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  1. “There is therefore a genuine and pressing need to make the Council more democratic, effective and transparent, and to guarantee equitable representation that would reflect the increase in United Nations membership from 50 members in 1946 to 192 in 2011. Members of the Organization, individually and collectively, must ensure that the principles of the Charter of the United Nations and its collective security system are firmly upheld so as to ensure that the world is more than ever free of the scourge of war.”

    2014-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7105 (2014) · source

  2. “In any case, given the new challenges, the Security Council must be inventive, break with business as usual and draw up new strategies, as was recently done with the establishment of the Intervention Brigade with a more robust mandate to bring security to civilians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In conclusion, armed conflict, terrorism, the proliferation of weapons of mass destructions and small arms and light weapons, transnational organized crime, piracy, drugs and the trafficking in human beings are all emerging challenges. To better address those issues, the Security Council's structure must be readjusted.”

    2014-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7105 (2014) · source

  3. “On 2 August 1998, when Rwandan armies were crossing the eastern borders of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, attacking and surrounding the various provinces in the east, in particular the North Kivu, South Kivu, Orientale, Equator and Bas-Congo provinces, it was under the pretext of ensuring Rwanda's own security. They were probably looking for the perpetual fugitives of the Forces Democratiques de Liberation du Rwanda in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, who apparently were everywhere, even in the trees and underground. The representative of Rwanda seems to have forgotten that, in May and June 2000, the armies of Rwanda and Uganda, both of which invaded the Democratic Republic of the Congo, clashed two more times in Kisangani, a Congolese mining town, in a battle for control of the diamond riches of the region.”

    2014-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7105 (2014) · source

  4. “We have certainly all understood that the statement made this morning by the representative of Rwanda, who attacked the United Nations, was just subterfuge. His attack on the presence of the United Nations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is to be expected. And we know that the members of the Security Council were not fooled. The United Nations presence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is extremely irritating for Rwanda, our neighbour. In that regard, we all know the game that that trouble-maker country has played in the Great Lakes region, and the international community has grown accustomed to that. They move from one pretext to another.”

    2014-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7105 (2014) · source

  5. “However, it did not take much for operations such as the mixing, intermingling and integration of the former rebels into the regular army to lead to the reappearance ofa culture of weapons and violence in the North Kivu. Former combatants of the former rebel movement of the Congres national pour la defense du peuple, who had deserted the ranks of the Congolese army in the beginning of April 2012 and become members of the M-23, succeeded in turning their weapons against the regular army with the support of a neighbouring country, indeed a member of the Security Council, Rwanda. We know that the United Nations is not a perfect Organization. That is in fact the merit of today's discussions, the goal of which is to think of new strategies to improve the situation in conflict areas.”

    2014-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7105 (2014) · source

  6. “That explains the occasional re-emergence of conflicts after periods of calm. The management of the war in my country is a textbook case that should not be forgotten. After the democratic elections of 2006 and 2011, there was every reason to hope for lasting peace in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Strides were made with the success ofjoint military operations involving the Forces armees de la Republique democratique du Congo and the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to reduce the risks to the security ofcivilians and to facilitate the handover of the security responsibilities to the Government.”

    2014-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7105 (2014) · source

  7. “Challenges that the drafters of the Charter of the United Nations had not even thought of are present in our world now, such as the establishment of terrorist and criminal networks of drug traffickers and human traffickers, poachers and traffickers in endangered species, which fuel the cycle of corruption and the illegal use of natural resources, piracy and maritime trafficking. The Security Council, which has the primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security, also needs to be better structured so as to act decisively, not only to prevent conflicts and put an end to wars born of conflicts, but also to ensure that such conflicts do not re-emerge once peace has been built. In that regard, experience has shown that the United Nations often has a hard time successfully maintaining and building peace.”

    2014-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7105 (2014) · source

  8. “We are witnessing global chaos, anarchy and an unleashing of violence, which are often disguised as the exercise of self-defence. However, once one goes outside the framework of self-defence and Security Council-approved actions, any use of force becomes illegitimate and is a threat to peace, be it a breach of peace or an act of aggression under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations. Those who analyse the Charter see in that disarray a rebirth ofjus ad bellum in the form of bellum justum - a just war. They criticize the attitude of some Governments that appropriate the right to unilaterally decide to use force in circumstances other than legitimate self-defence when the Security Council is unable to take action. Today, it is not war in the traditional sense of the word that threatens international peace and security.”

    2014-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7105 (2014) · source

  9. “As is clear, the Charter's premise is to establish an effective prevention principle that seeks to make war and the use of force violations of international law, contrary to the first steps taken in the Treaty of Versailles of 1919 of the now obsolete League of Nations and the Kellogg- Briand Pact of 1928, which simply limited the right of recourse to war, while recognizing its legitimacy as a means for settling international disputes. If we were able to keep to the letter of the Charter, as it was envisioned by the drafters in 1945, the debate today might be much easier. Unfortunately, international practice has not always been faithful to that principle. The violence ofthose who consider themselves to be the strongest no longer obeys legal parameters, much less limits.”

    2014-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7105 (2014) · source

  10. “In 1945, following the San Francisco Conference, the peoples of the United Nations pledged to preserve future generations from the scourge of war, which twice in a lifetime has brought untold suffering to humankind. Since that time, war and the use of force were supposed to be banished from relations between States. That idea is the cornerstone of the Charter of the United Nations. Article 33 establishes the sacred principle of the peaceful settlement of disputes, which prohibits all use of force as being incompatible with the goals of the United Nations, while Article 2, paragraph 4, establishes the principle of the prohibition of the use of force.”

    2014-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7105 (2014) · source

  11. “Mr. Magbengu (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (spoke in French): Allow me, at the beginning of my statement today, to convey how pleased I am to see you, Mr. President, presidomh over this open debate of the Security Council and to say how much this agenda item, namely, the maintenance of international peace and security, is at the core of the goals for which the United Nations was established. On behalf of my delegation and myself personally, I would like to congratulate you, Sir, on your initiative to put this issue on the table for the Security Council's consideration during your presidency. We believe that to best discuss this issue, the three aspects of prevention, crisis management and crisis settlement should be underscored.”

    2014-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7105 (2014) · source