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first: 2009-10-14
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“Among the most important aspects that we should focus on and review are the issues of transparency and impartiality in the sanctions committees' working methods. Based on our practical experience with the 1591 Committee, we have come to believe firmly that in most cases the basic problem is a lack of transparency on the part of the Panel of Experts in gathering and analysing information. That leads to mistakes on the part of the Committee and affects its ability to evaluate the reality of the situation objectively and fairly. In most cases, the Panel's reports to the Committee are based on sources that are either affiliated with the insurgents, and therefore biased, or simply unknown or with clear, specific agendas.”
2016-02-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7620 (2016) · source
“There can be no question of the importance of listening to the points of view of non-members of the Council in suchpublic debates, especially those countries that are suffering from conflict or have emerged from conflict into a reconstruction phase, and that are dealing with the imposition of sanctions regimes in accordance with Security Council resolutions. The Sudan is one of those States. Sanctions have been imposed on part ofour territory through the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1591 (2005), which was set up 10 years ago and which you chair, Mr. President. In the 10 years since the establishment of the Informal Working Group on General Issues of Sanctions, practice has shown that the working methods of the Committee and its Panel of Experts should be looked at and studied in depth, as we are trying to do today.”
2016-02-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7620 (2016) · source
“Mr. Mohamed (Sudan) (spoke in Arabic): I would first like to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month and to thank you for the informative concept note (S/2016/ 102, annex) you have circulated to inform our discussion on the working methods of the Security Council's subsidiary bodies. I would also like to thank the delegations of Sweden and Chile and their Permanent Representatives for their contribution to today's deliberations on a very important subject.”
2016-02-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7620 (2016) · source
“The Panel should not rely for its information on organizations that have no internationally recognized legal status or those with specific political agendas. There is no need to seek information about the Sudanese Government from any source other than the Government itself, and we must have sufficient time to comply. The General Assembly has urged Member States to avoid consulting partisan and unverifiable information sources in their adoption of resolutions and measures. We in the Sudan, as well as the members of the Council, have seen how tendentious information on the Sudan and on other events in other countries in the Middle East has led to the loss of innocent civilian lives. The meeting rose at 3.25 pm.”
2016-02-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7619 (2016) · source
“We reiterate our commitment to cooperating with the Panel of Experts in implementing today's resolution while dealing with the pros and cons that have given rise to the multiplicity of bodies involved. We remind the Council of the following strictures that we have asked the Panel of Experts to observe. The first is that the Panel should not bypass the mandate specified by the Council under resolution 1591 (2005), and the second is that it should keep to the time frame when investigating the inquiries into the various bodies involved. It should observe the requirement of giving prior notification to the Government authorities and alerting it to the Panel's movements, in order to avoid any objections. We must be aware of the movements of the Panel when it is in Darfur.”
2016-02-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7619 (2016) · source
“The same applies to the attempts of these groups to find ways to obtain the financing and weapons they use to attack the United Nations/African Union Hybrid Operation in Darfur. The importance of the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur in defining the dividing line is fundamental and has produced good results with the cooperation of the Sudan's neighbours, the League of Arab States and Qatar. We believe firmly that any disregard of the Document contravenes the Charter of the United Nations and is a clear incitement to continued conflict and bloodshed. Whether or not the conflict ends in a peace agreement, we are confident that the members of the Security Council will make the maintenance of peace and security their top priority.”
2016-02-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7619 (2016) · source
“What concerns us in that respect is the fact that neither these exchanges of opinion nor developments on the ground are referred to in the numerous resolutions adopted by the Council, including resolution 2265 (2016). Furthermore, it is quite clear that the many resolutions of the Security Council on this topic tend to hold the Government of the Sudan responsible for the terrorist and criminal activities of maverick armed groups, and that rather than condemn these rebels, these resolutions repeatedly call on the Government of the Sudan to arrest and prosecute them. Taking into consideration our conviction in the need to bring every criminal to justice, the Council must take the most forceful measures to persuade these armed groups to lay down their weapons and accede without delay to the peace process taking root in Darfur.”
2016-02-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7619 (2016) · source
“On 18 December 2015, I received the members of the Panel of Experts at the Permanent Mission of the Sudan to the United Nations, where opinions were exchanged and positive and constructive discussions took place. The members of the Panel expressed their satisfaction at the cooperation demonstrated by the Government of the Sudan with the Committee and the Panel. For instance, the coordinator of the Panel of Experts told me that "the cooperation ofthe Sudan was excellent". The Panel was not prevented from reaching the sites where incidents had occurred, except in two cases. The cooperation of the Mission of the Sudan was equally thorough.”
2016-02-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7619 (2016) · source
“Mr. Mohamed (Sudan) (spoke in Arabic): Itake this opportunity to congratulate you, Sir, on your country's accession to the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I am pleased to see your friendly country represented in the Council, which is entrusted by the Charter of the United Nations with the weighty task of maintaining international peace and security. I also congratulate the new members that joined the Council at the beginning of the year. On 23 November 2015, along with representatives of the neighbouring States Egypt, Chad, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Libya and Uganda, the Sudan participated in the 7th meeting of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1591 (2005) concerning the Sudan.”
2016-02-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7619 (2016) · source
“We are still curious to know on what basis the Court could legally evaluate what we are doing to defend the symbols of our sovereignty, our unity and our territorial integrity within the framework of multilateral diplomacy, in which we have engaged in with a view to maintaining peace and stability with the conclusion of agreements aimed at restoring peace in our homeland, including the Comprehensive Peace Agreement of 2005, the Abuja Agreement and the Doha Document, and all that we have done to honour the letter and spirit of our obligations under international law, in accordance with the duties and rights stipulated therein.”
2015-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7582 (2015) · source
“Finally, the Prosecutor's report contains many gross references and transgressions regarding the practice of addressing the United Nations and the Security Council, particularly in paragraphs 12 and 45, which refer to the failure of the Council and its inability, inaction and loss of credibility in its attempt to alienate my country. I call on the Council to take whatever action it deems appropriate in that regard. Members of the Council have also witnessed to what we in the Permanent Mission of the Sudan have gone through as the Prosector of the ICC has tried to muzzle and threaten us with litigation.”
2015-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7582 (2015) · source
“Frankly, when I heard the statement made by the representative of the United Kingdom, I could not believe her description of the situation in Darfur, which we monitor consistently and constantly. As the United Kingdom's former Foreign Secretary Robin Cook remarked, the Court was not established to prosecute any British or other Western official. That is what he said. Unfortunately, and in response to what we have heard from some Council members, this is our message to the conscience of the international community. There can be no graver insult than this position of the Court, which has persisted in its practices from 2002 until today.”
2015-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7582 (2015) · source
“Despite that huge waste of resources drawn from the assessed contributions of Member States and the voluntary contributions of the European Union, along with donations by Western non-governmental organizations, the Court is now requesting the United Nations to supply it with more resources in order to pursue its mandate in Darfur. We have before us testimonies from around the world and from non-governmental organizations, including in particular Human Rights Watch, according to which the allegations of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court are lies. The only way to protect the victims is by ending the conflict, and it is no coincidence that the Comprehensive Peace Agreement and the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur have been ignored by the Prosecutor's Office.”
2015-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7582 (2015) · source
“Yet the Court and the Prosecutor's Office have shown interest in leveling charges and opening proceedings and investigations only against African States. So far, it has issued indictments against 39 Africans and no one else. They have been singled out from among all humans on the vast planet with its five continents. I leave it to the consciences and minds of members of the Council tojudge for themselves. By way of comparison, in the aftermath of the Second World War in Europe the Nuremberg Tribunal adjudicated hundreds of cases in just a single year, whereas the International Criminal Court has been unable to process more than two or three cases since 2002, at a cost of more than 61 billion.”
2015-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7582 (2015) · source
“In so doing, African leaders have stressed their rejection of the targeting of African leaders and peoples under such pretexts as feasibility and possibility, which were introduced in the policy papers of the Prosecutor's Office and which make individuals criminally liable, not through proof of guilt but by virtue of their nationality. In that regard, the representative of India was right when he said, on the occasion of at the adoption of the Rome Statute in the summer of 1998, that its first victim would be international law. To date, the Court has received some 9,000 complaints through various channels, relating to situations in 139 countries where crimes and violations are being committed.”
2015-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7582 (2015) · source
“We consider the observations contained in this report regarding the Republic of the Sudan, which was among the first African countries privileged to join the membership of the United Nations, and its President, whose status is also enshrined in the 2005 Constitution of the Republic of the Sudan, as a symbol of the country's sovereignty, and whom I have the honour to represent here at the United Nations, as not being worthy of the trouble to consider. We also wish to refer to the Common African Position enunciated since 2008 concerning established international law on the immunity of Heads of State - a concept that is being further bolstered and fortified by the Sudan in its quest for peace and stability through the cessation of bloodshed, for the sake of which we have left no stone unturned.”
2015-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7582 (2015) · source
“In that regard, I would like to note some positive developments that, fortunately, were overlooked in the last UNAMID report (S/2015/729), which was submitted to the Council on 25 September and includes first, a decrease in the number of displaced persons; secondly, the Government's success in ending tribal hostilities - in which regard the Court's report seeks to incite racial and ethnic division and fuel hostilities by citing unfounded allegations of Arab settlement in Darfur - and thirdly, the successful internal dialogue in Darfur.”
2015-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7582 (2015) · source
“The Court has also discouraged outlaws from responding to calls for peace and invitations to join peace agreements, encouraging them, on the contrary, to mount attacks and instigate rebellion against legitimate national authorities. In that context, and commensurate with its covert objective to drive a wedge between justice and peace, the Court strived to subvert the Abuja Peace Agreement of 2006, which was welcomed by the Security Council, and to divert attention from the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur, of 2011, which was also welcomed by the Security Council and which has been totally ignored in the report, with a view to undermining it, as well.”
2015-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7582 (2015) · source
“The Court has transformed those outlaw perpetrators into more daring hardcore criminals capable of committing all sorts of crimes, including attacks on peacekeepers, in pursuit of media coverage for propaganda purposes, and the resulting instability and confusion, an example of which is the attack by an armed rebel movement on UNAMID peacekeepers in Darfur in 2008, which was distorted by global media entities, such as the The Washington Post, The New York Times, Cable News Network and the British Broadcasting Corporation, to implicate the Sudanese Government as having instigated affiliate militias to launch that attack.”
2015-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7582 (2015) · source
“Due to the conduct of the Office of the Prosecutor and of the Chief Prosecutor, coupled with the policy paper issued by her Office, which rendered article 53 of the Statute ineffective and practically repealed, together with the overall principle of complementarity, it is due to such dispositions that the Minister of Foreign Affairs of South Africa stated on 18 November, before the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the ICC that, "South Africa cannot and will not be silent in the face of serious flaws in some of the practices of the Court in the interpretation of the Statute." The Minister further asked: "Has this Court become the universally accepted institution for justice as initially hoped for when we established it?" It is therefore not surprising in the least that the Court, as we have said, is directly responsible for all of the violations of human rights that have occurred in Darfur.”
2015-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7582 (2015) · source
“Resolution 1593 (2005), by which the Council referred the situation in Darfur to the Court, and which we stress, with all due respect, is in violation of international law as it concerns a State that is not party to the Rome statute, emphasizes, in paragraph 5, "the need to promote healing and reconciliation". The same was emphasized by the African Union Peace and Security Council when it stressed, on 21 July 2008, that: "The Council reaffirms its statement of 11 July 2008, in which it expressed its strong conviction that the search for justice should be pursued in a way that does not impede or jeopardize efforts aimed at promoting lasting peace".”
2015-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7582 (2015) · source
“I would like to refer to the policy paper issued by the ICC Prosecutor's Office in 2007, interpreting article 53 of the Rome Statute, entitled "Policy Paper on the Interests of Justice", in which the concept of the interests of justice does not include peace. Such a policy not only undermines all future dispute settlement efforts worldwide, local or international, but also starkly contrasts with the core task of the Security Council under Article 24 of the Charter of the United Nations, thereby posing serious questions regarding the feasibility of submitting the report to the Council not once but twice per year.”
2015-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7582 (2015) · source
“The Court concocted - through the actions of its Prosecutor and thanks to vague and overly broad powers granted by the Statute to the Prosecutor and the Prosecutor'sOffice,aswellasbyabusingtheProsecutor's authority and deploying that authority to serve the interests of certain countries and non-governmental organizations that are well known for their influence on the Court's process and, subsequently, on its work, competencies and funding - an unwarranted contradiction between the principles of justice and peace. By creating that contradiction, it has encouraged the ongoing killing and displacement of persons and of all types of abuses and violations in countries and regions where it has exercised jurisdiction, all of which happen, by chance, to be African countries, which is in fact no coincidence.”
2015-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7582 (2015) · source
“We are concerned about clearly emphasizing the fact that the Prosecutor's Office of the Court is responsible - through its actions and by explicitly and implicitly encouraging gun-toting rebels and armed outlaws - for all lives lost in Darfur since 2005, and for the human rights violations committed by those outlaws and the suffering of the injured and displaced persons and the loss of property, not only in the Sudan but in all other cases in which the Court has intervened on the African continent.”
2015-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7582 (2015) · source
“The report before the Council notes in several parts and in a clearly selective way, which is typical of the Court since its inception, the deterioration of security conditions in Darfur, including abductions and attacks on humanitarian workers and peacekeepers. As expected, the report contains no reference to the persons responsible for those violations, or the actual perpetrators, to whom we have referred in detail in our statement before the Council during its review of the periodic report on the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID), on 28 October (see S/PV.7545).”
2015-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7582 (2015) · source
“As the Council is aware, Protocol II to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 stipulates, in article 3, paragraphl, that: "Nothing in this Protocol shall be invoked for the purpose of affecting the sovereignty of a State or the responsibility of the government, by all legitimate means, to maintain or re-establish law and order in the State or to defend the national unity and territorial integrity of the State." There are also examples of countries vigorously pursuing and defending their national interests extra- territorially and striving to legitimize such actions, so why do others deny us the right to defend our territorial integrity and maintain law and order within our borders?”
2015-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7582 (2015) · source
“I would like to reiterate what we have said repeatedly - that the Sudan is committed, in compliance with its constitutional, legal, moral and cultural obligations, to prosecute the perpetrators of all crimes and violations defined and agreed upon under applicable provisions of international law. Such provisions include, inter alia, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of 1948, the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their first and second Protocols and the various human rights conventions and treaties, in accordance with its commitment to fight impunity.”
2015-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7582 (2015) · source
“I would like to avail myself of the opportunity to extend to the Secretary-General, to the President and to members of the Security Council and all countries of the world at large my congratulations on the success of the Paris negotiations on curbing global warming, which threatens the Earth's very existence and the survival of the human race. We are hopeful, in the Sudan in particular, that that achievement will materialize in the future, in the form of stopping desertification in the Sahel region of West Africa, which was the fundamental factor in the exacerbation of the internal conflict in Darfur in 2003. We were pleased, in that regard, to finally see the United Nations Environment Programme state, in its famous 2007 report, that the causes of conflict in Darfur are attributed to environmental degradation and desertification.”
2015-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7582 (2015) · source
“That position is set out in the relevant resolutions of the African Union, adopted successively at the highest level since 2008 and until 2015, and in the synergetic positions of other political entities to which the Sudan is party, issued in unison and reflecting systematic aversion to the meddling and false accusations of the International Criminal Court (ICC). It is also consonant with our right under both statutory and customary international law, particularly the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties of 1969, which emphasizes the sovereign right of every country whether to be or not be a party to any treaty or international agreement. Therefore, in exercising that right, the Republic of the Sudan has opted not to be party to the Rome Statute. As mentioned, the Sudan is not bound by the ICC, as a non-party to the Rome Statute.”
2015-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7582 (2015) · source
“Mr. Mohamed (Sudan) (spoke in Arabic): I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for giving me this opportunity to address the Security Council as a representative of a State Member of the United Nations that is interested in participating with comments and observations, as well as to underscore our national position with regard to the subject matter before the Council today. It is important to make clear that I intend to do my duty in this capacity before a major organ of the United Nations, the Security Council, in accordance with the imperatives of the national position of my country and that of the African continent.”
2015-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7582 (2015) · source
“In this regard, we reaffirm the commitment of the Government of the Sudan to the negotiated settlement of the final status of Abyei, and we recall that when the Sudanese army withdrew from Abyei, it did so in accordance with our commitment pursuant to the road map adopted by the African Union and endorsed by the Security Council in it is resolution 2046 (2012). Finally, we are happy to stress that the prevalent positive and excellent relations existing between the two sisterly countries of the Sudan and South Sudan, which are interwoven by deep historical bonds, augur well for addressing any ensuing differences. The meeting rose at 10.20 am.”
2015-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7580 (2015) · source
“It is therefore categorically rejected by my Government, and we call upon the members of the Council to further reconsider this issue. We also register our reservations over the new phrase that has been added to the seventh preambular paragraph of the resolution, regarding human rights monitoring and reporting, because the mandate of UNISFA is well defined in resolution 1990 (2011), which established the Mission and does not contain such reference. We note with appreciation that the resolution again stresses concern regarding the unilateral referendum held by the Ngok Dinka as a rejected unilateral action.”
2015-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7580 (2015) · source
“The reference to the name of the UNISFA civilian Head ofMission, contained in paragraph 15 ofresolution 2251 (2015), is in stark contradiction to the content and spirit of paragraph 41 of the Secretary-General's latest report on Abyei (S/2015/870) dated 13 November 2015, which states that "[w]hile discussions between the Government of the Sudan and the United Nations on this matter are ongoing, I urge the Governments of the Sudan and South Sudan to focus on how to move forward with the implementation of all provisions of the Agreement of 20 June 2011". The aforementioned reference in resolution resolution 2251 (2015) reflects neither the intention of the United Nations, as expressed by the Secretary- General in his report, nor the intention of the parties concerned.”
2015-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7580 (2015) · source
“With regard to the reference made to the latest national elections that took place in Abyei, we draw the Council's kind attention to the provisions of the Abyei Protocol and the relevant agreements, which all affirm that until the final status of Abyei is determined, the Area remains part and parcel of Sudanese territory. Accordingly, Abyei was an electoral constituency like all other constituencies in the Sudan. The elections in no way affected or influenced the implementation of Abyei Protocol and the subsequent arrangements agreed for final statement.”
2015-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7580 (2015) · source
“It is worth mentioning that the implementation of the agreed Implementation Matrix for the aforementioned agreements is crucial. For that reason, the Matrix has been issued as an official Security Council document (S/2015/654, appendix III). We reiterate our commitment to implementing the agreements, and we believe that the best way to create an atmosphere conducive to paving the way for the settlement of the final status of Abyei is the establishment of the three focal temporary mechanisms: the Temporary Administration, the Abyei Police Service and the Abyei Legislative Council. Such mechanisms, if put in place, will fill any security or administrative vacuum and help in boosting peaceful coexistence between communities, namely, the Misseriya and Ngok Dinka.”
2015-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7580 (2015) · source
“It also stresses that the final status of Abyei can be determined only through dialogue between the two parties. The resolution also emphasizes the importance of the full implementation of other relevant agreements, namely, the 29 June 2011 Agreement between the Government of the Sudan and the Government of South Sudan on Border Security and the Joint Political and Security Mechanism; the 30 July 2011 Agreement on the Border Monitoring Support Mission between the Government of the Sudan and the Government of South Sudan; and the 27 September 2012 Agreements on Cooperation and Security Arrangements. All of these agreements are mutually reinforcing and complementary, and should be implemented as one package without selectivity.”
2015-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7580 (2015) · source
“At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Madam, on your country's assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month, which has witnessed the review of the Secretary-General's report on Abyei (S/2015/870) and the consultations on the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA). I would like also to thank Mr. Herve Ladsous and his Office for their relentless efforts in this regard, and to acknowledge with appreciation the positive role being played by UNISFA. Resolution 2251 (2015), adopted today, stresses throughout its provisions the importance of the implementation of the 20 June Agreement between the Government of the Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement on Temporary Arrangements for the Administration and Security of the Abyei Area.”
2015-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7580 (2015) · source
“Fifthly, the Secretary-General thanks the Government of Qatar for its continued support for the Doha Document for Peace, which is embraced and adhered to by the Government of the Sudan as well as by the United Nations, which was the advocate, sponsor and partner of the peace negotiations. Lastly, in paragraph 75, the report refers to the progress made in the implementation of the Darfur Internal Dialogue and Consultation.”
2015-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7545 (2015) · source
“Secondly, there is clarification of the reasons for launching air strikes against rebel armed groups and their targets: "The combined air and ground offensive succeeded in dislodging [Sudan Liberation Army/Abdul Wahid] from Rokero, Rowata and Burgo villages." (S/2015/729, para. 3) Thirdly, in paragraph 42, the report mentions that UNAMID military personnel conducted a very large number of patrols and humanitarian armed escorts. That fact serves to refute accusations of restrictions on the movement of those forces. Fourthly, in paragraph 73, the report refers to the efforts of the Government to contain the effects of fighting among local tribes.”
2015-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7545 (2015) · source
“As I said at the beginning of my statement, we are prepared to cooperate with UNAMID to achieve the common goals, based on resolution 1769 (2007), on the establishment of the mission, including the development of an exit strategy, and to build on what was delivered by the tripartite commission. In that regard, we are pleased to note that the report includes clear references to cooperation on the part of the Government of the Sudan, as well as to achievements in that regard. I would like to cite the following examples. First, there was a decrease in displacement during the reporting period.”
2015-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7545 (2015) · source
“The problem of the food containers could have been solved without complications, if the UNAMID mission had complied with the customs rules that had been agreed upon * particularly in connection to its acting head - regarding the advance submission of the containers' inventories. The mission elected not to inform the Ministry for Foreign Affairs or the tripartite commission made up of UNAMID itself, the Government of the Sudan and the African Union in seeking a timely solution to the issue and avoiding a worsening of the situation. We have informed the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations of the particulars of that matter.”
2015-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7545 (2015) · source
“That runs contrary to the strategic review recommendations, which called for a reduction in the number of international security personnel, who were to be replaced by local staff. I would like to call on the Council once again to scrutinize those reports, the elements contained in the UNAMID report and the facts and figures related to the issuing of visas. We have brought those statistics here, Sir, and if you allow us, we could circulate them. The Sudan has exercised its sovereign right in disseminating those facts and figures. The second issue is related to the customs clearance of food containers in Port Sudan.”
2015-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7545 (2015) · source
“We would like to refer the Council to a bulletin of the Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) issued in Khartoum in May. It states that positive responses to requests for visas and travel permissions varied - and I emphasize this - between 86 per cent and 96 per cent. That statistic comes from OCHA. The arbitrary numbers mentioned in the report concerning the issuing of visas and the way that they are taken out of general context are meant, in our opinion, to level accusations against the Government in order to deem it non-cooperative, and therefore stall the peacekeeping operation. In addition, the UNAMID mission insisted on terminating the service of a number of local staff members and replaced them with international staff, for whom visas were requested.”
2015-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7545 (2015) · source
“That involves farmers who are attracted by the material conditions offered in the internally displaced persons camps, who usually return to their villages of their own accord to cultivate the surrounding land during the rainy season and afterwards return once again to the camps. That kind oftemporary displacement was not fully taken into account when the statistics were tabulated. We would like to draw the Council's attention to the statistics cited by the Darfur Regional Authority, established under the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur. They are in complete contradiction with the numbers contained in the report. Controversy has erupted here at the United Nations during the past two weeks with regard to two episodes mentioned in the report under consideration. The first has to do with the withholding of visas for UNAMID staff members.”
2015-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7545 (2015) · source
“For example, the report has removed those statistics from their appropriate contexts, such as in the case of the accusations levied against the Sudanese Government, which has allegedly refused to issue visas to UNAMID staff. Likewise, the number of displaced persons is inaccurate. That statistic does not take into account, for example, inter-tribal clashes, which are usually followed by immediate measures taken by State authorities to contain those hostilities. That is done with the help of the long-standing and traditional magistrate-mediated system, by creating buffer zones between the belligerent parties, which consequently results in the return of displaced persons to their villages and towns. Those numbers are not reflected in the report. Furthermore, there is the phenomenon of what we might call temporary displacement.”
2015-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7545 (2015) · source
“That requries the fulfilment of the financial commitments made for development by the international community, in line with the parameters set out in the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur. We are deeply concerned about the incidents involving attacks on UNAMID patrols by individuals or groups of individuals. They are robbing and looting and, while their numbers and weapons are inferior to those of UNAMID, they have met with little to no resistance. Seen in the context of carrying out its duty to protect civilians and their right to self-defence, those incidents justify the growing concerns regarding the relevance and efficiency of UNAMID. We regret that we have to scrutinize the statistics with regard to certain areas in the report.”
2015-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7545 (2015) · source
“That is also true with regard to the political narrative depicting the security situation and the real state of events on the ground in Darfur. I should also like to refer to paragraphs 16, 25 and 27 of the report of the Secretary-General, which indicate that incidents of crime, including theft, armed robbery, carjacking and other crimes, are all being committed by individual outlaws. The facts of the situation we have described unequivocally point to a transition from a conflict- management situation to a conflict-ending situation having occurred. What is required now is commitment to development efforts and to mitigate the devastating effects of desertification and environmental degradation in Darfur.”
2015-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7545 (2015) · source
“The successful holding ofviolence-free elections in the context of an internal conflict provides indisputable proof of a return to normalcy in the conflict area. In that regard, I would like to note that the holding of elections in a zone of conflict anywhere in the world is indicative of the prevalence of post- conflict measures. I hope that the Council will take that into account. What I have just mentioned does not mean that the states of Darfur are free of violence. However, incidents of violence in Darfur are not indicative of the existence of an internal conflict commensurate with the definition of such under international law, in particular the one set out in the 1997 annex II to the the four Geneva Conventions of 1949.”
2015-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7545 (2015) · source
“The Sudan is currently in the process of an inclusive national dialogue, as called for and launched on the basis of an initiative of the President of our country. The dialogue includes armed movements and groups that have resorted to violence as a means to achieve political aims in Darfur. The initiative aims at exploring the prospective configuration of a future political environment in the Sudan by building consensus on the drafting of a permanent constitution to replace the provisional Constitution of 2005, which is credited for time-bound achievements in implementing the principle of self-determination and conducting the referendum that led to the creation of the State of South Sudan. Presidential and parliamentary elections took place in April throughout the country, including the five states of Darfur.”
2015-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7545 (2015) · source
“We call upon the members of the Security Council to review the conclusions of the meeting of the Implementation Follow-Up Commission of the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur, which is made up of representatives of the Government of the Sudan, the five permanent members of the Council, neighbouring countries and international partners for peace. The Commission meets twice a year with a view to eliminating obstacles that could hinder progress in implementing the agreement. Granting this international Commission due relevance and support would ensure the elimination of all the obstacles to implementation. Moreover, the establishment of such a mechanism was a landmark event in the history of the peaceful settlement of disputes in the world.”
2015-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7545 (2015) · source