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Mufamadi

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2003-04-11
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  1. “We hope the dialogue will help the Council to recapture the strategic initiative with regard to the exercise of its duties and to define for itself a niche that is faithful to its mandate.”

    2003-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4739 (2003) · source

  2. “We have seen the strengthening of regional and subregional organizations, which in turn leads to the strengthening of our premier multilateral institution, the United Nations. We have had to collectively define the relationship between regional organizations and the United Nations. The African Union has always seen itself as supporting and strengthening the efforts of the United Nations. Any other approach would lead to chaos and anarchy. For any region to be successful in resolving conflicts, there will always be a need for a strong multilateral system that can address the collective security of all nations of the world. It is for that reason that we are pleased that the Security Council is engaged in this dialogue.”

    2003-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4739 (2003) · source

  3. “Our position continues to be to work with the Security Council to assume collective responsibility for the identification of problems and the formulation of appropriate strategies by which such problems can be solved. The manner in which the United Nations system was structured was a direct response to the challenges we faced in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. Since then, we have seen an unprecedented move towards global interdependence, a move that throws up new challenges and calls for new responses. Among those responses is the need to develop structural arrangements that allow all regions fully to participate in the evolution and implementation of solutions to the current problems related to the maintenance of peace and security.”

    2003-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4739 (2003) · source

  4. “Of course, the strategies used in these initiatives are open to discussion and to critical scrutiny. Only then will it be possible for these experiences to add value to the already existing global resources for conflict resolution and peacemaking. Whatever the new factors which may have emerged in recent times, one thing must be accepted as a constant. We live in a world which requires Governments to deal with one another in the context of multilateral forums and organizations, as well as through the traditional mechanisms of bilateral diplomacy. Although some of the African Union's instruments for peacemaking, peace-building and peacekeeping are still being finalized, recent developments have proved that our region has immense potential.”

    2003-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4739 (2003) · source

  5. “They invited the international community to come and fulfil what they see as an indispensable role in helping implement their agreements. We hope that the Security Council will support these agreements. What we are seeing on the continent, therefore, are developments that constitute a powerful counter- argument against Afro-pessimism. Our optimism about the future of the continent is based on what we are prepared to do and are doing. As we understand it, Chapter VIII of the United Nations Charter enjoins the Security Council to support these initiatives. The fact that these initiatives are being taken in the spirit of Africans taking responsibility for the stability of their own region is itself an important development which must be encouraged.”

    2003-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4739 (2003) · source

  6. “Increasingly we are seeing the deliberate mobilization of African resources for use in dousing the flames of conflict which afflict such countries as Burundi, the Sudan, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. As the Security Council is aware, the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - whom the opportunity for nation-building, much needed since the 1960s, had eluded - have finally, through dialogue, agreed on a vision of the kind of society they want to build for themselves. They have also agreed on the modalities to be used in the building of such a society. The agreements signed recently have only started the country on what will prove to be a long journey towards lasting peace and sustainable development. The signatories to these agreements understand that the burden will become lighter only when shared.”

    2003-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4739 (2003) · source

  7. “Indeed, warlords at the head of belligerent organizations have tended to use the disorder which ensues from such conflicts to gain disproportionate access to the limited resources of their respective countries. In recent times, we have seen the African Union working in earnest to bring to fruition the vision of its predecessor, the Organization of African Unity (OAU). In 1993, the OAU, at a meeting of heads of State and Government held in Egypt, adopted the Cairo Declaration on the Establishment of a Mechanism for Conflict Prevention, Management and Resolution. In 2002, the African Union agreed to establish a Peace and Security Council.”

    2003-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4739 (2003) · source

  8. “As members of the Council and members of regional organizations, we must approach this task as one that goes to the heart of our shared raison d'etre: the unshakable responsibility we bear for peace and security in the world - especially the Security Council, which has the mandate for international peace and security. As participants are aware, one of the challenges for post-colonial Africa has been the occasional outbreak of violent conflicts in various parts of the continent - so much so that many are unable to imagine an Africa without serious problems. Moral exhortations have often failed to dissuade the perpetrators of this scourge of violent conflicts. This is because such conflicts are caused by lack of access to resources.”

    2003-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4739 (2003) · source

  9. “Mr. Mufamadi: Allow me to congratulate Mexico, both for its assumption of the presidency of the Security Council and for creating this opportunity for the Council to engage in dialogue with regional representatives on a theme of such great importance. As President of the Council, Sir, you succeed Guinea, which presided over the Council at a defining moment in the life of the Council. The theme of our dialogue assumes that we are dealing with a situation in which new factors have emerged, mandating that we rethink the propriety of current strategies for the maintenance of peace and security in the world.”

    2003-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4739 (2003) · source