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Mbeki

lines on the record: 114
first: 1994-05-25
most recent: 2023-10-20
sittings or episodes: 10
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“On the contrary, for it to successfully discharge its solemn obligation to guarantee international peace and security, the Council requires strong regional partners capable of assisting it in the context of Chapters VI, VII and VIII of the Charter. I hope this important meeting will help to realize that objective.”
2023-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9448 (2023) · source
“All of that underscores HIPPO’s important point that a bold new agenda is required to build a strong global and regional framework to meet such challenges through responsible and principled strategic partnerships. It is in the vital interests of the Security Council to ensure that its regional partners such as the African Union are strong enough to discharge their responsibilities as part of the global peace architecture. In that regard, it will be important to reach an agreement to use some United Nations resources to fund AU-led peace operations, which would help elevate the practical importance of Chapter VIII of the Charter, as President Michelle Bachelet has just said. Nothing that I have said seeks to weaken the Security Council.”
2023-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9448 (2023) · source
“Where our continent is concerned, it goes without saying that our continental organization, the African Union, which has a strong African Peace and Security Architecture, has the comparative advantage that it is best placed to ensure the primacy of politics in its area of jurisdiction, Africa, a primacy that the HIPPO report insists on in terms of the prevention and resolution of conflict, even where violent conflict has already broken out. It obviously follows that this observation would also apply to the various important international interventions for the prevention and resolution of conflict mentioned in Chapter VI of the Charter of the United Nations. I would like to believe that this observation about the African Union applies equally to other regional organizations.”
2023-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9448 (2023) · source
“43) The second element refers to what the HIPPO terms “global and regional partnership for peace and security”, about which it states, “The Panel fully endorses the Secretary- General’s recent statement that ‘we have entered an era of partnership peacekeeping’ (see S/2015/229) [...] With a new conviction, the United Nations and regional organizations must mobilize their comparative advantages in responding to emerging crises while sustaining support to long-running ones. A bold new agenda is required to build a strong global-regional framework to meet those challenges through responsible and principled strategic partnerships.” (ibid., para. 53) I mention those two elements in the HIPPO report because of their direct relevance to what needs to be done to strengthen peace efforts globally.”
2023-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9448 (2023) · source
“In that context, I would like to remind Council members of some elements of the 2015 report (see S/2015/446) of the High-level Independent Panel on Peace Operations (HIPPO), one of which is what the Panel termed “the primacy of politics”. In that regard, the report states, “Lasting peace is not achieved nor sustained by military and technical engagements, but through political solutions. The primacy of politics should be the hallmark of the approach of the United Nations to the resolution of conflict, during mediation, the monitoring of ceasefires, assistance to the implementation of peace accords, the management of violent conflicts and longer-term efforts at sustaining peace.” (S/2015/446, para.”
2023-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9448 (2023) · source
“He wrote that “[s]ince the start, United Nations peacekeeping in Africa has been a miserable failure.” He then cited a number of examples, including the 1960–1961 United Nations intervention in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; the intervention in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide; a second intervention in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1999, to stop a civil war that had already killed more than 3 million people; and interventions in South Sudan and Mali. Obviously, neither the United Nations nor the AU want to perpetuate any failures with regard to conflict prevention and resolution in Africa.”
2023-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9448 (2023) · source
“I say that to emphasize that it is obvious that Africa, and specifically the African Union, will continue to need to cooperate directly with the Security Council in addressing the challenge of securing peace on our continent of Africa. Only three years ago, in September 2020, on the occasion of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the United Nations, Mark Cogan, a former United Nations staff member, made some observations about the cooperation between the United Nations and Africa on matters of peace.”
2023-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9448 (2023) · source
“Mr. Mbeki: Speaking as an African, I thank you most sincerely, Mr. President, both for placing the important question of peace through dialogue on the Security Council agenda and for inviting me to participate in the Council’s open debate on various elements of the global struggle for peace in the world. As the Council is well aware, for many decades an overwhelming majority of United Nations peacekeepers have been deployed in Africa, for the obvious reason that is the number of conflicts on our continent, compared to the rest of the world, that have been or are a threat to international peace and security. As the Council also knows, some years ago the African Union (AU) solemnly decided to silence the guns by 2020. Concrete reality, however, later obliged it to extend its target date to 2030.”
2023-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9448 (2023) · source
“In the meantime, it is important that the Security Council mandate the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA), or a similar force, to continue. As Mr. Lacroix said, UNISFA has played an extremely important role in maintaining stability. As members can see, there is a great deal of sensitivity about the matter in both South Sudan and the Sudan. Therefore, we would like to avoid, at all costs, a situation where tensions surrounding the matter increase to the extent that there is a conflict between the two countries. Therefore, the continuation of UNISFA becomes very important. I would like to assure you, Mr. President, and the Security Council that the Panel is determined to do that detailed work so that we again produce some consensus among the parties so that they implement what they agreed under the Abyei Protocol.”
2021-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8887 (2021) · source
“I am referring to the various paragraphs in that proposal to indicate the scale of the consultations that must take place between ourselves and stakeholders, and with the Governments of the Sudan and South Sudan. We are in the process of consultations of that kind. At some point in the past, we had thought that we would have completed that process by September — last month — but that proved impossible. We have to continue that process and find a way to forge some consensus between the two Governments. I hope that the consensus between the Governments will be consonant with the views of the Ngok Dinka and Misseriya communities so that the agreement made would guarantee the stability of Abyei. Our next step will be to engage the two Governments in detail.”
2021-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8887 (2021) · source
“The African Union High-level Implementation Panel added that the criterion for qualifying to vote shall be a permanent abode within the Abyei Area — that is, other Sudanese residing in the Abyei Area and, of course, members of the Ngok Dinka should have a permanent residence in the Abyei Area. That matter is very central to the differences between the two Governments, even with regard to temporary arrangements. For instance, the temporary arrangements provided for an Abyei council — a type of legislature. How do we compose that legislature? There will be various views on the issue. With regard to the matter of the referendum, who are the residents of Abyei? The issue of those eligible to vote in the referendum is a very thorny matter.”
2021-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8887 (2021) · source
“The Misseriya are pastoralists and must graze their cattle. They pass through Abyei, even further into South Sudan, in search of pasture and water. Whatever happens to Abyei, the rights of those pastoralists need to be guaranteed. There are matters pertaining to revenue-sharing and the economic development of the Abyei Area. The Abyei Joint Oversight Committee has been mentioned. It continues to exist but needs to convene. It will continue to exist. There is also the matter of the referendum, which is a bit tricky. A difficult issue in that regard has to do with who the voters should be — who would be eligible to vote in the referendum? The Abyei Protocol cites members of the Ngok Dinka community and other Sudanese residing in the Abyei Area.”
2021-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8887 (2021) · source
“For during the whole course of interactions on the matter of Abyei, it was obvious that there are several individuals from the two communities, Misseriya and Ngok Dinka, who stood out as people who are particularly interested in resolving the matter. We thought that we should engage those people first and then, having listened to their views, proceed to engage the Governments, in a sense empowered by the views of people from the communities as to what they think should happen. The purpose of the special status of Abyei is to ensure peaceful coexistence and friendly cooperation between the Ngok Dinka and Misseriya communities of the Area. There is also the matter of the soft borders between Abyei and surrounding areas, such as South Kordofan. There is also the issue of pastoralist rights.”
2021-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8887 (2021) · source
“The challenge they face is how to do it and what is to be done, in practice, to make sure that they meet the commitment they made, as reflected in the Abyei Protocol of 2005. That is what our proposal therefore tries to do. Nonetheless, the matter has not been agreed upon. Therefore, we have to go back to those two Governments and go through with them the draft agreement proposal, as it is the only document on the table. It is a comprehensive proposal on the steps that might be taken in order to determine the final status of Abyei. Each Government must go through the document to determine the elements on which they agree and disagree. In instances where they disagree, what are the elements that can be replaced? We decided that, before we engage the Governments, which we will do, we should also get the opinions of other stakeholders.”
2021-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8887 (2021) · source
“The result was that the Government of South Sudan accepted the proposal, but the Government of the Sudan rejected it. The African Union Peace and Security Council accepted the proposal, while the Security Council gave its backing. However, is has never been implemented. The matter is now back before us: what should be done with regard to the matter of the final status of Abyei? As to what we are doing, we have to go back to the Governments of the Sudan and South Sudan to discuss the matter. We must say to them that they both signed a commitment concerning the Abyei Protocol, which is included in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement of 2005. That Agreement states that there must be a referendum in Abyei and that the Ngok Dinka and other Sudanese residents of Abyei will be allowed to vote. That is the agreement.”
2021-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8887 (2021) · source
“As the African Union High-level Implementation Panel, we had to present a proposal to the Governments of the Sudan and South Sudan as to how they might resolve the unresolved matter of the final status of Abyei, which was raised in 1951, 1972 and 2005. We did indeed prepare a proposal, which we presented in 2012. Prior to that, however, in 2011, we presented the parties with an agreement on temporary arrangements for the administration and security of the Abyei Area, which provided for the establishment of various institutions to manage the Area pending its final status. I must say that those temporary agreements have not been implemented. In the end, the two Governments asked whether the Panel could assist them by making a proposal with regard to the matter of the final status, which we did.”
2021-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8887 (2021) · source
“The Comprehensive Peace Agreement of 2005 includes the Protocol on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Abyei Area, which repeats what was stated in the 1972 agreement — that there must be a referendum among the people of Abyei to decide where it belongs. The Abyei Protocol echoed the sentiment, which, as I mentioned earlier and as originally expressed by Paramount Chief Deng Majok, Abyei is a bridge between the north and the south, linking the people of the Sudan. The Protocol provided the possibility of a referendum, which did not take place. I believe that, in that context, we must bear in mind that both the Ngok Dinka and the Misseriya believe that they have a historical right to claim Abyei as their territory.”
2021-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8887 (2021) · source
“I hope that the Council will bear in mind that particular statement, which is a recurring theme as to the place of Abyei with regard to both the Sudan, in the north, and South Sudan. The civil war between the north and the south broke out in 1955 and ended in 1972 with an agreement signed in Addis Ababa. That agreement discussed the matter of Abyei and basically stated that the people of Abyei must be given the opportunity to decide where Abyei belonged — in the north or the south. The agreement was more or less a referendum among the people of Abyei to discuss that matter, effectively meaning the inclusion of the area covering Abyei’s nine Ngok Dinka chiefdoms. The 1972 agreement was never implemented.”
2021-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8887 (2021) · source
“Mr. Mbeki: I thank you, Sir, for this opportunity to address the Security Council. I have been told that I should speak on the final status of Abyei. Let me go into some detail concerning its history. The Council will recall that the Sudan won its independence in 1956 and that, even five years prior to that, in 1951, the colonial Administration had addressed the issue of where Abyei should be positioned with regard to boundary between what would then have been South Sudan and North Sudan. At that time, Paramount Chief Deng Majok thought that it would be better that Abyei be left as part of Kordofan province, which was then in North Sudan. He is quoted as having said, “I am now the thread of the Arabs and the south. I am a thread like the threat with which clothes are mended. If I pull away, the country will break apart”.”
2021-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8887 (2021) · source
“In the end, what I would like to suggest is that, as it discharges its obligation to maintain international peace and security, the Security Council should proceed from a position of acceptance of the primacy of the political. Its interventions would therefore help to produce sustainable peace and contribute to State-building by addressing such challenges as the proper management of diversity.”
2021-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8877 (2021) · source
“The challenge to properly manage the very pronounced diversity of Ethiopia constitutes the very heart of the violent conflict involving Tigray, and the incontestable truth is that the successful management of this diversity cannot and will not be achieved through weapons of war. As many of the members of the Council have said before, the belligerents in Ethiopia should enter into a permanent ceasefire and engage one another in an inclusive national dialogue precisely to agree on what they should do together to achieve the very important and noble goal of unity in diversity. At the end of the Biafra War in Nigeria in 1970, the victorious national leaders announced that they would follow a policy of no victor, no vanquished. I believe that this is exactly what Ethiopia needs.”
2021-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8877 (2021) · source
“In that context, I would even recommend a study of the 2004 report of the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which tells the naked truth that it was as a result of the failure to manage diversity that the country experienced a very costly 11-year war, which started in 1991. Similarly, we see a result of the failure to manage diversity in the violent conflict which has been, and is still, going on in Cameroon. Yet another painful example is the ongoing major military conflict in Ethiopia. As Council members know, as the African Union’s year to silence the guns, 2020, was coming to a close, this conflict broke out in the Tigray region.”
2021-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8877 (2021) · source
“The primacy of politics means that conflict resolution must address the vital matter of the root causes of the conflict, and that aims not merely to silence the guns, important as that is, but to ensure sustainable peace. This draws attention exactly to the central matter in today’s Security Council open debate, that is, the issue of diversity. Certainly my own personal experience, derived from involvement in conflict resolution on our continent, confirms the centrality of the failure to properly manage diversity as one of the root causes of civil war and violent conflict, and that experience relates to such countries as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Côte d’Ivoire and the Sudan.”
2021-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8877 (2021) · source
“It went on to say that “Preventive action to avert political crises and armed conflicts is the single most essential task for African peace missions”, adding that “This demands exceptional access to the highest level of decision makers along with credibility and discretion”. Furthermore, the report said that it agrees with the United Nations High-Level Independent Panel on Peace Operations of 2015 about, first, the primacy of politics in driving the design and implementation of peace operations, and, secondly, a new and stronger emphasis on conflict prevention. As you know, Mr. President, this insistence on the primacy of politics is to emphasize that the resolution of conflicts should not be driven simply or mainly by security considerations.”
2021-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8877 (2021) · source
“However, and quite legitimately, the question would arise: will this be sustainable peace? Five years ago, the World Peace Foundation produced an important report entitled African Politics, African Peace, acting on a request from within the African Union peace architecture that the Foundation should reflect on the matter of the future of peace missions in Africa. The report said, inter alia, “Centralizing the ‘primacy of the political’ within all AU responses is essential” and insisted on the primary role of politics in the design and implementation of peace operations.”
2021-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8877 (2021) · source
“In this context, the African national States and Governments were fully conscious of Africa’s critical need for the sustainable peace that the Security Council has convened to discuss. As Council members also know, over the years more or less standard procedures have been followed to resolve conflicts that have broken out, certainly including those in Africa. The international community would intervene to ensure that the belligerents concluded ceasefire agreements. Peacekeepers would then be deployed to ensure the observance of the ceasefire. Interim Government arrangements would then be put in place, and a new Constitution negotiated. Elections based on that Constitution would take place to constitute a new Government, after which the peacekeeping mission would be wound up, peace having been achieved.”
2021-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8877 (2021) · source
“Mr. Mbeki: First of all, I would like to thank the Kenyan presidency of the Security Council for its initiative in convening this high-level open debate on peacebuilding and sustainable peace, focusing on the important matter of the relationship between diversity, on the one hand, and peacebuilding and State-building, on the other. As Council members know, a few years ago the African Union (AU) took the bold decision to silence the guns by 2020, and this meant that the continent’s political leadership came to the view that finally Africa must rid herself of the scourge of war and violent conflict, which had persisted for almost all of the years of its States’ independence.”
2021-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8877 (2021) · source
“Mr. Mbeki: We have no additional comments at this time, but we are of course ready to answer any questions that Council members may have.”
2011-06-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6559 (2011) · source
“Again, we would like to thank the Security Council for the attention it is paying to the issue of the Sudan, and we hope that it will continue to extend to all of us - the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, ourselves and everyone else, and, of course, the Sudanese parties - all of the assistance and the support that we need to ensure that we can resolve all of these particular challenges, which are facing an important part of our continent.”
2011-06-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6559 (2011) · source
“I should have said that, with regard to the Abyei matter, it has also been agreed by the parties that it was necessary to resolve the current issues that relate to the security of Abyei before we come back to a consideration of the matter of the final status of Abyei. As a Panel, we will be consulting with the principals, President Al-Bashir and First Vice-President Salva Kiir, as to when they propose we might make our presentation to them about what the final status of Abyei should be. Given that this agreement has now 11-37934 been reached and, as I was saying, hopefully will be implemented quickly, we can then engage them on the matter of the final status of Abyei. That is the report we wanted to give.”
2011-06-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6559 (2011) · source
“In reality, the one outstanding issue is the size and composition of an international force that will assist the two Sudanese States in ensuring security along their shared border, including the policing of the demilitarized zone, to which they have already agreed. What I am trying to say to the Council is that we are attending to the urgent matters of Abyei and Southern Kordofan, where conflict has arisen. At the same time, however, we are pushing ahead with other necessary discussions in order to properly define the nature of relations between the North and the South. We are hoping that by the end of June we will have concluded all of these, so that by the beginning of July there will be a clear picture as to what will happen.”
2011-06-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6559 (2011) · source
“I am very pleased that good progress is being made. We have already finalized discussions on assets and liabilities, which include provisions for addressing the issues of Sudan's international debt. That particular series of negotiations has been concluded. We have presented the parties with an agreement comprised of a package of measures relating to the economy, covering such issues as trade, currency and oil. The parties now have a comprehensive proposal and will be studying it beginning tomorrow. Hopefully, if we can agree on that proposal, then we will have resolved the matters related to cooperation between the North and the South on economic issues. The parties are close to also concluding discussions on and resolving security matters, which broadly include border security.”
2011-06-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6559 (2011) · source
“Special Representative of the Secretary-General Haile Menkerios has also been engaging with the Government of the Sudan on the need to urgently address the humanitarian situation in Southern Kordofan. I am quite sure that he will be able to report on that. Indeed, I believe we have positive news with regard to that matter as well. We are hoping to move on the matter of Southern Kordofan so as to immediately address the humanitarian situation. We also hope to 11-37934 begin urgent and comprehensive discussions on the issue tomorrow to finally resolve its political and security aspects. Of course, we are also continuing negotiations with the Sudanese parties on post-referendum arrangements, which mainly involve how relations between the North and the South will be structured once South Sudan gains its independence on 9 July.”
2011-06-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6559 (2011) · source
“Our objective was to encourage them to participate in a process that would peacefully resolve the conflict in Southern Kordofan. We were very fortunate to be able to immediately travel back to Addis Ababa with people whom he delegated to participate in those negotiations. We are hoping that, with the arrival tomorrow morning in Addis Ababa of senior political leaders representing the people of Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile states and representatives of the Sudanese Government, we will seriously engage in comprehensive negotiations on Southern Kordofan. Those talks will relate to the security and the political situation and will begin tomorrow.”
2011-06-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6559 (2011) · source
“Of course, it would also bring to an end the threat of violence and actual violence in the Area. Thus, we are really hoping that the Security Council will look at the agreement as soon as possible and take all decisions necessary to ensure that its various provisions can be implemented. We would also like to inform the Council that we are dealing with the current situation in Southern Kordofan. Again, as the Council may have heard, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General to the Sudan, Mr. Haile Menkerios, as well as ourselves, the United States Special Envoy and members of the political leadership of the SPLM. from northern Sudan went to Southern Kordofan last week to meet with the leader of the Sudan People's Liberation Army, Abdel Aziz Al-Hilu.”
2011-06-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6559 (2011) · source
“We hope that the Council will consider the agreement as soon as possible, in particular with regard to matters that will result in the demilitarization of Abyei and the replacement of all Sudanese military forces by forces to be supplied by the Government of 2 Ethiopia. We would like for that to happen as quickly as possible because, among other things, it will enable the people displaced from Abyei to return to their homes. Their return is conditional on the withdrawal of all other military forces, the demilitarization of the Area and the replacement of the Sudanese military forces by the Ethiopian forces. As I was saying, that would expedite the return of those displaced to their areas and would therefore improve the possibility of addressing all humanitarian matters.”
2011-06-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6559 (2011) · source
“Mr. Mbeki: We will give a very brief and, I hope, succinct report about what is happening with regard to various matters relating to the Sudan. We would first like to inform the Council that, happily, within the past hour, the Government of the Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) signed an agreement on Abyei. As the Council is aware, we have been negotiating that agreement with them for several days, but now the agreement has finally been signed. Indeed, both parties have asked us to commend the agreement to the Security Council. I am quite sure that, when the Council looks at the agreement, members will see that the parties are requesting various interventions by the United Nations with regard to the implementation of that agreement. We would certainly like to very strongly commend the agreement.”
2011-06-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6559 (2011) · source
“We trust that the Council will convey a firm message of encouragement to them as they work jointly and severally over the next few months, which will be critical in determining the future of the Sudan and, to that extent, the future of Africa. As we have done in the past, we commend both UNMIS and UNAMID for the valuable work they are doing and reiterate our appreciation of the excellent cooperation they consistently extend to our Panel. Accordingly, we trust that the Council will continue to provide them with such support as they may need.”
2010-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6425 (2010) · source
“We have also agreed with the Government of the Sudan that, in the meantime, it should take all necessary action, in cooperation with UNAMID, to improve the security situation in Darfur, to facilitate the voluntary return of refugees and internally displaced persons to their places of origin, and therefore to begin to address issues of recovery and development, and to address the issue of justice and reconciliation. We believe that we will see progress in all of these areas in the next few months. We are pleased to inform the Council that both President Al-Bashir and First Vice-President Salva Kiir Mayardit have continued to extend full cooperation to our Panel, driven by a shared determination to do everything possible and necessary to address the various Sudanese challenges.”
2010-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6425 (2010) · source
“I refer here specifically to the decision that our Panel and the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID), supported by the Government of Qatar, should, in December and ahead of the Southern Sudan referendum, initiate a political process in Darfur that would lead to the convening of an inclusive Darfur-Darfur conference. The conference will base its discussions on the outcomes of the Doha negotiations and on other relevant documents, such as the report of the African Union Panel on Darfur. It will take the necessary decisions that would contribute to the earliest possible conclusion of a global political agreement on Darfur.”
2010-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6425 (2010) · source
“The document, entitled "Framework for Resolving Outstanding Issues Relating to the Implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement and the Future Relations of North and South Sudan", will be completed, signed and published once the negotiations on Abyei, which I have mentioned, have been concluded. Recent and current events in Darfur, especially relating to the clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the rebel Justice and Equality Movement, which the Secretary-General mentioned, have underlined the need urgently to bring peace to Darfur. In this context, I am certain that the Council is aware of the decisions adopted at the 6 November meeting of the Sudan Consultative Forum in Addis Ababa.”
2010-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6425 (2010) · source
“and the NCP - that our Panel convened in Khartoum between 7 and 13 November at the request of the parties, and which Special Representative of the Secretary-General Haile Menkerios and United States Special Envoy Scott Gration and Ambassador Princeton Lyman attended as observers. The meeting agreed to a seminal document that contains, first, a framework of principles that will guide the work of the parties on all issues and inform the relations between the North and Southern Sudan regardless of the outcome of the Southern Sudan referendum. Secondly, it contains decisions relating to the implementation of the outstanding CPA matters, to which I have referred. Thirdly, it contains decisions that will guide the content of the negotiations relating to the post- referendum arrangements.”
2010-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6425 (2010) · source
“As members of the Council know, our Panel serves as the facilitator of the negotiations to conclude the post-referendum arrangements, which we launched on 10 July. And as the Council also knows, the negotiations include such matters as security, citizenship, oil and water resources, currency matters, assets and liabilities, international treaties and agreements. The parties have indeed been engaging each other on these issues. However, our Panel is concerned that the discussions are not proceeding at a satisfactory pace. We will therefore convene a special meeting with the parties before the end of this month to agree on the ways and means by which we can accelerate and better coordinate the negotiations. In this regard, we would like to inform the Council of the important meeting of the parties - the SPLM.”
2010-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6425 (2010) · source
“In this context, we would also like to take this opportunity to commend the Sudan Council of Churches for the initiative it has taken to convene an important meeting of the leaders of the Ngok Dinka and the Misseriya, which will be held in about 10 days. Thirdly, the Technical Ad Hoc Border Committee will begin immediately to demarcate the North-South border. Similarly, the political committee of the NCP and the SPLM. is ready to begin discussions on the five disputed areas along the border. Fourthly, partners remain committed to maintaining peace and are therefore using the structures created by the CPA that involve UNMIS to address all matters relating to the task of sustaining peace and security. To assist in this regard, our Panel maintains regular contact with the parties, as well as with UNMIS.”
2010-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6425 (2010) · source
“To support the referendum process, the Panel will sustain its close contact with the Southern Sudan Referendum Commission, the United Nations Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS), the NCP, the Government of the Sudan, the SPLM, the Government of the Southern Sudan, the United Nations monitoring panel headed by His Excellency Mr. Benjamin Mkapa, and the Political Parties Council which is responsible for the implementation of the code of conduct. Secondly, during the week beginning Monday, 22 November, our Panel will facilitate negotiations involving Their Excellencies President Omer Hassan Al-Bashir and First Vice-President Salva Kiir Mayardit to resolve the Abyei matter. These principals have agreed that, with the assistance of our Panel, they will do everything possible to reach an agreement on this issue as a matter of urgency.”
2010-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6425 (2010) · source
“We are convinced that everybody concerned is determined to ensure that the entire referendum process proceeds in a manner that will contribute to the credibility of the referendum. As part of this process, the political parties, including the National Congress Party (NCP) and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), have acceded to the code of conduct prepared by our Panel, which binds them to ensure free and fair referendums and popular consultations. At the same time, they have committed themselves to respecting the outcome of the referendum.”
2010-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6425 (2010) · source
“Mr. Mbeki: I can assure you, Mr. President, there is no problem in Johannesburg; the failure is in the lines. The African Union High-Level Implementation Panel for Sudan would like to thank the Council for giving us the opportunity to address the Council for the second time this year. As the Council is aware, three of the urgent challenges facing the Sudan are, one, the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA); two, negotiating the post- referendum arrangement; and three, achieving a just and lasting peace in Darfur. With regard to the first challenge, we would like to confirm that the registration of voters for the Southern Sudan referendum started yesterday.”
2010-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6425 (2010) · source
“That has of course communicated the message to them of the critical importance of their cooperating properly so that all the things that need to be done are done. Therefore, all of us will continue to engage with them to ensure that they do indeed live up to their responsibilities, because, without that, we are not going to achieve the solutions that we are looking for in Sudan. I think that the atmosphere is very encouraging in the sense that there is a commitment to making sure that these things happen despite all the problems and all the challenges. I would like to believe that a strong message from the Security Council to encourage both parties to live up to their responsibility would indeed help in making sure that we advance the entirety of the agenda relating to resolution of the challenges in the Sudan.”
2010-06-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6338 (2010) · source
“Certainly, from the point of view of those of us who have to attend to the matter of Sudan every day, I think that the comments that have been made here by members of the Security Council indeed reinforce the cooperation that is taking place among ourselves on a daily basis in Sudan so that we can advance on all of these matters. The only other point that I would like to make in that regard is that generally we are very optimistic about this. I think the point has been made that one thing that has happened as a result of the elections is that the two principal players, particularly with regard to the CPA the National Congress Party and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement - have emerged strengthened from the elections.”
2010-06-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6338 (2010) · source
“Mr. Mbeki: Perhaps I should say first of all that I was very pleased that the rest of the members of our Panel were able to come to this meeting. Behind me are sitting former Presidents Abubakar and Buyoya, the other members of our Panel. It would seem to me from the comments that have been made by Council members here that we are generally in agreement and of one mind about the immediate challenges facing us with regard to all the elements that relate to Sudan - Darfur, the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) and so on. Thus, there is general agreement on the kind of focus that is required. I think that it is a very good thing that that sort of consensus has developed within the Security Council.”
2010-06-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6338 (2010) · source