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2003-05-30
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  1. “The United Nations can play an important supportive role here, too, but again it is critical that national stakeholders take the lead. Fifthly, economic recovery and development are also important for reconciliation. The United Nations can play a leading role in mobilizing international financial and technical support to ensure that there is a peace and reconciliation dividend in terms of economic growth, jobs and an improved quality of life. Finally, I would like to underline the importance of leadership in the process of reconciliation. The reconciliation process is possible in Rwanda because we have leadership with vision - leadership that does not necessarily seek short-term, popular solutions to complex problems. National reconciliation should be seen as primarily the responsibility of the particular country.”

    2004-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4903Resumption1 (2004) · source

  2. “We fully agree with the representative of Peru in emphasizing the role the United Nations should play with regard to compensating innocent victims as a matter of socialjustice. Fourthly, genocide took place in Rwanda following decades of deficient politics and deficient governance. We felt that, in order for reconciliation to take place, there needed to be a sense that measures were being put in place to ensure that genocide would not occur again in the country. Governance reform therefore became a vital component of the reconciliation process. A new political dispensation, with transparent, democratic, decentralized and empowered governance structures was put in place to ensure that genocide and systematic State-inspired terror would never happen again.”

    2004-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4903Resumption1 (2004) · source

  3. “Reconciliation is not always best realized by amnesty or forgiveness. In our case, justice was also important in order to eradicate the culture of impunity that had for so long been a feature of Rwandan life. Justice is also aimed at the rehabilitation of the offenders, thereby making reconciliation between them and the victims possible. In this regard, our conviction is that the United Nations should play a vital role in ensuring that appropriate assistance, in terms of resources and expertise, is provided for national efforts to achieve effective reconciliation and justice. The United Nations also has a clear role to play in ensuring that the international justice institutions mandated to handle post-conflict cases are efficient, cost-effective and morally and ethically based.”

    2004-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4903Resumption1 (2004) · source

  4. “We believe that these discussions triggered national soul- searching and enabled us to identify what went wrong and what we must do to ensure that the mistakes of the past are never repeated. We believe that the United Nations could play a crucial supportive role here. Our experience has taught us, however, that national stakeholders must take ownership of the process, while the international community and the United Nations play a supportive role. Thirdly, Rwanda has faced the particularly difficult challenge of promoting unity and reconciliation, while at the same time ensuring that those who committed crimes during the genocide are brought to justice. An important lesson that we have learned in this respect is that justice is crucial for the reconciliation of the perpetrator and the victim.”

    2004-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4903Resumption1 (2004) · source

  5. “Crucially, we have also learnt that rebuilding local and national governance structures is an essential prerequisite for the success of the post- conflict reconciliation process. The United Nations has a wealth of experience in these activities. It can and should therefore play a key role. Secondly, after creating the enabling environment, the Rwandan Government established a National Unity and Reconciliation Commission and charged it with the responsibility of organizing a series of open discussions focusing on what went so badly wrong with the politics and governance of our country. These discussions involved everyone in and out of the country, including civic and community leaders and elders, genocide survivor groups, professionals, farmers, students and even genocide suspects.”

    2004-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4903Resumption1 (2004) · source

  6. “As the Security Council debates what the role of the United Nations in national reconciliation should be, we would like to draw attention to several aspects of our particular experience. First of all, we learned that national reconciliation is a process that may last for many years, even generations. It is not an event that can be completed in weeks, months or a few years. For us, the reconciliation process began by creating an enabling environment in which reconciliation could take place in earnest. Creating an enabling environment involved such things as ensuring peace and security, the return of refugees and internally displaced persons to their homes, kick-starting normal economic and social activity, and improving access to medical and other humanitarian services.”

    2004-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4903Resumption1 (2004) · source

  7. “The role of the United Nations must therefore also vary from one situation to another, but it should always be commensurate with our expectations and the obligations outlined in the Charter. The challenges Rwanda faced in the aftermath of the genocide were particularly grave. By July 1994, of a population of 8 million people, over 1 million had been killed, two and a half million had fled to neighbouring countries and almost everyone else was internally displaced. All economic and social activity had ground to a complete standstill. The security situation in the country was, at best, fragile. Food production, as well as medical and other humanitarian services, were severely disrupted. This was the difficult environment in which Rwanda began the process of national reconciliation.”

    2004-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4903Resumption1 (2004) · source

  8. “Members of the Security Council will be aware that countries like Rwanda have faced considerable difficulties in dealing with the myriad challenges facing post-conflict communities - or, in our case, post-genocide communities - in terms not only of reconciliation and confidence-building measures between communities, but also of establishing a climate of peace and security, rebuilding governance structures and promoting economic and social revival or renewal. While it is clear that the United Nations has a crucial role to play in post-conflict national reconciliation, it should also be clear that there cannot be a one-size-fits-all response, as has been mentioned by many speakers before me. Post-conflict situations vary, as do reconciliation challenges and the capacity of States to meet those challenges.”

    2004-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4903Resumption1 (2004) · source

  9. “On behalf of my delegation, let me extend to you, Madame, my appreciation for taking the commendable initiative of calling a meeting to discuss the very important issue of the role of the United Nations in post-conflict national reconciliation. This debate is timely and addresses an issue that is at the very heart of our Organization, as enshrined in Article 1 of the Charter of the United Nations.”

    2004-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4903Resumption1 (2004) · source

  10. “The President (spoke in Spanish) The next speaker inscribed on my list is the representative of Nepal. I invite him to take a seat at the Council table and to make his statement.”

    2003-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4790 (2003) · source

  11. “My Government would like also to express the hope that the Transitional Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo will shoulder its responsibilities with regard to the various armed groups in its territory by promoting effective implementation of the disarmament, demobilization, reintegration and repatriation or resettlement programme, with respect for the accords previously signed in Lusaka and Pretoria. My Government is committed to cooperating with the Transitional Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in order to find answers to issues of security, sovereignty and peace in the region, in the interests of our respective countries and peoples. My Government reiterates its full cooperation with MONUC and hopes that the Mission will be strengthened in a manner that is commensurate with its important task.”

    2003-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4790 (2003) · source

  12. “This concern was once again emphasized by His Excellency President Paul Kagame during his meeting with the Security Council mission in Kigali last month. The establishment of the Transitional Government is not an end in itself. My Government therefore hopes that it marks the beginning of a firm commitment to genuine peace and stability within the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as in the region as a whole, and that it will provide a legitimate means of rallying Congolese people of all convictions around a shared ideal of unity, justice and equality before the law in a country where exclusion in any form would be banned, with a view to rebuilding a prosperous Democratic Republic of the Congo.”

    2003-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4790 (2003) · source

  13. “The Government of Rwanda welcomes the establishment of an inclusive Government in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which has become a reality with the return to Kinshasa of the primary leaders of the rebel movements - the Mouvement national de liberation du Congo and the Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD)- Goma - as well as the swearing-in of the four vice- presidents of the Republic, who were nominated within the framework of the establishment of the Transitional Government. Throughout the Congolese crisis, the Government of Rwanda has consistently drawn the attention of the Council and of the international community to the need to establish an inclusive Government strong enough to re-establish authority on its territory and sufficiently responsible to ensure respect for the security of neighbouring States.”

    2003-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4790 (2003) · source

  14. “Solana for his initiative of travelling to the region to see for himself the magnitude of the crisis in Africa, which is evidence of the fresh impetus given by the international community, and the European Union in particular, to assist that region finally to overcome the crises afflicting it and the attendant untold suffering. We are grateful to the President of the Council for having convened this important public meeting on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is taking place at an important moment: the day after the establishment of the Government in keeping with the Lusaka accords and the inter-Congolese dialogue. We are also at this time prompted to reflect on the future of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and that of the Great Lakes region as a whole.”

    2003-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4790 (2003) · source

  15. “Mr. Kamanzi (Rwanda) (spoke in French): Like previous speakers, I should like to welcome the presence here this morning of the Secretary-General. This is a sign of the determination of the United Nations to help to resolve conflict in the Great Lakes region and to achieve peace there. I should like also to thank Mr. Guehenno and Mr. Ngongi for their statements concerning recent developments and events in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which, in my view, were assessed positively. I should like also to thank Mr.”

    2003-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4790 (2003) · source

  16. “Recommendations regarding the African mission in Burundi should be made in the vein of consolidating its efficiency on the ground for the utmost security and good of the people of Burundi.”

    2003-05-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4766Resumption1 (2003) · source

  17. “The mission should seek to help the Congolese protagonists to identify ways and means to overcome the outstanding impediments to putting in place national and integrated transitional structures. A strong appeal to the various Congolese parties, especially the Government in place in Kinshasa, to show more political will and openness would be very valuable in rescuing the good results achieved so far through the remarkable regional and international peace initiatives undertaken for the Democratic Republic of the Congo. As far as Burundi is concerned, the Government of Rwanda would like to express its wish to see the Security Council mission contribute to strengthening the mechanisms for the implementation of the Arusha peace accords so as to achieve a speedy restoration of peace all over the territory of Burundi.”

    2003-05-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4766Resumption1 (2003) · source

  18. “The Government of Rwanda advocates that the multinational force be a strong support for the pacification process without interfering with the Lusaka and Pretoria frameworks, which constitute a pivotal reference for the restoration of durable peace and security for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and for all the other countries in the Great Lakes region. The Government of Rwanda also welcomes the forthcoming mission of the Security Council to Central Africa, which is to take place in the course of June. This is a crucial step in giving impetus to the pacification process taking place in the countries of the Great Lakes region, especially in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burundi.”

    2003-05-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4766Resumption1 (2003) · source

  19. “A substantial commitment from the international community is indeed needed to help the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to build trust among themselves and to strive for national unity. In this regard, the Government of Rwanda appreciates Secretary-General Kofi Annan's noteworthy initiative of carrying out consultations for the deployment of a neutral multinational force, whose main mission is to bring relief to the population of Ituri and to prevent a further humanitarian catastrophe in the region. Those populations have indeed been suffering as a result of the chaotic and unsafe situation favoured by the absence of the appropriate dynamic in implementing the Lusaka and Pretoria political frameworks.”

    2003-05-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4766Resumption1 (2003) · source

  20. “These last months have witnessed the awful and sad events that took place in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, where numerous innocent civilians were disgracefully massacred or forced into displacement and subsequent misery. Those events happened at a time when the Congolese had just agreed upon a political framework for putting in place transitional structures aimed at achieving long-lasting peace and security for the people of the country and for the neighbouring countries. The magnitude of those events requires that the international community provide unconditional support to all the Congolese parties in this process towards achieving durable peace.”

    2003-05-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4766Resumption1 (2003) · source

  21. “On behalf of my delegation, I would like to take this opportunity to extend to you, Mr. President, my sincere thanks for convening this important meeting on peace and conflict in Africa. I would also like to congratulate you on the remarkable job done by the Security Council in the course of the month of May, during your tenure. Moreover, my delegation expresses its high appreciation for the assessment and recommendations made this morning by Ambassador Gambari. My delegation also fully endorses the statement made by the representative of the Congo on behalf of Central African countries on the evolution of the pacification process in the area.”

    2003-05-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4766Resumption1 (2003) · source