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Kebe

lines on the record: 47
first: 2000-10-05
most recent: 2003-11-24
sittings or episodes: 6
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“As to what form such a structure should take, we rely on the flexibility shown by the countries of the subregion that are prepared to consider this issue further with the special envoy to be appointed by the Secretary-General. In addition to supporting the request by countries of the subregion, the African Union would like to emphasize the fact that the form of such coordination matters less than its efficiency and effectiveness. We also wish to stress that the coordination of all activities undertaken by the various agencies of the United Nations and the organizations it has established is essential.”
2003-11-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4871 (2003) · source
“The African Union agrees with the analysis brought out in the report - which I believe has met the approval of all those who have spoken in this morning's debate - that, given the diversity of the challenges facing the region, an integrated, comprehensive and resolute approach is needed. The African Union also recognizes that there must be better coordination of all activities and initiatives in the subregion. Such coordination is essential at the vertical level, to prevent duplication, but also at the horizontal level, to harmonize all activities undertaken. We believe such coordination work to be essential, and we support the request by States of the region that the United Nations ensure a political presence in Central Africa.”
2003-11-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4871 (2003) · source
“I would also mention continental initiatives - two African Union initiatives with regard to peace and security: the Peace and Security Council, now taking shape and becoming operational, which is to coordinate all regional mechanisms dealing with conflict prevention, management and settlement; and another continental initiative, the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), whose programme covers all the problems related to peace and security and economic and social development that were identified in the report. The African Union is of the View that we must improve and strengthen the capacities of existing regional and subregional organizations - particularly ECCAS - with a view to enabling them to be much more operational and to better address the subregion's problems related to peace, security and economic integration.”
2003-11-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4871 (2003) · source
“I would mention the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), which is concerned with issues of peace and security as well as economic integration, and the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CAEMC), which - unlike ECCAS, which covers the region's 11 countries - covers only a limited number of countries and is concerned with much more specific issues. I should also mention that other organizations of a regional nature have a presence in the region, such as the Community of Sahelo-Saharan States. The United Nations is also very present in the region with several missions, offices, programmes and initiatives, the most recent of which is the project of an international conference on the Great Lakes.”
2003-11-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4871 (2003) · source
“The diagnosis as well as the remedy recommended in the report (S/2003/1077) could be applied to all of Africa's regions and to all African countries. The paradox here is that Central Africa - which is one of the regions most endowed with potential and economic resources - has been one of the weakest performers with regard to economic development and social integration. However, at the initiative of the region's heads of State, several regional and subregional organizations have been set up.”
2003-11-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4871 (2003) · source
“Mr. Kebe (African Union) (spoke in French): I should like at the outset to thank you, Mr. President, for having invited the African Union to take part in this debate on the Central African region and to congratulate Angola on having included many African issues on the Council's agenda for the month of November. I also thank Mr. Kalomoh and his multidisciplinary team for their clear, precise and comprehensive report (S/2003/1077), which goes straight to the heart of the problems being endured by Central Africa. The African Union recognizes that there is a cause-and-effect relationship among bad governance, ethnic and social exclusion and impunity, on the one hand, and tensions, conflicts and insecurity, on the other. We emphasize the need to tackle the underlying causes of the region's conflicts and economic problems.”
2003-11-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4871 (2003) · source
“The African Union favours any new initiative in this forum that might be undertaken with its member States to support and strengthen their tireless efforts for decades to restore peace and stability to their region and to launch economic and social development projects.”
2002-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4630Resumption1 (2002) · source
“In order to support those efforts and support the leaders of Central Africa in their quest for stability and development, the African Union - which has always worked in close cooperation with the subregional organizations and with the representatives of the United Nations on the ground - proposes the following: first, to ensure the swift and effective implementation of all resolutions related to the peace process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in Burundi; secondly, to develop a coordinated and coherent United Nations policy in Central Africa that would involve the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council through its Ad Hoc Advisory Group on African Countries Emerging from Conflicts, and the international financial institutions in the rebuilding of the subregion's countries; thirdly, to strengthen cooperation among all organizations in the subregion - the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), the Central African Economic and Monetary Community and the Economic Community of the Great Lakes Countries; fourthly, to make the Council for Peace and Security established for ECCAS operational and establish a working relationship between it and the various United Nations departments and agencies; and fifthly, to find, with the assistance of the international community, a swift regional solution to the problem of refugees and displaced persons in the subregion.”
2002-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4630Resumption1 (2002) · source
“That chronic instability has always compromised efforts aimed at economic and social development, despite the region's enormous potential. Mindful of the fact that peace and political stability are an essential requirement for development, Central Africa has established several regional cooperation frameworks and mechanisms for peace, security, economic integration and development.”
2002-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4630Resumption1 (2002) · source
“This protocol defines the subregional mechanisms for conflict management as being an integral part of the continental mechanism, which has the primary responsibility for promoting peace, security and stability in Africa. The goal of the structural relationship between the continental mechanism and the subregional mechanisms is, first of all, to harmonize and coordinate the activities of the subregional mechanisms with regard to peace, security and stability, and secondly, to ensure a real partnership between the subregional mechanisms and the Peace and Security Council of the African Union within the framework of the latter's mandate. Central Africa has been ravaged for decades by conflicts of every sort.”
2002-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4630Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Within this partnership, we need to see to what extent the Council can take over from the regional and subregional mechanisms as soon and as effectively as possible, once the financial and logistic limits of these operations do not allow those mechanisms to complete the peacekeeping operations that they initiated. The increasingly resolute commitment of the African heads of State to make more effective and more operational the Mechanism for Conflict Prevention, Management and Resolution in the African continent is illustrated in the adoption by the first regular session of the conference of the Union, held in Durban, South Africa, of the protocol establishing the African Union's Peace and Security Council.”
2002-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4630Resumption1 (2002) · source
“The adoption on 18 October of the presidential statement contained in document S/PRST/2002/28, in which the Security Council said that it supported the deployment of an International Observation Force, is eloquent testimony to what the United Nations, regional and subregional organizations can do together in the area of the conflict prevention, management and settlement. What we think is crucial in this partnership is the principle of shared responsibility - or sharing the burden i in peacekeeping operations. The United Nations should never give the impression that it is abandoning its primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security. This principle is today more relevant than ever before in Central Africa.”
2002-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4630Resumption1 (2002) · source
“This debate coincides directly with the objectives of the Working Group on Africa established by the Council under the chairmanship of Ambassador Jagdish Koonjul. This debate is timely, since the Central African subregion, which has spared no effort to defuse tensions and restore normal relations among its members, has decided to deploy an International Observation Force (FIO) in the Central African Republic, responsible for, inter alia, security along the common border between Chad and the Central African Republic.”
2002-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4630Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Allow me, Sir, to convey the thanks of His Excellency Mr. Amara Essy, Interim Chairman of the Commission of the African Union, for the invitation you kindly addressed to him to participate in this open debate. He sincerely regrets that he was unable to come to New York because of prior commitments. That is why he asked me to represent him during these deliberations. Sir, I should like to convey to you, and through you to your country, Cameroon, heartfelt congratulations on the your assumption of the Council's presidency for the month of October. The African Union welcomes this debate, and we fully support it, because the Union believes that it is the first step in a series of meetings to come between the Security Council and the subregional organizations on matters of peace and security.”
2002-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4630Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Now we must begin to build the foundation of a new world in which cultural values and civilizations, instead of confronting and fighting one another, will accept one another, will talk to one another and will exchange mutually enriching experiences. Are we not, after all, a single and unique race on this single and unique Earth? If our civilization, which, like any civilization, is perishable, fails to learn the terrible lessons of the twentieth century, with its two world wars and the first use of the atomic bomb, we will no longer be able to put our hope in man. We are meeting here today because we place our hopes in man and the values he embodies, and to mobilize overall support for them.”
2002-10-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4618Resumption2 (2002) · source
“I should also like to take this opportunity to publicly thank the Government of Norway and other donor countries that have provided such important financial assistance, which has enabled us to hold this important meeting. In conclusion, I wish to offer a final observation. It is our belief that it is illusory to focus our common action solely on the manifestations of terrorism. Defeating terrorism is not simply a matter of pruning the branches; we must, above all, attack the deep roots of evil. In other words, we must make sure that we wage a relentless fight against extreme poverty, injustice, frustration and marginalization, which today afflict almost two thirds of humankind and is fertile ground for the proliferation of terrorist acts and their justification. Without doubt, 11 September changed our world.”
2002-10-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4618Resumption2 (2002) · source
“It also awaits the support and assistance of the international community to make effective its legal instruments and the relevant administrative and judicial provisions. I would like to end this part of my statement by mentioning, and welcoming, the fruitful cooperation between the Chairman of the Counter-Terrorism Committee, Ambassador Greenstock, and the leaders of the African Union. That cooperation culminated in Ambassador Ward's participation in the Algiers meeting. That is evidence that this kind of partnership between the United Nations and regional or subregional organizations, if cultivated and supported, can help us make significant progress in matters of common concern.”
2002-10-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4618Resumption2 (2002) · source
“The meeting garnered the requisite number of ratifications of the 1999 Convention, which will enter into force in the next few weeks, and adopted a Plan of Action, whose preamble states: "The implementation of the Algiers Convention has become urgent, given the determining role of Africa in the international struggle against terrorism and its legal obligations in the context of Security Council resolution 1373 (2001)." The African States have undertaken, under the provisions of the plan of action, to share their experiences acquired in the fight against terrorism, as well as their resources. I am pleased to report to the Council that Africa is ready to play its part in the overall struggle against terrorism in all its forms.”
2002-10-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4618Resumption2 (2002) · source
“On 11 September 2002, recognizing the meaning of that date and seeking to further consolidate the anti- terrorist struggle in Africa as part of the worldwide movement against terrorism, the African Union organized a high-level intergovernmental meeting in Algiers on terrorism in Africa.”
2002-10-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4618Resumption2 (2002) · source
“It is on that basis that in July 1999, at the Organization of African Unity (OAU) Summit in Algiers, the heads of State or Government of the OAU adopted the OAU Convention on the Prevention and Combating of Terrorism, thereby providing Africa with a unique continent-wide legal instrument. Our resources being very meagre we felt, before others, the need to unite to combat the threat posed by terrorist acts. In the Dakar Declaration against Terrorism, which was adopted in October 2001 at the OAU Summit, member States rejected terrorism and recognized the devastating impact of terrorism and the obstacles it poses to development and stability in the African continent.”
2002-10-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4618Resumption2 (2002) · source
“For the organization that I represent, most of whose members achieved independence after a long national liberation struggle, it is intolerable that populations struggling for their independence against the occupation of their national territories and against the denial of their human rights should be confused with terrorists. To make the struggle a coherent whole we must, sooner or later - indeed the sooner the better - all agree on a universally accepted definition of what terrorism is. Africa did not wait until 11 September 2001 to organize the continent against terrorism. I spoke of the unrelenting struggle that Egypt, Algeria and Tunisia have waged against terrorist movements for over a decade. We recall also how Kenya and Tanzania were struck hard by the 1998 attacks against the United States embassies in their territories.”
2002-10-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4618Resumption2 (2002) · source
“Of course, terrorist acts that blindly strike whole populations, destroy civilian infrastructure, disrupt national and international transportation and undermine State authority and the fundamental universal values that underlie the very survival of the human civilization are indeed a real threat to international peace and security. If there is one thing on which there has been unanimity since 11 September 2001, it is that. Moreover, everybody agreed on the need to coordinate all combat actions against this universal threat since 11 September 2001. So what are we debating here? It is that the international community has not been able to find a clear definition for terrorism, to identify it and to expose it for what it is to the world.”
2002-10-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4618Resumption2 (2002) · source
“In third-world countries, where the phenomenon held sway, and where we did not have the resources that major countries have - I am thinking, in Africa, of Algeria, Egypt and Tunisia - we began to sound the alarm, calling for concerted international action to overcome this international ring that had sworn to bring independent sovereign States to their knees. Nobody wanted to listen, however, to those faraway voices that were predicting the end of a world. The reason was, unfortunately, that most of these terrorist groups had found a foothold in the big capitals of the world, where they were tolerated to a fault.”
2002-10-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4618Resumption2 (2002) · source
“The world became suddenly and brutally aware that a hideous monster was there, crouching in the shadows, ready to strike anywhere and anyone, and that it had extended its tentacles through an international network. It became aware also that, given its diabolical plans and its worldwide scope, only an uncompromising, coordinated and global response would be able to overcome it. It is good that the world woke up on 12 September 2001 with a clear understanding that it needed to coordinate its efforts and wage a common struggle to overcome international terrorism. I welcome that awakening, because the terrorist threat has been going on for decades throughout the world. Countries that were targeted felt that this was some marginal phenomenon, and they felt they could cope alone.”
2002-10-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4618Resumption2 (2002) · source
“Mr. Kebe (African Union) (spoke in French): I would like to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for October. We are sure that under your leadership significant progress will be made on the important items on the Council's agenda. I would like also to thank you for inviting the African Union to participate in this public debate on the threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts. The events of 11 September 2001 reverberated like an earthquake that roused our consciousness from its slumber, shook our certainties and marked a radical break in the way we see the world and envisage the future.”
2002-10-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4618Resumption2 (2002) · source
“But let us make no mistake: by destroying infrastructures, disrupting structures and institutions and arresting and assassinating Palestinian leaders, Israel is aiming at nothing less than rendering any peace plan inoperative. How can Palestinians possibly fulfil their part of the bargain under the current conditions of massive destruction? The Palestinian and Israeli peoples have already paid too high a price for a conflict that has lasted far too long. The time has come for the various parties to allow men of goodwill to try to give peace a chance. It is not with tanks, political assassinations or suicide attacks that solutions can be found. We believe that the solution is waiting for us at the negotiating table.”
2002-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4614Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Finally, and more specifically, I am thinking of the initiatives of the Quartet, which call for an immediate cessation of hostilities, a ceasefire and a return to the negotiating table with a view to bringing about a comprehensive settlement that covers political, economic, humanitarian and institutional aspects of the conflict. Just as the African Union supports the settlement plan of the Quartet, it also firmly supports the Secretary-General's proposal to set up a multinational force, under Chapter VII of the Charter. The Union believes that the presence of a robust and credible United Nations force would make a positive contribution to the implementation of the Quartet initiatives.”
2002-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4614Resumption1 (2002) · source
“The African Union also supports all the relevant resolutions of the Security Council, in particular resolution 1397 (2002) of 12 March 2002, which, inter alia, reaffirms the vision of a region in which two States - Israel and Palestine - live side by side, within secure and recognized borders. Likewise, my organization supports all the initiatives aimed at bringing about a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East. Here I am thinking of the Mitchell report and the Tenet plan on security, which is designed to put an end to the cycle of violence, as well as of the Arab peace plan published at the Beirut Summit.”
2002-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4614Resumption1 (2002) · source
“The African Union unreservedly supports the just and legitimate struggle of the Palestinian people, under the guidance of the Palestine Liberation Organization, to exercise its inalienable national rights, including the right to recover homes and property, as well as the right to self-determination and the right to an independent State on its national land, with East Jerusalem as its capital, in accordance with international law and the relevant resolutions of the Security Council. My organization reaffirms its full solidarity and unreserved support for the elected President of the Palestinian Authority, Mr. Yasser Arafat, the leader whom the Palestinian people freely chose in exercise of their sovereign right.”
2002-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4614Resumption1 (2002) · source
“We will therefore continue to be a prophet of doom in an attempt to prevent a repetition of history in Palestine - a repetition of the tragedies that have occurred, century after century, because of the silence and cowardice of those who could have taken decisive preventive action. I should like to take this opportunity to recall the principled position of my organization on the Palestinian question.”
2002-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4614Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Thanks to television, we can see, in real time, how the headquarters of the Palestinian Authority are being demolished. We know that that action is not just an attempt to intimidate or a response to suicide attacks, but a well-orchestrated plan, carried out with great care, to try, in one way or another, to eliminate President Yasser Arafat from the political scene, as the Israeli authorities have repeated again and again. The current situation is extremely dangerous. If nothing is done immediately to put an end to this spiral of confrontation and to bring the two parties to the negotiating table, the international community, through its inaction, will have become complicit in one of the greatest tragedies in history.”
2002-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4614Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for this month and to express our high appreciation for the competent manner in which you have guided the Council's work. We also thank you for having convened this meeting and for having allowed the African Union to speak in this debate. My organization is here today to bear witness and to add its voice to those of earlier speakers, who, together are endeavouring to avert the dangers that threaten Palestine, the Middle East and the entire world. My organization has on several occasions addressed the Council in order to sound the alarm - every time the spiralling violence and the political stakes have exceeded what is tolerable and acceptable. Again today the Council must urgently debate the events in Palestine.”
2002-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4614Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Fall, because of his modesty and his great talent, on behalf of the Secretary-General of the OAU, and on behalf of all my associates in the OAU office to the United Nations, with whom Mr. Fall has played the role of leader and big brother in the great African tradition. At a time when he is preparing to leave New York to take up another post in Dakar, I am sure that Mr. Fall will continue, together with us, to involve himself in our great common task in the service of Africa.”
2002-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4538 (2002) · source
“Before I conclude, allow me to pay special tribute to the Department of Political Affairs, with which we have always worked in seeking to strengthen cooperation between the OAU and the United Nations. In so doing, I wish to pay public tribute to Mr. Ibrahima Fall. His decisive work has done much to establish a fluid, effective relationship between the United Nations and the OAU. Thanks to his forward- looking vision and because of his almost militant attitude to all African questions, Mr. Fall has helped the OAU to make progress on several African problems, particularly in the areas of conflict prevention and the conclusion of peace agreements. I wanted to make this public tribute to Mr.”
2002-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4538 (2002) · source
“Regarding the OAU and African subregional organizations, we propose that the Working Group facilitate periodic meetings and constructive dialogue between members of the Security Council and members of the future African Union Peace and Security Council. Such meetings would seek to adapt views and approaches to changing conflict situations and to harmonize decisions and actions in the area of preventive diplomacy and in organizing joint field missions. Once again, Mr. President, I would like to thank you for having invited me to this meeting and for having allowed me to share these initial proposals with Council members. I am sure that we will have another opportunity to sit down with members of the Working Group to see which of these proposals could ultimately be endorsed, and that we will see a fine harvest from the debate.”
2002-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4538 (2002) · source
“On the subject of strengthening cooperation with the Economic and Social Council, in our view the Working Group, in cooperation with the Economic and Social Council ad hoc Advisory Group on African Countries Emerging from Conflict, and in collaboration with the OAU and African subregional organizations, should organize donor conferences, encourage joint missions to assess humanitarian situations, ensure that programmes for reconstruction and rehabilitation, disarmament, demobilization and reintegration be effectively included in all peace agreements, and encourage the Secretaries-General of the OAU and of the United Nations to appoint special envoys for pre- conflict and post-conflict situations.”
2002-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4538 (2002) · source
“Secondly, it should follow up the implementation of Security Council decisions, in particular those that stem from implementation of recommendations contained in the Secretary-General's report on the causes of conflict (S/1998/318) and in the Brahimi report (5/2000/809). Thirdly, there should be better coordination of actions undertaken by the OAU and African subregional organizations in the area of conflict prevention. Fourthly, all conflict prevention actions should be speeded up, and peacekeeping or peace-building operations in post-conflict situations should be rapidly established.”
2002-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4538 (2002) · source
“President, since I am mindful of the objective of this meeting, and am anxious to respond to your request to encourage an exchange of ideas, I would like to make a few comments on the general approach of the Working Group, and some specific proposals relating to some items on its programme of work. On the subject of the Working Group's overall approach, we in the OAU believe that it should seek to promote and strengthen cooperative mechanisms, first, between the OAU and African subregional organizations in order to harmonize views, rationalize efforts and properly distribute actions in all areas relating to peace and security in Africa.”
2002-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4538 (2002) · source
“A new protocol was drafted by the OAU secretariat, and it will be submitted for consideration by the Council of Ministers and for approval by the Conference of Heads of State and Government, planned for 8 to 10 July 2002 in Durban, South Africa. The draft protocol contains a proposal to change the name of the Mechanism's Central Organ to the Peace and Security Council. The organs ofthe OAU Mechanism for Conflict Prevention, Management and Resolution in Africa will comprise the following: the Peace and Security Council, which will replace the Central Organ; the Commission of the Union, which will replace the current OAU secretariat; and a panel of wise persons, which is a new body. Mr.”
2002-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4538 (2002) · source
“The fact that Ambassador Koonjul moved from a generous idea to a reality, and now holds the chairmanship of the Committee is even more commendable. He has been a beacon for us in showing the way forward. During that same meeting, I exchanged views with members of the Working Group, and I tried with them to define and lay the foundation for cooperation between the OAU and the Group. As I have recalled, the OAU is now at a critical stage in its development. Next July it will cease to exist and will give way to the African Union. Important decisions have now been taken on the establishment of the institutions and organs ofthe African Union. One of those decisions relates to a review of the structure, procedures and working methods of the central organ of the OAU Mechanism for Conflict Prevention, Management and Resolution.”
2002-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4538 (2002) · source
“There is another reason, referred to directly in the statement of Ambassador Mahbubani, your Permanent Representative, made in this very Chamber on 29 January 2002, in the debate on the situation in Africa, which was initiated by the delegation of Mauritius. Ambassador Mahbubani asked about the results achieved on the African questions debated within the Council. He concluded that "There is no linkage between one debate and another debate on the same subject." Undeniably, our meeting today marks the first step towards linking one debate to another and to establishing an ongoing solution for all African items discussed in the Council. On 16 May 2002, I had the great privilege of paying tribute to Ambassador Koonjul, whose tenacity and generosity were led to establishment of the Working Group.”
2002-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4538 (2002) · source
“Allow me, Mr. President, on behalf of the Secretary General of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and on my own behalf, to thank your delegation for having organized this debate and, above all, you, Mr. Minister, for having agreed to grace this meeting with your presence, despite a heavy workload. It is not a coincidence that your delegation made the important decision to include this debate in the Council's programme of work. The main reason for this decision relates to the interest and the commitment that your country has always shown in defending African positions within the Council.”
2002-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4538 (2002) · source
“"Finally, I wish to reaffirm the support of the OAU for the Palestinian people in their struggle under the leadership of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) to exercise their inalienable national rights, including the right to return to their homeland and to recover their property, their right to self-determination and to establish an independent State on national territory, in accordance with the principles of international law and the relevant resolutions of the United Nations." I thank you, Sir, for having allowed me to bring this important message to the Security Council.”
2000-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4204Resumption2 (2000) · source
“"I most particularly call on the Israeli and the Palestinian authorities to create conditions conducive to ending the violence that prevails and for them to enter into face-to-face negotiations so as to arrive at a comprehensive and lasting peace in the region. In this respect, I welcome the recent initiative taken by the United States Government and express the hope that it may indeed defuse the crisis.”
2000-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4204Resumption2 (2000) · source
“"This situation has arisen as a result of the visit that General Ariel Sharon, leader of the Israeli Likud party, made under a strong military escort to Al-Haram Al-Sharif, one of the most important holy places of Islam. The Palestinian people saw in this visit as a provocation. The demonstrations which followed degenerated into clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinians. The Israeli forces have tried to repress the protests with violence, using excessive brutality and causing a great many victims. "I make a heartfelt appeal to the Israeli authorities for them to take every necessary measure to deal with the underlying causes of this resurgence of violence in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip and I call upon them to show restraint to avoid any further loss of life on either side.”
2000-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4204Resumption2 (2000) · source
“The current violence in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip is so serious that, if we are not careful, it could jeopardize the entire peace process that the international community has patiently and obdurately, year after year, in one attempt after another had managed to get on track. In today's debate, the purpose of my statement is mainly to bring to the Council the statement made by His Excellency Dr. Salim Ahmed Salim, Secretary- General of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), on 4 October 2000 to express the OAU's concern at the serious turn events have taken in that part of the world so dear to us all. "I have followed with great concern the deplorable escalation of violence in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip where a great many Palestinians and Israelis have met their deaths and where hundreds of Palestinians have been injured.”
2000-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4204Resumption2 (2000) · source
“Thank you, Sir, for inviting me to take part in this meeting. I should like to convey to you my warmest congratulations on your accession to the presidency of the Security Council for the month of October. Given the steadfast commitment of your country, Namibia, to the ideals of the United Nations and the cause of peace and security throughout the world, there can be no doubt that, during this month of October, considerable progress will be made on all the items on the Council's agenda. I also wish to extend congratulations to your predecessor, Ambassador Moctar Ouane of Mali, for the achievements in the month of September, the most remarkable of which was certainly the Council meeting of the heads of State.”
2000-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4204Resumption2 (2000) · source