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“I would like to assure everyone that we are committed to the pursuit of peace on and beyond the continent and consider it a prerequisite for development and prosperity. That is why we are concerned by the pullback on the part of the European Union of its funding to the African Union Mission in Somalia and AU missions elsewhere - a move that we consider not well-aligned with our collective objective to achieve sustainable peace in our part of the world. I hope that that matter will continue to receive the attention of the Council. Once again, I wish to thank Japan for organizing this debate. I wish to invite all members of the Council to TICAD VI, which is to be held in Nairobi from 27 to 28 August. It is our desire that the link between peace, peacebuilding, security and the 2030 Agenda be emphasized and given pride of place.”
2016-07-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7750 (2016) · source
“Moreover, in the wake of the historic adoption of key global policies in 2015, including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (General Assembly resolution 70/1) and the Paris Climate Change Agreement, among others, achieving peace and security has to continue to underpin the delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The interconnectivity of the SDGs implies that the work of the Peacebuilding Commission has to fit into and complement the work of all other agencies and initiatives that promote social, economic and political development. The divide between peacebuilding, humanitarian assistance and development needs to be overcome and addressed as a continuum, so that every person everywhere can have an opportunity to achieve peace and prosperity.”
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“The Conference underscored the importance of international support measures such as market access, official development assistance, increased investment flows, and technical assistance and technology transfer as crucial building blocks to enhance the economic resilience of countries and communities in developing countries. Enhancing economic development is recognized as building resilience to risks and vulnerabilities in the most fragile States. Peacebuilding therefore has to contribute to maximizing trade, investment and development opportunities. Such effort no doubt requires the collective, coordinated and sustained support of both State and non-State actors.”
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“It is against that backdrop that Kenya, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Sweden, Mexico, Sri Lanka and Somalia will co-host a pledging conference for the PBF on 21 September on the margins of the seventy-first session of the General Assembly. I take this opportunity to invite all Member States to the pledging conference. Finally, allow me to make a few remarks in my national capacity as the representative of Kenya. I came here from chairing the fourteenth session of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), which successfully concluded in Nairobi last Friday and whose theme was "From Decisions to Actions".”
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“We intend to formally propose the strategy for adoption in early September. Secondly, the PBC can be effective only ifpolicy and political discussions are complemented by predictable financial support for critical priorities. As I mentioned earlier, the revamped African Union Peace Fund to support AU-led peace operations was launched during the AU Summit in Kigali. It remains underfunded. Similarly, we all recognize the crucial role of the Peacebuilding Fund (PBF), especially in Africa. Its flexibility and impact on our collective efforts to sustaining peace at short notice is not in dispute. However, it has perennially faced a desperate funding shortfall.”
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“Moving forward, in order to sustain peace for effective development in Africa, let me make the following observations. First, peacebuilding cannot succeed if half of the population is excluded from the process. Across Africa, the invaluable role of women in the whole cycle of conflict - and not just during the post-conflict reconstruction - as well as their capacity to shape, drive and promote peace, is well known. Bridging cultural challenges that hinder women's participation in sustaining peace, mainstreaming gender in the peacebuilding discourse and involving them in decision-making at all levels must be a priority. I am pleased to report substantive progress in the drafting of the PBC gender strategy, which I am confident will further strengthen the Commission's engagement on gender-related peacebuilding.”
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“The importance of investing in early-warning systems instead of reacting to outbreaks of Violence is clear, and could not be more clear in the cases he cited. The full implementation of the resolutions could result in lesser emphasis on militarized responses to conflicts in Africa, and instead promote more political engagement and developmental approaches that could result in effective peacebuilding. The PBC strives to uphold national ownership and leadership in the implementation of peacebuilding initiatives. We fully appreciate that. Similarly, the Peacebuilding Fund has provided critical funding to the establishment and functioning of national institutions that play a central role in peacebuilding processes to address challenges.”
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“The report of the Advisory Group of Experts on the Review of the Peacebuilding Architecture (see S/2015/490) provided a solid basis for the two progressive resolutions. The report also observed that the fragmentation between several intergovernmental organs dealing with peace and security, each holding a piece of the peacebuilding puzzle, had proved to be a significant impediment to operations on the ground, where peacebuilding actually takes place. The resolutions introduced the principle of sustaining peace, which stresses the need for more investment in governance, security and development in the continuum of conflict prevention, management and resolution. More emphasis on conflict prevention means recognizing the primacy of politics in the pacific settlement of disputes - an issue to which the Secretary-General has referred.”
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“The PBC brings together various actors, both national and international, to ensure that countries affected by conflict do not lapse or relapse into conflict. The essence remains that of building effective partnerships for sustaining peace. True partnership actually starts at the community level, moving on to the national, regional and international levels. The whole process, which is intended to leave no one behind, must include the private sector, civil society, women and youth. Effective partnerships remain essential to sustaining peace and development in Africa. Of course, there is sufficient evidence to show that there can be no peace without development. It is exactly three months since the Security Council and the General Assembly adopted identical resolutions on the review of the United Nations peacebuilding architecture.”
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“Thirdly, institutionalized strategic partnerships were sought with the United Nations and its various agencies in all areas of peace and security based on consultative decision-making, a division of labour, and burden- and responsibility-sharing. Those relationships have evolved from ad hoc consultations to systematic, principled and predictable arrangements through the setting up of the United Nations Office to the AU and the Office of the Special Adviser on Africa, both of which remain a positive work in progress. The challenge of achieving effective peacebuilding has become the main preoccupation for policymakers on our continent and beyond. The evolving nature of conflicts in Africa and elsewhere necessitated the institutionalization of peacebuilding through the establishment of the PBC in 2005.”
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“Secondly, African countries have revitalized their regional economic integration initiatives in order to ensure sustained peace and shared prosperity. Today the regional bodies the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, the Economic Community of West African States, the Economic Community of Central African States, the Southern African Development Community, the Arab Maghreb Union and the East African Community are determined to sustain peace through trade and economic partnerships. We have all signed up for the Continental Free Trade Area. We are looking for freer movement of goods, services and persons.”
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“Let me outline some of the measures that Africa has taken to respond to the challenges it faces. First, in 2002, Africa transformed the Organization of African Unity into the African Union (AU), complete with a framework for the development of an African Peace and Security Architecture. The framework laid the foundation for institutionalizing peacebuilding in Africa. Through it, institutions such as the African Union Commission, the AU Peace and Security Council, the Continental Early Warning System, the Panel of the Wise, the African Standby Force and the AU Peace Fund were established. Those institutions are still at different stages of evolution and provide the basis for peacebuilding in Africa. The recent relaunch of the revamped AU Peace Fund by the AU Summit in Kigali earlier this month reaffirms our commitment.”
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“Japan's historic commitment to and its reliable partnership with Africa in peace and development are well known. The hosting of TICAD VI in Africa reaffirms Japan's strong commitment to our continent. I applaud the Security Council for its role in stabilizing countries in conflict. In an increasingly complex and interconnected world, the role of the United Nations cannot be overemphasized. All the countries on the agenda of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) are from Africa. Peacebuilding remains crucial to our continent, which continues to face unprecedented challenges even as the world becomes more globalized, democracy spreads and regional integration deepens. Today Africa is still struggling with some of the same challenges. The key difference today is that the continent is more determined than ever to overcome them.”
2016-07-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7750 (2016) · source
“Ms. Mohamed: I thank you very much, Sir, for the opportunity to participate in this important debate on peacebuilding in Africa. I congratulate you on Japan's ascendancy to the presidency of the Council for July and commend you for the manner in which you have conducted its affairs. I also thank you for providing the concept note (S/2016/586, annex) that has guided and will continue to guide the debate on this important subject. Let me also thank the Secretary-General for his comprehensive briefing, as well as for his leadership, wisdom, commitment and patience. Kenya is honoured to participate in this debate, which is taking place just before the sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI), which will be held in Nairobi on 27 and 28 August.”
2016-07-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7750 (2016) · source
“Despite all the complications and obstacles, we reiterate our resolve to achieve peace and justice and to ensure the return of displaced persons to Darfur, in full, sincere, impartial and faithful cooperation with the Council, so that we can rebuild our beloved homeland and contribute thereby to world peace and security. The meeting rose at 11.30 am.”
2016-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7728 (2016) · source
“Therefore it is necessary for this administration to take into consideration the need to formulate an exit strategy, view our opinions with respect, and stop prevaricating and the use of delaying tactics. The Government of the Sudan has been asking for an exit strategy for nine years, during which a great deal has been attained. This is the only way to underline the success achieved by UNAMID in attaining its purpose and letting it be known to the members of the Council. The Government of the Sudan is fully prepared to undertake its own assessment or to welcome another Security Council visit to assess the situation in Darfur and to collect the evidence that some wish to ignore or refute.”
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“We can therefore see no justification whatsoever for paragraph 27 of resolution 2296 (2016). We see no justification for limiting the task of the Joint Working Group in presenting recommendations; this is something that the Government of Sudan totally rejects. Let me convey to the Council our categorical view that it is extremely important for the Group to continue its work to implement the exit strategy in the manner agreed at previous meetings. I must also underline that our Government believes that in the work of the Secretariat, especially the work of the Department for Peacekeeping Operations, we see a lot ofprocrastination and delaying tactics, which do not serve the cooperation and coordination efforts that are being made by the Government of the Sudan.”
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“The Joint Working Group was formed as a result, with the participation of the Government of the Sudan, the African Union and the United Nations. The Group has carried out two assessment visits to the five states of Darfur, the last of those visits was in the month of May. The Working Group showed clearly that the situation in Darfur had developed in a way that would permit the drawdown of the mission and the withdrawal ofUNAMID units from a number ofpositions. However, some in this international Organization unfortunately refused to accept this recommendation, despite the fact that it had been accepted by the representatives of the African Union, a regional organization whose recommendations constitute a significant dimension in the decisions taken by the Council.”
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“We have put an end to his brigandry and to his targeting of civilians, and ensured the safety of the land roads that connect that area with other parts of the Sudan. Our efforts have enabled students, for the first time in 13 years 7 I repeat, for the first time in 13 years 7 to go back to school and take examinations for various educational certificates in the Sudan although they had exceeded the normal age for taking such examinations. That was the fate of children given the acts carried out by the Abdul Wahid factions, which threatened their parents and their property if they did not send their children to his camps to fight alongside his soldiers. This is something that cannot be denied. The Government of the Sudan has been asking since 2014 that UNAMID start to devise its exit strategy.”
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“Also, there has been some improvement and progress in connection with the plan to collect weapons from civilians and in terms of all of the efforts that are being made to reach a political solution through the implementation of the various provisions of the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur, which remains the single internationally agreed forum for the achievement of peace and security in Darfur. Today Darfur is free of any organized military presence of military armed movements, as I said earlier. Those movements had been wreaking havoc in Darfur since 2003. The military operations that have been undertaken by the Sudanese armed forces in Jebel Marra have put end to the excesses committed by the Abdul Wahid faction.”
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“After the conclusion of the military operations in most parts of Darfur and recently in Jebel Marra, the humanitarian situation has started to improve, and Darfur has seen the voluntary return of internally displaced persons - 800,000 returnees - according to the May 2016 statement made by the humanitarian aid commission. The last of those movements came after the Jebel Marra incidents; 24,000 people returned, according to the UNAMID sector chief for central Darfur, who had visited the area of Jebel Marra only three days prior.”
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“This led to the deployment of UNAMID since 2007; that is the reason why we have UNAMID in Darfur. This is its raison d'etre. If the purpose of UNAMID is no longer there, then its presence is no longer necessary. UNAMID is not there for any other reason. It has not come to secure its supplies from Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast; this is something that we leave to the administrative bodies responsible for that matter. The resolution that was adopted today extending UNAMID's mandate for another year is replete with contradictions between its various paragraphs and contradicts the facts on the ground that we see in Darfur today.”
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“In our assessment of the security, humanitarian and political situation in Darfur, we do not rely only on random documents; there is much information we could invoke and advance, but the fact is that we rely on the realities on the ground, not coloured by any prior position or objective that could distort or in many cases undermine the truth. When the events that have befallen the five states of Darfur during the period covered by the report of the Secretary-General (S/2016/510) and by resolution 2296 (2016), which has just been adopted by the Council, the events in Darfur cannot be denied, ignored or refuted. Darfur today has no rebellion or armed movements; the presence of those armed movements and groups was the reason for the deployment of the African Union forces in Darfur until 2006.”
2016-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7728 (2016) · source
“Mr. Mohamed (Sudan) (spoke in Arabic): I should like to express our thanks and appreciation to all of the members of the Council, especially those members with whom we have maintained contact since the draft was presented for the extension of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID). I should like also to express our profound appreciation to all those who have made every effort to study and consider the viewpoint of my delegation as well as the undeniably true information that we have submitted on the situation in Darfur. I should like also to welcome the general assessments and statements made by the various members of the Council in which they explained that the situation in Darfur has improved.”
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“It is worth mentioning that the statistices included in the report of the Secretary- General, although contested, bear out such cooperation and the progress made with respect to the situation, particularly regarding the return of displaced persons. Ifissues remain in other areas, such as customs or other matters, it has nothing to do with any premeditated intention. We have demonstrated to the Council several times and with statistics the volume of that great cooperation.”
2016-06-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7716 (2016) · source
“Therefore, we must now allow any disassociation between the verified facts recognized in such joint meetings, as proved on the ground in Darfur, and the decision to be taken in a few days by the Council on UNAMID. We therefore call upon the Council to recognize the great progress achieved after the resumption of the Joint Working Group meeting on an UNAMID exit strategy - a group that bases its work primarily on resolution 1769 (2007), which established the mission in 2007. To conclude, I would like to stress the unequivocal determination and readiness of my Government to cooperate and coordinate with UNAMID and all of its entities to enable the mission to fully undertake and implement its mandate.”
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“The Government therefore signed the road map presented by the tripartite mechanism. However, the refusal and intransigence of the other party portend further violations and impediments to the peace process. The Council must take a clear position aimed at returning the opposition and the other remaining armed movements to the negotiating table by accepting the road map as a basis for the settling of all issues. I see no alternative to giving full cognizance to the fact that Darfur today is free from all organized armed movements, as accurately defined in the 1977 Protocol II additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949. That fact has been recognized by the joint meetings involving the Government of the Sudan and the African Union, on the one hand, and the United Nations, on the other.”
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“Accordingly, I hope that the international community, foremost the Security Council, will bring pressure to bear on those who have abstained from participating so that they join the national dialogue, as well as to impose sanctions on all of those who have hindered the process or attacked UNAMID forces, as was the case involving the Sudan Liberation Army/Abdul Wahid faction on 1 January, during which it attacked UNAMID forces with heavy weapons near Kutum, as described in the Secretary-General's report (S/2016/268) on UNAMID published on 22 March, which the Council considered on 6 April (see S/PV.7666). In cooperation with the African Union High- level Implementation Panel, the Government of the Sudan attempted to reach a peace agreement with the opposition forces and the armed movements.”
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“In that context, the national dialogue initiative, launched by the President of the Republic last October, continued its meetings over more than three months and covered various issues. The different committees undertook their work in free and open settings, and then submitted their recommendations to the General Assembly for discussion. They are now awaiting their adoption and the start of implementation. We are also providing the opportunity and the time for those who have abstained from joining the process. We hope that they willjoin soon so that we can complete the road map for building our nation on the basis of consensus and unanimity, while rejecting division.”
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“Moreover, the Government of the Sudan calls for a drawing down of UNAMID forces in the areas where they are no longer needed - of which there are many. The starting point would be the areas agreed upon by all parties in West, South and North Darfur states. Such a drawdown could serve as a starting point in the implementation of the exit strategy gradually and smoothly, in phases. Following that, the duties of UNAMID would be transferred to the United Nations country team to implement the development projects to promote stability and peace in Darfur. The Government of the Sudan has spared no effort in attempting to bring about comprehensive lasting peace throughout the country, thereby avoiding the scepter of war and conflict.”
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“The Government of the Sudan has reiterated time and again that the establishment of UNAMID was the result of an agreement with the Government of the Sudan. A stipulation was made that the mission would consist mostly of African personnel to assist in maintaining peace and security in the Sudan. After almost a decade, we find that the need for UNAMID no longer exists in many parts of Darfur, as attested to by UNAMID commanders and forces. In that connection, I would like to refer the Council to the report of the Joint Working Group that was submitted to the strategic tripartite mechanism following its members' visit to Darfur in May. That proves the success of the African UNAMID force, which has achieved its objective by providing peace and stability.”
2016-06-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7716 (2016) · source
“The administrative referendum in Darfur represented an important historical juncture with regard to the legal requirements set out in the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur, which set the proper basis to bring about peace and security in Darfur. We hope that the Council will adopt a supportive stance in view of those results. As witnessed by the entire world, the referendum took place in a conducive political and security environment that enabled the citizens of Darfur to exercise their right to register and to vote, thereby choosing the administrative formula they desire to govern Darfur. The process was conducted completely peacefully without a single security incident reported. That is yet further clear proof of the sustained improvement of the political and security situation there.”
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“Moreover, I would like to inform the Council that, during his short visit to New York last week, the Sudanese Minister for Foreign Affairs held a number of meetings with the Secretary-General and various persons interested in the situation in Darfur, during which he referred to the full engagement of the Government of the Sudan with the United Nations, UNAMID and all other actors in ensuring a comprehensive response to all the needs and demands of UNAMID and continue working together to respond to such requests, inter alia, involving visas, containers, customs duties and all other measures that we have addressed so far.”
2016-06-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7716 (2016) · source
“Statistics of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs show that more than 400,000 displaced persons have returned voluntarily and are benefiting from the security and basic services available for the returnees in villages set up by the brotherly State of Qatar and the League of Arab States and in line with the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur. In addition, the Government of the Sudan has started implementing a plan to address the situation of the displaced in the camps and to take all the measures necessary for their voluntary return, or for transforming the camps and the necessary resources for those who want to remain.”
2016-06-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7716 (2016) · source
“In the report that was issued following its visit to Darfur, the Joint Working Group attested to the great improvement in the security situation following the success of the Sudanese military forces in defeating the rebel movements and eradicating them from all the states of Darfur, with the exception of one region in western Jebel Marra. The report of the Joint Working Group also confirms the great effort made by the governors of all five Darfur states to provide security and prevent inter-communal disputes. That had great impact on decreasing the number of inter-communal conflicts and limiting their consequences, especially those occurring during the reporting period. Thanks to the improved security situation, a huge increase was seen in voluntary returns of the displaced to their original villages.”
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“In that context, it gives us great pleasure to convey to Council members who are following-up that we will cooperate fully to defeat terrorism and eradicate its threat, side by side with the international community and the individual countries concerned. That is know to everyone. The reality on the ground in Darfur does not conform with some of the contents of the report. The best proof is the work of the Joint Working Group on an exit strategy for UNAMID, which met on 24 May. That tripartite Group, made up of the Government of the Sudan, the African Union and the United Nations, visited Darfur to assess the situation. The mission travelled to all five states and met with representatives of the Governments, the displaced, the local authorities and the commanders of UNAMID.”
2016-06-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7716 (2016) · source
“Mr. Mohamed (Sudan) (spoke in Arabic): I would like to express my gratitude to the Secretary-General for the report (see S/2016/510) presented to the Security Council on his behalf and on behalf of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission on the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID). I would also like to thank Under-Secretary- General Ladsous for his briefing. We reiterate that we will continue our full cooperation. I would also like to express my sincere condolences to the Governments and the peoples of the United States and France for the terrorist attacks that happened in both countries recently. We condemn terrorism in all its forms.”
2016-06-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7716 (2016) · source
“We would like to ask the Prosecutor, what crime did the President commit by visiting South Africa? Concerning the contradiction between articles 27 and 98, I should like to refer the Council to the comments made by the first Prosecutor, Mr. Kirsch, on the issue of constructive ambiguity in the interpretation of the two articles. This contradiction and this constructive ambiguity, as described by the President of the Court, was exploited and continues to be exploited in order to go after Heads of State and to attack States, in particular States that do not have any influence in the world. That is what the Court has based its action on to date. The meeting rose at12.55p.m.”
2016-06-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7710 (2016) · source
“Mr. Mohamed (Sudan) (spoke in Arabic): Mr. President, I wish to thank you for giving me the opportunity to take the floor once again. In response to the comments made by the Prosecutor, I should like to underscore that I limited myself in my comments on Darfur and on the jurisdiction of the Court, basing myself on accounts that come from the United Nations and from the African Union, which is recognized by the United Nations. I should like to underscore a fundamental fact concerning justice. The Prosecutor is a part of the Court, but the Prosecutor has become a party to the dispute today. The mission of the Court is to restore justice. However, the Prosecutor of the Court, as well as the other Prosecutors, have chosen to be both judge and jury. This also applies to the previous Prosecutor.”
2016-06-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7710 (2016) · source
“In that respect, I would only like to recite, calmly and objectively, the following excerpt from the latest joint report of the United Nations, the African Union and the Government of the Sudan on the situation in Darfur: (spoke in English) "The joint working group acknowledges the efforts of the state Governments and Prosecutor for Darfur Special Crimes Court to address the crimes committed during the conflict and restore law and order through the deployment of additional police, corrections and judicial human and material resources across the five states of Darfur, including legal advisers, prosecutors, legal aid assistants and family child protection units." (spoke in Arabic) I hope I have thus made my contribution to the Council's work in respect of establishing the fallacious nature of the report of the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICC, in the hope the Security Council will decide to set aside such reports and play close heed to the demands made by the Open-Ended Committee of African Ministers on International Criminal Court, which was set up by the African Summit held in South Africa to end the meddling of the Court in the African continent.”
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“Consequently, do we not have the right to come to the conclusion that the ICC is willing to lie to justify its ongoing exercise ofjurisdiction over the Sudan? Finally, the ICC is seeking to exercise itsjurisdiction based on the alleged and unfounded presumption that the judicial system in the Sudan is unwilling and unable to administer justice.”
2016-06-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7710 (2016) · source
“I would like also to draw attention to the recentjoint report of the joint working group of the United Nations, the African Union and the Government of the Sudan, issued on 22 May, which acknowledges the completion of procedures for an administrative referendum in Darfur as a last key step towards implementing the 2011 Doha Peace Agreement for Peace in Darfur; the role of the Implementation Follow-Up Commission in monitoring the implementation of the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur; a higher number of cases of human rights violations reported in Darfur, which reflects the enhanced awareness of citizens regarding their rights and growing confidence in relevant Government agencies; increasing cooperation between the African Union Mission in Sudan and Government authorities in Darfur; the interest of state governors in and their willingness to cooperate with humanitarian organizations and allow them full and unhindered access to the areas they may wish to reach; the efforts aimed at containing any tribal conflicts; and most importantly, the fact that environmental degradation and climate change are among the root causes of the conflict in Darfur.”
2016-06-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7710 (2016) · source
“We would like to call attention the report of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (S/2016/268) for the same period covered by the court's report, which was reviewed by the Council on 6 April (see S/PV.7666), and which spoke of a decline in cases of tribal conflict, a decline in criminal acts, an increase in coordination between Sudanese security agencies and the Operation with respect to the prosecution of perpetrators of attacks against the mission's personnel, and a decline in criminal acts against voluntary organizations, and as regards national efforts to protect human rights and establish local branches of the National Commission for Human Rights in all the states of Darfur region.”
2016-06-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7710 (2016) · source
“When the Council reviewing the Court's report on Libya, the representative of the Russian Federation pointed out that the report in fact appeared to be more of a report from a monitoring mission. That would typically apply, word for word, to the report on the Sudan before us. We would also like to add that the Prosecutor's Office, headed by the Prosecutor of the Court, has resorted to blatant lying when it refers, in paragraphs 14 to 20, of the deteriorating situation in Darfur and the deterioration of the humanitarian situation, in what looks like a pretext to justify the perpetuation of the Court's jurisdiction over the Sudan.”
2016-06-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7710 (2016) · source
“How has the United Nations ended armed conflicts around the world? Has it not been Via negotiated, political and peaceful settlement? That is exactly what the Sudan has done, in cooperation with the United Nations in Abuja in 2006 and when the Abuja agreement was later superceded in Qatar. Holding meetings with those who reject peaceful settlement, the way the Prosecutor has done, undermines international peace and the rights of the victims. Peaceful settlement is the practical and sole interpretation of what the Council has called for in claiming that there is no military solution to the conflict. The Prosecutor and her supporters can ask those who are thwarting the peace process why they are doing so.”
2016-06-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7710 (2016) · source
“The African continent, which is now witnessing such discriminatory treatment against its people, knows for sure that it was not a culprit in the horrors of the Second World War, which led to the establishment of the court in 1998, and that the credibility and impartiality of the Court - which have in fact been lacking since its inception - are being jeopardized by those who make its membership a cornerstone of their foreign policy, while providing the best part of its financial resources, monopolizing its offices, selectively nominating candidates for the remainder of its posts on the basis of political affiliation, and mandating that what development assistance and humanitarian aid they give is conditional to acceding to its membership. How can we end any armed conflict in the world?”
2016-06-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7710 (2016) · source
“Likewise, African countries received the President of the Republic of the Sudan pursuant to the provision of article 23.2 of the Constitutive Act of the African Union, which continued to be reiterated at the Union's successive summits, with directives to Union members to abide by, adhere to and act upon.”
2016-06-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7710 (2016) · source
“We ask ourselves, as have many, why no investigations have been open in Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine after long periods of preliminary analysis notwithstanding clear evidence of violation?" (spoke in Arabic) African countries have received the President of the Republic of the Sudan in fulfilment of their rights and obligations as independent sovereign States, pursuant to the provisions of international law, as reflected in its well-established norms and customs, as well as in article 98 of the Rome Statute of the ICC itself, but the Court has chosen to misinterpret that article and apply it selectively, as we explained earlier.”
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“The report also notes that courts in South Africa are fulfilling the country's obligations under the Rome Statute, to which South Africa is a party, and hastens to anxiously take up an issue that is still being appealed by the Court. However, I should like to include here an excerpt from our previous report of December 2015, depicting a moment when the Foreign Minister of South African stood in a meeting of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute, in November 2015, and said: (spoke in English) "I wish to be absolutely clear. The perceptions of inequality and unfairness in the practice of the ICC do not only emanate from the Court's relationship with the Security Council.”
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“It is unfortunate that countries of the Northern Hemisphere have practically exempted themselves, thanks to Security Council resolutions and bilateral agreements that grant them immunity, while African countries suffer discriminatory treatment that is worse today than what they suffered during the colonial era and in which they are denied the right to equal sovereignty and their leaders are targeted. Meanwhile, the Court seems to have no competence whatsoever over certain nationalities, no matter how gruesome the crimes committed by the holders of those nationalities are and regardless of the status of the perpetrators, from the top of the hierarchy, both political and military, to the lowest-ranking soldier.”
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