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Jeremy Greenstock

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“In that context, the United Kingdom Government is particularly encouraged by the progress being made towards a New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD). Previous efforts to solve Africa's problems have foundered because they have been seen either as a purely donor-driven exercise or as an African exercise which attracted too little support from the international community. NEPAD aims to merge these two elements into a partnership. It must represent a commitment by the countries of Africa to tackling their problems, including governance, leadership, education, health - including AIDS - the environment and conflict prevention. But this commitment, in turn, should attract a wider commitment by the international community to supporting the efforts of the Africans with resources, expertise and political dynamism.”
2001-12-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4439 (2001) · source
“In that context, the efforts of the subregional organization, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), are absolutely critical. We commend the work of ECOWAS to help solve the region's problems. It is our View that the Council should cooperate more closely with subregional organizations such as ECOWAS and should give that cooperation a very practical focus. ECOWAS needs to increase its engagement in the Mano River Union countries. Confidence-building measures and contacts between the three countries of the Mano River Union, including regular summits, are vital tools for dealing with the conflicts in the subregion, as Mr. Fall has made clear. Giving ECOWAS a greater capacity to lead and organize this area should be our next task. The issues affecting West Africa need to set in the context of Africa as a whole.”
2001-12-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4439 (2001) · source
“In looking back on your two years on the Council, we remember particularly the Millennium Summit, under the chairmanship of President Konare, and the sensitive picture you have given us of how the policies of the United Nations can be made to work in Africa. The Council needs to deepen its concern about the overall regional problems of West Africa. It is a subregion where the intricate net of individual conflicts, fed by poverty and feeding poverty, has heightened the risk of West Africa becoming the world's first failed region. The situation for women and children is particularly appalling. It is vitally important, both for the people of the region and for the wider stability of Africa, that the United Nations not let this happen.”
2001-12-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4439 (2001) · source
“The humanitarian situation in Liberia has already been made appalling enough by President Taylor's policies. Other parts of West Africa also trouble us, not least the huge number of refugees and internally displaced persons still on the move in a number of countries. The situation in Guinea-Bissau continues to be preoccupying and the news from cote d'Ivoire worrisome. However, it will be a real pleasure, Mr. President, to welcome Guinea to the Council next month, and we are sure that it will make a contribution to our deliberations as constructive as that made by your delegation, Mali.”
2001-12-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4439 (2001) · source
“At the moment the news is better, but next year's elections are a challenge. We will have an opportunity to debate later this week the involvement of the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) in those elections. In neighbouring Liberia, the situation remains dire, and the threat of further instability spilling back into Sierra Leone is still very real, as Mr. Fall has pointed out. The Council has imposed sanctions on President Taylor's regime with the aim of pressuring him into ending support for the Revolutionary United Front. These sanctions are one of the first examples of targeted sanctions imposed by the Council, and we need to implement them sensibly but rigorously. The targeted restrictions on the Liberian leadership are a vast improvement over the scattergun effect of general sanctions.”
2001-12-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4439 (2001) · source
“First, under your presidency, during which we are discussing almost all the African issues before the Council, and then that of our colleague from Mauritius, we have an important African focus in the Council for this month and next. Secondly, West Africa is a region whose problems may well be susceptible to treatment by a sharper regional focus on the part of the Council. Thirdly, we all see the value for the Council in bringing a regional dimension to our approach to a number of problems, particularly in Africa. We are debating the specific issues related to West Africa on a number of occasions this month, and I shall not repeat our detailed views on them here. Sierra Leone, on which the United Kingdom has taken a lead in certain respects, has preoccupied the Council over the last few years.”
2001-12-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4439 (2001) · source
“I should like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Fall very much for his helpful and detailed introduction. He set out very clearly the challenges facing West Africa. The representative of Belgium will be speaking later on behalf of the European Union (EU), and I endorse what he has to say. As Mr. Fall has noted, the EU is becoming increasingly active in its support for West Africa and the region's institutions, and that support is going to continue. I applaud your imagination, Mr. President, in choosing a regional topic as the theme for today's debate. This is the first time in recent memory that the Council has chosen to debate the issue of a particular region, and it is pertinent for a number of reasons.”
2001-12-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4439 (2001) · source
“We urge Israel and the Palestinian Authority to pull back from the brink and work together to end violence, implement the recommendations of the Mitchell Committee and return to negotiations. We also urge them to work with United States envoy Zinni to achieve this. The United Kingdom will abstain in the voting on the text in front of us because it does not reflect the realities on the ground; does not specify one essential next step for a resumption of meaningful negotiations; and does not, as the European Union has done, define the responsibilities which both sides must accept to end the violence threatening the lives of civilians in the region on a daily basis.”
2001-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4438 (2001) · source
“As a first step, it must dismantle the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist networks. We again urge the Palestinian Authority to crack down on the terrorists who are using the Palestinian areas to launch attacks. They should be arrested and brought to justice. We welcome President Arafat's reported decision to take such action. These commitments must be turned into reality. Israel has a right to security and is entitled to take steps to protect itself from terrorist attack, but it should ensure that its actions remain proportionate and avoid civilian casualties. As the European Union is making perfectly clear this week at the highest level, Israel must at once withdraw its military forces and stop extrajudicial executions.”
2001-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4438 (2001) · source
“It means a resumption of the political process leading to a just, comprehensive and lasting settlement of this long-standing dispute based on Security Council resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973) and the principle of land for peace. The United Kingdom is committed to a settlement in the Middle East that provides security for Israel within recognized borders and allows the emergence of a viable Palestinian State. This can be achieved only through negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority which President Arafat heads. He is the elected representative of the Palestinian people and the key Palestinian leader with whom Israel can negotiate peace when the time is right. It serves no one's interest to undermine President Arafat or to weaken the Palestinian Authority. The Palestinian Authority has responsibilities.”
2001-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4438 (2001) · source
“The United Kingdom is deeply concerned by the escalating violence in the region and the resulting deaths of so many innocent civilians on both sides. Terrorist targeting of civilians, particularly, is beyond contempt. Violence will result in nothing but more violence; it serves only the interests of those on either side who do not want peace. Both communities have seen too many funerals. It is way beyond time for Israel and the Palestinian Authority to be thinking hard about where further violence will lead and to be acting wisely and with restraint. The only way forward is a cessation of violence and dialogue. Tenet and Mitchell show the way.”
2001-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4438 (2001) · source
“The Congolese parties themselves must focus on shaping a viable and peaceful future for the Democratic Republic of the Congo through the dialogue. Dialogue must also continue and deepen between the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and its neighbours, especially Rwanda, to break down distrust, to address S/l'VA437 legitimate security concerns and to move forward the disarmament, demobilization, repatriation, resettlement and reintegration process. To sustain this, we need an interconnecting package of necessary measures. The United Kingdom would therefore support the continuation of the Panel's work. It is clear from today's discussion that this step is entirely necessary.”
2001-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4437 (2001) · source
“As the Panel report makes clear, the only lasting solution is to end the conflict and establish effective governance across the Democratic Republic of the Congo and functioning relations in the whole region. Transparent and effective management of the Democratic Republic of the Congo's vast resource wealth and fair and transparent trade arrangements in the region would bring enormous benefits. All the parties must seriously commit themselves to this goal. Opportunistic and destructive pillage of resources, without regard for the future of the country or the well- being of its people, has to be brought to an end. It is not just enough to sign on to a peace process. The parties need to change the environment in which this conflict flourishes - an environment of distrust, opportunism, exploitation and violence.”
2001-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4437 (2001) · source
“We have been clear all along that our goal must be to advance the Lusaka peace process. Of course, there are obstacles and difficulties on the way. But our approach over the past year has been to tackle those obstacles, one by one, head-on, and in an even-handed way. It is in that light that we View the issue of the exploitation of the resources of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Council has to ensure that this exploitation does not continue to be a factor encouraging the continuation of the conflict. What belongs to the Congolese people must be developed to the benefit of the Congolese people. That applies, of course, to the illegal exploitation of their natural resources, but also to their need for peace, decent Government throughout the territory and normal economic opportunity.”
2001-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4437 (2001) · source
“We, like others, are very warmly appreciative of the work which Ambassador Kassem and his team have done in producing this addendum. We believe that they have performed a sound professional job that sheds important light on an issue of serious concern, and the United Kingdom has confidence in their objectivity. The presence of ministers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and its neighbouring States honours the Council, and we appreciate this clear signal that the Governments of the region are very wisely taking the work of the Panel and of the Security Council seriously. Belgium will, on behalf of the European Union, make a statement later today, with which the United Kingdom fully aligns itself, but I would like to make one or two quick points in the meantime.”
2001-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4437 (2001) · source
“So, I think we need the Security Council to make sure that the themes that we advance are then mainstreamed into the specific issues where we have a voice. If we take all those things forward - and the many others that will be raised this morning - I think we will increase the momentum behind an increasingly operational Security Council, and that that will be good for us as a Council and good for interaction with Member States.”
2001-11-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4432 (2001) · source
“Mainstreaming these issues needs to be done through the interaction of the Security Council with the Secretariat and the Secretary-General. Where we have taken forward a theme, it is an invitation to the Secretariat and the agencies of the United Nations to mainstream in their own work what we have said and to bring them back to us with questions raised against a specific issue. That is the importance of thematic debate. This can be extended to the General Assembly, as well. Let me give you a very small example. Violence against civilians has been abhorred by both the Security Council and the General Assembly. Yet where in the current draft text on a peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine is there any mention of our abhorrence of violence against civilians in general? It is not there.”
2001-11-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4432 (2001) · source
“Here is perhaps another truth about the Security Council, and about the United Nations generally: if it is not projecting a powerful message at a particular time, ministers do not pay attention to it. Our Governments do not pay attention to the United Nations unless it directly affects their national interests on a particular day. So, I think we must careful in our choice of ministerial debate, but also encourage greater ministerial interest in the Security Council because we are doing the right thing and we need our Governments to cap it with a ministerial response, either from capitals or in a debate. On thematic debates, I think we are in danger of overdoing it. We need to take forward the themes that we have in a way that produces results.”
2001-11-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4432 (2001) · source
“On reports from the press, of course we are going to pay attention to the media; I think we should. But let us all be responsible about that. I would hate the Council to respond from time to time to some corners of the British press, which can be thoroughly irresponsible. But where the press is credible and responsible on issues, it is a highly important source of both factual input and comment, and I think we should be responsive to it. On ministers: "yes", to a degree. I think the value of ministerial discussion is often that it is rare and gives a particular impetus to a particular subject at a particular time. I do not think we should regularize it. Ministerial discussions should always be well prepared, so that there is a good outcome and not a banal outcome. The fact of discussion alone is not enough to take a subject forward.”
2001-11-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4432 (2001) · source
“Therefore, perhaps it does lend itself to an extension of our procedures, whereby we express that unanimity through what we do outside the Council in more informal meetings, where individual members or smaller groups of the Council can represent the views of the Council on specific issues. You are right, Madam President, to show that it is a two-way process. I think we have to be quite careful about groups of friends coming to brief us on an absolutely regular basis, as though there were rights to this. Where it is relevant to an issue, I think there can be that kind of interaction. But I do not think we should formalize it. I think we should handle that area in ad hoc ways and ways which serve the purpose of a subject as it is at a particular juncture.”
2001-11-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4432 (2001) · source
“Obviously, we all like consensus and unanimity, but in the past we have driven things forward even where there were abstentions and negative votes. But there is something about the relationship between the Security Council and the General Assembly that makes consensus important, and the nature of our work in this millennial and post-ll September era is that the Security Council actually likes to show that it is unanimous on a subject because its authority is greater if we are unanimous on a subject. I think we are beginning to understand each other better on that.”
2001-11-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4432 (2001) · source
“That may connect with a different proposal that I have made from time to time: on items where we need the implementation of our resolutions to be taken forward in transparency and with cooperation from Member States, it might help to nominate a member of the Council to help us drive forward that implementation. If that can be done transparently with the membership - and we do not as a Council feel that every such transparency meeting has to be attended by every member of the Council - and if we have a collective approach to this within which we understand each other, then I think it would be highly useful. Here is a another feature that I think is beginning to grow within the Security Council: we like passing resolutions 15 to nil. I do not know whether that is a new feeling.”
2001-11-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4432 (2001) · source
“I have been very struck by the responsiveness of the membership to the outreach programme of the counter-terrorism Committee. It is informal, but it is regular, and it gets a response from Member States. They have come to the meetings that we have had on these items, not with complaints about the Security Council - which they might well have had, given the unique nature, I think, of resolution 1373 (2001) - but in order to bring out the questions they have in their minds about the substance of what we are doing. Clearly, we cannot do that on every issue, and it is not on every issue that we need the proactive cooperation of every Member State. But it is an area which deserves more consideration.”
2001-11-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4432 (2001) · source
“Be that as it may, the issue of transparency is, I think, the leading area in which the Council can increase its authority and its sensitivity to outside influences, particularly among Member States that are not on the Council. Madam President, we should consider whether there are ways for the Council to interact with Member States other than the ones we have traditionally had in our locker. I think that there are, and that we need to adapt our procedures and the way in which we work. We are beginning to talk informally more with the membership outside, and in certain areas I think that it is beginning to work. I think that the counter-terrorism Committee is a special item and that it does not necessarily set a precedent that can be used in other areas of work.”
2001-11-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4432 (2001) · source
“But we are not yet doing enough that is right, even if we are doing more things that are right. Madam President, I think that you have put your finger on it in introducing, as a first item for discussion after that, the issue of transparency. Perhaps it is a bit ironic that we are going to have a discussion of transparency this morning with rather a pathetic number of non-Council States Members of the United Nations present with us. I thought that the whole point of having this discussion in the open was to allow the membership to listen to how the Security Council wanted to reflect their concerns about how the Security Council works.”
2001-11-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4432 (2001) · source
“Madam, it is not just because you hold the presidency this month that I want to thank the Jamaican delegation for its efforts over the past few years to bring a very distinctive voice to the business of the Security Council, under your leadership and that of Ambassador Ward. It has been very important to us, and I think that we have learned quite a lot from you and from seeing the Security Council through your eyes, so I thank you not just for this month, but for the whole two years of Jamaica's work on the Council. I would very much like to talk about your agenda, in the note that you have sent around to us, and to get a discussion going, because - perhaps particularly since 11 September - there is a growing momentum behind the work of the United Nations, in which the Security Council is playing a leading part.”
2001-11-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4432 (2001) · source
“But our debate today, and the draft resolution we are going to adopt, can help inspire a really effective preparatory process - begun under your excellent coordinating role, Madam President - for the special session next year. Perhaps by then we shall feel that we have begun to make our "redemption songs" a reality.”
2001-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4422 (2001) · source
“The United Kingdom is a strong supporter of the Office of the Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, and we are working with UNICEF to help build the capacity of its Emergency Operations department to integrate children and conflict issues into their programmes more effectively. We look forward to seeing these two Offices working increasingly closely together to continue to share information and approaches with each other, with the Department of Peacekeeping Operations and other members of the United Nations system, and with non- United Nations partners in the development of effective, durable responses. We share the Secretary-General's disappointment at the fact that the special session on children had to be postponed from this September.”
2001-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4422 (2001) · source
“We welcome the report's and the draft resolution's emphasis on these areas, as well as the direct link they draw to our work on HIV/AIDS, which is recognized in our draft resolution. Let me say a final word on the cohesion of the system. Not least because resources are scarce, we would like to underline the need for the various parts of the United Nations system working on conflict issues to do so in a complementary fashion. It is a familiar theme, and perhaps we are now getting somewhere. The integrated mission task force philosophy has to spread out from New York to the ground and, of course, back to the intergovernmental system. There is a real chance to get this right again in the context of Afghanistan.”
2001-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4422 (2001) · source
“We hope that their work can also be linked, where appropriate, to the need for the important work of mainstreaming gender in the context of peace-building strategies, especially in situations of rehabilitation and reconstruction following the end of hostilities. Olara Otunnu and Carol Bellamy have pointed this out this morning, in particular in the context of the vulnerability of girls in armed conflict. The United Kingdom takes note of the emphasis placed in the report and in the draft resolution on the inimical effects of illegal trade in natural resources and in small arms by parties to armed conflict and the direct negative link to the interests and well-being of children.”
2001-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4422 (2001) · source
“We encourage the efforts of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and of the Special Representative to continue to work to strengthen the role of these units in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, especially in the design of effective reintegration components of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) programmes for child soldiers and other children most affected by conflicts. I think that Babah Sawaneh has brought that home to us in his statement this morning. The United Kingdom will continue to support the system's efforts to extend the role of child protection advisers both at Headquarters and in the field.”
2001-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4422 (2001) · source
“We welcome the progress that has been made in establishing child protection units in the context of peacekeeping missions. We are encouraged by progress in this respect in the work of the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) and of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC), and the role that child protection officers play in the implementation of their mandates. In resolution 1355 (2001), on MONUC, the Council called for all relevant parties to ensure that child-protection concerns were addressed.”
2001-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4422 (2001) · source
“When considering the report within the Council as well as the draft resolution we are to adopt, we should be aware of the need to understand the linkages between this subject and other relevant concerns in the area of those most affected by conflicts. This is important to ensure that we are developing the comprehensive approach to conflict prevention and peace-building that the Secretary-General exhorted us to consider in his report of June 2001 and which is enshrined in our resolution on the prevention of armed conflict, adopted this August. The thinking outlined in resolution 1325 (2000), on women, peace and security, in last month's presidential statement on the same subject and in our work on civilians affected by armed conflict, to be discussed tomorrow, are all relevant here.”
2001-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4422 (2001) · source
“That is the point. The report and our draft resolution outline very well the importance of designing a robust normative framework within which the practical work of the wider United Nations system can have an impact on the ground. The Geneva Conventions, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Optional Protocol on child soldiering, the Statute of the International Criminal Court and the International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention on the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour are all vital policy tools in that respect, and, of course, command the full support of the United Kingdom. But it is particularly important to make those conventions bite. I welcome the Secretary-General's and the Special Representative's intention to name and shame those who contravene those norms and to take follow-up action.”
2001-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4422 (2001) · source
“The Special Representative and the Executive Director have also pointed very sharply to ways in which the Council, as one of the organs of the United Nations concerned with children in armed conflict, has to act. Later on, Belgium will make a statement on behalf of the European Union that will also express some fundamental points. But there are some things that I would like to bring out. The whole subject is of legitimate interest to the Council, because how the international community deals with this issue of children and armed conflict has a direct consequence, not only for the welfare of children in itself, but because failure to recognize the subject and tackle its effects will have a damaging impact on the international peace and security efforts of the Council. This is not simply an issue of morality; it is an issue of security.”
2001-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4422 (2001) · source
“I think all of us will feel that what has already been said in the Council this morning is all we really need to hear. The statements by the Secretary-General, Mr. Olara Otunnu, Ms. Carol Bellamy and, in particular, Alhaji Babah Sawaneh have brought home to us that the work of the Council is there to affect real people on the ground in real ways. I am sorry that our intervention, and the interventions of my colleagues, will have to deal with the bureaucracy of What the Council does. But we have been asked some questions in this morning's statements, and I think that we have to try to point the way to some answers. The Secretary-General's report, which he has addressed both to the Security Council and to the General Assembly, is a very relevant document in this respect, and I thank him for it.”
2001-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4422 (2001) · source
“The United Kingdom will play its part in doing that, having contributed Â£12 million since 1998 to the Liberian humanitarian situation, and we will contribute continually in that area.”
2001-11-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4405 (2001) · source
“We support the recommendation to lift the grounding order on Liberian aircraft on a case-by-case basis and we agree that we should encourage the Liberian Government to establish a diamond certification scheme. As for the important humanitarian considerations, the Council must restate clearly that sanctions are targeted at the Liberian Government and at President Taylor and that a travel ban and arms and diamond embargoes do not hurt ordinary Liberians. The report of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in that area is not the whole story. We need to encourage donors and non-governmental organizations to contribute to remedying the humanitarian situation in Liberia and to reverse the decline in humanitarian aid.”
2001-11-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4405 (2001) · source
“Secondly, we would wish to see revenues from the shipping registry going to legitimate Liberian Government purposes with independent monitoring, so that they cannot be diverted to buy arms. Thirdly, we want to see stricter enforcement of all the sanctions, including the travel ban. The Panel has revealed quite a number of breaches of sanctions across the board and the travel ban, in particular, I think, has been an effective instrument of the Council and needs to be maintained, although we are happy to ensure that the travel ban list is up-to-date and relevant. For all these reasons and wider ones, we would welcome a follow-up report from the Panel of Experts, but we also agree that the Council should respond where Liberia has taken action to comply with Council demands.”
2001-11-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4405 (2001) · source
“It is therefore crucial to increase the pressure on President Taylor, if we are to stop this continued destabilization of the region. Well, how? It is clear that timber and shipping are both increasingly important sources of funding for the Liberian Government and for President Taylor now that he can no longer profit as much as before from the diamond exports. We would like to see President Taylor stopped from using revenue from timber to buy arms. We believe that that a round log ban, as recommended by the Panel, would only temporarily disrupt President Taylor's finances, whereas a comprehensive ban on timber would better achieve the aim of sanctions, by depriving him of funds to buy arms.”
2001-11-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4405 (2001) · source
“The Council has to keep firmly in mind the purpose of the sanctions in resolution 1343 (2001), that is to press President Taylor for full compliance with the requirements of the resolution and to discourage him from fomenting instability in the region. The key question we have to keep in our minds is whether President Taylor is complying fully with the demands of the Council. The answer is, unfortunately, at this point, no. The bond between Monrovia and the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) remains strong. President Taylor continues to buy arms in breach of the arms embargo. As Mr. Ayafor said this morning, there is a steady flow of new weapons which continues to enter the country. Thirdly, President Taylor continues to benefit from the sale of RUF diamonds, which may be going in directions that need further research in other contexts.”
2001-11-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4405 (2001) · source
“Congratulations to you, Madame, for the assumption of the presidency in November and to Ambassador Ryan for a formidable handling of the chair in October. The United Kingdom fully supports the statement which Belgium will later make on behalf of the European Union. We are honoured to have with us this morning the Foreign Minister of Liberia, and we welcome his presence here. We are very grateful for the presentations made this morning by Ambassador Mahbubani, by Panel Chairman Ayafor and by Mr. Tsui on behalf of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). We think that the Panel of Experts has done a superlative, professional job, and the whole team has clearly contributed to that. It is a very detailed report, based on sound methodology and on extremely thorough research.”
2001-11-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4405 (2001) · source
“In particular f and this was a point that Assistant Secretary-General Fall made in our first discussion last Monday - there may be some relevance for the establishment of models for legislative and executive action for States to follow when they identify gaps in the structures they have established to implement resolution 1373 (2001).”
2001-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4394Resumption1 (2001) · source
“We agree that one way to improve enforcement would be to improve the United Nations capacity by creating a small, permanent monitoring unit, complemented by a roster of experts and by the Secretariat, which would be charged by the Security Council with monitoring and reporting on the effectiveness of sanctions regimes. My delegation looks forward to early progress on this idea. Finally, and speaking on behalf of the Chairman of the Counter-Terrorism Committee, I can say that my delegation will study what positive lessons can be drawn from the Bonn-Berlin and the Interlaken processes for the work of the Counter-Terrorism Committee established under resolution 1373 (2001).”
2001-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4394Resumption1 (2001) · source
“We believe that the focus of that work should now shift to national implementation and enforcement of sanctions. In this context, we think that there may be useful lessons to be learned from the Group of Eight's Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF). This Task Force has produced guidelines on the actions that countries should take to trace funds and to scrutinize clients, and other ways to counteract money laundering. We wonder whether perhaps the next step in the Interlaken process could be to draw up similar guidelines for enforcing financial sanctions and for benchmarking the steps that countries have taken to enforce sanctions against those guidelines. The next logical step after that is the enforcement of sanctions.”
2001-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4394Resumption1 (2001) · source
“May I begin by saying that my delegation is very grateful to the Governments of Germany and of Switzerland for their leadership and their initiative in taking forward the Bonn-Berlin and the Interlaken processes, and we are also grateful for what the Swedish Government is doing in taking forward the process from now on. We think that these processes have enabled experts and others, working in a very wide forum, to produce some very valuable results. We particularly welcome the guidance that has been produced on best practice in drafting United Nations sanctions resolutions and on drafting legislation to implement sanctions at the national level. What we will need to do now is to build on the valuable work that has already been done.”
2001-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4394Resumption1 (2001) · source
“It is good news that the Joint Military Commission has agreed on the final date for co-location with MONUC. The need for greater cooperation between elements in the field and MONUC headquarters in Kinshasa will increase as MONUC expands. The United Kingdom reaffirms its strong support for the whole MONUC team, and for Mr. Ngongi personally. Minister She Okitundu referred this morning to Prime Minister Blair's recent words of determination to address Africa's conflict areas. We will continue to be closely engaged in the pursuit of a lasting peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.”
2001-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4395 (2001) · source
“The proposed deployment into Kindu will be a logical part of this, both testing the commitment of the parties to work with MONUC and demonstrating the United Nations commitment to move ahead and the benefits this can bring, particularly to the local population. We agree with Foreign Minister She Okitundu that with the cooperation of the parties Kindu can be a foothold from which to start seriously tackling the problems of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. We also support MONUC's intention to try to broaden contacts with representatives of the armed groups, including the Mayi-Mayi. The Mayi-Mayi are not party to Lusaka, but they are very much tied in with the prospects for peace in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and they cannot be allowed to continue their current violent behaviour with impunity.”
2001-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4395 (2001) · source
“Like others, we were disappointed at the suspension of the inter-Congolese dialogue in Addis. That dialogue has to resume again soon; we look forward to that happening in South Africa next month, and to the outstanding participation issues being settled. Gaborone clearly built a positive energy, and if that is not to be lost, all the parties have to recommit to the process firmly and publicly. There is also room for the political protagonists in the Congo and in the region to do more directly among each other to build bridges for a stable peace in the region. The United Kingdom accepts the Secretary- General's recommendation for entry into phase III within the present mandate and ceiling.”
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“If this could, as the Secretary- General suggests, lead to the establishment of a joint coordination mechanism, that would be extremely valuable in moving DDRRR forward, addressing problems and providing a basis for outside support of the process. Another element of creating the necessary environment is to ensure an end to all support to the armed groups. As for Kamina, we were glad to hear this morning from the Special Representative that a technical team has arrived there. We hope that early progress can be made on the DDRRR of the ex- combatants gathered there, with full cooperation between the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and MONUC. I would be glad to hear further from the Special Representative what the next steps are going to be on Kamina once he has heard from the technical team.”
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