non-members of the Council. In the first instance I shall give the floor to the first four non-members of the Council inscribed on the list. The first speaker is the representative of Canada. I invite him to take a seat at the Council table and to make his statement.”
2002-07-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4568 (2002) · source
“Kasemsarn (Thailand), Mr. Kuchinsky (Ukraine) and Ms.Pulido Santana (Venezuela) took the seats reserved for them at the side of the Council Chamber The President: In accordance with the understanding reached in the Council's prior consultations, and if I hear no objection, I shall take it that the Security Council agrees to extend an invitation to the Permanent Observer of Switzerland to the United Nations to participate in the discussion, without the right to vote. There being no objection, it is so decided. At the invitation of the President, Mr. Staehelin (Switzerland) took the seat reservedfor him at the side ofthe Council Chamber. The President: The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda.”
2002-07-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4568 (2002) · source
“In conformity with the usual practice, I propose, with the consent of the Council, to invite those representatives to participate in the discussion, without the right to vote, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Charter and rule 37 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure. There being no objection, it is so decided. At the invitation of the President, Mr. Kusljugie (Bosnia and Herzegovina) took a seat at the Council table; Mr. Fonseca (Brazil), Mr. Heinbecker (Canada), Ms. Chassoul (Costa Rica), Ms. Laj (Denmark), Mr. Naidu (Fiji), Mr. Schumacher (Germany), Mr. Nambiar (India), Mr. Fadaifard (Islamic Republic ofIran), Prince Zeid Ra 'ad Zeid Al-Hussein (Jordan), Mrs. Fritsche (Liechtenstein), Mr. Hasmy (Malaysia), Mr. Enkhsaikhan (Mongolia), Mr. MacKay (New Zealand), Mr. Slade (Samoa), Mr. Kumalo (South Africa), Mr.”
2002-07-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4568 (2002) · source
“The situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina Letter dated 3 July 2002 from the Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council (S/2002/723) The President: I should like to inform the Council that I have received letters from the representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Croatia, Denmark, Fiji, Germany, India, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Jordan, Liechtenstein, Malaysia, Mongolia, New Zealand, Samoa, South Africa, Thailand, Ukraine and Venezuela, in which they request to be invited to participate in the discussion of the item on the Council's agenda.”
2002-07-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4568 (2002) · source
“I wish to express warm congratulations on behalf of the Council to the African members of the Council and of the United Nations on the historic inauguration yesterday of the African Union. I am sure that the Council will wish to work closely with the new Union on matters of African peace and security. Adoption of the agenda The agenda was adopted.”
2002-07-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4568 (2002) · source
“The Security Council has thus concluded the present stage of its consideration of the item on its agenda. The Council will remain seized of the matter. The meeting rose at 7.10 p.m.”
2002-07-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4566 (2002) · source
“Members of the Council have before them document S/2002/724, which contains the text of a draft resolution prepared in the Council's prior consultations. It is my understanding that the Security Council is ready to proceed to the vote on the draft resolution (S/2002/724) before it. Unless I hear any objection, I shall put the draft resolution to the vote now. There being no objection, it is so decided. A vote was taken by a show ofhands. In favour: Bulgaria, Cameroon, China, Colombia, France, Guinea, Ireland, Mauritius, Mexico, Norway, Russian Federation, Singapore, Syrian Arab Republic, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America The President: There were 15 votes in favour. The draft resolution has been adopted unanimously as resolution 1421 (2002).”
2002-07-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4566 (2002) · source
“As this is the first open meeting of the Security Council for the month of July, I should like to take the opportunity to pay a warm tribute, on behalf of the Council, to His Excellency Mr. Mikhail Wehbe, Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations, for his excellent service as President of the Council for the month of July 2002. I am sure I speak for all members of the Council in expressing deep appreciation to Ambassador Wehbe for the great skill with which he conducted the Council's business last month. Thank you, Sir. Adoption of the agenda The agenda was adopted. The situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina The President: The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. The Council is meeting in accordance with the understanding reached in its prior consultations.”
2002-07-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4566 (2002) · source
“Like France, we very much hope that we shall soon be able to find a mutually acceptable solution. The United Kingdom pays tribute to the Special Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina and to his whole team in UNMIBH for the superb work that they have performed to date.”
2002-06-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4563 (2002) · source
“Allegations of crimes will thus, in most cases, continue to be investigated by the authorities of the State with jurisdiction. In the United Kingdom, our authorities would launch an investigation into any allegations that a British soldier had committed a crime which fell within the ICC Statute, so that we can be as certain as it is possible to be that no British soldier will ever come before the Court. We believe also that the international community's forces in Bosnia, including those of the United States, are doing an important job and need to be allowed to complete their role. We therefore very much regret the United States veto, the reasons for which do not appear fully clear when the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) continues to have jurisdiction in the former Yugoslavia regardless.”
2002-06-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4563 (2002) · source
“I very much appreciate the Secretary-General's presence and what he said to us. The United Kingdom is firmly committed to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and will continue to work for an effective Court, in accordance with our legal commitments under the Statute and with the European Union's Common Position. While we understand United States concerns regarding the Court, we do not share them. As the Secretary-General has pointed out, the mandate of the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH) has come to an end for reasons unrelated to its substantive presence in Bosnia and Herzegovina. We believe that the risk of peacekeeping personnel appearing before the Court is extremely small. Under the so-called complementarity principle, the ICC will take over only if States are unwilling or unable to investigate.”
2002-06-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4563 (2002) · source
“The United Nations membership as a whole has confirmed time and again the priority it places on action against terrorism and the implementation of resolution 1373 (2001). I urge the Secretariat to reflect that priority in the allocation of resources. My next report to the Council will mark the year- point since the adoption of resolution 1373 (2001) and the establishment of the CTC. The Vice-Chairmen, other Committee members and I are determined to ensure that the Committee's story at its first birthday is one of the United Nations translating international determination to deal with a global threat into effective action encompassing all our Governments. The Security Council should at that point have a well- prepared debate about our objectives in this field in the Committee's second year.”
2002-06-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4561 (2002) · source
“Ratifications have gone up by more than 15 per cent since last July. There are now 14 countries which have ratified all 12 conventions, when on 11 September there were only two, Botswana and my own. The CTC urges all States to continue to bring forward ratification of these instruments. It is a requirement of resolution 1373 (2001), but it also is an indication that States are beginning to build up the network of legislation they need to be able to take effective action. Let me end with an update of where we are with practical support from the Secretariat. I am most grateful to the Fifth Committee for allowing the Secretariat flexibility in meeting the demands placed by the Committee. I hope this will soon translate into an immediate improvement in the speed of the translation of documents and the servicing of meetings.”
2002-06-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4561 (2002) · source
“We have also contributed by bringing out the connections between terrorism and other forms of international organized crime. The CTC is not a law-enforcement agency, nor is it working on cases. So, in that sense, we do not have any operational achievements in that sense to report. But we have a strong interest in capacity-building. The fact that the vast majority of Member States are now engaged with us in that exercise and that all States recognize their responsibility to follow up resolution 1373 (2001) is a massive change from the situation that existed when the Committee was formed. There is a further indicator that demonstrates the activity of the international community in this area, and that is the ratifications of the 12 international conventions and protocols relating to terrorism.”
2002-06-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4561 (2002) · source
“Many regional organizations are well placed to facilitate the sharing of expertise and best practices within a region, where a common culture and history often makes the transfer of expertise easiest. I would also hope that these organizations will develop their own assistance programmes. Let me try to set out what the CTC has achieved in its first nine months. Our most important success to date is to have directed very widespread attention to the fact that resolution 1373 (2001) both exists and is a powerful resolution. A broad range of international institutions and regional and subregional organizations are now aware that there is a global structure for countering terrorism, into which they would be well advised to fit their activities.”
2002-06-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4561 (2002) · source
“The Committee's experts have begun an intensive travel programme - visiting, for instance, Abu Dhabi, for a conference on hawala; Prague, for an OSCE seminar on terrorist financing; Washington, for contacts with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank; Paris, for a meeting with the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering; and other venues. Today one of our experts is in Sofia for a regional meeting of the countries of South-Eastern Europe. Our message to those regional players is four- fold. They must be determined in dealing with terrorism, and must develop permanent mechanisms for doing so in accordance with their respective mandates. They should use those forums to get together to talk about counter-terrorism on a regional level, because no State is secure from this threat if its neighbour is a backmarker.”
2002-06-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4561 (2002) · source
“I will continue to brief the wider membership of the United Nations on a regular basis on the activities of the Committee. I, the Vice- Chairmen and the experts are available to address the concerns and questions of individual Member States or of regional groups. The CTC's outreach to international and regional organizations has intensified since my last briefing to the Council. I myself have visited the United Nations Office in Vienna, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to discuss matters covered by resolution 1373 (2001). The Bureau met representatives of the Group of Eight in New York earlier this month.”
2002-06-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4561 (2002) · source
“They will approach potential providers, with the agreement of the State concerned, to encourage them to react to the particular needs identified by the CTC. Let me reiterate the Committee's agreed approach: the CTC does not intend to declare any Member State 100 per cent compliant with 1373 (2001). We believe that there may always be further work to do to meet the objectives of the resolution against a constantly evolving background. We intend to move ahead more intensively with some than with others, but we will want all States to remain in close contact with the Committee and to inform it of any new developments that are relevant to the implementation ofresolution 1373 (2001). In all of that, the CTC will proceed with the transparency and openness that are by now, I hope, a hallmark of our work.”
2002-06-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4561 (2002) · source
“If so, the letter from the CTC will indicate what assistance is a priority - and what might be required in slower time - taking account of any request for assistance presented by the State concerned. The letters may make recommendations on which providers could be contacted by the State concerned for help. The CTC also intends to be in close contact with potential providers of assistance. Our team of experts will act as a source of encouragement for the provision of assistance in the areas covered by 1373 (2001). We have asked them to inform providers about any trends in the implementation gaps as this information emerges through the review process, with a view to encouraging providers to develop new programmes to meet these needs.”
2002-06-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4561 (2002) · source
“The CTC will focus in the coming period on reviewing for a second time the implementation of 1373 (2001) in the States that have submitted a further report to the Committee. The States concerned can expect a slightly different letter from the CTC the second time around. We intend to set out more clearly the gaps identified by our experts together with recommendations about the action needed to improve implementation of 1373 (2001). We will be looking to many States to submit a third report to the Committee setting out their response to these recommendations and including a timetable for action. We expect our experts to indicate, where appropriate, how a State might benefit from technical or other assistance.”
2002-06-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4561 (2002) · source
“I encourage them to make contact with the CTC. This achievement has been made by a team which has become increasingly experienced by the day. I should like to thank warmly the Vice-Chairmen - Ambassadors Koonjul, Lavrov and Valdivieso - for their professional leadership of the subcommittees; and the whole membership of the CTC for their consistent hard work and cooperation. I should like to thank our team of experts, including those who have already completed their tours, for getting to grips with the substance so effectively. I should also like to thank the CTC's secretariat for the support they have given the CTC and its subcommittees. The CTC's work programme for the fourth 90- day period was issued as a recent document of the Security Council.”
2002-06-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4561 (2002) · source
“Sir Jeremy Greenstock: The Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) has been in operation for nine months now. Over that period, it has focused on reviewing the reports submitted by States on their implementation of resolution 1373 (2001). So far, the CTC has received 160 reports from United Nations Members and from four others. It has completed its review of 127 of these and is working hard to finish reviewing the remainder of the reports received. The Committee is also following up with the 29 States that have not yet submitted a report. My letter to the Council on this, which was circulated as document S/2002/673, explained the way in which the CTC planned to do this. Let me reiterate: the CTC and its experts are ready to discuss the submission of a report at any time with States that are having difficulty.”
2002-06-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4561 (2002) · source
“A sustained effort by the entire international community is essential to maintain momentum. There is a very great deal at stake for all of us in this.”
2002-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4541 (2002) · source
“We were the first donor nation to contribute to the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund and I would like to encourage others to follow suit as soon as their legislative processes and other requirements can be managed. Fifthly, I wish to refer to drugs. As others have commented, production rose under the Taliban. We welcome the recent success of the Interim Administration in eradicating one third of the current poppy crop in the main growing areas. There is an urgent need for targeted financial assistance to support rural recovery. Future efforts should focus on law enforcement, alternative livelihoods, institution- building, demand reduction and regional cooperation. The United Kingdom is coordinating international support for this effort. Finally, Afghanistan is now much better off than before, but much remains to be done.”
2002-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4541 (2002) · source
“Thirdly, as to the political process, Afghanistan now has an Interim Administration under the effective chairmanship of Hamid Kharzai. Next month's loya jirga should produce an even more broad-based Government and I agree with Sir Kieran's statement earlier in the debate that the loya jirga is too important to be discarded for its imperfections. We have contributed Â£500,000, or $750,000, towards the costs of preparation and we will be watching carefully to make sure that the proceedings of the loya jirga are free and fair. Fourthly, with respect to humanitarian and reconstruction assistance, the United Kingdom has already provided Â£60 million, or roughly $90 million, and pledged a further Â£200 million to avert a humanitarian catastrophe and to improve access to basic services, such as health care and education.”
2002-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4541 (2002) · source
“The international community must now build on this success by providing troops and resources for ISAF, under Turkish leadership from June, and through donations to the ISAF trust fund. Secondly, the key to long-term stability in Afghanistan is security sector reform. There is progress, but it is, frankly, too slow. There needs to be a concerted international effort, since otherwise we risk losing our investment. Last week in Geneva, the United Kingdom said that it was ready to contribute $21 million for the Afghan armed forces, including support for demobilization and the Afghan Ministry of Defence, conditional on the implementation of a strategic and coherent approach to security sector reform and satisfactory accountability, with a View to the Afghans' developing the capacity to support their own security sector as soon as possible.”
2002-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4541 (2002) · source
“It is very good to see you in the chair again, Sir. It is late and I will try to be brief, but I want to say at the outset that the international community and the United Nations have already achieved a very great deal in Afghanistan. I should like to pay particular tribute to the excellent work of Special Representative Brahimi and his team in the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan. I should like, in this intervention, to focus on five key areas. First, as to security, thanks to the outstanding support of contributor nations and the cooperation of the Afghan authorities and people, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) is helping to restore security and confidence in and around Kabul.”
2002-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4541 (2002) · source
“Rather, it will lead to something that we take up, implement the sensible elements of, move forward in coordination about and produce results on, so long as we are working under the leadership of Africans who know what they want and invite those who want to help to do it with them. That is what we are talking about.”
2002-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4538Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Disarmament, demobilization, reintegration and repatriation or resettlement (DDRRR) is a matter of follow-up and is something we have not yet got right in Africa, because we do not look at the "RRR" aspects of demobilization. Many other delegations have underlined this, because they are looking for implementation of the analysis that we have all done. They are looking for results. So we will follow up this debate. We are setting aside time during the United Kingdom presidency in July for an Africa workshop which will build on what we learn in this debate, so that it does not just get left in reports on Council members' shelves or in their capitals as something ephemeral.”
2002-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4538Resumption1 (2002) · source
“We must do a "lessons learned" exercise on Sierra Leone, the latest success story to date, and apply those lessons, if necessary, to the Great Lakes region, which for Africa must now be gotten right, first of all by Africans, but also with us supporting them. We must take up the cross-cutting issues. AIDS is one such issue. AIDS was not our subject first of all, yet it was the Security Council that gave political impetus to the fight against HIV/AIDS, something we may have to come back to when the Economic and Social Council takes it up later this summer. Also, there is the matter of support for the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), which we are all talking about. But, as Ibrahima Fall said so clearly in his intervention, what matters now is follow-up.”
2002-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4538Resumption1 (2002) · source
“What the Ambassador of Benin said for the African Group on this is relevant. Frankly, what the European Union has done by way of analysis and action on this - as the interventions of Spain and Hans Dahlgren, the Special Representative of the European Union to the Mano River Union demonstrate - is extremely important and is an area with which we will continue. To sum up, what the United Kingdom is interested in out of all of this is results on the ground, better coordination to that end, continuing the institutional progress that we are making in debates of this kind, and learning the lessons not just of our failures, but also of our success stories.”
2002-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4538Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Peace, democracy and good governance are prerequisites for sustainable development, and the causes of conflict and their solutions are nearly always linked to aspects of wider regional stability. The fact is that it is only since the Security Council has taken on board that conflict resolution is an aspect of development that we have begun to develop working methods that have a chance of solving the concatenation of problems that conflict and development produce. This is why it is not only just a good thing, as a matter of coordination, that we should be working with the Economic and Social Council and with other organs ofthe United Nations; it is absolutely essential if we are to have an effect on the ground in resolving the problems that hit both conflict resolution and development.”
2002-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4538Resumption1 (2002) · source
“But there is a political sense in which Africans must take the lead in solving African problems. The important thing about NEPAD is not only that the document recognizes for Africans the whole gamut of things that need to be done, but that Africans are also, as African leaders, inviting outsiders to come in on a partnership to solve those problems. If we follow Ambassador Kumalo's formulation, we are being invited to become Africans in solving the problems of Africa. I think that is the frame of mind in which the Security Council established the ad hoc Working Group. But there is also this trade-off, if you like, or interface between conflict and development. I was particularly struck by Sierra Leone's intervention on this, strongly put from a strong recent experience.”
2002-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4538Resumption1 (2002) · source
“I continue to be very interested in the whole area of governance, which Ibrahima Fall spoke of at some length, as have others. It is remarkable how Africans themselves are now talking about governance. It is the key to a new era of progress, in my view, on dealing with African problems. I want to point to a little contrast that I noticed between what Ambassador Kumalo said about the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), that this is about Africans solving African problems, and what Ambassador Sharma of Nepal said as an interested outsider looking at Africa, that - I paraphrase - the weight of African problems all coming together is too great for Africans alone to bear. How do we put those two things together? I suppose that one answer is to say, as we often feel on the Security Council, that we are all Africans now.”
2002-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4538Resumption1 (2002) · source
“We need vertical coordination with other bodies that are our sisters in this and with the main players, the regional players, the subregional players. That is the grist to the mill of cooperation between the Security Council and the Economic and Social Council. I am very pleased that there is warm support for that. As everyone knows, we the United Kingdom have been pushing for it for a long time, and the establishment of an ad hoc advisory group of the Economic and Social Council is going to make that much more practical. I do not see why we should not have - I would have no objection - in at least some meetings of those ad hoc or advisory groups members or one member of the other sitting in the sessions so that there is immediate cross-seeding of the ideas in both groups.”
2002-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4538Resumption1 (2002) · source
“I am very glad that the African Union is going to establish a Peace and Security Council, which will give the kind of links that we want to have with the African Union - a very practical utility. I very much like the approach in Ambassador Kebe's speech, where he makes points A to D on his page four of what the mechanism of coordination between the Security Council and the African Union or the Peace and Security Council should actually cover. We should note his focus, because it is first of all rightly typical of the African approach, but it is also something we must pay attention to on funding and on the evaluation of humanitarian needs and of recovery and reconstruction needs - all areas on which the Security Council is not necessarily the primary player. So we need horizontal coordination.”
2002-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4538Resumption1 (2002) · source
“I think a good example is one which Ambassador Simonovie and others have drawn attention to - Sierra Leone and Gambia were quite clear on this - and that is the gap between the end of a crisis and the beginning of normal development. It is an area that we have begun to point to, but it was only when the Secretary-General established a particular office for Afghanistan that we had somebody responsible for the recovery period. This is something that the United Kingdom has been looking for and which we have been talking about in theoretical terms for a long time, and indeed starting to seminar on. But 10 and behold, it has begun to happen in Afghanistan. Why is it not yet happening in Africa? I think our relationship with the regional and subregional organizations has rightly come out as a very necessary theme.”
2002-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4538Resumption1 (2002) · source
“First of all, the ad hoc Working Group is a good idea. Ambassador Koonjul is taking it forward in exactly the right sort of way. But the proof of it has got to be that it makes a difference, just as the proof of a better relationship between the Security Council and the Economic and Social Council - which is another area that has got warm support from everybody who has spoken so far - has to be that coordination in New York and indeed with Geneva, where it matters, makes a difference on the ground. Sierra Leone is a very good example of this, a peacekeeping operation that has covered much wider areas than straight peace and security. But it has needed the input of different agencies. The way we work in New York has to reflect the results that we need in the field; that is the point of doing it.”
2002-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4538Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Thank you, Mr. President, for guiding us again today in what I think is proving a very interesting debate. I congratulate first those who have participated in it. I think that we are moving the subject forward in a way that would be not nearly as productive if we were sticking to our written text. I congratulate Ambassador Apata of Nigeria for abandoning his written text, leaving it with us because it makes some good points, and making even better ones in his ad lib intervention. A lot of good points have been made. We got off to a good start with the interventions of Ambassadors Koonjul, Simonovie, Kebe and Assistant Secretary- General Fall. There was a lot of meat in all their interventions. I want to draw out one or two points, perhaps touching, as Ambassador Levitte did, on one or two sensitive areas.”
2002-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4538Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Another high priority should be the establishment of a legal framework conducive to private sector investment and good governance, to preventing the spread of corruption and to addressing critical, social and economic issues, especially land tenure. I think that the Council can be proud of its role on East Timor. The United Kingdom is pleased to have played its own part, both in our business here in New York and in our participation in the two Council missions to East Timor. We wish President Gusmao and the people of East Timor a stable and prosperous future.”
2002-05-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4537 (2002) · source
“Although the downsizing of the peacekeeping operation should take place as rapidly as the situation on the ground allows, it is important that we keep that timetable under review and make sure that East Timor remains stable. We should not forget that there will also be an increasingly important role over the next few years for the traditional development mechanisms. In this respect, we welcome recent donor pledges of $440 million over the triennium 2002-2003 to 2004-2005, which should be sufficient to meet external financing requirements until oil and gas revenues start to come on stream. The production of an East Timor national development plan is another positive step forward. Ruthless prioritization will be needed if the plan is to implemented effectively.”
2002-05-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4537 (2002) · source
“As the Secretary-General has noted in his latest report (S/2002/432 and Add.1), there is a huge amount of work that still has to be done to establish East Timor as a stable, viable independent State. So, we welcome the continued focus of the United Nations on the country and the appointment of Kamalesh Sharma as the Special Representative of the Secretary- General. His qualities are well known to all of us, and he will have the full support of the United Kingdom. We also welcome the adoption of resolution 1410 (2002), establishing the United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor (UNMISET) to continue the work of UNTAET over the next two years. We recognize that the implementation of the UNMISET mandate sets milestones which are an important element of the work that we have to do.”
2002-05-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4537 (2002) · source
“The United Kingdom also recognizes the hugely important role of the United Nations Mission in East Timor, the International Force in East Timor and the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET), and it pays tribute in particular to Sergio Vieira de Mello, whose leadership and dedication have been pivotal to the development of East Timor. The Council has been right to pay tribute also to many other members of the Secretariat and of the peacekeeping operation on the ground. I am thinking particularly of Ian Martin, whose work in the most difficult days was very significant in helping East Timor to turn the corner. I would also like to recognize the lead role in security being played by Australia. We all realize that the work in East Timor is not yet finished.”
2002-05-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4537 (2002) · source
“You do us honour, Sir, by presiding over the Council today. Your presence marks the special importance of today's event. Thank you for being with us. The European Union Presidency, through Spain, made a statement earlier which the United Kingdom fully endorses, but - like the representative of Bulgaria and others - I want to add a word or two on this historic day for East Timor and for the United Nations. We pay a first tribute to the people of East Timor for their courage and determination and for all they have achieved over the past three years. We share their satisfaction as we celebrate the birth of the century's first new independent nation with a democratically elected Government.”
2002-05-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4537 (2002) · source