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Kuchma

lines on the record: 7
first: 2000-09-07
most recent: 2000-09-07
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: un-security-council

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“Ukraine looks forward to a century of African renaissance and stands ready to hasten its arrival. We have every reason to consider this historic Summit of the Security Council as an encouraging and promising beginning that will be followed by more successful and productive efforts in the new century. Whether it is a member of the Security Council or not, Ukraine will always actively contribute to the effective accomplishment of its honourable and responsible mission.”
2000-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4194 (2000) · source
“We are also concerned with the fact that the tough knot of problems in the Balkans has yet to be untied. The ability to provide adequate responses to threats to peace and security in every region of the world will always constitute the major prerequisite to relying on the Security Council. Today, this principle should be upheld by giving special attention to the problems of the African continent. The challenges in Africa should be given utmost consideration. Leaving the long-suffering continent to solve all its difficult problems alone is absolutely unacceptable. Ukraine is determined to make a practical contribution to the United Nations peace efforts aimed at resolving conflicts in Africa. This determination is reinforced by our aspiration to expand economic cooperation with African countries.”
2000-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4194 (2000) · source
“I find it necessary to draw the attention of the Council to the so-called frozen conflicts in the post- Soviet region. It has been almost a decade that tensions in Abkhazia, Georgia and Nagorny Karabakh have been destabilizing the situation in this vast region and posing the threat of wide-scale humanitarian catastrophe. There is also an urgent need to resolve the Transdniester conflict. Postponing a final settlement of such crises might lead to irreversible consequences. The poverty and sufferings of civilians in these conflicts make active peacekeeping efforts absolutely indispensable. Ukraine has already put forward an initiative to hold at Yalta in the near future the next round of negotiations aimed at confidence-building between the Georgian and Abkhaz sides. It is now the turn of the other members of the Security Council.”
2000-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4194 (2000) · source
“I am confident that, together with peacekeeping and peace-enforcement operations, this instrument will substantially strengthen the capacity of the Security Council to discharge its responsibilities. The founding fathers of the United Nations could not have imagined how acute the difficulties related to the application of enforcement measures imposed by the Security Council would become. Sanctions were designed as an important tool to ensure the implementation of the Council's decisions. However, they were eventually turned into ineffective and sometimes even harmful instruments. It is therefore indispensable to develop a clear and coherent methodology for the imposition and lifting of sanctions that takes into consideration the concerns of innocent civilian populations and the interests of third countries.”
2000-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4194 (2000) · source
“There is a pressing need for appropriate implementation of the provisions of Article 65 of the Charter, which governs cooperation with the Economic and Social Council. In my address to the Millennium Summit of the United Nations today, I spoke in favour of developing a comprehensive conflict prevention strategy. One of the key components of such a strategy could be the establishment of United Nations regional centres for conflict prevention. It is also important to expand further the range of instruments required for the maintenance of peace and security. In this context, conflict prevention operations should gain prominence as a qualitatively new model of peacekeeping activities.”
2000-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4194 (2000) · source
“It is absolutely essential that this veritable nerve centre of world politics preserve its undeniable authority and enhance its legitimacy and effectiveness in the coming century. That goal should be attained by raising confidence in the Security Council by improving the peacekeeping instruments at its disposal and by achieving its comprehensive reform. In pursuing efforts aimed at resolving conflicts, the Security Council should necessarily address their root causes in order to reveal the real sources of confrontation. Social and economic factors are the leading causes for the outbreak of violence. Significant opportunities could be offered by better developing the under-utilized potential for cooperation that exists between the Security Council and other organs and institutions of the United Nations, starting with the General Assembly.”
2000-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4194 (2000) · source
“At the outset, let me thank you, Mr. President, for your personal contribution to the successful realization of the initiative to convene this meeting. I consider this meeting to be a confirmation by the Security Council of its willingness to assume the primary responsibility for ensuring the effective functioning of the collective security system in the twenty-first century. The exclusive purview of the Security Council to authorize the use of force in international relations - except in cases where the right to self-defence is being exercised - as well to employ effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to peace and to suppress acts of aggression should remain the major foundation of this system.”
2000-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4194 (2000) · source