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Major General Gaye

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2013-06-26
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  1. “That has led to a trend of regular quarterly meetings among the forces. In some regions that works well, while it functions less so owing to the situation. With regard to Cote d'Ivoire and Liberia, as the Council is aware, there is a meeting between the two countries and the two missions. That four-way meeting illustrates the fact that there is a trend to address the refugee issue on a regional basis. I am sure that Mr. Koenders, who is at the centre of such efforts, will lead the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali in the same direction very soon.”

    2013-06-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6987 (2013) · source

  2. “We are also unsatisfied because, even with all that planning, the use of engineering units entails significant financial implications. Having the ability to build a road out of asphalt nevertheless requires that you crush the stone and so forth. At a time of financial constraints, we certainly do not have an answer to that problem. Nevertheless, the issue of engineering units is one that clearly illustrates the link between a mission and all the humanitarian actors involved in benefitting the population. With regard to the regional aspect, on which General Iqbal Asi place great emphasis, I would like to confirm that that is indeed an aspect that touches on many of the Council's mandates. In particular with regard to the Lord's Resistance Army, we have asked the missions to cooperate.”

    2013-06-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6987 (2013) · source

  3. “MINUSTAH is genuninely a very interesting laboratory of what a military engineering company can do in a post-conflict country. For all that that company was able to accomplish, however, we must nevertheless admit that, for several reasons, we are still unsatisfied. First, to be of most use, an engineering company must be deployed on the basis of planning. Engineering companies do not work on the basis of a couple of days; they prefer to work on a long-term basis and by deploying their its assets. That is why MINUSTAH has established a quaraterly meeting to deal with the planning and coordination of engineering unites. It was the Department of Peacekeeping Operations that encouraged the Mission to do so, and they did so quite well.”

    2013-06-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6987 (2013) · source

  4. “The Mission in South Sudan is an emblematic case of where good knowledge of the situation using modern technology makes it possible to make maximum use of reserves, as well as to react to deploy battalions. The second question, concering the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), had to do with the strengths and weaknesses of the support we provide to humanitarian actors. Mandates usually give a force responsibility for ensuring the security of humanitarian actors and United Nations personnel. It is up to the various Deputy Special Representatives of the missions to coordinate the efforts of all humanitarian actors and to ensure that they support the force. In the specific instance of MINUSTAH, it was possible, following the earthquake, to significantly boost an engineering company.”

    2013-06-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6987 (2013) · source

  5. “There were in fact two questions addressed to other Force Commanders. The first had to do with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan. The concept of operations for the Mission consists of increasing the relative size of the force by mobilizing reserve battalions. That mobility must be guided by an awareness of the situation. Situational awareness is therefore crucial to the Mission. Following the crisis in December 2011, it was the observations made from helicopters that made it possible to alert Government authorities that confrontations among the various communities were about to take place in Jonglei. It was our action - the very swift response by the Force Commander on the ground to shift some troops - that made it possible to keep the violence, which unfortunately nevertheless took place, to a minimum.”

    2013-06-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6987 (2013) · source