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Jeremy Greenstock

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first: 1998-07-30
most recent: 2003-07-25
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“The United Kingdom is beginning to get more active on this front nationally, as Mr. Peter Hain, our Minister of State, has just made clear in a parliamentary statement today. I shall bring that statement to the attention of the sanctions Committee Chairman. We welcome the Secretary-General's intention to get the adoption of a United Nations Office in Angola under Security Council resolution 1268 (1999) implemented. It is disappointing that there has been no progress on that in the past three months. We warmly hope that the Government of Angola and the Secretariat will soon reach a conclusion on that. We welcome the appointment of Ambassador Gambari to focus on Angola. We hope that he will bring greater vigour, commitment and cohesion to the international effort, which it now badly needs.”
2000-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4090 (2000) · source
“On the humanitarian front, there is already a dire humanitarian situation and we need access for humanitarian personnel and for the delivery of emergency assistance in areas under their control. I should be grateful to know from the Secretariat what access the humanitarian agencies still have to Angolan territory. As for sanctions, I think we all applaud what Ambassador Fowler is doing and we are very grateful for his briefing this morning, but we particularly look forward to the expert panel's report, which we hope will contain firm recommendations to make sanctions against UNITA bite. The United Kingdom would want the international community to be in a position to name and shame individuals, companies and, if necessary, Governments involved in sanctions-busting.”
2000-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4090 (2000) · source
“Both the troika and the EU statements make clear that progress can be made towards a political solution only with those members of UNIT A who are prepared to work genuinely for national reconciliation. Clearly, it is time for decisions to be taken that put the Angolan people first and not last in this conflict. On the humanitarian side, we must not lose sight of the need for human rights to be observed by all protagonists and the United Nations has a primary role in assisting the Government of Angola to promote and respect human rights. I hope that Under-Secretary-General Prendergast can confirm to us that there are some human rights observers remaining in Angola and I would be interested to know what their status is pending the establishment of the United Nations Office in Angola.”
2000-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4090 (2000) · source
“There is very broad international agreement, as shown by the EU and troika statements, that, first of all, the Lusaka Protocol remains the foundation for a political solution in Angola - that is something which the Government of Angola fully agrees with - and that Savimbi's defiance of that Protocol and of the resolutions of this Council are the prime cause of the continuing conflict and the human catastrophe that has resulted from it. It is quite clear to all of us that the Government of Angola and UNITA need to enter into a dialogue to create a political solution, but Jonas Savimbi has abrogated any right to be part of that solution. He has let Angola down too often; his word is worthless.”
2000-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4090 (2000) · source
“We have paid very careful attention to the troika statement and the United Kingdom, I think, can say that it agrees with everything in it, so I will not repeat what is in the statement. I would like to draw attention also to a statement made by the European Union (EU) yesterday, which was issued in Brussels and which is available from the EU office in New York. It comes down very much in the same area: Mr. Savimbi bears the prime responsibility for the war in Angola and the Security Council now has to take that into account. Both the troika statement and the EU statement make it very clear that the Government of Angola itself has some responsibilities and some things it needs to do - perhaps some things it needs to do better.”
2000-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4090 (2000) · source
“Finally, I believe that in paying tribute to what UNHCR is doing, which we all do - and to you, Mr. President, for holding this debate - we should express an interest in Mrs. Ogata's suggestion of a refugee education trust, which I think my Government would like to look at in terms of wishing to support it. There is an idea there which can be expanded, and I would like to thank Mrs. Ogata for making that proposal. But in following up, we must go back to the area that she called middle-level security measures, which, I believe, will be the area, in practice, where the Security Council should be following up, as long as there can be a proper framework in Africa for a partnership between African leaderships and other continents in dealing with the problem we are talking about today.”
2000-01-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4089 (2000) · source
“We now have a stability pact for parts of Europe that are still a long way behind the times in dealing with proper standards and human misery. Why do we not have that for Africa? Why do not Africans have that for Africa? Unless we have a structure which has the strength in its framework to bear the burden of what UNHCR and other organizations are trying to do in Africa, everything collapses. So we must talk about the responsibility of leaderships in Africa and about accountability for ruining people's lives, as well as about the insufficiency of resources that are being put into the work of UNHCR and other organizations. Unless we follow up this debate with some discussion of what Ambassador Dejammet and others, and I, have said this morning, we are not going to achieve anything by way of results.”
2000-01-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4089 (2000) · source
“Just as there should be a stigma for Governments that will not recognize that there is an AIDS problem, there should be a stigma for Governments that allow national policies to override ordinary people's lives, at the cost of ruining them. Of course, there is sensitivity in the Security Council about getting into that sort of business, but, as a result, we do not address the problem. I believe that we are going to need to discuss quite a bold new step at some point if we are to have any effect on the misery of conflict in Africa. Ambassador Dejammet pointed to a very important area in comparing what happens in Europe with what does not happen in Africa. In Europe we have the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which has had a huge effect on producing freedom and better standards in Europe.”
2000-01-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4089 (2000) · source
“There are no effective conflict-resolution mechanisms in Africa; on the contrary, armed groups waging war against Governments are often openly supported by other Governments. I am not seeking to transfer blame for failure to support a huge programme for internally displaced persons and refugees in Africa. But the responsibility for internally displaced persons and refugees has to be shared by mechanisms like UNHCR, Governments outside Africa and Governments on the ground. Where is the accountability for this? I believe that one of the good things about this debate, like the AIDS debate on Monday, is that we are raising the profile of problems that do not often get debated properly.”
2000-01-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4089 (2000) · source
“The problem we always find with Africa in particular - and this is why we are having a "month of Africa" - is that what we are doing is mopping up the misery, but we do not seem to have a handle on the tap out of which misery is flowing. Unless you have a sense of turning off the tap that is producing misery, there is a disincentive to go on pouring money into a bottomless box. There are two things that I noted Mrs. Ogata as saying. The difficulty of having access to large numbers of people in insecure and isolated areas is compounded by the complexity of assisting civilians in their own country, where their own state authorities or rebel forces in control are frequently the very cause of their predicament.”
2000-01-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4089 (2000) · source
“Ogata fastened on: the strengthening of law enforcement capacity and support for regional peacekeeping. In those two areas, she is bridging the debate through to the responsibility of Governments on the ground. The United Kingdom, for one, is trying to do a lot in Africa to increase capacity by one means or another. I will not spend time in going over what we are doing. This takes us through to the duty of Governments on the ground. I entirely accept that it is the particular duty of richer countries outside Africa to put resources into this problem. I hope we are doing that, but, as African representatives in particular have said, we are not doing it enough.”
2000-01-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4089 (2000) · source
“Ogata's suggestions in parts of her speech on what we should be focusing on. I think it may help if she says a little bit more about a couple of them: access to internally displaced persons and refugees and the responsibility of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for that; as well as her difficulties to get through Governments. We need only think of the situations in Angola and, of course, Burundi, as well as other places where humanitarian workers have been deliberately attacked and prevented from getting to the people we are trying to help. There is the question of access and special protection and I am glad we are talking as much this morning about internally displaced persons as about refugees. There were two particular areas Mrs.”
2000-01-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4089 (2000) · source
“I think Mrs. Ogata has thrown us a bit of a challenge this morning. I have been going quite carefully through her speech since she made it. The challenge is to get beyond analysis, which we are quite rich on this morning, into some suggestions for practical action. Of course, she and we need to say that we must stop conflict and we must help internally displaced persons and refugees. We can put that in various detailed ways, but actually we are not necessarily going to do very much by saying that and we are not going to do very much by issuing a worthy but unoperational presidential statement later this morning. There are two areas which I would like to touch on very briefly, since I think we are going to need another session on this if there is to be a proper follow-up. One is Mrs.”
2000-01-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4089 (2000) · source
“It is five things: political will - that means also profile; resources; capacity on the ground so that programmes are well led and get to the points that are necessary with expertise; partnership and coordination; and research - we have got to have a vaccine. Every developed country should be able to say publicly what money it is putting into an AIDS programme - and an AIDS programme in Africa. And then we might be getting somewhere.”
2000-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4087Resumption1 (2000) · source
“That leadership has got to come partly from the United Nations, from the Secretary-General and from the Security Council, from the Economic and Social Council, from the World Health Organization, from the World Bank and others. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) can perhaps bring this together. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) can play its part. The UNAIDS analysis of where we have got to with the AIDS catastrophe in Africa was an excellent piece of work. No further analysis is needed today. Where is this leading? And what kind of role is the Security Council going to play? What I think we need has already been said; but let us say it again.”
2000-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4087Resumption1 (2000) · source
“Otherwise, we will stop with the words that we produced today. Secondly, the United Nations - and the Secretary- General must lead here - must have a system and a structure for cooperation with other international institutions and with Governments - and, as people have said, with civil society. How is that going to happen? For a start, I have mentioned one or two things that the United Kingdom is doing. Is there going to be a register or a clearing house of what programmes are being done, in which countries, to what end? Otherwise, we will start duplicating, or we will leave great gaps in countries that desperately need help. So can we have a register or a clearing house that exemplifies the coordination that we are now all calling for? Thirdly, we need leadership on this.”
2000-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4087Resumption1 (2000) · source
“We have a Â£35 million health programme with Malawi that is focusing on sexual and reproductive health assistance programmes, and many other detailed programmes with individual countries, including the distribution of condoms. These programmes are beginning to attack the actual problem we are facing. Mr. President, now I want to ask you a question: how are we going to follow this up? It is all very well to produce rhetoric, but, as I said earlier, we have done the main work of today in the fact of having this meeting, and rhetoric is not going to help. The Security Council is only one element of this. I hope that before your month is over, you will have organized a systematic cooperation between the Security Council and other organs of the United Nations that takes this subject forward.”
2000-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4087Resumption1 (2000) · source
“I think there is nothing that has been said today in detail that is more important than the American announcement on resources, but let us all put in our own bit where we have done something. Last January, the United Kingdom started a Â£100 million programme over a three-year period on global AIDS. My Prime Minister announced that Â£23 million of that would go to Africa last month. Let us see what this money is going to be spent on. It is going to be spent in the following way: Â£40 million worth to research a vaccine; Â£7.5 million for a regional AIDS initiative focused on prevention activities with the Southern African Development Community (SADC), in southern Africa, and more than Â£1 million going to train volunteers to go out into African countries and spread the message.”
2000-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4087Resumption1 (2000) · source
“I think they need to report this meeting and our interest in this subject, as a security subject, to begin to get behaviour to change, as the Ugandan Minister told us so clearly. We ourselves, I think, are adding to the de- stigmatization of AIDS by having this meeting. But it has got to be taken up by Africans. The fact is that the prevalence of AIDS in Africa is a symbol of the comparative failure of development, security and education in Africa. That is an African failure, and it is an international failure. It is not just one or the other. It is the failure of both Africans and non-Africans. We have got to inspire a different approach. The second thing that is needed, apart from profile, is resources.”
2000-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4087Resumption1 (2000) · source
“I am setting aside my speech and will just make one or two extempore remarks. First of all, I applaud your initiative, because you have hit on the first thing we can do and are doing, which is to give this subject profile. Our thanks go to Vice-President Gore for doing that in spades. It needs profile, because not all African Governments are even acknowledging that they have got a problem. Let us applaud those who are - such as Uganda and Senegal for actually starting efficient programmes on AIDS, and several other countries whose leaders are now beginning to acknowledge that something needs to be done. Mozambique, Kenya, Swaziland, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Namibia are all clearly beginning to do that; but there are many others that are not.”
2000-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4087Resumption1 (2000) · source
“I think it would be right on behalf of the whole Council to thank the Department of Peacekeeping Operations for its hard work on East Timor as part of the very considerable burden it is undertaking at the moment. I would also ask the Assistant Secretary-General please to convey to the Special Representative of the Secretary- General in East Timor, Mr. Sergio Vieira de Mello , and to his team our warm appreciation for what they have achieved thus far in the interim administration. There are no further speakers on my list. The Security Council has thus concluded the present stage of its consideration of the item on its agenda. The meeting rose at 1.10 17.171.”
1999-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4085 (1999) · source
“The United Kingdom pledged some $20 million over the three-year period to come. Although that is rather less than our commitment, for instance, to Sierra Leone, it is still a substantial sum. The funds will be channelled to UNTAET and to the World Bank trust funds, according to evolving needs. We need to be certain that these funds are used to ensure a simple, flexible and sensitive approach to East Timor's requirements which is well coordinated by UNTAET and by the World Bank. Disjointed bilateral approaches would risk overwhelming East Timorese capacity, so we want to underline this need for proper coordination of the most welcome funding that is now available. I resume my functions as President of the Security Council. I call on Mr. Annabi to respond to the comments and questions that have been raised.”
1999-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4085 (1999) · source
“I shall now make a brief statement in my capacity as the representative of the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom very much shares the consensus of views around this table about the progress that has been made in East Timor and endorses the tributes that have been paid to those responsible for that progress. We also share the continued concern, particularly about the plight of refugees, in East and West Timor, and about accountability for human rights abuses. Let me just say a word about the Tokyo donor conference, the results of which we very much welcome. This was an important contribution to the reconstruction of East Timor and to its smooth transition to independence. It is all the more welcome because the United Nations and the World Bank do not always cooperate so well together.”
1999-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4085 (1999) · source
“I should like to draw the attention of members of the Council to document S/1999/1248, letter dated 14 December 1999 from the Secretary-General transmitting a letter dated 10 December 1999 from the Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations and the fifth periodic report on the operations of the International Force, East Timor (INTERFET). I now call on Mr. Annabi, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations.”
1999-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4085 (1999) · source
“In accordance with the understanding reached in the Council's prior consultations, and in the absence of objection, I shall take it that the Security Council agrees to extend an invitation under rule 39 of its provisional rules of procedure to Mr. Hedi Annabi, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations. There being no objection, it is so decided. I invite Mr. Annabi to take a seat at the Council table. 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. At this meeting, the Security Council will hear a briefing by the Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations on the situation concerning East Timor.”
1999-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4085 (1999) · source
“There are no further speakers on my list. The Security Council has thus concluded the present stage of its consideration of the item on its agenda. The Security Council will remain seized of the matter. The meeting rose at 1.45 p.m.”
1999-12-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4084 (1999) · source
“The Security Council needs, and the United Nations system as a whole needs, the weight of the full Council and the full membership in implementing this mandatory resolution. We have a great deal of work to do to bring its provisions into effect, and we must do it together. If we succeed in that, it will be to the advantage of the peoples of Iraq and of the region, in the interests of the future authority of the United Nations, and to the great credit of the Council. Finally, as the sponsor of this resolution, I pay tribute to my colleagues - all of them - for their patience, their perseverance and their diplomacy in bringing this comprehensive piece of work on Iraq to a result. I now resume my functions as President of the Security Council.”
1999-12-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4084 (1999) · source
“The adoption of this resolution was an exceptional achievement for the Security Council. As the representative of the Russian Federation stated this morning, it was possible to avoid a split in the Council. The result is fully in the interests of the Iraqi people and of the international community. The resolution has been adopted, explicitly, by the Council as a whole, in the recognition that relief of sanctions and performance on disarmament have to go hand in hand. We regret that, on this point, some have been more inclined to listen to the voice of the Iraqi leadership than to the needs of the Iraqi people. The Council now has the policy which it needs, and this resolution is now the law of the globe. It is time to look forward.”
1999-12-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4084 (1999) · source
“Iraq's track record and its recent rhetoric are hardly encouraging: witness its refusal this week to grant visas to the International Atomic Energy Agency. That makes it all the more important that we in the Council do everything we can to turn this resolution into a reality. It means action across the board, starting now. On weapons of mass destruction, we need to select someone able and experienced as Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC to carry on the excellent and professional work of the United Nations Special Commission. On the humanitarian side, the Committee established pursuant to resolution 661 (1990) has urgent work to do to make the humanitarian programme bigger and better. And we look forward to the appointment of an active coordinator on the Kuwait-related issues.”
1999-12-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4084 (1999) · source
“They give the international community the necessary reassurance that suspension can occur only if Iraq at last begins to act according to the rules of international law. If we have needed to establish a process for that purpose which involves calling for the responsible judgement of the Council at steps along the way, that too is sensible; it can only help to produce greater confidence in Iraq's good faith and stronger agreement within the Council on how to deal with Iraq. Some have argued that the resolution should have been designed to ensure Iraq's acceptance of it. On the basis of Iraq's known current positions, that would have meant abandoning all the previous resolutions. It was clearly not a credible approach for the Council. A more serious point is whether Iraq will cooperate in its implementation.”
1999-12-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4084 (1999) · source
“Most significantly of all, it sets out a series of clear, logical steps, using the new concept of suspension, to bring Iraq out of sanctions and back into the international community and to allow the suffering Iraqi people once again to hope for a normal existence. If Baghdad chooses to turn down the opportunity of this resolution, then the Iraqi people are the real losers. The Council has embraced the idea of suspension, because it both maintains the integrity of the previous resolutions and marks out the way forward. The United Kingdom strongly endorses the concept, and sees it as a valuable step towards the full lifting of sanctions. The criteria for suspension are clear, and are rooted in Iraq's obligations under existing resolutions.”
1999-12-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4084 (1999) · source
“We have a resolution which preserves the original disarmament standards for Iraq; establishes a new monitoring and inspection arrangement for Iraq, in the shape of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC); and meets our humanitarian concerns by making the oil-for-food programme bigger and better resourced, in particular through the lifting of the oil ceiling, and by setting out ways to make sure that the funds can be spent as quickly and efficiently as possible to the benefit of the Iraqi people. It also belated recognizes just how dire Iraq's response has been to its obligations with regard to missing Kuwaiti citizens and property.”
1999-12-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4084 (1999) · source
“The Council's work on Iraq throughout this year has been dedicated to finding a new approach for the international community's business with Iraq, one firmly set in the framework of a collective responsibility exercised within the United Nations. The Amorim panels gave us an excellent start. It is in that spirit that the United Kingdom has participated in these negotiations, and that is why we have worked tirelessly to find an outcome which, while meeting our concerns that Iraq should meet its international obligations, allowed adoption by the whole Council. We now have that way forward.”
1999-12-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4084 (1999) · source
“I shall now make a statement in my capacity as the representative of the United Kingdom. Since the adoption of the Security Council resolutions which followed the end of the Gulf war in 1991, the United Kingdom has regarded it as one of the most important responsibilities of the international community, and in particular of the Security Council, to hold Iraq to its obligations under those resolutions and to contain the threat to the peace and security of the region. That includes the threat posed by weapons of mass destruction. For the Security Council to remain a successful global manager of peace and security, we must ensure that its decisions are not diluted by defiance.”
1999-12-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4084 (1999) · source
“I thank the representative of the Netherlands for the kind words he addressed to me and to my delegation. I now give the floor to the representative of Brazil to make a brief second statement.”
1999-12-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4084 (1999) · source
“I thank the representative of France for his kind words addressed to my delegation. I now put to the vote the draft resolution contained in document S/ 1999/ 1232. A vote was taken by show of hands. In favour: Argentina, Bahrain, Brazil, Canada, Gabon, Gambia, Namibia, Netherlands, Slovenia, United Kingdom, United States Against: None Abstaining: China, France, Malaysia, Russian Federation The President: The result of the voting is as follows: 11 votes in favour, none against, and 4 abstentions. The draft resolution has been adopted as resolution 1284 (1999). I shall now give the floor to those members of the Council who wish to make statements following the voting.”
1999-12-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4084 (1999) · source
“I thank the representative of Kuwait for his kind words addressed to me. It is my understanding that the Council is ready to proceed to the vote on the draft resolution before it. Unless I hear any objection, I shall put the draft resolution to the vote. There being no objection, it is so decided. I shall first give the floor to those members of the Council who wish to make statements before the voting.”
1999-12-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4084 (1999) · source
“Members of the council have before them document S/ 1999/1232, which contains the text of a draft resolution submitted by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. I give the floor to the representative of Kuwait.”
1999-12-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4084 (1999) · source
“I should like to inform the Council that I have received a letter from the representative of Kuwait, in which he requests to be invited to participate in the discussion of the item on the Council's agenda. In conformity with the usual practice, I propose, with the consent of the Council, to invite that representative 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. Abulhasan (Kuwait) took a seat at the Council table. 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.”
1999-12-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4084 (1999) · source
“In favour: Argentina, Bahrain, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Gabon, Gambia, Malaysia, Namibia, Netherlands, Russian Federation, Slovenia, 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 1283 (1999). The Security Council has thus concluded the present stage of its consideration of the item on its agenda. The meeting rose at 6.25 pm.”
1999-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4082 (1999) · source
“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. Members of the Council have before them the report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations operation in Cyprus, document S/l999/1203 and corrigendum l and addendum 1. Members of the Council also have before them document S/ 1999/ 1249, which contains the text of a draft resolution prepared in the course of 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/1999/ 1249) before it. If I hear no objection, I shall put the draft resolution to the vote now. There being no objection, it is so decided. A vote was taken by show of hands.”
1999-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4082 (1999) · source
“I now put to the vote the draft resolution contained in document S/ 1999/ 1239. A vote was taken by show of hands. In favour: Argentina, Bahrain, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Gabon, Gambia, Malaysia, Netherlands, Russian Federation, Slovenia, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America Against: None Abstaining: Namibia The President: The result of the voting is as follows: 14 votes in favour, none against and 1 abstention. The draft resolution has been adopted as resolution 1282 (1999). The Security Council has thus concluded the present stage of its consideration of the item on its agenda. The meeting rose at 4.40 p.m.”
1999-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4080 (1999) · source
“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. Members of the Council have before them the report of the Secretary-General on the situation concerning Western Sahara, document S/ 1999/ 1219. Members of the Council also have before them document S/ 1999/ 1239, which contains the text of a draft resolution submitted by France, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America. It is my understanding that the Council is ready to proceed to the vote on the draft resolution before it. Unless I hear any objection, I shall put the draft resolution to the vote. There being no objection, it is so decided.”
1999-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4080 (1999) · source
“In favour: Argentina, Bahrain, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Gabon, Gambia, Malaysia, Namibia, Netherlands, Russian Federation, Slovenia, 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 1281 (1999). The Security Council has thus concluded the present stage of its consideration of the item on its agenda. The Security Council will remain seized of the matter. The meeting rose at 12.45 pm.”
1999-12-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4079 (1999) · source
“The Security Council will now resume its consideration of the item on its agenda. The Security Council is meeting in accordance with the understanding reached in its prior consultations. Members of the Council have before them document S/ 1999/ 1230, which contains the text of a draft resolution submitted by the United States of America. It is my understanding that the Security Council is ready to proceed to the vote on the draft resolution before it. If I hear no objection, I shall now put the draft resolution to the vote. There being no objection, it is so decided. A vote was taken by show of hands.”
1999-12-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4079 (1999) · source
“I thank the Under-Secretary-General for his contribution this morning. There are no further speakers inscribed on my list. The Security Council has thus concluded the present stage of its consideration of the item on its agenda. The Security Council will remain seized of the matter. The meeting rose at 12.40 pm.”
1999-12-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4078 (1999) · source
“I am grateful to Mr. Miyet for his answers and observations, which were, as always, comprehensive and acute. This has been an important and interesting meeting on the subject. This is a critical operation of the United Nations in Africa; we must get it right, and the Security Council will want to work closely with the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, in particular, in getting it right.”
1999-12-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4078 (1999) · source
“We look forward to hearing the Secretary-General's next report in January, when UNAMSIL is fully deployed. The United Kingdom welcomes the appointment of Special Representative Adeniji and pays tribute to the work of Francis Okelo. Finally, we urge the parties and all those with influence over them to continue to ensure the implementation of the provisions of the Lome Agreement to allow this desperately needed peacekeeping operation to fulfil its mandate. I now resume my functions as President of the Council. I give the floor to Mr. Miyet to respond to the comments and questions that have arisen.”
1999-12-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4078 (1999) · source
“Tensions between the different rebel groups and leaders - Sankoh, Koroma and Bockarie - lie behind much of this continuing unrest and violence. It is essential to maintain dialogue with each of them to bring them and their followers into the Lome framework. Even in the area of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration, organizational and security problems continue to hamper the DDR programme. These need to be addressed, and a better information and sensitization strategy is vital to encourage those groups that have not yet disarmed to do so. The United Kingdom welcomes the recent pledges of contributions to the World Bank Trust Fund from Germany, Canada, Italy and Norway and the announcement this morning of contributions from the Netherlands and France.”
1999-12-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4078 (1999) · source
“The United Kingdom is committed to do all that we can to help in this effort and to make the Lorne Peace Agreement work more widely. The Agreement gives the best chance to the people of Sierra Leone for an end to the Violence and suffering they have endured for the past eight years. While there are, as Mr. Miyet has pointed out, some reasons for cautious optimism - particularly in the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) programme - we agree with the Secretary-General that serious problems remain. We are concerned at the continuing cease-fire violations, human rights abuses and lack of humanitarian access. And we are appalled by the recent attack on personnel of non-governmental organizations and by the detention of medical workers in the east of the country. We hope that their release is imminent.”
1999-12-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4078 (1999) · source