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Mandela

lines on the record: 64
first: 1992-07-15
most recent: 2000-09-29
sittings or episodes: 3
sources: un-security-council

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“We trust, too, that the international world will with similar enthusiasm participate in the proposed project for the reconstruction and development of Burundi society and Burundi's economy. That will be the ultimate victory for peace.”
2000-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4201 (2000) · source
“The Secretary-General of the United Nations has been a constant source of support and encouragement, as has his counterpart in the Organization of African Unity. The support of so many leaders from the African continent and from further afield has already been mentioned. Without the generosity of the international donor community, none of this would have been possible. The facilitation team did all the hard work, and public acknowledgement of them is due. And, as I have already indicated, ultimately it was up to the leaders of Burundi themselves to make peace. We look forward to returning here in the not too distant future to report to the Council on the conclusion of the negotiating process and real progress with the implementation of the agreement.”
2000-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4201 (2000) · source
“We hope with the support of the international community to make of Burundi a showcase of a country where the commitment to peace carries a dividend. An underlying cause of the conflict in Burundi is to be found in the fierce competition for limited resources, where access is mainly through the State. We hope that the development of a greater private sector component will go a long way to addressing that underlying problem. We have already also started mobilizing countries from the developed world to provide study opportunities to young people from Burundi. The Burundi peace process is not an end in itself; we see it as one part of bringing a better life to the people of that country on a sustainable basis. We must conclude with expressions of sincere gratitude to all those who have played such crucial roles in the peace process.”
2000-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4201 (2000) · source
“We realize that the security situation in Burundi may not make possible the immediate return of the exiled leaders. I have discussed with the Secretary- General the question of assistance in providing appropriate security for the returning leadership. We believe that the political leaders of Burundi have made remarkable progress towards peace in these last nine months since we have had the privilege of working with them. We are confident of being closer to the conclusion of this process. The people of Burundi deserve to enjoy the developmental fruits of what will be a remarkable national achievement. For that reason, we have solemnly undertaken to the leaders and people of Burundi that we shall mobilize the international community to assist massively in the reconstruction and development of the Burundi economy and society.”
2000-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4201 (2000) · source
“For one thing, every time I Visit Burundi, the people there, a wide range of different sections of society, ask me the question: "Those so-called leaders who are negotiating in Arusha - in another country - who gave them the authority to do so? We did not give them the authority." I have explained to the people in Burundi that our decisions in Arusha will bind us, the 19 political parties and the facilitation team. As far as the people of Burundi are concerned, those decisions will be recommendations. They will be entitled to accept those recommendations as they are or with amendments, or they can reject them totally. But I have the confidence that those decisions are sound, and that good men and women in Burundi will endorse them.”
2000-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4201 (2000) · source
“They are afraid that if they go out they will be slaughtered, and they prefer to remain in these regroupment camps. I have no reason to believe that that is not true. When I return to Burundi, I will go back to the regroupment camps, and I am confident that all the envoys have told me the truth. We now intend to intensify our attention to the internal situation. The agreement reached in Arusha needs to be explained to the people of Burundi and we need to ensure their understanding and concern. A situation needs to be speedily reached in which the leaders of the signatory parties can all return to Burundi to play their parts in this process. I am moving my entire office from Arusha to the capital of Burundi, Bujumbura.”
2000-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4201 (2000) · source
“We had the opportunity to visit other areas of the country besides the capital, and also to inspect some of the regroupment camps then still in existence. The armed groups are saying that the regroupment camps have not been dismantled, that although President Buyoya told me that he would dismantle them all by 31 July he had not done so. I checked with the envoys, the representative of the Secretary-General here, as well as the representative of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), and they assured me that all the camps had been dismantled. But there is a problem, not with Buyoya and the Burundi Government, but with the inmates themselves, as some of them refuse to leave the regroupment camps because of the security situation inside the country.”
2000-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4201 (2000) · source
“I do not think that he was taking the leadership that was present there for a ride. I want to add that Burundi stands at the threshold of a completely new chapter in its history. That history will judge very harshly those who deliberately choose to obstruct the road to peace and progress. I am confident that the leadership of the combatant forces will not be among those, and I ask the Council to encourage and urge them to help bring about a speedy conclusion to this final part of the Burundi peace process. Another important new phase awaiting us is that of directing our activities towards Burundi society itself. We have during the course of the present phase of negotiations already visited Burundi, where we met with the Army leadership, the legislature and the judiciary, spiritual leaders and various sectors of civil society.”
2000-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4201 (2000) · source
“Some reports to my leader here, the Secretary- General, have indicated that the last summit that we had, in Nairobi, on 20 September, did not produce any good results. That is inaccurate, because although Jean Bosco did not attend, Kabura Cossan of the National Forces of Liberation (FNL) attended, and the heads of State hammered him to give an explanation as to why they are intensifying the arms struggle, killing innocent people, when already there has been a breakthrough and we have signed an agreement. He then said, finally, "I am going back to my organization, and I am going to brief them on what you have said to me. I am confident that I will come back to you with a positive report". Now that is an achievement, and I have confidence in his honour and integrity.”
2000-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4201 (2000) · source
“One of the questions that they have not answered, but that I have put to them frequently, is, "What military installations have you attacked? How many soldiers have you attacked?" They are unable to answer. But recently - and I do not claim that is because of the pressure I have been putting on them - they have been able to ambush a few military leaders, which one can count on the fingers of one hand, and at one time they were able to attack a number of cadets. But it is quite clear that they are unable to tackle the military installations and the army itself, and that their activities have led to the deaths of innocent civilians. But I have confidence that we will be able, in due course, to convince them.”
2000-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4201 (2000) · source
“But serious political commentators have said that these are not genuine leaders; they are agents of external forces that wish to exterminate the Tutsi community, wherever they are, in Burundi, in Rwanda and other areas. They have said also that no genuine leadership of Burundi, of the Hutu, could continue slaughtering innocent people when in fact the political parties have reached a breakthrough. I have said to both Jean Bosco Ndayekengurukye and Kabura Cossan, the two leaders of the rebel groups, that although I as an individual do not believe this accusation from serious political leaders, nevertheless, by their action of not joining the other leaders in Arusha, they are giving ammunition to their own detractors and undermining my confidence in their integrity, and I have urged them to stop slaughtering innocent people.”
2000-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4201 (2000) · source
“At the same time, we must repeat, here in the Council, what we have on a number of occasions stated to them in our private discussions as well as in public calls: there cannot be any justification for continuing violent attacks on the civilian population when a political agreement has been reached and the way opened for them to bring their concerns to the negotiating table. We call upon them once again to demonstrate the quality of their leadership by announcing a ceasefire and halting the slaughter of innocent women, men and children, including the disabled. I must repeat that I regard the leadership of the armed groups as composed of innocent men - men of integrity.”
2000-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4201 (2000) · source
“My concern, when I became Facilitator, was that if the armed groups on the ground were not included, there was no guarantee that if the 19 political parties agreed on the issues, the rebel groups on the ground would respect them. I therefore urged that we should invite the rebel groups to join these negotiations, so that they could be part and parcel of the important agreement that would be reached in Arusha. That has been done, and we have had numerous fruitful discussions with the leadership of the rebel forces, both in South Africa and in Arusha. From their sides too we have received commitments to finding lasting peace. I say, "that has been done", but I am referring to inviting them to join the Arusha process. We fully accept the sincerity of these pronouncements on the part of leadership of the combatants.”
2000-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4201 (2000) · source
“This, we believe, reflects one of the underlying and fundamental features of the agreement, namely that the democratic rights of the majority are respected, while the fears and concerns of the minorities are simultaneously addressed. The political agreement reached is obviously not yet the comprehensive and final peace agreement, as some of the main combatant rebel forces are not parties to the signed agreement. The process now continues with a major focus on engaging those forces in direct talks with the political leadership. When we last reported to the Council, we undertook to make the process as inclusive as possible and particularly to open talks with the combatant forces not included at that time.”
2000-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4201 (2000) · source
“Numerous areas of agreement can be cited as examples of how the Burundi leadership practised the art of compromise. We would like to refer only to one: the very crucial and sensitive issue of the integration of a Burundi national defence force. Both Hutu and Tutsi leaders had to depart significantly from their starting positions to arrive at the final agreement that 50 per cent of the defence force would be from the Hutu community and 50 per cent from the Tutsi community, with accommodation being made for the Twa community as well. It was further agreed that a body of respected persons, independent from the Defence Force, would oversee this process.”
2000-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4201 (2000) · source
“The significance of the agreement is that the political parties now represent a united forum, joined by the compromise agreement reached, and they can deal with the remaining issues and with the combatant forces that are not yet part of the process. Of these 19 political parties, there are two major political rallies in the country: Unity and National Progress (UPRONA) - the oldest political party and the one to which President Buyoya belongs - and the Front for Democracy in Burundi (FRODEBU), which is the largest political rally in Burundi, led by Mr. Minani. And one of the most encouraging developments is the agreement between President Buyoya and Mr. Minani to work together to resolve problems among themselves, and the two of them have done remarkable work.”
2000-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4201 (2000) · source
“In addition there are university graduates in mathematics, in economics, in French literature, in biology, in sociology. I have used this in order to move the process forward, and that is why I am supremely confident that whatever problems still lie ahead, we are going to have solid peace and stability in that country. There obviously remains a range of matters relating to details and implementation that the parties would like to pursue, and that we ourselves require them to resolve among themselves. This is now, however, being done within the framework of a firm political agreement to which the parties are committed.”
2000-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4201 (2000) · source
“A number of parties that did not sign on that date subsequently did so, and the Security Council needs to congratulate and commend the political leadership of Burundi for this courageous step towards peace in their country. I wish to publicly record my personal pride, and that of the facilitation team, in the quality of leadership displayed. Few people are aware that the leaders of Burundi that are negotiating in Arusha are highly qualified academically. There are 19 political parties. Six of their negotiators are university graduates in engineering, having qualified overseas, in Brussels, Paris, Germany and Russia. Four of them are university graduates in law, and they too qualified abroad. There are two medical doctors, who also qualified abroad.”
2000-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4201 (2000) · source
“We proposed in confidential discussions with each of the parties represented at the Arusha talks, and subsequently at a plenary session in the presence of attending regional, continental and international leaders, that the facilitation team be mandated to draw up a comprehensive draft compromise proposal based on the inputs received over the lengthy period of negotiations. On receipt of comments on the draft compromise, a final plan would be drawn up and the parties would agree to accept it as the basis for implementing peace plans in Burundi. The parties agreed to these procedural proposals, and on 28 August a political agreement among the majority of participating parties was signed in Arusha - once more, in the witnessing presence of an impressive array of leaders.”
2000-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4201 (2000) · source
“We must commence our report on the progress in the Burundi peace process with a tribute to the political leadership of Burundi. We reported to this Council in January our faith that there were leaders of quality and commitment in Burundi, people dedicated to finding a lasting peace that would end the carnage and suffering visited for too long on the people of that beautiful country. We are proud to report today that our faith was not misplaced and that the leadership rose magnificently to the challenge. The leaders committed themselves to a particular methodology and procedure that we proposed for advancing the process, and at the end of the day were able to reach an agreement of significant proportions for the future of Burundi.”
2000-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4201 (2000) · source
“This demonstration of commitment to Burundi must be a clear indication that the neglect of Africa, particularly, is being turned around. The international interest and participation were crucial for moving the peace process forward. They convinced the Burundian leadership that peace in Burundi was not merely a domestic matter over which they had the liberty to take as much time as suited them. The physical presence of so many other leaders persuaded them of the urgency to find peace. It forcefully demonstrated to them that the quest for peace in Burundi was part of the global search for a world in which conflicts and differences are resolved through negotiation and compromise, rather than through resort to violence.”
2000-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4201 (2000) · source
“The manner in which the international community responded to calls for involvement in the Burundi process was a powerful demonstration that the shared responsibility for the fate of humankind was increasingly being accepted by the modern-day leadership. It will remain for us one of the most promising features of the Burundi peace process that so many heads of State or Government, or their delegated representatives, gave of their time and energy to attend and participate in the plenary sessions at Arusha. The significance of this, we believe, will resonate even beyond the Burundi issue. It must have sent a powerful message that the leaders in the immediate region, on the continent and on the broader international front care about peace in the world, no matter where it may be under attack.”
2000-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4201 (2000) · source
“It allowed us to take on the daunting challenge of following in the footsteps of the great Mwalimu Nyerere, the highly gifted and revered international statesman, and to continue the sterling work he had done up to that point. We could do so in the confident knowledge that our world body, and through it the international community, took a serious and direct interest in the quest for peace in Burundi. That sense of the international community making the plight of a small and poor country its concern inspired us to involve a range of heads of State and Government in the Burundi peace process. We said here at our first visit to the Security Council that the continuation of preventable suffering of people anywhere in the world demeaned all of us.”
2000-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4201 (2000) · source
“Mr. Mandela: We are honoured by the opportunity of returning to the Security Council to report to you and to our world body on progress and the current state of affairs in the Burundi peace process. Our role as Facilitator of the process to which the leaders of that region saw fit to appoint us was in a sense inaugurated with a visit to the Security Council in January of this year. On 16 January we paid our first acquaintance-making visit to Arusha, the seat of the peace negotiations, from where we proceeded directly here to brief the Council and to seek its support for the continuation of the process started by the late Mwalimu Julius Nyerere. The support we received from the Security Council by way of a resolution and the general expressions of encouragement from members inspired us.”
2000-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4201 (2000) · source
“If Burundians can reach an agreement on a way to live together, they will be setting an example to neighbouring countries, to Africa and to the world. It is not possible to establish regional peace unless the component parts of a region establish domestic foundations for a stable democratic order. Peace in Burundi will give hope for the Democratic Republic of Congo and other countries in the region, and it will prove an effective example of African intervention in an African problem. We thank our world body and the international community for their attention to this matter.”
2000-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4091 (2000) · source
“The effectiveness of the messages we have delivered to the various protagonists in Burundi can only be reinforced by the participation of other heads of State and countries. The problems of Burundi are the concern of all of us, as are the problems in any other part of the world. We are under no illusions about the political problems we face in Burundi or about the utmost fragility of the security situation in that country. Neither can we underestimate the impact of regional developments in the Great Lakes region on developments in Burundi. We conclude, however, by restating our confidence that there is sufficient capacity among the leaders of Burundi to reach compromises and agreements that can at last lead to peace and stability in that country.”
2000-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4091 (2000) · source
“We would, however, like to restate that the primary responsibility for ending the humanitarian crisis in Burundi lies with the leaders of the Burundi people. It is they who, by an effort of politics, must create the conditions enabling their people to return to their homes and resume normal economic life. We intend to follow up our recent first visit to Arusha with a more extended one in February, by which time much more work will have been done at the committee level and in other consultative processes. We particularly wish to invite to that meeting other heads of State from different parts of the world. Apart from providing financial and humanitarian assistance, the international community has a part to play politically.”
2000-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4091 (2000) · source
“At the same time, we must express our deep appreciation for the support it has already received up until now. A further investment in the process can only help finally achieve those objectives to which the international community has already given so generously. The international community can also help alleviate the suffering of the Burundian people through the provision of humanitarian aid, insofar as security conditions allow. In that regard, we appeal to all the belligerents to respect the international humanitarian efforts in Burundi and, in particular, to safeguard the security of those involved in humanitarian assistance. We commend the efforts of the United Nations agencies to resume fully their activities in the field.”
2000-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4091 (2000) · source
“Common sense tells us that if an agreement signed in Arusha were not acceptable to public opinion in Burundi, it could not be successfully implemented. The responsibility for ensuring that link lies solely with the leadership of the parties conducting the negotiations. This means that the political leaders need to do groundwork at the grass-roots level in order to persuade their constituencies that the price of agreement and lasting peace will be concession and compromise on certain major issues. To this end, among others, we have already indicated to the Burundian political leaders that we are willing to accept their invitation to visit Burundi as part of our facilitation task. The Burundian peace process needs the support of the international community to sustain the actual negotiations and the ongoing efforts to achieve peace.”
2000-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4091 (2000) · source
“For this process to be successful, it must be inclusive, and to the extent that players are not represented at Arusha, we shall regard it as our task to make the process as inclusive as possible. We shall continue to emphasize to the parties already at the negotiating table that there is no alternative to meaningful engagement within the political mainstream of the process. To those outside the process, the message will be sent to start formulating their political aspirations in coherent terms and to demonstrate the capability to come to the negotiating table in good faith and in full respect of the guiding principles of the process. There is also the need for a stronger link between the peace process and the reality of political life in Burundi.”
2000-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4091 (2000) · source
“In this regard we shall seek to send a clear message to the Burundi Government that in spite of the manner in which they came to power, they and, through them, the Burundi army have a particular responsibility to defend and protect the civilian population, and not just a given part of it. We regard it similarly as of crucial importance to issue a clear call to those armed groups that are not in the process. We shall make renewed efforts to engage those groups with the purpose of making them aware of the nature of the exchanges in the process and to gather some indication of their attitudes towards the shape of a possible consensus. We have no doubt that the Burundian peace talks represent the only way in which Burundi can achieve peace and embark on the task of reconstruction and development.”
2000-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4091 (2000) · source
“Killings, whether ethnically targeted or indiscriminate ambushes on civilians, the burning of houses and the forcible removal of people from their homes have become all too common occurrences in Burundian life. The population of Burundi has become hostage to violence from all sides in the conflict. As a result, new waves of refugees are fleeing the country, and people are increasingly becoming internally displaced in their own country. Burundians face the task of demilitarizing their society in the medium term and of embarking on the formidable task of development and reconstruction. An end to the senseless violence through which various forces in Burundi seek to assert themselves is a first step in that longer-term process.”
2000-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4091 (2000) · source
“What divides them is their unfortunate history and the perceptions that are the legacy of that history. As it is perceptions of differences that divide, it is also perceptions properly adjusted that can serve as the foundation for uniting Burundi as a nation. To that task the leadership of Burundi now stands called. One of the most important issues impacting upon the Burundian situation and the negotiation process is that of violence. When the negotiations started in June 1998 it was hoped that they would take place in an atmosphere free from violence and bloodshed. Unfortunately, this has not been the case. Indeed, over the past year, and in the last few months in particular, there has been an intensification of violence, including attacks on the civilian population.”
2000-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4091 (2000) · source
“We came away from that meeting impressed by the potential and quality of leadership present in Burundi. We met and interacted with people of outstanding intelligence and education. There are political processes and sets of dynamics under way which, if harnessed and directed onto constructive routes, could form the basis for a lasting political settlement in that hitherto troubled country. But it is time for Burundians to get down to business. No one can reach an agreement on their behalf. The responsibility rests squarely with their leaders now to find the necessary arrangements by which Burundians can live together. As one becomes acquainted with the history of the negotiations and the nature of the conflict in Burundi, it becomes evident that Burundians have much more in common with each other than that which divides them.”
2000-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4091 (2000) · source
“With regard to peace and security for all, the parties have agreed on principles for the organization of the defence and security forces, and on the missions of the army, the police and the intelligence services. So far, however, they have failed to agree on a programme of reform of the present security forces or on the issue of the integration of armed groups into the security forces. These are amongst the most sensitive issues in the negotiations and will have to be faced squarely if the process is to lead to a durable peace in Burundi. We paid a visit to Arusha on Sunday, 16 January 2000, to acquaint ourselves with the facilitation team, the international agencies and representatives involved in the process and, most important, the heads of delegations from the Burundian political parties and role-players.”
2000-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4091 (2000) · source
“The other two committees are those dealing with, on the one hand, democracy and good governance and, on the other, peace and security for all. These committees too have made significant progress but continue to confront some major issues on which the Burundians must agree. Most of the parties are agreed on the principle of universal franchise, but differences remain on whether the parliament should be balanced in ethnic, gender or other terms. The real challenge facing Burundi, and hence facing the facilitation, is that of creating a form of democracy that provides for accountable and responsive government and that ensures security for those who for reasons of demography feel vulnerable within such a system.”
2000-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4091 (2000) · source
“In the past 18 months the Arusha process has seen the establishment of four committees, each targeting particular aspects of the negotiations. These committees have achieved significant progress, and two of them - the one dealing with the nature of the conflict and the issue of genocide and the other dealing with reconstruction and development - have nearly completed their work. The major outstanding issues for those two committees are, respectively, the appropriate mechanism for dealing with the past; and agreement on the question of the recovery of property by returning refugees. Also, the question of amnesty remains as particularly problematic and complex given the history of Burundi; by the same token, it is one of the crucial matters to be tackled if permanent peace is to be established.”
2000-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4091 (2000) · source
“The international community turns its attention and its energy to this matter not as a favour to that country or continent. The failure of those responsible to provide conditions of security and social development to the people of Burundi does not represent some errant occurrence on the periphery. It hits at the heart of our common human obligation to make of this century one where all human beings will at last share in the security and prosperity that our planet is capable of providing. In spite of the grave difficulties we still face in Burundi - issues to which I shall return in the course of this report - it is gratifying to be able to state that a lot of progress has already been made since the start of the negotiations.”
2000-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4091 (2000) · source
“We are inspired by the energy, patience and wisdom he invested in the peace process over several years. We are humbled by the stature of the man whom we are asked to succeed and heavily under the impression of the obligation that places upon us. We need to thank the United Nations for convening this special meeting of the Security Council to apply its mind to and remain seized of the matter concerning Burundi. Where even one single human being, one group of people, one nation or one part of the world labours under preventable suffering, it is the concern of all of us as a world drawn closer together than ever before in our history. The misery of the Burundian people affects us all and diminishes the humanity of all of us.”
2000-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4091 (2000) · source
“Mr. Mandela: We are both honoured and saddened by this occasion: honoured that the leaders of the Great Lakes region found it fit to call upon us to step into the shoes of that great son of Africa and the world, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, to continue the facilitation of the Burundi peace process and that we may now in that capacity address the Security Council of our world body; saddened that the world, and in this case our beloved continent of Africa, continues to be haunted by such a self-inflicted human tragedy as that in Burundi and that there is the need for the facilitation and process upon which we shall report to the Security Council this morning. We cannot commence speaking of this process without first paying homage to Mwalimu Nyerere.”
2000-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4091 (2000) · source
“In this regard, we should again like to inform you that we still have to convince the Government that it also should be committed to such a democratic outcome, accepting such ordinary concepts of a democratic system as majority rule and the absence of vetoes by minority parties. We therefore still have to overcome these obstacles so that the process of negotiations itself, as conducted within the Convention for a Democratic South Africa, can succeed. We thank members for the opportunity they have given us to address the Council and hope that they will respond to our appeal to help us end the carnage in South Africa, with the understanding of the gravity of the situation which we know they share. Our people look forward to the Council's decisions with great expectation.”
1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source
“We should also like to bring it to the notice of the Council, for the purpose of its information, that we have required of the Government that it also complete the process of the release of political prisoners and the repeal of repressive legislation. Again, these are concrete steps visualized in the United Nations Declaration to create a climate conducive to negotiations. That these matters remain on the agenda, more than two years after we entered into a formal agreement with the South African Government that they would be attended to, demonstrates the problem we face concerning the reliability of the Government in terms of implementing agreements it has entered into. We should also like to take advantage of this opportunity to reaffirm our own commitment both to the process of negotiations and to a genuinely democratic outcome.”
1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source
“Failure on the part of the Council to act firmly and decisively cannot but undermine its prestige and authority at a time when the Council and the United Nations as a whole are called upon to play an even more active role in the ordering of world affairs. We would therefore urge that the Council should request the Secretary-General to appoint a Special Representative on South Africa. This representative should move speedily to investigate the situation in South Africa with a view to helping the Council to decide on the measures it should take to help us end the violence. The Council should then take the necessary decisions to implement such measures, including the continuous monitoring of the situation to ensure the effectiveness of such measures as it would have undertaken.”
1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source
“The very interest of the Council to see the negotiations resumed so that a peaceful solution can be found, a solution that would be in keeping with the democratic principles contained in the General Assembly Declaration on Apartheid and its Destructive Consequences in Southern Africa of 1989 and the resolutions of the Security Council itself, requires of the Council that it act on this matter of viclence in South Africa firmly and with the necessary speed. We believe that this violence, like the system of apartheid itself, is a direct challenge to the authority of the Council and a subversion of its global tasks of furthering peace and promoting the objectives contained in both the United Nations Charter and the Declaration on Human Rights.”
1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source
“However, it is not an independent force with which the ANC must enter into an agreement to end the violence in the country, as the Pretoria regime asserts. The documentation we will give to members of the Council details all the points we have raised, all of which confirm the criminal failure of the Government properly to address the question of political violence which has claimed too many lives already, which is tearing our country apart and which is making the process of negotiations impossible. We would like to recall earlier decisions of this Council to help the people of South Africa to transform our country into a non-racial democracy. We believe that this commitment places an urgent obligation on the Council to intervene in the South African situation to end the carnage.”
1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source
“In order to confuse the issue and evade its responsibilities, the Government insists that the source of the violence is rivalry between the ANC and the Inkatha Freedom Party. The fact of the matter, however, is that the Inkatha Freedom Party has permitted itself to become an extension of the Pretoria regime, its instrument and surrogate. Its activities have been financed by the South African Government. Its members have been armed and trained by the South African Government. There is an abundance of evidence that it continues to benefit from covert cooperation with the South African Government. It therefore becomes unclear when its members are acting as an independent force and when as an agent on behalf of the South African Government.”
1992-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3095 (1992) · source
“Recently, a covert police unit, operating in the area around Boipatong, came to public attention. It and 10 others operating in other regions of the country exist for the purpose of suppressing the democratic movement, which the Government still regards as the enemy and a threat to so-called national security. Former officers and personnel of the security police have been redeployed into these clandestine networks. There are persistent allegations that members of these units, as well as those in Special Force units composed of foreign nationals such as Angolans, Mozambicans and Namibians, are engaged in covert operations that include the assassination of leaders and activists of the democratic movement. They are also implicated in carrying out acts of terror against the population at large.”
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“This repealed a prohibition which had been in force since 1891. In other words, after the ANC and other organizations were unbanned in 1990, the Pretoria regime has created a situation in which hordes of men can spill out into the streets and enter public places carrying the most dangerous weapons. The Government is unable to explain why it virtually gave people the licence to kill and maim. It has never explained why its police and army reguiarly accompanied these killers to piaces of safety after many murderous rampages, and arrested nobody. We charge, without equivocation, that there is a rational basis for these acts of omission on the part of the South African Government. The hard fact of the matter is that the South African Government has never relented in its war against the democratic movement of our country.”
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“The regime has dismissea this incident on the grounds that these Inkatha Freedom Party members had received vIP-protection training. Some of the trainees have subsequently been implicated in the violence in Natal. No action has been taken to control and limit the powers of the Kwa Zulu police. Extensive evidence exists of Kwa Zulu police partiality and involvement in the violence in the province of Natal. Indeed, as recently as 1 July 1992 the powers of the same Kwa Zulu police have in fact been . Strengthened. From that date the South African police's Internal Stability Unit will act on unrest in Kwa Zulu only if called on to do so by the Kwa Zulu Police District Commissioner, In 1990, the Pretoria regime issued specific proclamations legalizing the carrying of dangerous weapons in public.”
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“Despite a judicial commission finding implicating several military personnel of the Civil Cooperation Bureau (CCB) in political violence, none has been charged. At least 20 Bureau members, and probably many more, remain on the South African Defence Force payroll. Others have been offered or have received huge pensions. Several have demanded immunity from prosecution. In February 1992 it came to light that local white policemen based at the Ermelo police station encouraged and actively helped a gang of vigilantes in Wesselton. No policemen concerned has been suspended. In an official operation in 1986, the South African Defence Force gave military training in Namibia to 200 Inkatha members who were later absorbed into the Kwa Zulu police. In sworn affidavits, several trainees claimed to have been trained in offensive warfare.”
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