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Jeremy Greenstock

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“I thank the Assistant Secretary- General for adding that useful detail. On the tax problem for non-governmental organizations (NGOs), it is not the Council's business, but it would be of concern to the Security Council if NGOs were deterred from wanting to work in East Timor because the regulations there were less advantageous than in other parts of the world where they work. I hope that the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) and the Special Representative will try to resolve that problem as amicably as possible. Please convey that to UNTAET.”
2001-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4308 (2001) · source
“I congratulate those speakers who have intervened so far on keeping their comments to five minutes. I turn now to Mr. Annabi to take up the questions so far, after which I will turn to Ambassador Ward of Jamaica.”
2001-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4308 (2001) · source
“Annabi wishes later to come back in and interact and respond to other people's interventions, there will be an opportunity for him to do that.”
2001-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4308 (2001) · source
“I thank the Assistant Secretary- General for his extremely useful report and for taking the trouble to visit East Timor and report back to us so soon. It is a very important subject on the Council's agenda. We have started a speakers' list. I shall turn to members of the Council in a second. The Council should remember that, to some extent, this is an interim briefing. We are expecting a report of the Secretary- General towards the end of this month. There will be, I expect, a major debate on East Timor in early May. Subject to the decision of the Council at that time, I would expect that meeting to be open to the participation of non-members of the Council. I will now give the floor to members of the Council who wish to speak. If Mr.”
2001-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4308 (2001) · source
“If they have points that they would like to raise, they can ask a friendly member of the Council to raise those questions. I now give the floor to Mr. He'di Annabi for his briefing of the Council.”
2001-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4308 (2001) · source
“There being no objection, it is so decided. I invite Mr. Annabi to take a seat at the Council table. Before I ask Mr. Annabi to speak, may I remind Council members that we are not keeping a list of speakers. I shall call speakers as they apply to the President or the Secretariat, in the normal way of our informal consultations. I would like to have an interactive discussion. If participants raise questions, I may turn to Mr. Annabi to answer those questions as they come up, and not necessarily leave them to be answered at the end. I am glad, too, that non-members of the Council, in participating in this meeting, have been encouraged to pose any questions that they may have about East Timor through members of the Council. They may do that during the course of the discussion.”
2001-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4308 (2001) · source
“The situation in East Timor The President: Members of the Council are expecting me to handle this meeting in a relaxed manner. We are bringing into the open Chamber - to non-members of the Security Council, our partners in the United Nations - our style of informal consultations, because the Council wishes to increase the transparency of its business and to share more of it with non-members of the Council and the media when there is no reason of discretion or confidentiality for being in the other room. Members should therefore expect this meeting to be presided over in that relaxed manner. At this meeting, in the absence of objection, we are extending an invitation under rule 39 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure to Mr. Hedi Annabi, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations.”
2001-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4308 (2001) · source
“As this is the first formal meeting of the Security Council under the United Kingdom presidency this month, it gives me pleasure to follow the tradition of paying a very warm compliment to our predecessors for their excellent leadership of the Council during the month of March. I say "our predecessors" because we had two Presidents for the price of one during the course of March. We were very impressed by the seamless interchange between Ambassador Kuchynski and Ambassador Yel'chenko and by the sensitive and good-humoured handling of our intensive business during the month of March. I would like to express, on behalf of the whole Council, our warm gratitude to Ukraine for its presidency. Adoption of the agenda The agenda was adopted.”
2001-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4308 (2001) · source
“I want to break with tradition, Mr. President, since you will not be present with us next week, and to express the Council's pleasure at having you preside over our formal meetings during the month of March, as our colleague and as a close friend of all of us around the table. It has given us delight to have you among us and leading us with such clarity, calmness and wisdom during the month of March. I wish to congratulate you on that, Mr. President, on behalf of all the other members of the Council, and to wish to you all good fortune upon your return to your capital.”
2001-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4307 (2001) · source
“The Council's experience of working together on this issue - although unsuccessful so far - should not be disregarded; we were very close to something effective and valuable.”
2001-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4305 (2001) · source
“We remain ready to work for the realization of the ideas expressed in the failed draft resolution, not least progress towards the setting up of a protection or observer mechanism, with the agreement of the parties to cooperate with it. We condemn the continuing violence and incitement, and the excessive use of force in reacting to unrest. We hope that the concept of observers will not now be lost, and we have work in hand to pursue it when the circumstances are right. Our work on this subject will continue, and United Kingdom policy remains unchanged. We strongly support the part played already by the Secretary-General, and expect that he will remain engaged in an important role.”
2001-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4305 (2001) · source
“We therefore regret that the draft resolution that we have just considered should have been put to the vote now, especially in the knowledge that one permanent member could not concur. The deadline imposed on us, while understandable in the short term, carries less validity when considered in a broader perspective. We believe that the failure of the Council's efforts in this way cannot contribute to the most important objective: the lessening of tension in the Middle East and assistance to the parties in ending the violence, securing a normal life for the civilian population - particularly in the occupied territories - and the resumption of negotiations. We disagreed with the act of seeking a vote this evening and, with our European partners, therefore abstained.”
2001-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4305 (2001) · source
“Together with our European partners on the Council, the United Kingdom put forward a number of ideas and proposals over the past week in a serious attempt to find a consensus in the Council on this most difficult of issues. We did so because we believed that the Council, putting its collective spirit first, could have a positive influence on the peace process, on both the parties and, therefore, on the promotion of peace and security in the region, which desperately needs and deserves it. We are very grateful to our Council and other colleagues who worked with us so patiently and imaginatively in the same spirit. We had not abandoned hope that the textual proposals we sponsored could have produced the right result with further work.”
2001-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4305 (2001) · source
“We support the efforts of the main Albanian political party to encourage restraint, and we welcome the positive and helpful statements that have been made by the Albanian Government. We also fully support the Macedonian Government, which is representative of both ethnic communities. The question of a Security Council mission to Kosovo has been raised. We would need to be sure that the potential positive results of such a mission were clear before a decision was made, and that the timing and the security considerations were both carefully considered against the objectives that the Special Representative has set out for us today.”
2001-03-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4296 (2001) · source
“The United Kingdom also looks to Belgrade to use its influence positively to help resolve that situation. Another vital issue is the return of refugees. UNMIK is working with representatives of the Kosovo Serbs on the practicalities of returns, and to promote tolerance - which is an essential condition for a safe and successful returns programme. This needs careful coordination and a step-by-step approach. The situation in the wider region, in particular in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and southern Serbia, is a particular concern at the moment. We condemn the latest acts of violence by extremist groups in Macedonia, which have no possible justification in a democratic society. The United Kingdom also calls on leaders of Albanian communities in Kosovo publicly to do the same and to work to restore calm.”
2001-03-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4296 (2001) · source
“It is not in the interests of Kosovo's Serbs for Belgrade to block their participation - and thus, their representation - in this group. Such tactics set back hopes of establishing a cooperative relationship between UNMIK and Belgrade, so we hope that the decision will be reconsidered. I was pleased to hear about the high priority that the Special Representative has given to tackling law and order, which is a fundamental issue for Kosovo's future. We will support him fully in his efforts, including in securing higher numbers and quality of police and judiciary. The United Kingdom remains ready to provide additional international judges and prosecutors, if requested. The situation in Mitrovica is a particular concern, and we support UNMIK's efforts to tackle it.”
2001-03-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4296 (2001) · source
“The Mission cannot bring peace to Kosovo just through hard work. The people of Kosovo and its leaders must take up their responsibility for peace, along with all the difficult decisions that that entails. In this context, the United Kingdom has welcomed the start of consultations with Kosovo political representatives on the development of a legal framework for provisional institutions for self- government. This is an important step forward, fully within the mandate established by resolution 1244 (1999). The establishment of these institutions is a key stage in the democratization of Kosovo which does not prejudge its final status. But we were equally concerned at the withdrawal of the Kosovo Serb representative from the Working Group on the legal framework.”
2001-03-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4296 (2001) · source
“We too very warmly welcome the Special Representative on his first visit to the Council and are very grateful to him for a pointed and very interesting briefing, which sets out the right priorities for the implementation of resolution 1244 (1999). The Permanent Representative of Sweden will shortly be making a statement on behalf of the European Union, which the United Kingdom fully endorses, so I will just briefly highlight a few points. Both the Special Representative's briefing and the Secretary-General's report make clear that the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) continues to make some very good progress. On that, the Special Representative of the Secretary- General and his staff are to be warmly congratulated. But we have also heard from him today how difficult are the circumstances which UNMIK faces.”
2001-03-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4296 (2001) · source
“We have to make this a common endeavour: how to maximize the prospects for renewed negotiations; how to help the parties move back from violence; and how we can give them practical support on the ground.”
2001-03-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4295Resumption1 (2001) · source
“This issue should not be allowed to become a totem, dividing the parties and, still worse, the Security Council. It is the responsibility both of those who are traditionally supportive of Palestinian positions and of those traditionally supportive of Israeli positions to make a real effort to prevent such a harmful division occurring. We have all made clear to the parties our conviction that an observer force could be useful. The parties bear the primary responsibility to agree how this might be possible. Our aim should be to encourage them to work together, not to polarize disputes and perpetuate the breakdown in constructive dialogue. The Council has a challenge before it.”
2001-03-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4295Resumption1 (2001) · source
“Both parties must pursue contacts between them, for example, to make real progress in security cooperation. There is in reality no alternative to the parties themselves deciding to arrest the current cycle of violence and return to the path of negotiations. But the record- not least the melting away of the Sharm el-Sheikh agreement- shows that they need help. That should be the purpose of any action the Council decides to take. We should always be thinking of how to improve conditions on the ground, for people on both sides. We should explore proposals that can achieve that goal. We continue to believe, with France, Ireland, Norway and others, that an observer presence in the occupied territories could be beneficial, but that this can only be achieved with the acceptance of both parties.”
2001-03-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4295Resumption1 (2001) · source
“But, in fact, these practices radicalize the Palestinian population and fuel violence in the occupied territories. Thus, they cannot achieve their stated purpose. We will continue to press the Israeli Government to end these practices, and in this regard I welcome the assurance by the Israeli Deputy Prime Minister yesterday to the Council that these measures would not comprise the policy of the new Israeli Government. We wish to see that fully put into effect. A further step that needs to be taken is to resume the payments of revenues withheld from the Palestinian Authority. Meanwhile, the Palestinian Authority itself must make good-faith efforts to end the violence and to restore security cooperation. So what needs to be done right away? Both parties must take urgent steps to reduce the violence and build confidence between them.”
2001-03-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4295Resumption1 (2001) · source
“Tension is increasing, and that is a matter of immediate and international concern. The Council has to live up to its responsibility to address peace and security in this region as elsewhere. We must find a way forward that improves the situation, not worsens it. We must find a way forward that provides the maximum unity in the Council, to guide the parties towards a peaceful course. The United Kingdom is ready to contribute to that effort. The United Kingdom, in support of the European Union position which will later be set out in full by the Union presidency, has repeatedly pressed the Israeli Government to end the practices of closure and extrajudicial killings. The Israeli Government has told us that these measures are necessary for the protection of Israeli lives.”
2001-03-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4295Resumption1 (2001) · source
“It is right that the Council should be addressing the situation in the Middle East, because there is widespread and deep concern across the United Nations membership at the continuing violence, at the closures of the occupied territories and the isolation of towns and villages within them. Above all, there is profound anxiety at the deteriorating prospects for peace between Israel and the Palestinians, which have implications well beyond the borders of Israel and the Palestinian areas. The situation today is grim. Many roads inside Gaza and the West Bank are still closed, today. In the last two days, two Palestinians have died at checkpoints, delayed on their way to hospital. Thanks to the continued closure of Gaza airport, thousands of Palestinian pilgrims cannot return from Mecca.”
2001-03-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4295Resumption1 (2001) · source
“The region must certainly be very much part of that. I am very interested in the revised proposal from the High Commissioner on what precisely the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) might do if it cannot do the borders, which I think at the moment it cannot do. We would be interested in a response in due course from ECOWAS as to what might be possible. The United Kingdom remains extremely interested in this whole question for the sake of the refugees and as an investor in the security of the region. We are offering further money. We have put in an extra $12 million since December for refugees and internally displaced persons, and we will continue to be extremely supportive.”
2001-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4291 (2001) · source
“Of course, in addition - you would expect me to say this, but I think we would all say this - we have doubts about the RUF's good faith in responding to the High Commissioner's appeal. We cannot rely on good faith alone. There must be a deterrent and a motivation for them to respond to the international community and for those who back them to respond to the motivations we have provided to make sure that they respond to the international appeal and bring themselves back into a setting of international standards that they themselves follow, together with their backers. Lastly, repatriation must also take into account the capacity of the Governments of Sierra Leone, Liberia and, indeed, Guinea itself to absorb large numbers of refugees and to cope with the movements of refugees and internally displaced persons.”
2001-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4291 (2001) · source
“I do not think that we collectively can hold out the prospect of safe passage as though that passage would be immediately safe because we want it to be safe. It would take, in our estimation, at least three full active battalions to create a route out of the "parrot's beak" into a reasonable area - say, to Kenema in Sierra Leone - one kilometre wide, to avoid immediate harassment of refugees. UNAMSIL does not have one battalion to move forward in its own area of operations until it is reinforced later this month and then later this year. So we have a real problem of choice. We need to discuss this further with considered advice, following the High Commissioner's briefing, from the Secretariat and the Secretary-General to see exactly what is reasonable between the short term and the long term.”
2001-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4291 (2001) · source
“If it is the short term, the long term becomes longer. If it is the long term, as the High Commissioner is clearly pointing out, the short term is not mended. I think we need the Secretariat's advice on this. It is very good that the Secretary-General is listening to this debate because there is a real crisis of choice here in what we are being asked to do in UNAMSIL's mandate so far and in what the High Commissioner is saying to us. I quite agree with Ambassador Durrant that we need an emergency plan for the short term that reflects the realities of what the United Nations as a whole is actually able to do, and that emergency plan must have as a priority the relocation of refugees in the most dangerous areas to adequate camps away from the border area.”
2001-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4291 (2001) · source
“We are all asking for increased access to refugees and internally displaced persons and safe and secure conditions for agencies. They have got to be able to operate with maximum effectiveness, but we have to look very carefully at what the High Commissioner has asked us to do. The Ambassador of Jamaica was quite right to point to the short term and the long term. I am not sure it is going to be practicable for the appeal to the RUF and to the Governments of the region and the appeal to the United Nations to strengthen the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) to serve Mr. Lubbers' immediate purposes. UNAMSIL is needed to help end the rebellion, which is part of the reason for the flow of refugees in a situation where UNAMSIL is badly under strength. Which does it make its priority, the short term or the long term?”
2001-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4291 (2001) · source
“There are rebel groups that should not be doing What they are doing in and across the borders in this region of West Africa. The Revolutionary United Front (RUF) has been taking action it certainly should not have. There are rebel groups targeting the security of Liberia, as well as of Guinea and Sierra Leone. It is a real mess in that region. But Governments also have to act responsibly, and I hope that the Guinean delegation will not mind if I also say that it is a responsibility of the Government of Guinea to avoid the indiscriminate use of helicopter gunships if they also affect refugee populations, as well as the real targets of military activity. Some care and responsibility are needed in that respect in the context of the great responsibility that the Government of Guinea has taken on.”
2001-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4291 (2001) · source
“Lubbers' visit to the region and the recent progress made by the High Commissioner for Refugees and other agencies in resuming food deliveries and other forms of care, particularly in the Languette region, and in their attempts to start a movement of refugees and internally displaced persons out of that dangerous area in particular. We very much welcome the renewed commitment of the Government of Guinea to host refugees from neighbouring countries and to provide them with protection. It is an enormous responsibility for the State of Guinea and for the Government of Guinea to have such a high proportion of refugees on its territory, and we pay tribute to what the Government has done. Of course, the Security Council has to ask for all parties involved to end the violence.”
2001-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4291 (2001) · source
“I would like to give a warm welcome to the High Commissioner. It is an extremely important briefing at an extremely important time. It is very good to see him come back to the Security Council so quickly. May I also echo his reference to International Women's Day. As the first male member of the Security Council speaking this afternoon, I think that I can acknowledge on behalf of all my male colleagues that if women were able to achieve - to be strengthened to achieve ~ what they want to achieve in areas of crisis and desperation and in the way that they wanted, then the world would be a much safer and more peaceful place. The Security Council needs to continue to respond to the needs of women, as we have said in our public statement today. We very much welcome Mr.”
2001-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4291 (2001) · source
“There is strong United Kingdom support for the presidential statement that we are adopting today, which should send a clear message to the extremists that the violence will not be tolerated.”
2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4289 (2001) · source
“The Foreign Minister's visit to NATO on Friday will be an important occasion for operationalizing the proposals for action that he has presented today. Resolution 1244 (1999) gives KFOR a broad mandate to act and the operational decisions are for it to make. We welcome the measures that have already been agreed - for instance, tougher KFOR control of the boundary and closer liaison between KFOR and the Macedonian armed forces. These should soon translate into more effective combined response on the ground. We in the Council will continue to monitor the situation closely from here, in parallel with the operational action taken by our colleagues in the North Atlantic Council.”
2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4289 (2001) · source
“We, too, warmly welcome Minister Kerim's presence. I think that he is finding that the Council is pretty unanimous in what it is saying to him in support of the proposals he has put forward and on the situation his country finds itself in. We certainly condemn the recent violence that ethnic Albanian extremists have perpetrated in northern Macedonia, including the tragic killing of the three soldiers at the weekend. We very much welcome the dialogue that has now sprung up between the Macedonian Government and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Kosovo Force (KFOR) on practical steps to address the immediate situation and to provide a basis for intensified, longer-term cooperation. I entirely echo the commendation of my colleagues around this table for the prudent action taken so far by the Macedonian Government.”
2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4289 (2001) · source
“This morning the Secretary-General asked whether our capitals were now engaged in following up the Millennium Summit commitments at the political level. I am under instructions from my Prime Minister to act and not just speak, in this sense, because he wants the declaration of 7 September 2000 to leave a mark. It is time to test ourselves by this higher standard, and I hope that this will be the result of this useful debate.”
2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4288Resumption1 (2001) · source
“A concluding note: the Security Council has to raise itself up a level from the traditional way of doing things. If, in doing that, we generate a bit of healthy competition with the General Assembly, 1 see no particular harm done, particularly if we all respond not with criticism of each other but with action and results. For our part in the Council, we have to understand our real objectives and be realistic about them; use our time more carefully and purposefully; admit our failures or our inability to act, and understand why; be more transparent, especially with the non-members of the Security Council; and, perhaps most of all, search more willingly for the collective interest, an approach which need not be at the expense of our national interests, if only we are prepared to calculate the long-term benefits.”
2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4288Resumption1 (2001) · source
“President, we have made too little concrete progress in this respect. Why, for instance, have the Security Council and the Organization of African Unity failed to establish a continuous and productive working relationship? What is needed is not so much institutional reinforcement, which you mentioned, but a change of approach on both sides of the equation, to reflect the recognition that both United Nations organs and regional organizations have been too self-contained and politically constrained to devote themselves to really effective collective action. We must break out of our unproductive mould on all sides, and a good sign of that, perhaps, was our cooperation with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on the Liberian resolution we adopted this morning.”
2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4288Resumption1 (2001) · source
“They can include the collapse of state government, rebellion, ethnic or cultural incompatibility, brutal and greedy government, or sheer poverty and the collapse of organized economic life. The Security Council cannot dictate a comprehensive international strategy to cover all these evils. But it can work with other parts of the international system and with the affected regions to develop a broad partnership in addressing the root causes of conflict. In real life, political, economic and social phenomena are seamlessly intertwined. So must the United Nations response be. As I have said, signs of this broad partnership are just emerging in Africa, and it is time for the Security Council and the African organizations -regional and subregional - to start working together more constructively. As you suggest in your sixth question, Mr.”
2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4288Resumption1 (2001) · source
“It is time to bring the Security Council closer together with other parts of the system. As a start, the United Kingdom will institute, during its April presidency, a meeting between Security Council members and the Bureau of the Economic and Social Council, and with other major United Nations players on conflict management, to discuss coordination and coherent action on peace-building and conflict management. I have the support of the President of the Economic and Social Council for that in principle. I shall discuss the matter with the President of the General Assembly, and I ask for the Council's support. Fifthly, the idea of producing comprehensive international strategies to address root causes of conflicts is ambitious, because the root causes themselves are disparate and complex.”
2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4288Resumption1 (2001) · source
“We must all be ready to act on the Department of Peacekeeping Operations review when it reports in May. And the Secretariat must take forward the other work foreseen in the implementation plan. This is the most important thematic area for the Council to get right in 2001. Fourthly, within the Brahimi framework, the United Nations approach to conflict prevention needs particular attention, because we all have so far failed to find a really effective way of preventing conflict, even when we know it is approaching. The Secretary- General's report, due in May, is the next important milestone. We have already discussed peace-building in the Council and have recognized that coordination between the Security Council and other parts of the United Nations system is essential. But have we turned that into practical action? No, we have not.”
2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4288Resumption1 (2001) · source
“Douglas Hurd says that the moment those who take such decisions try to buttress them by arguing that they are a requirement of international law, they are immediately exposed as hypocrites for not obeying that same requirement in other tragedies across the world, which they have no intention of putting right. We should be modest in doing good, not only because of the prudent limits to our own strength but because, however much we do, there will be much evil in the world about which we do nothing. Thirdly, peacekeeping operations are now under vigorous review, and we have a lot of work on our hands, within the United Nations system generally, to implement the Brahimi report (S/2000/809) comprehensively. The Security Council has established a working group to follow up its own responsibilities in this respect.”
2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4288Resumption1 (2001) · source
“He says that the fact that the international community cannot intervene everywhere to protect human rights or to lead to peace and security need not be an argument against helping where we can. But, it is an argument against too much philosophizing on the subject. It is also a reason for not trying to confuse decisions of policy with obligations under international law. Most of the time the Security Council is dealing with decisions of policy, and not responding to an obligation under international law. Having a primary responsibility for peace and security is not an obligation under international law; it is description of a function.”
2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4288Resumption1 (2001) · source
“If that produces a higher rate of success, then other regions or States in conflict will be more likely to turn to the United Nations for help, and the whole international system of conflict prevention and peace-building will gain confidence and coherence. For now, we have to be selective. Some speakers this morning and Ambassador Mahbubani this afternoon raised the question of inconsistency. We cannot get away from the problems that are called inconsistency just by resolving to be consistent. It goes deeper than that. I want to mention to my Council partners and to the wider audience an important point that my former Foreign Secretary, Douglas Hurd, took up in a recent article about policy decisions.”
2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4288Resumption1 (2001) · source
“As an organization, the United Nations needs to build on this fast, not least in our approach to financing for development and other Economic and Social Council issues, as well as to peacekeeping. Secondly, does the Security Council give equal priority to all conflicts or crisis situations? Of course not. The Security Council has no magic wand to wave away all conflicts equally. We have to concentrate on those that are most susceptible to treatment-and even then we have immense difficulties. But slowly we are becoming more professional and workmanlike in our approach to conflict management.”
2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4288Resumption1 (2001) · source
“But, more important than that in terms of recent developments, Africans themselves are beginning to take practical action to address the special circumstances that have dragged Africa down and left the continent lagging in development terms. A sense of renewal and partnership is being created, both amongst Africans and between Africa and the rest of the world. Likewise, as Ambassador Levitte said earlier, there has to be a partnership between the Security Council and the parties to a peace agreement-so there has to be a partnership between the outside world, in particular the developed world, and the continent of Africa. At last, in the view of the United Kingdom, Africans and their non-African partners are beginning to look forward to solutions to African problems, not always backwards to blame and resentment.”
2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4288Resumption1 (2001) · source
“We are still dealing with our business in fairly general terms, and before long we are going to have to get down to some particulars. But, I am not sure that we are getting there today. We may have to continue this debate. I would like to pick up not your four questions, Mr. President, but your six questions in the second part of your paper, before I come to some final comments. First, how effective are we being in giving special attention to Africa? There is no doubt of the answer to that: less effective than Africa deserves. But the Security Council's focus on African conflicts is being maintained, and the special characteristics of African conflicts, which you refer to, are being addressed more directly, not least in the cases of Sierra Leone, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola.”
2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4288Resumption1 (2001) · source
“The debate that the President of the Council has wisely instituted on this subject is an excellent opportunity, both to review where our focus should lie over the next six months in following up the declaration of our heads of Government and State last September and to listen to the views of non-members of the Council on where they want concentrated action. Under the pressure of the demands put upon it, the Security Council is gradually changing the way it acts. I should like that change to accelerate. At the end of my intervention 1 shall make some comments in that area to follow up on what the Ambassadors of Singapore and France have said. Much of the principle of the follow-up and quite a lot of the substance have been covered by a good European Union statement this morning. I will not go over the same ground again.”
2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4288Resumption1 (2001) · source
“If that is the case, then members of the Council will understand that further steps beyond that first withdrawal will need to be agreed amongst the parties in the work that they have to do subsequent to the adoption of this draft resolution and, we hope, before 15 May. I would be most grateful if the Chairman, Mr. Mudenge, could confirm that position to us.”
2001-02-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4282 (2001) · source
“I have no trouble with those amendments, but before we adopt this draft resolution, I would like it to be absolutely clear among all parties around this table that the basis for the withdrawal from Pweto - which is the subject of operative paragraph 4 of this draft resolution - the substance of that agreement among the parties is the lines that were agreed among the parties on 8 April last year of a lS-kilometre withdrawal from the lines originally held by the parties. I would be most grateful if the Chairman of the Political Committee could confirm to us very briefly now that the substance of the agreement amongst the parties for that first step of withdrawal in Katanga province is founded on the agreement of 8 April last, and on no other agreement since.”
2001-02-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4282 (2001) · source