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Mangaral

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first: 2014-01-29
most recent: 2015-08-21
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“Chad commends and encourages UNMIK to continue to support initiatives for dialogue between the communities, in particular through capacity-building projects. We also commend the United Nations entities and the system's partners on the ground - particularly the Kosovo Force, the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the European Union - for their cooperation and contributions to reconciliation and stabilization in Kosovo.”
2015-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7510 (2015) · source
“We also welcome the State visit ofthe Serbian Prime Minister to Albania, which allowed discussions to be launched on joint infrastructure, socioeconomic development and security projects. We believe that the adoption by the Assembly of a resolution on the geographic delineation of the border with Montenegro will also help to improve the climate of regional understanding. In conclusion, Chad is convinced that all these productive and constructive initiatives will help to improve the daily lives of citizens in Kosovo and reduce tensions for the benefit of all communities there. That progress has been achieved thanks to the readiness of the parties and the efforts of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNMIK, Mr. Zarif, and his entire team.”
2015-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7510 (2015) · source
“With respect to the 1,654 persons still missing, Chad calls on the Kosovo authorities to redouble their efforts to foster conditions conducive to ongoing investigations and provide follow-up to the victims' families. With respect to regional cooperation, important steps have been taken in the context of security and promoting reconciliation. However, we regret and condemn acts of violence, particularly the clashes that took place on 9 and 10 May in Kumanovo, in the the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, leading to the deaths of 8 police officers and the wounding of 37 others. We welcome the cooperation of the Kosovo police in facilitating the conduct of an open investigation into these incidents with a view to bringing the perpetrators to justice.”
2015-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7510 (2015) · source
“To that end, we welcome the adoption on 3 August by the Assembly of Kosovo of constitutional amendments for the establishment of a specialist court to try cases referred by the European Union Special Investigative Task Force in the context of war crimes and organized crime allegations contained in the report of January 2011 presented by Dick Marty. With regard to the issue of returns, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees recorded only 132 individual voluntary returns in the reporting period. The proposals and initiatives to build homes in return areas and to validate diplomas so as to allow people from non-majority groups to find employment in public institutions could certainly facilitate local returns.”
2015-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7510 (2015) · source
“We welcome the effective cooperation between local leaders in northern Kosovo, especially between the majors of North and South Mitrovica on issues relating to budget and the payment of salaries to health care and education workers. We also welcome the verdicts handed down in the Drenica I and II war crimes cases. Given the transnational challenges, particularly those related to the radicalization of young people and violent extremism, Chad encourages the Kosovo authorities in their struggle against socioeconomic factors that could lead to recruitment by radical groups. We believe that as Kosovo experienced one of the most devastating wars in Europe, work on justice towards reconciliation and confidence-building within communitiesandsocietiesoftheregionremainsapriority.”
2015-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7510 (2015) · source
“We encourage the follow-up of high-level technical and political negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina - under the auspices of the European Union - on issues concerning telecommunications, energy and the establishment of the association/community of Serb- majority municipalities, with the aim of forging long- lasting ties between the two parties. The signing of the second Compact on Rule of Law in Kosovo will allow us to make progress on issues of responsibility, corruption, inter-ethnic crime, organized crime, gender issues, ethnic inclusion, strengthening the witness-protection system and pending land issues. That is an important step in institution-building.”
2015-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7510 (2015) · source
“Mr. Mangaral (Chad) (spoke in French): I would like to first thank Mr. Farid Zarif, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and the Head of United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). We commend him on his devotion and commitment during his leadership of UNMIK, and we wish him our best in his future endeavours. I would like to welcome Mr. Ivica Dacie, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia, and Mr. Hashim Thaci, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kosovo, and thank them both for their statements. Chad notes with satisfaction recent progress made in Kosovo in the political and legislative spheres as well as in terms of regional cooperation.”
2015-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7510 (2015) · source
“Among them there were eminent epidemiologists and foreign physicians. I also pay homage to the United Nations contingent on the ground, who did not waver in the exercise of their mission.”
2015-08-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7502 (2015) · source
“In that fight, priority attention must particularly be given to children, women and other vulnerable categories of people." That assertion retains its validity today in the ongoing fight against the epidemic in Sierra Leone and Guinea. But vigilance must be maintained given the emergence ofisolated cases in Liberia, which had been declared Ebola-free. We hope that the international community will draw on the lessons learned from these cases by adopting an early warning system so that we can react in a more timely manner to future outbreaks of that nature. I would like to conclude by paying homage to the victims, including those in the medical corps who honoured the Hippocratic oath by not abandoning those who were ill and by giving their best, even at the cost of their own lives, in treating them.”
2015-08-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7502 (2015) · source
“In the epidemic of Ebola, we saw the full support among international organizations, regional and subregional organizations, such as the Mano River Union, the Economic Community of West African States, Medecins Sans Frontieres and the United Nations Development Programme - and above all the resolve of the African Union Peace and Security Council, which, for the first time in its history, decided, at its meeting in Nairobi on 19 August 2014, to send a civilian-military medical team to Liberia. We note the statement made by the Deputy Director- Geneal of the World Health Organization that "It is possible to contain and minimize the spread of an Ebola epidemic as long as the international community acts rapidly and effectively.”
2015-08-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7502 (2015) · source
“The effects caused a collapse in the countries' various socioeconomic sectors and dealt a further blow to the living conditions of the populations. We recognize that Liberia - a country emerging from a long civil war - has experienced delays with regard to peacebuilding and the process of gradually withdrawing the United Nations Mission in Liberia. Nevertheless, we welcome the surge in solidarity on a bilateral basis prompted by Ebola. In that connection, we commend the efforts of individuals of the countries that deployed medical teams and military personnel on the ground.”
2015-08-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7502 (2015) · source
“For its part, the Peace and Security Council of the African Union, at its sixth extraordinary meeting in Addis Ababa on 8 September, made a similar urgent appeal aimed at ensuring that those countries were not isolated. As the Secretary-General has emphasized, Ebola was not merely a public-health crisis. Its humanitarian, social and economic consequences are serious and could threaten the political stability of the countries involved. Ebola has had an negative effect on various socioeconomic sectors in Liberia and all the countries affected in the region. We have seen, for example, measures taken by some international transport companies to restrict international shipping access to the countries most affected by Ebola, which had an immediate negative impact on their economies.”
2015-08-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7502 (2015) · source
“We also saw how slowly international aid was deployed, despite the fact that it was available, as well as the stigmatization of the entire African continent and the excessive and insulting protective measures taken by several countries - the practices ofquarantine, isolation and even tacit embargo are still deplorable even considering the right of States to defend and ensure their own security, including as it relates to health issues. That state of affairs was broad justification for the appeal on 29 August 2014 to the Secretary-General by the leaders of the three countries most affected pleading for the aforementioned measures to be lifted.”
2015-08-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7502 (2015) · source
“We commend the reaction of the international community, led by the Security Council, in its collective grasp of the seriousness of the situation, particularly through the adoption of the resolution and its call for international aid to be mobilized in combating this scourge. The deaths caused by Ebola, the precariousness of basic social health services and the chaos among their existing structures, including the closure of hospitals in some countries, were both a result and the visible symptoms of the weakness of the health systems of the countries most affected.”
2015-08-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7502 (2015) · source
“The Ebola epidemic spread so fast that it was considered a threat to international peace and security. We should recall that on 18 September the epidemic was the subject of an emergency meeting of the Security Council (see S/PV.7268), which generally is not called on to discuss public health issues. In View of the scale of Ebola and the threat it posed to international peace and security, resolution 2177 (2014), proposed by the United States, was sponsored by 134 States Members of the United Nations and adopted unanimously by the members of the Council. The resolution demonstrated the ability of the international community to mobilize in the face of this extraordinary crisis.”
2015-08-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7502 (2015) · source
“The very particular attention given to the Ebola epidemic by the United Nations and the rest of the international community is testament to the degree to which our planet remains vulnerable in some areas, and to which the international solidarity, demonstrated by the multifarious efforts that it brought together, is what is required to create an adequate response for combating the negative effects of this plague and similar natural disasters. As is clearly highlighted in today's concept note (S/2015/600, annex), it was not only Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone that suffered so severely from its effects, with thousands of deaths, but other countries in the same subregion as well, if to a lesser degree, that saw the disease's effects, including Nigeria, Senegal and Mali. Even countries outside the African continent were affected.”
2015-08-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7502 (2015) · source
“Mr. Mangaral (Chad) (spoke in French): I would like to thank the Nigerian presidency of the Council for this month for organizing this meeting on the Ebola epidemic, which affected three West African countries so severely from December 2013 and whose effects continue to trouble some of them today. I would also like to thank today's briefers, Dr. Margaret Chan, Dr. David Nabarro, Ambassador Tete Antonio, Mr. Per Thoresson and Dr. Mosoka Fallah, for their statements.”
2015-08-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7502 (2015) · source
“In conclusion, I would like to welcome the appointment by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon of a high representative responsible for the least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island developing States.”
2015-07-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7499 (2015) · source
“The Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States, which was held from 1 to 4 September 2014 in Apia, was an opportunity for the international community to renew its commitment to assist the development of those countries during the upcoming decade and to determine the path to be followed. This path needs to be reflected in the post- 2015 development programme, whose main objective is the building of a better future for succeeding generations without leaving anyone stranded on the sidelines. In that regard, we call upon the solidarity of the international community as a whole to assist small island developing States.”
2015-07-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7499 (2015) · source
“Small island developing States also face a great many other challenges relating to access to international markets for their products, energy requirements, access to new technologies, and the development of tourism. That is also compounded by human trafficking, transnational organized crime, cyber crime and, of course, piracy, which continue to undermine the development efforts of many countries, including SIDS. To better assist small island developing States in facing up to the aforementioned challenges, it is important to focus on the establishment of early warning systems at the national, regional and international levels, as well as on the strengthening of international cooperation and international strategic partnerships.”
2015-07-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7499 (2015) · source
“That constitutes a real threat to international security and requires urgent measures and the firm commitment of mankind to find a rapid, global solution to that problem. The impact of Cyclone Pam, which struck the coastlines of Vanuatu and took place during the third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Japan last March, claimed many lives and caused great material damage. It was, of course, a strong signal sent to us by nature herself. We must learn to listen to nature so as to better understand the new types of challenges to international peace and security. To that end, the Security Council should think deeply about its role and its place in tackling those new challenges to international peace and security.”
2015-07-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7499 (2015) · source
“The Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Barbados Programme of Action listed a number of priority fields. If small island developing States share a great many specificities with other States, it has been recognized, however, that they also face challenges that are specific to them. They suffer from excessive vulnerability in terms of their environmental systems, economic and social factors and humanitarian disasters related to climate change. Threats to peace and security are not related solely to armed conflict, but can also stem from nature herself as a result of humankind's activities and their impact on the environment. Global warming of the oceans has led to the melting of glaciers and to the rise in sea levels, which has threatened the future of many islands around the world.”
2015-07-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7499 (2015) · source
“Mr. Mangaral (Chad) (spoke in French): I thank the presidency of New Zealand for having convened this meeting on the challenges to threats and security facing small island developing States (SIDS). I also welcome all of the distinguished personalities and ministers present here today. I thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the Prime Minister of Samoa, the Prime Minister of Jamaica and the Minister of Finance of Seychelles for their statements. The United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development, held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, recognized the existence of a group called the "Small Island Developing States" (SIDS). That recognition was formalized by the Programme of Action to assist them, which was adopted at the Global Conference for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States in 1994 in Barbados.”
2015-07-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7499 (2015) · source
“We believe those recommendations should aim at helping to prevent countries emerging from conflict from relapsing into Violence, since recent examples of the resurgence of violence, as in the Central African Republic and South Sudan, have made clear the gaps that exist in terms of assistance to peacebuilding.”
2015-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7472 (2015) · source
“In conclusion, given the negative impact of the Ebola pandemic in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone in 2014, we call on the Commission to enhance its capacity to mobilize resources and invite the countries concerned to generate resources at the national level. The Peacebuilding Commission, the Peacebuilding Support Office and the Peacebuilding Fund were created in 2005 with the promise that assistance would be given to countries to prevent them from falling back into violence. We therefore look forward to a review of the progress achieved since 2005, the difficulties encountered in managing post-conflict problems and the recommendations drawn from the review, which should enable the three entities to do a better job.”
2015-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7472 (2015) · source
“We also believe that the dialogue between these two entities should be based on flexibility and the absence of any formalities, with the participation of ambassadors and Council country experts, as well as the active follow-up of Council deliberations by the PBC. We favour making informal contacts with individual countries before the Council takes any steps, particularly when reviewing mandates. The Peacebuilding Commission should insist on the participation of women in peacebuilding and encourage the adoption of measures relating to their economic empowerment. We look forward to the recommendations of the comprehensive high-level review on the implementation of resolution 1325 (2000), which will allow us to assess the progress made in enhancing the role of women in post-conflict peacebuilding and any obstacles that may remain.”
2015-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7472 (2015) · source
“We encourage the review to strengthen the contribution made by the United Nations peacebuilding architecture to the African Union's peace and development objectives and to make recommendations in that regard. Concerning the Peacebuilding Commission's advisory role for the Security Council, we encourage the Commission to continue to look at ways of enhancing that role and improving its relations with the Council, particularly with regard to the issues of United Nations missions in transition and repeated relapse into conflict. We believe the Commission's advisory role should be seen in a strategic light and should enhance the political strategy of the Council and the United Nations in given situations.”
2015-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7472 (2015) · source
“At the bilateral level, and in the context of a subregional effort, Chad, along with other countries members of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa, contributed on several occasions to the payment of civil servants' salaries in the Central African Republic. The Commission could enhance its support for regional initiatives promoting an ongoing political dialogue that is open to all countries emerging from conflict, and cooperate in such efforts. We pay tribute to the efforts of the African Union to deal with the problems caused by financial flows, and we support the adoption of a regional approach to deal with that challenge. Chad also reasserts its support for the African Union's common position on the comprehensive review ofthe peacebuilding architecture in 2015.”
2015-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7472 (2015) · source
“I wish to highlight the importance of regional perspectives in the context of the work of the Commission, because the role and functions of the United Nations and regional actors are complementary in nature. In that regard, countries that are neighbours of those on the Peacebuilding Commission's agenda, the African Union and other organizations must be major partners in political processes and the combat against factors that promote instability. It is therefore Vital that the Commission enhance its cooperation and establish closer ties with those countries and the African Union. For example, the Central African Republic continues to enjoy the region's support for the peaceful settlement of the crisis.”
2015-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7472 (2015) · source
“In that way, it could support the implementation of the Government projects in Guinea-Bissau aimed at establishing a national peacebuilding strategy and continue to promote the coordination and harmonization of the support given to the country's priority goals. The Commission could do the same in Guinea, since the Government has made its priorities known with regard to peacebuilding and human rights. In Burundi, the Commission could focus on the continued enhancement of social cohesion and the speedy implementation of the development programme established by the Government. Finally, in Sierra Leone, the Peacebuilding Commission could continue to work to promote the country's efforts to ensure durable peace.”
2015-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7472 (2015) · source
“We note the areas in which new policies could be designed to help countries emerging from conflict, including the capacity to negotiate contracts related to national resources; the transparency and responsibility of mining companies, and the tax regimes to be applied; the establishment of international mechanisms to strengthen mutual responsibility and international cooperation on tax issues, against tax evasion and trade distortion; and the fight against banking secrecy laws, which promote the illicit movement of funds. In terms of the national ownership of initiatives, the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) must focus the international community's attention on the priorities of the countries concerned.”
2015-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7472 (2015) · source
“In Liberia, for instance, where the lack of financial resources and insufficient national revenue base have continued to hinder progress in the areas ofthe rule oflaw and security sector reform, the Commission could work harder to mobilize more significant support for managing the country's natural resources. We should establish global policies aimed at limiting and mitigating the effects that the illicit flight of capital can have on countries and at supporting capacity-building in public finances and the creation of national revenue. Ongoing support in that area would allow those countries to generate a more significant part of the financial resources necessary for re-establishing economic infrastructure and providing basic services.”
2015-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7472 (2015) · source
“Mr. Mangaral (Chad) (spoke in French): I would like to congratulate the Malaysian presidency on its organization of today's meeting on peacebuilding and to thank Mr. Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, the former Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission, and Mr. Olof Skoog, the current Chair, for their statements. Chad takes note of the Commission's report on its work during 2014 (S/2015/l74), welcomes its activities and encourages it to continue to carry out its Vital functions. In that regard I have the following comments to make. Regarding the issue of financial resources, the Commission should put greater emphasis on enhancing public income and combating illicit financing flows so as to promote the direct participation of the countries concerned in peacebuilding efforts.”
2015-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7472 (2015) · source
“Chadian children in the same situation have been entrusted to the Ministry of Social Action for reintegration, with the help of UNICEF, for whose valuable support we would like to reiterate our appreciation. Lastly, the inclusion of parties to conflict in the Secretary-General's annual report on children and armed conflict is an important tool for combating violations of children's rights and could dissuade many parties tempted to commit such violations. If that measure is to have the desired effects, however, it must apply indiscriminately to all those who are committing such Violations today. We dare to hope that the Secretary-General's next report on children and armed conflict will reflect that concern.”
2015-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7466 (2015) · source
“We reiterate our support for regional and subregional organizations' leadership in and contribution to efforts to protect children, and we urge such organizations to intensify their efforts in that area. Chad has maintained its partnership with the United Nations and is developing sustained cooperation at the regional and subregional levels, in particular with neighbouring States. In 2015, we have demobilized and reintegrated children who had been forced to join ex-Sele'ka fighters in the Central African Republic and had crossed the border into Chad. In April we also returned to their countries approximately 30 children snatched by the Chadian National Army from the clutches of Boko Haram.”
2015-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7466 (2015) · source
“We encourage States and financial partners to further intensify their efforts so as to consolidate the reintegration measures already taken and to prevent further recruitment. An overarching strategy for the protection of children and school facilities needs to be defined more urgently now than ever before, but that cannot be done without tackling the causes of violence and eradicating terrorism. We welcome the progress made in the "Children, Not Soldiers" campaign in 2014 and the efforts of the international community, particularly the United Nations, through the Secretary-General and his Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Ms. Leila Zerrougui. We encourage them to continue their work to achieve the campaign's objectives by 2016.”
2015-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7466 (2015) · source
“We also believe that the measures set out in the Guidelines for Protecting Schools and Universities from Military Use during Armed Conflict, endorsed through the Safe Schools Declaration, adopted in Oslo on 29 May, will effectively ensure the protection of such institutions. We must also not overlook illegal transfers of small arms and light weapons, the stockpiling of which undermines the efforts of the United Nations and adversely affects children in areas affected by armed conflict. We believe that the withdrawal of children from the forces of parties to conflict is essential to their reintegration, but given their lack of financial resources and future prospects, they are often vulnerable to being recruited again.”
2015-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7466 (2015) · source
“The same goes for South Sudan, where 1,757 children have already been freed from the grasp of the Cobra Faction, although that figure remains lower than the 33,000 expected. Impunity in relation to violence against children, however, remains a major concern in most cases. In that connection, we would emphasize the importance of the recommendations in the Secretary-General's report and call upon the Member States to hold the perpetrators of such violence accountable. Schools, universities and hospitals continue to be subject to violent attacks and occupation for military purposes. We reiterate our call to the parties to armed conflicts to respect the vital, civilian character of such institutions.”
2015-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7466 (2015) · source
“In that connection, we support the recommendation in the Secretary-General's report that grave violations against children be included as a criterion for sanctions in Security Council committees so that child abduction can be more effectively combated. We think that States can also use such measures to improve their national legislation on eliminating violations against children, including abduction. To mitigate and prevent such abduction, however, States must also facilitate contact between United Nations bodies and non-State armed groups. It was in fact because of dialogue with such armed groups that questions of child protection were incorporated into the peace agreements in the Central African Republic, making it possible to free several hundred children from the clutches of armed groups at the end of the Bangui Forum in May.”
2015-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7466 (2015) · source
“That constitutes a significant challenge to their protection, bearing in mind that 230 million of them are currently in the affected areas. Resolution 2225 (2015), which we havejust adopted, is crucial because it establishes the abduction of children as one of the trigger violations for the listing of parties to conflicts in the annexes to the Secretary-General's annual report. Such listing reflects the will of the entire international community and will undoubtedly encourage international, regional and subregional cooperation and effectively contribute to achieving the objectives of the "Children, Not Soldiers" campaign.”
2015-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7466 (2015) · source
“As we adopt this resolution in the month of June, hundreds if not thousands of children are being abducted to be used for various purposes in armed conflicts, in particular to fight against their will in the forces ofparties to conflict or to be used as bargaining chips, in flagrant violation of international law. The vast majority of such acts are committed by such armed or terrorist groups as Boko Haram and Daesh. The members of the Security Council deplore and condemn such abductions and the extreme barbarity with which the perpetrators treat the children concerned. Unfortunately, the Secretary- General's annual report for 2014 (S/2015/409) states that there has been an unprecedented rise in violence against children and that their abduction has become the defining characteristic of conflicts all over the world.”
2015-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7466 (2015) · source
“Mr. Mangaral (Chad) (spoke in French): Allow me to welcome you, Mr. President, and congratulate you on organizing this open debate under the Malaysian presidency of the Security Council, as well as on the initiative of moving forward resolution 2225 (2015), which incorporates the issue ofthe abduction ofchildren in armed conflicts. I would also like to thank Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon, his Special Representative Leila Zerrougui, Ms. Yoka Brandt, Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF, and Ms. Eunice Apio, from the non-governmental organization Facilitation for Peace and Development.”
2015-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7466 (2015) · source
“I conclude by asking three questions directed at the Major-General Lollesgaard of MINUSMA. What do we need to do to improve the situation in northern Mali and to prevent asymmetric attacks against MINUSMA? Does he believe that the idea of a rapid intervention force by the Sahel States could be useful to MINUSMA? MINUSMA is the second-most-dangerous United Nations operation, after that deployed to Somalia during the 1990s. Given this, what does he intend to do and what does he expect of the United Nations to minimize the risks in terms of loss of human lives?”
2015-06-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7464 (2015) · source
“With regard to UNTSO, we welcome the work of the military observers and encourage them to continue to fulfil their mission of observation. We know that many troop-contributing countries are experiencing great difficulties when it comes to deploying their experts to certain areas because of security concerns. No doubt this has a considerable impact on the implementation of the mandate of the military observers. Peacekeeping is not a risk-free activity. Unfortunately, many countries contributing to peacekeeping are not ready to evolve and adapt to unforeseen and dangerous situations. We regret that attitude, which must change. I would like to pay tribute to United Nations peacekeepers and to express my sympathy and condolences to the Governments and the families of those who have lost their lives during their mission.”
2015-06-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7464 (2015) · source
“Therefore, the Malian authorities should spare no effort to undertake investigations to identify and bring to justice the perpetrators of attacks against MINUSMA, whether they be rebels or terrorists. We know it is very difficult to distinguish between a rebel and a terrorist in northern Mali. However, through intelligence work and strengthening of human intelligence-gathering within MINUSMA, we can assist Mali in achieving this and punish those who should be punished. My country has paid a heavy price in Mali, but nothing can stem our resolve to continue to help this fraternal country. We are getting ready to deploy 335 additional soldiers and one constituted formed police unit there in the near future.”
2015-06-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7464 (2015) · source
“Therefore, in keeping with the principle of national ownership, the focus should be on strengthening Mali's national defence and police forces, which bear the primary responsibility for the defence of the country. In addition, in terms of regional ownership, emphasis should be placed on the Nouakchott Process on the Enhancement of Security Cooperation and the Operationalization of the African Peace and Security Architecture in the Sahelo-Saharan Region. The will of African States, especially those of the group of five Sahel States - Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, the Niger and Chad - is not lacking. The assistance of partners such as the United Nations could be decisive. Moreover, trouble-makers and those who attack the United Nations must answer for their actions.”
2015-06-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7464 (2015) · source
“Given the realities on the ground, we wonder if MINUSMA is undertaking a fight against terrorism instead of peacekeeping. Moreover, MINUSMA's contingents do not have the training or the materiel, logistics or intelligence neceessary to tackle the current situation in northern Mali. It is urgent that States possessing the necessary capacities provide the resources just mentioned to troop- and police-contributing countries so that they will be capable of discharging their mandate. The credibility of the United Nations and the whole of the international community is at stake there. The work carried out by the international forces and MINUSMA must be time-limited, because their mission is not to remain in Mali forever.”
2015-06-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7464 (2015) · source
“With regard to sexual violence and abuses against women and children, we wish to underscore the importance of increasing the number of female staff in peacekeeping operations, including in positions of responsibility. We wish to welcome the appointment of a woman, Major-General Kristin Lund, as Force Commander of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus, and we urge the Secretariat to appoint more women at similar levels of authority. Concerning Mali and the asymmetric landscape in which the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) is operating, the list established and updated by the Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee in accordance with resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) indicates that there are 24 entities associated with Al-Qaida in Africa, including 7 that are active in Mali.”
2015-06-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7464 (2015) · source
“In addition, peacekeeping operations - without undermining traditional principles such as the consent of the parties, impartiality and the non-use of force except in cases of legitimate self-defence or defence of the mandate - must undertake offensive operations when the situation so requires. That is important for disarming armed groups that are attacking and harassing civilians, as is unfortunately the case in a number of countries, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Mali. Furthermore, pursuant to Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, peacekeeping operations are authorized to utilize force to protect both the assets and staff of the United Nations. Therefore, when required, they have to use such force to prevent attacks against their facilities, soldiers and supply lines.”
2015-06-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7464 (2015) · source
“In that regard, we reiterate our support for the early warning and rapid intervention mechanism of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, whose effectiveness has been proved. Today, the circumstances on the ground mean that we have to be proactive. We have to understand that when the United Nations is unable to carry on with the task expected of it, namely, to protect defenceless civilians, it will not avoid criticism, such as that levelled against it following the genocides in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Rwanda.”
2015-06-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7464 (2015) · source