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Laptenok

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2001-03-07
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2001-06-21
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  1. “But we need significant improvements in the apparatus for extracting the distillate from those debates: their practical outcome. This must be done through in-depth consideration of the views of States that participate in the discussions. We think that the Security Council should pay particular attention to that issue.”

    2001-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4334Resumption1 (2001) · source

  2. “That is a worthy common objective for the Security Council and for the whole family of organs and agencies of the United Nations system. No less urgent from the standpoint of ensuring the proper conditions for stability and sustainable national development in a number of regions is the problem of combating HIV/AIDS. The work of physicians and other specialists operating in African countries, which are the most severely affected by this problem, is the focus of a great deal of attention not only in the affected countries themselves, but throughout the world. This will be the focus of the special session of the General Assembly to be held next week. The orientation debates held by the Security Council have virtually turned the Council into a standing open-ended working group for discussion of the most urgent items on its agenda.”

    2001-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4334Resumption1 (2001) · source

  3. “We feel that the problems caused by flows of refugees are a reason to supplement preventive diplomacy with comprehensive international programmes under United Nations auspices targeted at countries in destabilized areas. We also favour enhancing the role of United Nations civilian police contingents as an effective factor in preventing the escalation of conflicts, as well as in halting them. For our part, we intend to make an active contribution to the work of the Security Council in this sphere. The Security Council, the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and other United Nations bodies cannot fail to address another destabilizing factor: the growing scale of terrorism. All States must pool their efforts with those of intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to fight terrorism.”

    2001-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4334Resumption1 (2001) · source

  4. “There is an important role for the revival of economic activity in areas suffering from slow development; in general, greater investment for sustainable development needs to be encouraged. More active use should be made of the resident coordinator system of the United Nations Development Programme in coordinating projects and in implementing social and economic development programmes in affected countries, all in close coordination with donor countries and with the local authorities. The international community should provide adequate resources to strengthen national and regional potential for conflict prevention. South-South cooperation should be encouraged. There is much else besides.”

    2001-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4334Resumption1 (2001) · source

  5. “The basis for such interaction is to be found in the Charter and in other instruments to which previous speakers have referred. We think it would significantly facilitate the Council's addressing of such questions in the context of preventive diplomacy to ensure the earliest possible detection of factors that could give rise to conflict situations; to create the conditions necessary for sustainable socio-economic development in countries subject to tension and in conflict-prone areas, with particular attention to Africa; to help make real progress in poverty eradication and in addressing problems of inequality and security; to put an end to all activities that threaten to cause the violent disintegration of States or to cause their boundaries to be redrawn; to halt the illegal trade in small arms and light weapons; and to ensure the sovereignty of States over their natural resources, which is particularly important for States in destabilized areas.”

    2001-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4334Resumption1 (2001) · source

  6. “Some problems are common to the Security Council and to other bodies, and here we must identify a number of priorities: we need to design mechanisms for the timely definition of the modalities of interaction between the Security Council and other organs, including the dispatch of multi-task fact-finding missions, confidence-building missions and so forth. We think that here there can be a special role for mechanisms and models for interaction between the General Assembly and the Security Council, between the Economic and Social Council and the Security Council and between the International Court of Justice and the Security Council, as well as interaction involving other bodies within the United Nations system with respect to specific conflict-prone regions.”

    2001-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4334Resumption1 (2001) · source

  7. “Long ago, preventive diplomacy ceased to be a mere goal in response to the Charter tasks of the United Nations, and became a concrete, practical reality requiring joint efforts not only by the members of the Security Council but by all the States Members of the United Nations. It is obviously necessary to move from a culture of reaction to a culture of prevention, as the Secretary-General puts it in his report. Clearly, because of specialization in the work of the United Nations system, not all causes of conflict can be addressed by the Security Council. Other bodies in the United Nations system can make an equally useful, sometimes unique, contribution to the Council's work. We envision an overall pattern of interaction that would strictly adhere to the division of powers and competence among United Nations bodies.”

    2001-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4334Resumption1 (2001) · source

  8. “Mr. Laptenok (Belarus) (spoke in Russian): Allow me at the outset to welcome you, Sir, as President of the Security Council. We also welcome the initiative of Bangladesh to open this issue for general discussion. It complements the work done by your country and by the Non-Aligned Movement, of which Belarus is a member, in many other areas of international cooperation. Like the more general question of protecting international security, the issues of preventive diplomacy and conflict prevention are becoming increasingly universal. The political, economic, environmental, social, humanitarian, information and many other components of preventive activities are coming to the fore.”

    2001-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4334Resumption1 (2001) · source

  9. “Within the framework of our efforts to enhance the effectiveness of the Security Council in the struggle against the illegal trade of diamonds, our scientists are working, inter alia, on a unique method for determining the sources of their origin. At the same time, with respect to cooperation between the United Nations and regional and subregional organizations and mechanisms, the potential of our region and that of its organizations, including those of the Commonwealth of Independent States, is far from having been exhausted. For its part, Belarus is doing everything possible to strengthen that potential. Allow me once again to assure you, Sir, of the readiness of the Republic of Belarus to fully cooperate in enhancing the effectiveness of the work of the Security Council.”

    2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4288 (2001) · source

  10. “The voice of African States must be taken more seriously into account. We are ready to make our contribution to resolve the problems of Africa, inter alia, through the comprehensive development of our ties with the countries of that continent, insofar as possible by making voluntary contributions to international funds and programmes to render assistance to countries that have experienced natural disasters; the development of activities, to which we will be paying great attention, not only within the framework of our bilateral relations but also within the framework of international organizations, and, above all, those of which Belarus is a member.”

    2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4288 (2001) · source

  11. “It was not coincidental that at the September meeting many of the Council members themselves rather bluntly raised the question of reform of this body and of more effective response by the United Nations to conflict situations at all stages, including their social and economic aspects. This coincides with the spirit and approach of the Non-Aligned Movement, which we share, regarding further improvement of Security Council activity and working methods and expansion of its membership. Undoubtedly, an important conclusion is that the African continent will have to be given the highest priority attention. There have been positive achievements; the Congo and Ethiopia and Eritrea, for example. But the most important thing is the restoration of peace, which has not yet been achieved in many regions.”

    2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4288 (2001) · source

  12. “A number of very serious problems remain on the Security Council agenda today. How can we achieve effective implementation of the Council's decisions so that they do not remain on paper alone? Perhaps the decision is not to simply continue discussions on Security Council membership, but to have this discussion open to all Member States. The President of Belarus has noted that one of the great achievements of the United Nations is the fact that it provides every State, regardless of its size and resources, with an opportunity for equal participation in producing a just and durable peace. We should not look at the primacy of State interests; rather, we should look at many situations in terms of collective interests. Regarding Security Council reform, virtually all the participants at the summit said there was a need for reform.”

    2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4288 (2001) · source

  13. “The list could go on if we looked at the period beginning with the summit. This does not mean that little or much has been done, but more still lies ahead. Unfortunately, after September 2000 many contradictions also remain unresolved, which, to a significant extent, continue to hamper decisions in the Council today. The main question remains: Does the Council always truly have a decisive voice here? The Charter and the role of the Security Council cannot be ignored. In that regard, the events of the last few years, inter alia in the Balkans, have taught us a serious lesson. At the same time, today we are witnesses of another serious escalation in that region. The draft resolution on Palestine was not adopted and the question on the no-flight zones also remains.”

    2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4288 (2001) · source

  14. “The resolution has been adopted based on the Brahimi report and a number of steps have been undertaken to systematize peacekeeping operations sanctioned by the Security Council. There have been open meetings on issues such as exit strategy, complex approach and others. There has been an increase in the work on sanctions and additional dynamic work on Afghanistan, Angola, Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Steps have been considered to halt international terrorism. These are extremely important steps. There is also a new scale of contributions and assessments for peacekeeping operations and cooperation by the membership of the various States groups. In many States, inter alia, in Belarus, additional work has been carried out to expand participation in peacekeeping operations.”

    2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4288 (2001) · source

  15. “What are the basic changes that have taken place recently that could help in overcoming, to use the Secretary-General's expression, the crisis of faith in the United Nations and in the Security Council? In our view, we can include the following among the important achievements: further United Nations reform efforts; emphasizing regional forums, including African forums, on the problems of maintenance of peace and international security; extensive discussion on new concepts for peacekeeping operations; and intensive consideration of the mechanism for sanctions, proposals and conclusions of the report of the United Nations Panel on Peace Operations. Many important changes have already been initiated on this basis.”

    2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4288 (2001) · source

  16. “From our point of view, the focus of attention of the Security Council must be, to a greater degree, on issues linked to the fundamental social and economic reasons for conflicts: the prevention of outbreaks of violence; the improvement of principles and mechanisms for the establishment of enforcement measures and in particular of economic sanctions; the strengthening of the democratic basis for the Security Council's decision-making process; and above all the stepping up and strengthening of interaction with the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and other bodies. This was mentioned by previous speakers, and we fully concur.”

    2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4288 (2001) · source

  17. “From our point of view, such activity reflects clearly the effective contribution of a specific State to strengthening international peace and security and must be duly taken into account by the Council. An important contribution to halting illicit flows of small arms to regions of conflict will be made by the upcoming international Conference on this problem. This is a step towards improving the peacekeeping activities of the United Nations and of the Security Council. In past years, we participated in an international experts' group on the preparation of the report of the Secretary-General on this problem, an opportunity we were grateful for.”

    2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4288 (2001) · source

  18. “However, from our point of view, the Security Council must continue to focus on the global aspects of security and in particular on disarmament questions. This is in answer to one of the questions raised in the note distributed by your delegation, Mr. President, to this meeting. The commitment to achieve the elimination of the threats created by weapons of mass destruction was enshrined in the Millennium Declaration. Belarus, as is well known, traditionally has put forward, at sessions of the General Assembly, an initiative for the adoption of a draft resolution prohibiting the creation of new types of weapons of mass destruction and related systems. During the last few years, Belarus has devoted particular attention to practical measures for strengthening regional and global security through nuclear disarmament.”

    2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4288 (2001) · source

  19. “In January 2001, Belarus paid in full all of its assessed contributions with respect to the financing of peacekeeping operations begun after 1 January 1996, and paid in full the sums assessed to the account of the two international tribunals. We have begun to establish our own basis for readying personnel for participation in peacekeeping operations and are prepared to engage in broad cooperation in this field with all interested parties. The growing attention that is being devoted by the Security Council to measures to resolve and prevent inter-State and regional conflicts is a product of today's realities. In the light of recent events on the Macedonian-Yugoslav border, the question of whether some issues have remained outside the focus of the Security Council is not only a rhetorical one.”

    2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4288 (2001) · source

  20. “Its specific characteristic is that, as a country located in the centre of Europe, as an integral part of the general European political and economic space, and as a member State of the Non- Aligned Movement, Belarus has a highly developed sense of the needs and requirements of many of our partners in the Non-Aligned Movement which in recent years have been overcome by crisis situations. Among other things, we believe that Belarus still has great unexploited potential to offer in the process of resolving many of the issues considered by the Council. For that reason, we have decided significantly to expand our participation in the non-military components of peacekeeping operations. The relevant, concrete steps are now being worked out by the highest-level State organs in Belarus.”

    2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4288 (2001) · source

  21. “The Council's September summit, which focused attention on Africa, yielded specific ways to strengthen peacekeeping operations. However, unfortunately, despite a number of positive changes, Africa today continues to require the most intensive attention from the Security Council, and not only in the context of peacekeeping operations. This part of the world has inherited an extremely difficult legacy. In September 2000, a great deal was said to the effect that changing reality can be done only through rapid, collective and effective action. Belarus is evaluating its potential in the area of the effective mobilization of resources.”

    2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4288 (2001) · source

  22. “Mr. Laptenok (Belarus) (spoke in Russian): First of all, Sir, allow me to congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council, as Ukraine is a country with which we have special ties. The Republic of Belarus has, for the last few years, unswervingly emphasized the need for the expansion of the practice of convening high-level meetings of the Security Council, so that the decisions of the Council can be more universal in nature and reflect a policy that has been arrived at collectively. Like the other participants in this meeting, we would like to thank your delegation, Mr. President, for your timely initiative, which has made it possible for virtually all interested States to participate in the discussion on the preliminary results of the implementation of the summit declaration of the Security Council.”

    2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4288 (2001) · source