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2001-01-25
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2005-02-25
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  1. “It is absolutely essential that those issues be taken into account in ECOWAS programmes and policies in order to establish lasting peace in the region, which alone can secure an environment conducive to economic and social development.”

    2005-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5131 (2005) · source

  2. “In addition to those measures - whose implementation has seen some significant progress - ECOWAS has taken the initiative of developing a programme called "border countries", whose main objective is to accelerate the economic integration process through local integration, enabling border populations to share some goods and services because of their socio-economic and cultural homogeneity. With that programme, ECOWAS intends to begin, in the context of regional integration, a new, broader and more dynamic approach and a new local development plan. Addressing and resolving issues related to cross- border problems is a major challenge for ECOWAS in the context of its regional integration mission.”

    2005-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5131 (2005) · source

  3. “In order to meet those shortcomings, ECOWAS has adopted a set of measures: the Protocol relating to free movement of persons, the right of residence and establishment, which includes three phases - right of entry and abolition of visa, right of residence and right of establishment; the Protocol relating to the definition of community citizenship, which defines the conditions for community citizenship; the decision establishing a travel certificate for ECOWAS member States; the decision regarding the establishment of a harmonized immigration and emigration form in ECOWAS member States; and finally, the decision relating to the adoption of an ECOWAS passport.”

    2005-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5131 (2005) · source

  4. “The management of border areas is thus a major problem, because, for the local populations residing there, the borders, as drawn, cannot alter the centuries- long relations and bonds of kinship shared with people on the other side. Management becomes a problem when farmland or a service-provider located on the other side of the border is involved, thus requiring daily crossings. Such complaints and grievances have become widespread among our populations, and the many meetings of the security services of bordering countries demonstrate our national Governments concern at this state of affairs, which is a curb on economic integration, which should chiefly benefit these populations.”

    2005-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5131 (2005) · source

  5. “It should also be noted that the purpose of such mobility is not always lawful. Movements also arise because of large-scale banditry and cross-border crime. Thus, as a result of the porous nature of our borders, the lack of skill among border agents or the greed of some of those agents, some criminals manage to exploit this mobility in order to engage in unlawful activities, or to evade the security forces. Thus, many armed gangs are able to hide out or even disappear after having committed abuses in a neighbouring country. Developments in the trafficking of goods, weapons, vehicles and human beings, especially women and children, attest to the scale of the cross- border problems experienced by West Africa.”

    2005-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5131 (2005) · source

  6. “The displacement of populations from one country to another is often made difficult by the growing number of hindrances to the movement of migrants. Practices that are being pursued at our border posts and the many roadblocks on our roads are barriers and burdens for the population. As a result of such practices and of the roadblocks, road travel is needlessly prolonged and taxes the travel budget of the people concerned, while also, of course, impinging on their most fundamental rights. Populations are thus obliged to bribe road safety officers or those manning border posts, even when they are in compliance with the legislation governing movement from one country to another. Extortion and abuse at the border posts have often provoked a revolt among neighbouring populations, leading to crises between two adjacent countries.”

    2005-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5131 (2005) · source

  7. “Moreover, 30 to 40 per cent of the inhabitants of the region, again Nigeria excepted, no longer lived in their district or community of origin. Generally speaking, there are favourite destinations in West Africa, especially when there is a need to find a professional occupation, or to buy or sell a consumer product. The following movements are to be seen: there is great movement from Burkina Faso, from Mali and from Niger to Cote d'Ivoire; fairly significant movement from Guinea to Senegal; and a fairly high level of migration from Senegal to the Gambia. Migration in West Africa is either voluntary - caused by the quest for better living conditions; labour migration - or forced, as a result of conflict or of natural catastrophe or disaster.”

    2005-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5131 (2005) · source

  8. “This concern becomes a source of anxiety as it affects the mobility of populations both in times of peace and in times of crisis. I wish to share with Council members, our comments and our concerns, but also our hopes and wishes, as regards one of the most recurrent cross- border problems that our region must tackle, and which has to do with the mobility of our populations. There is a high degree of mobility among the populations of the ECOWAS area. Movements are prompted largely by the need to seek employment, or by family reasons. According to studies on this issue, at the end of the 1990s, 11 per cent of the population of West Africa, Nigeria excluded, resided in a State member of the Community other than their country of origin.”

    2005-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5131 (2005) · source

  9. “There could be no more suitable occasion to discuss these issues, since today is the eve of the one hundred twentieth anniversary of the conclusion of the Berlin Conference, that gathering of colonial Powers on Africa - without the presence of Africans - held from 15 November 1884 to 26 February 1885, which resulted in the carving up of the so-called black continent into colonial possessions that were subsequently to become independent, within borders that are straitjackets for each of the States concerned, while also constituting, in many cases, sources of discord among them. For a regional economic community such as ECOWAS, whose primary mission is to provide for the well-being of its people through economic and social integration, the question of borders and their attendant problems is, of course, a matter of major concern.”

    2005-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5131 (2005) · source

  10. “Mr. Moutari (Niger) (spoke in French): Sir, your colleague and friend, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and African Integration of Niger, very much wished to be here today to participate in this discussion on behalf of the current Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Unfortunately, developments in Togo have meant that she must remain in our subregion. She has therefore instructed me to convey her regrets, and to thank you, Sir, and the other members of the Security Council for having convened this public debate on cross-border issues in West Africa. On her behalf, I also welcome the considerable attention that the Council is paying to the problems of West Africa in general, and to border-related problems in particular.”

    2005-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5131 (2005) · source

  11. “We truly hope that recommendations will emerge from this workshop that will strengthen the national capacity-building of the national, regional and continental institutions that are to work against the scourges of the proliferation of small arms and light weapons and the use of mercenaries. Finally, the Regional Director of the Programme for Coordination and Assistance for Security and Development (PCASED) told us this morning how small the number of resources are that they have to work with, in spite of the ever more urgent needs of the States in the region. It is important, therefore, that one of our recommendations speak specifically to the need for strengthening our financial wherewithal to do our work.”

    2003-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4720Resumption1 (2003) · source

  12. “The same can be said for the regional level, as Mr. Chambas reminded us this morning. ECOWAS has an urgent need to establish a small arms unit to provide for the effective implementation of the Moratorium. As was also pointed out by Ambassador Said Djinnit, of the African Union, a Moratorium on the importation, exportation and manufacture of weapons can only function if there is a follow-up oversight mechanism adequately resourced and truly independent; this would allow them to point out and name the violators, as well as impose a sanctions regime against the parties in default.”

    2003-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4720Resumption1 (2003) · source

  13. “They did not really wish to progress; rather, this led to armed banditry situations. This project, valued at about 1,400 million CFA francs (about $2 million), has been submitted to the donors for their consideration. In addition, it seems to us that one of the shortcomings that has to be corrected as soon as possible is the weakness of the national structures responsible for follow-up of the collection of small arms and light weapons, as well as the reintegration of ex-combatants and the reconstruction of the affected areas. Our national commission to collect these weapons, and our high commission for peacekeeping, are cruelly short of human, logistical and financial resources that are essential for them just to carry out the everyday work of their mission. Strengthening national institutions is necessary. It is a basic need for us.”

    2003-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4720Resumption1 (2003) · source

  14. “Along these lines, a new project to consolidate peace has just been crafted by Niger, in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), with the United Nations Volunteers and with French cooperation, in order to reintegrate 3,160 ex-combatants to promote a culture of peace and development in areas affected by conflict. Our national experience in Niger has thus brought us to a full implementation of peace agreements and to make it a major priority. From this perspective, the socio-economic reintegration of the ex-combatants was a priority for us, without which the peace process could not be successfully concluded, because the feeling of abandonment, due to the fact that financial promises had not been kept, made people impatient, and even fed up.”

    2003-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4720Resumption1 (2003) · source

  15. “This was done thanks to help from the United Nations and the group of interested States - Germany, France, Norway and Japan - who were trying to breathe hope into that part of Niger. From its outset, this project was designed and perceived as a pilot project, the success of which would enable us to progress and the experience of which was to be replicated in other parts of the country. It was concerned with places such as Air and Azawak, but as it spread out in concentric circles, it was also meant to link with other projects going on in the rest of West Africa so as to ensure that similar initiatives would be eventually implemented in other member countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).”

    2003-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4720Resumption1 (2003) · source

  16. “Thanks to an understanding on the part of the different national actors in Niger, peace agreements were signed between April 1995 and August 1998 between the Government and 17 fronts and self-defence movements, with the help of friendly countries, including Algeria, Burkina Faso, France and Chad. These agreements have allowed us to begin the procedure to collect and destroy small arms and light weapons. This procedure finally led to the organization on 15 September 2000 in Agadez of a peace torch, with the presence of United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, to whom I once again would like to convey my deep gratitude. Then there was the design and implementation of the project to collect small arms and light weapons in the Gigme area in Manga.”

    2003-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4720Resumption1 (2003) · source

  17. “It began as early as the 1990s and has affected a substantial portion of our territory, including the northern areas of Air and Azawak, and, in the eastern part of the country, Manga. Our national experience teaches us that, whatever one might say about the illicit proliferation of arms and the use of mercenaries, the pivotal point in the quest for solutions is, first of all, a genuine will on the part of the national protagonists to deal peacefully with the deep-seated reasons for the conflicts they face. Foreign assistance in this way is certainly very useful, even essential, but it is still just assistance.”

    2003-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4720Resumption1 (2003) · source

  18. “Unfortunately, having been unable to make the trip to New York for scheduling reasons, she asked me to convey to you her friendly greetings and her best wishes for success. Because of its geographical location and its recent national experience, Niger feels not only that it is an integral part of all initiatives taken in this area but also that the path we have followed, with the benevolent help of countries and friendly institutions, can provide some useful examples within the framework of preventing and resolving conflicts, as well as the consolidation of peace and reconstruction in the post-conflict period. As the Council knows, Niger is familiar with armed rebellion.”

    2003-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4720Resumption1 (2003) · source

  19. “Mr. Moutari (Niger) (spoke in French): At the outset, Mr. President, I should like to pay a warm tribute to the Republic of Guinea, your country, for the excellent work that it has accomplished in the presidency of the Security Council during this period, so critical for international peace and security. Niger is pleased to see members of the Council devote today to a debate on the illicit trafficking in small arms and light weapons and the use of mercenaries in West Africa. Her Excellency Ms. Ai'chatou Mindaoudou, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Niger, had wished to be present and to discuss with Council members this issue, whose importance led our heads of State and Government to proclaim, in 1998, a Moratorium on these types of weapons in West Africa.”

    2003-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4720Resumption1 (2003) · source

  20. “I should also like to express to your predecessor, Ambassador Lavrov, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation - that great country of which we still have vivid memories of a pleasant visit fl our deep appreciation for the outstanding way in which he presided over the Council last month.”

    2001-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4264Resumption1 (2001) · source

  21. “However, at present it is not possible to say what kind of goods that aircraft may have been carrying because the records are kept for only three months. Nevertheless, the competent authorities of the Niger have ordered an investigation to be carried out in order to obtain the information that has been requested. The Niger will, of course, provide its full and wholehearted cooperation for any initiative that this Council undertakes to bring peace and security to Sierra Leone and the subregion. I should like to convey our great admiration to you, Sir, and wish you every success as you carry out your functions as President of the Council.”

    2001-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4264Resumption1 (2001) · source

  22. “With the aim of bringing peace to our West African subregion, and peace, stability and well-being to our continent as a whole, as our people so profoundly desire, my country has been working closely with the other members of the Economic Community of West African States for such a long time. That is why, when my delegation was presented with the information in the report, my Government began to carry out the necessary preliminary investigations and communicated to the Secretariat the following information. The BAC-lll aircraft, with the registration VP- CLM, belonging to the company Aeroleasing Inc., did, indeed, land in Niamey on 22 December 1998 at 21.11 local time, having come from Monrovia, and departed on 23 December 1998 at 19.02 local time.”

    2001-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4264Resumption1 (2001) · source

  23. “Mr. Moutari (Niger) (spoke in French): I should like first of all to express the gratitude of the Niger for being able to speak on this agenda item concerning the report of the Panel of Experts on the traffic in diamonds and the conflict situation prevailing in Sierra Leone, which was introduced this morning by Ambassador Chowdhury of Bangladesh. For us, the fact that this Council - which bears the primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security - is being presided over by Mr. Kishore Mahbubani of Singapore is a guarantee of a dispassionate and fair debate whose outcome will be beneficial to Sierra Leone, Africa and the world.”

    2001-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4264Resumption1 (2001) · source