YouSaid · the spoken record

Madeira

lines on the record: 377
first: 2003-11-20
most recent: 2022-05-23
sittings or episodes: 24
sources: un-security-council

Every line below is reproduced as it was said and linked to the record it came from. Nothing here is summarised or generated. Directory · Search · Corrections

“We can no longer afford to think in terms of national interests alone. We need to carefully envisage how we can best respond to internal and transnational threats. Over the past few years, the West Africa region, the Sahel region and the continent as a whole have undertaken commendable efforts towards putting in place joint decision-making and operational mechanisms to combat crime, terrorism and piracy. Their efforts deserve the full support of the international community.”
2012-02-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6717 (2012) · source
“Failure to address those threats comprehensively, effectively and collectively puts at risk the very foundations of the viable democratic States in Africa that our people have been striving for since independence. The African continent is particularly vulnerable to transnational organized crime. Porous borders, weakened State institutions as a result of prolonged civil strife, poverty, environmental degradation and challenges to securing natural resources are but a few of those vulnerabilities. A response to those threats should therefore be comprehensive and multidimensional. More importantly, strong commitment on the part of all stakeholders is an imperative. In a globalized world, criminal networks span continents, and Africa is being affected by crime spillover from other regions.”
2012-02-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6717 (2012) · source
“The Common African Defence and Security Policy, adopted by our Union in 2004, has clearly defined what Africa's security and stability rests upon. The Policy emphasizes not only the traditional threats, such as intra-State conflicts, but also non-traditional threats emerging from a changing international environment, including transnational organized crime ranging from arms, drugs and human trafficking to contraband smuggling, piracy and money laundering. Today, the impact of transnational organized crime is more evident than ever before. More alarmingly, crime is converging with other transnational threats, such as extremism and terrorism.”
2012-02-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6717 (2012) · source
“Mr. Madeira: I would like to begin by congratulating the Togolese Republic for assuming the presidency of the Security Council this month. Your presence here, Mr. President, is a testimony to your personal commitment and that of your country to the advancement of peace, security and stability in Africa and in the world, in general. Allow me to convey the apologies of the Chairperson of the Commission, Mr. Jean Ping, who could not be with us here today owing to prior unavoidable commitments. He wishes the Security Council successful deliberations. The discussions we are holding today are of particular relevance to the efforts being made by the African Union (AU) to address the multifaceted challenges facing the continent in terms of peace and security.”
2012-02-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6717 (2012) · source
“Even in our own countries, because of a lack of resources, there is severe institutional weakness. Our own criminals go unpunished. We look for them and we cannot track them down. That is also reflected at the level of the international community.”
2003-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4865 (2003) · source
“President, Angola, which has been responsible for handing over very important personalities responsible for genocide in Rwanda who are now being tried in Arusha. Having said that, the problem with Africa is one of poverty and underdevelopment. We want to do many things. We want to undertake many initiatives. But if we do not have resources, those initiatives will remain just words. That is our problem. As long as we do not have resources, many of those things will not move ahead and we may be erroneously perceived as merely sitting idly by and talking. We will try to develop ourselves. We will try to become rich. We will try to have everything we need to prove to everyone that we are as committed as they are to ensuring that crime does not go unpunished.”
2003-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4865 (2003) · source
“With regard to the Lusaka Agreement, we in the African Union have been extremely active in ensuring the effectiveness of the tracking down, neutralizing and handing over of negative forces to the Tribunal in Arusha. As the Council will have noted, many African countries have effectively adhered to all efforts and principles aiming to ensure that crime does not gone unpunished, including the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. At this very moment, we are working hard to ensure that the Peace and Security Council of the African Union is put in place in order that we may have a proper instrument to handle these problems. Many of the people who are in Arusha today were handed over by African countries, including your own country, Mr.”
2003-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4865 (2003) · source
“I would like, first of all, to express, on behalf of my Government and on behalf of the African Union, our condemnation of the despicable acts of terrorism that were committed in Turkey against the citizens of that country and of the United Kingdom. I convey to those two countries our heartfelt condolences. The Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation wanted to know what the African Union can do to combat impunity. I want to say, first of all, that we in the African Union adhere to, and strive to practice, the principles of democracy, good governance and the rule of law. Democracy cannot go hand in hand with impunity. We have striven to ensure that crime does not go unpunished by, in the first place, doing our utmost to ensure that the Rwanda Tribunal is in place and working. We have done the same with regard to Sierra Leone.”
2003-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4865 (2003) · source
“The forthcoming conference on peace, security and sustainable development in the Great Lakes region represents a great challenge - a unique opportunity for all of us to come up with ideas and strategies that will truly contribute to shaping a future of stability, hope and reconciliation in the afflicted Great Lakes region.”
2003-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4865 (2003) · source
“Alpha Omar Konare, Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union -discussed the possibility of requesting a number of serving heads of State to get personally involved and to lend their skills in the search for appropriate solutions to these conflicts. We view with satisfaction the fact that the United Nations and all its partners have adopted a global approach to the situation in the Great Lakes region and are developing strategies that will address the reality of the Great Lakes in all its perspectives and view them as a problem affecting not just one or another country, but the commonality of the countries and populations of the region.”
2003-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4865 (2003) · source
“That is because we strongly believe that the Peace and Security Council of the African Union can be a valuable tool in helping to avert, ease and solve the conflict situations, insecurity and crises on our continent. President Chissano, in his capacity as Chairperson of our continental organization, has committed himself to devoting particular attention to the remaining pockets of instability in the Great Lakes region and elsewhere on our continent and to mobilizing the best skills our continent possesses to help find a speedy and lasting solution to them. Given the particular nature of those conflicts, he has - together with His Excellency Mr.”
2003-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4865 (2003) · source
“The New Partnership for Africa's Development is the African Union vision and the road map to extricate the African continent from poverty, backwardness and underdevelopment. The implementation of that political, economic and social action programme will continue to be seriously compromised if instability and wars are allowed to continue to haunt Africa. One of my country's priorities as Chair of the African Union is to work hand in hand, in earnest, with the Commission of the African Union to ensure that the protocol relating to the establishment of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union is signed, ratified and quickly acceded to by the largest possible number of member States so that it can enter into force.”
2003-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4865 (2003) · source
“In that connection, the African Union would like to appeal very strongly to the Security Council to discharge its responsibilities through a more positive attitude towards supporting the African Mission in Burundi. Armed conflicts and the threat thereof have, to a large extent, been responsible for the exasperating economic and social backwardness of a significant number of our countries as we move to divert considerable resources from socio-economic objectives to buying military hardware to wage war or defend ourselves against armed aggressions - real, potential or imaginary. We have come a long way so far in our quest to rid the continent and the region of armed strife, and we have scored considerable successes in that endeavour.”
2003-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4865 (2003) · source
“It makes us feel that the Great Lakes region is coming together again and acquiring the status of a region where, very soon, peace and stability will be common currency - a region that will become a melting pot where all peoples of our continent and of the world at large can freely and easily have access to and meet to trade and exchange ideas. The Parti pour la liberation du peuple hutu/Forces nationales pour la liberation (PALIPEHUTU/FNL) must be denied the possibility of preventing that from coming true. That organization must be persuaded to join in and make its contribution to the peace revolution taking place in the Great Lakes region. It is high time that we stop the wars on our continent. There can be no sustainable development in the Great Lakes region without an environment of lasting peace and security.”
2003-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4865 (2003) · source
“We cannot but rejoice at the fact that Rwanda, which has been particularly affected by the generalized crisis gripping the Great Lakes region, has just emerged from presidential and parliamentary elections. That event - happening, as it did, less than 10 years after the genocide of 1994 - is a crucial step forward and an important contribution to the overall effort to restore peace, stability and reconciliation to the region. Efforts must continue to be made so as to ensure that every Rwandan can return home and freely go about his life. The agreement signed last Sunday between the Burundi transitional Government and the armed movement, the Conseil national pour la defense de la democratic-Front pour la defense de la democratie (CNDD-FDD) is another milestone in the right direction.”
2003-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4865 (2003) · source
“But the region's interest in the Congo is not limited only to security guarantees. Congo is a big country; Congo is a big market; Congo is endowed with many resources, a huge population and immense business opportunities. Congo is attractive to all of us. We all want to interact with Congo, and it is good that we do so. What is needed is that such interaction be carried out on the basis of healthy principles. We should endeavour to help Congo regain its statehood and strengthen its institutions, while striving to establish correct and appropriate bilateral and multilateral business and other relations with that important neighbour. I know this may sound naive, but I see no other sound way to interact with Congo in a peaceful, sustainable and harmonious way.”
2003-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4865 (2003) · source
“What is important now is that decisive steps be taken to ensure that the practice of occupying other peoples' countries - for whatever reason - does not occur again, for that practice not only reminds us of our own sad past, but sets a very dangerous and explosive precedent with great potential to perpetuate crisis and instability in the region. That does not mean that we should ignore the security concerns of Congo's neighbours. Those concerns are real and legitimate, and we should together continue to strive to ensure that the solutions envisaged so far are quickly, effectively and verifiably implemented, thus easing the intense mutual suspicion that mars the relations among neighbours who are condemned to continue to live together for the rest of their lives.”
2003-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4865 (2003) · source
“The wars that affected the Congo from 1996 until recently and brought so much suffering to its people were, to a large extent, motivated and fuelled by the exportation of conflicts begun in the neighbouring countries. The massive movement of populations - from the Congo to its neighbours and vice versa - caused by those wars put much strain on the inhabitants, resources and infrastructure not only of the Congo itself, but of all the neighbouring countries, making the crisis a common denominator for the entire region. We in the African Union are happy that the Congo today is free of foreign occupation and domination.”
2003-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4865 (2003) · source
“Therefore, despite our closeness to the Congolese people and the immense trust they put in us, we should at all times avoid the temptation to profit from the weaknesses of that country. Congo is almost starting from scratch. The task before the newly appointed transitional authorities - and that of the Government that will come after it - is simply of mammoth proportions. Since the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the gravitational centre of the Great Lakes region, any positive or negative development that takes place there will impinge, positively or negatively, not only on the Congo herself, but also on the rest of the countries of the region.”
2003-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4865 (2003) · source
“The process is still delicate and afflicted with weaknesses that, if not properly tended to at this early stage, may seriously compromise the ultimate objectives the Congolese have set for themselves. We cannot emphasize enough that, whatever good is being done today in the Congo, the situation will remain precarious unless and until it is identified with and owned by the Congolese peoples themselves. History tells us that before Sun City, all the Congolese leaders who came to power after Patrice Lumumba's demise were maintained in power or came to that position through the support of foreign entities. Given the nature of that support, the result was the alienation of the Congolese people, the disintegration of Congo's State institutions and a total destruction of the economic, social and political environment of the country.”
2003-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4865 (2003) · source
“All parties have agreed that democracy, good governance and the rule of law are values that must, as a mark of necessity, guide all State behaviour. These are important strides. With them, Congo rediscovers itself and vows to re-embrace the lofty ideals of the abandoned National Sovereign Conference, which was viewed by the majority of the Congolese population as a solid foundation for the democratic process in the country. This is an extremely good beginning, and we in the African Union, the United Nations and the wider international community must continue to lend our support, advice and encouragement. In doing so, we must not lose sight of the fact that it is not yet all roses in the Congo.”
2003-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4865 (2003) · source
“The construction of the new Congo on a new basis has started, and we, in the African Union, are happy to see that the implementation of the Sun City agreement, although still fraught with many challenges, is on a good course and every Congolese wants it to succeed. Indeed, the institutions of transition, as provided for in the Sun City agreement, though still fragile, are in place and are striving to produce results. Despite the magnitude of the Congolese crisis and despite the fact that the country has, for quite some time, been divided by the force of arms into zones of exclusive influence and jurisdiction of different armed organizations, the idea that the country should preserve its territorial integrity and remain united, with only one army, has prevailed and is being upheld by everyone.”
2003-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4865 (2003) · source
“But no matter how perfect the Lusaka Agreement could have been, it would have led nowhere if the Congolese parties themselves had not shown the commitment to move forward and work for a radical change of the status quo in their country. It took time for all the stakeholders to realize and come to grips with the fact that a deal, a genuine deal where no Congolese would be a loser but every Congolese would win something, was the only option left and the only way out of a crisis that has been haunting Congo since independence. In the end, reason prevailed and Sun City was the result of a common desire by Congo's leadership to come face to face with their own situation and rebuild their country on a new foundation.”
2003-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4865 (2003) · source
“The cessation of hostilities between the Congolese parties, the disengagement of foreign troops from the conflict and the negotiation of their withdrawal by addressing the neighbouring countries' legitimate security concerns through an effective neutralization of the negative forces operating from the Congo, all these were important steps in the creation of an environment conducive to genuine dialogue among the Congolese themselves. The Lusaka Agreement was not perfect and did not satisfy everyone, but it reflected what was possible at the moment. It contained important prerequisites that would keep the parties from losing sight of what needed to be addressed in the complex Congolese reality. It proved decisive in bringing the process to where it is today.”
2003-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4865 (2003) · source
“Indeed, what is happening in the Great Lakes region today is the blossoming of what the peoples of this great region have always wanted and what both the African Union and the United Nations have always advocated, stood for, invested in and tried to help them achieve. In an environment of increased mutual suspicion and growing scepticism, the Congolese stakeholders signed the Lusaka Ceasefire Agreement of July 1999 with our support, persuasion and encouragement. In encouraging the Congolese to enter into such an agreement, we were motivated by the desire to help remove the main obstacles to our all-inclusive process of national reconciliation through the drafting of a new deal among the Congolese people. This deal would set the country on the course of lasting peace and sustained development.”
2003-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4865 (2003) · source
“For far too long, the Congolese people have been denied their sovereignty, independence and dignity. They have been despised, vilified and martyred. They have fled Congo in the thousands to live as refugees in neighbouring countries. Despite the complexity of the whole situation, important strides have been made in the region. The sun seems to be rising on the horizon and the peoples of the Great Lakes region are defying their pessimism and beginning to follow the path of peace and stability again. They are taking steps to reaffirm their threatened sovereignty and identity. They are rediscovering the virtues and advantages of life in harmony and good- neighbourliness and they are creating conditions for the economic and social development of their region.”
2003-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4865 (2003) · source
“We are gathering at a moment of hope and optimism for the Great Lakes region. We in the African Union and the United Nations have reasons to rejoice at the developments taking place in this region because, having known where the whole drama started and seen all the things that have taken place in the region, we are in a position to gauge the real meaning of what is happening there at the present moment. This region has, until very recently, witnessed some of the cruelest acts a human being can inflict on another human being. The peoples of this region have, for far too long, endured some of the most brutal civil strife and absurd forms of invasion and occupation of one independent country by another. We have witnessed the most despicable acts of genocide in Rwanda, which claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians.”
2003-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4865 (2003) · source