YouSaid · the spoken record

Mukongo N Gay

lines on the record
23
first
2001-08-30
most recent
2001-08-30
sittings or episodes
1
sources
un-security-council

Every line below is reproduced as it was said and linked to the record it came from. Nothing here is summarised or generated. Directory · Search · Corrections

  1. “As our head of State, His Excellency Major-General Joseph Kabila, said at the fifty-seventh session of the Commission on Human Rights, in Geneva, it is still possible for us to build a better world for the traumatized peoples of the Great Lakes region. Our meagre resources should be used for the development of our countries and for the well-being of our peoples, not for waging war.”

    2001-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4361 (2001) · source

  2. “Therefore, I call upon the Council to take note of the determination that was clearly expressed at the end of the Gaborone meeting by the representatives of all parties to the inter- Congolese political negotiations, who spoke of the urgent need for foreign forces to withdraw from the territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They unanimously launched an urgent appeal to the United Nations to speed up the withdrawal process in order to enable the Congolese to work to rebuild their country. My country has made good-neighbourliness one of the guiding principles of its foreign policy, and we intend to live in peace with our neighbours.”

    2001-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4361 (2001) · source

  3. “In the light of the progress made in the political inter-Congolese negotiations - all our hopes now being pinned on 15 October - and with a View to implementing the promising plans worked out by the Political Committee for the total withdrawal of all foreign forces from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, my Government believes that launching phase III of MONUC's deployment should not be further delayed. This was the thrust of the joint appeal made recently in Windhoek by President Joseph Kabila, of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and President Sam Nujoma, of Namibia, calling on MONUC to speed up its deployment. In conclusion, I should like to reiterate the commitment of my Government to comply with the Lusaka Ceasefire Agreement as well as with all relevant resolutions of the Security Council on the situation in my country.”

    2001-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4361 (2001) · source

  4. “With regard to the economic aspects of the situation, my Government welcomes the initiative taken by the Security Council to call for the Bretton Woods institutions to carry out 40 quick-impact projects in areas where contingents of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) have been deployed. This is a matter of urgency. Ultimately, however, the Council will have to discuss how to include appropriate post-conflict management of the current crisis in plans for the return of lasting peace.”

    2001-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4361 (2001) · source

  5. “My Government, which has always given its full cooperation to opening up humanitarian corridors, also calls upon the Council to step up pressure on those who continue to impede the work of humanitarian organizations, so as to improve the access of humanitarian workers to heretofore largely inaccessible regions and to allow for the distribution of assistance and the counting of displaced people within each province. It will also be necessary to open up humanitarian corridors to restore commercial links between Kinshasa and the eastern and northern provinces, in accordance with the plan of the Food and Agriculture Organization.”

    2001-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4361 (2001) · source

  6. “Over 2 million people have become internally displaced, most of them being children separated from their families. Over 16 million people are in desperate need of food aid, while 18.5 million people lack access to medical services. Given this situation, my Government calls upon the Security Council to take into account the very relevant recommendations made recently by the non- governmental groups Oxfam, Save the Children and Christian Aid.”

    2001-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4361 (2001) · source

  7. “Given these repeated offences by the aggressor countries, immediate withdrawal from the territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is an indispensable condition for the restoration of peace and the improvement the human rights situation in that part of the country. With regard to humanitarian matters, all the reports made by humanitarian agencies about the Congo agree that the current conflict has caused what the Prime Minister of Belgium refers to as one of the worst humanitarian disasters the world has ever seen. Three years of war have pushed my country down to the one-hundred and fifty-second place out of the 174 countries surveyed in the United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Index. That means we have dropped 12 places. The consequences of that situation are well known. Over 2.5 million people have died.”

    2001-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4361 (2001) · source

  8. “According to a press release from the non-governmental organization SOS droits de l'homme en catastrophe, which operates in South Kivu, a total of nine people were summarily executed between 2 and 3 August 2001 by elements of the Rwandan Patriotic Army in the city of Uvira. Between January and July of this year 108 people were killed in that city by Rwandan troops. Most of them were young people between the ages of 20 and 30 years of age, but children as young as three were also killed. A total of 85 young Congolese persons were recently arrested by elements of the Rwandan Army. That figure includes the disappearances of 47 persons from Buriba and 38 from Kiliba, in North Kivu. According to the Missionary Service News Agency (MISNA), they were deported to Rwanda.”

    2001-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4361 (2001) · source

  9. “With regard to human rights, the points made by Special Rapporteur Roberto Garreton after his recent visit to the country are still relevant. That is particularly the case with regard to his conclusion that progress has been made by the Government in the area of human rights. Nevertheless, he was not wrong in deploring the situation in the territories under occupation, where killings are still taking place- killings he ascribes to the Congolese rebels and their Rwandan and Ugandan allies. At a time when many people were focussing on Gaborone, where the preparatory work for the inter- Congolese dialogue took place, the machine to exterminate the Congolese people, guided by the aggressor countries, has not stopped functioning. Massacres, kidnappings and deportations of Congolese people have continued apace.”

    2001-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4361 (2001) · source

  10. “I can assure the Council that my Government will not allow its national territory to serve as a base for launching operations to destabilize neighbouring countries with which it lives amicably. I would therefore like to announce to the Council today that in a few days my country, which takes seriously the security demands of Rwanda, will be calling in the ambassadors and members of the diplomatic corps accredited to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to announce to them the necessary cantonment measures we have undertaken in the framework of the plans for disarmament, demobilization, reintegration and resettlement or repatriation (DDRRR). We will in due course invite the United Nations and the Security Council to certify this and to help us implement the DDRRR measures proposed under the Lusaka Ceasefire Agreement.”

    2001-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4361 (2001) · source

  11. “With regard to the security concerns put forth by the aggressor countries, my Government has opted to deprive those countries of all diversionary tactics aimed at prolonging the occupation of the territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and at justifying the continuation of the hostilities, which make possible the illicit plunder and exploitation of the natural resources and other riches of our country. It is for that reason that, although it has been attacked in flagrant violation of international law and the Charter of the United Nations, my country reiterates its willingness peacefully and conclusively to resolve the conflict stemming from the three aggressor countries. My country has no hidden agenda vis-a-vis the aggressor countries.”

    2001-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4361 (2001) · source

  12. “In addition, the rules of procedure for the national dialogue, the agenda, the declaration on the withdrawal of foreign troops and the Republican Pact were also concluded. It is now up to the Security Council to support this will and to take this opportunity to secure the immediate, unconditional, total and final withdrawal of Rwandan, Ugandan, Burundian and other occupying forces from the territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. That should be done in conformity with the order to withdraw contained in resolution 1304 (2000), and should make it possible for the sons and daughters of the country to air wash dirty linen in private.”

    2001-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4361 (2001) · source

  13. “As announced by my Foreign Minister, Mr. Leonard She Okitundu, at a press conference held in Kinshasa on Monday, 27 August 2001, generally speaking one can deduce from the pre-dialogue work done at Gaborone that there is a clear desire to return to peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo- beginning with the withdrawal of foreign troops. On can also deduce an emotional, patriotic appeal for unity, national concord and reconciliation among all of the sons and daughters of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - conditions that would ultimately lead to the holding of free, transparent and democratic elections. The work done at Gaborone did indeed produce encouraging and significant results, including the setting of 15 October as the date for the commencement of dialogue at Addis Ababa.”

    2001-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4361 (2001) · source

  14. “The preparatory meeting for the inter-Congolese dialogue, whose work ended last Friday, attests to the ardent desire of a people for peace and for progress towards national reconciliation and a culture of democratic values that will allow them to begin work on the daunting task of national reconstruction while all along respecting political diversity, human rights and fundamental freedoms. As the Council is aware, the open-mindedness demonstrated by my country since the coming to power of the President of the Republic, Major-General Joseph Kabila, has been for all the Congolese people an indication of renewed confidence among all the parties. My Government's presence at the Gaborone meeting was proof, if any were needed, of our determination to seriously consider the question of the inter-Congolese dialogue.”

    2001-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4361 (2001) · source

  15. “My Government believes that now is the ideal time for the Security Council to fully assume its responsibilities and to translate into action its many resolutions on the situation in my country, particularly by ordering the quick launching of phase III of the deployment of MONUC, which must accompany the withdrawal of troops of aggression and other foreign forces from the territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Throughout the whole of the territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - from Goma to Matadi, from Gbadolite to Lubumbashi, from Ikela to Kikwit, from Mbuji-Mayi to Yangambi and from Kinshasa to Kisangani - the Congolese people cherish the unity, independence and national sovereignty of their country. They are weary of the effects of a futile and pointless war of aggression that was imposed on them by surprise.”

    2001-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4361 (2001) · source

  16. “Moreover, my delegation notes with regret that despite the commitment made at the eleventh session of the Political Committee, one of the parties has still not completed its redeployment and disengagement along the new defensive positions as defined by the Harare subplans, in violation of resolution 1341 (2001) and 1355 (2001) of the Council. This has prevented my Government from undertaking its responsibilities, particularly in the establishment of a civil administration in the areas to be evacuated adjacent to the disengagement line. This deliberate stalling has held up the complete implementation of phase II of MONUC's deployment, while in accordance with the spirit of the Lusaka Agreement, the Congolese people is already well along the path of dialogue.”

    2001-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4361 (2001) · source

  17. “There is especially the persistent refusal of the Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie-Goma (RCD-Goma) to demilitarize the city of Kisangani, despite the many resolutions of the Council urging it to do so. It is the Council's responsibility to take note of this refusal and to impose on RCD-Goma the measures prescribed in previous resolutions. As a prime witness of the martyrdom and the suffering of the Congolese people, and as a political and physical symbol of renewal and the restoration of the dignity of an entire people, Kisangani must be completely demilitarized in order to eliminate the effects of the profound trauma suffered by the people since the serious clashes in the streets of the city between the Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA) and the Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF).”

    2001-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4361 (2001) · source

  18. “You also have recourse to the basic principles of the San Francisco Declaration of 26 June 1945, which are the very basis of the United Nations Charter and introduce the peoples of the entire world to the rule of international law by upholding the respect due to the dignity of human beings, the protection of freedoms, the affirmation of equality, independence and the sovereignty of States. Today, more than every before, the need to demilitarize the city of Kisangani is a priority. My delegation notes with surprise that it is precisely now, when the Congolese people most greatly aspire to peace, that certain individuals have chosen to deliberately delay the peace process in my country.”

    2001-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4361 (2001) · source

  19. “Allow me to remind you that the eyes of the international community are now upon you. You are called on to meet a great challenge, that of exercising the prerogatives of the United Nations Charter to restore the rights of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and its people, which have been abused by three years of barbaric and pointless aggression. You are accordingly obliged to act in keeping with all your relevant resolutions, from resolution 1234 (1999) of 9 April 1999 through resolution 1335 (2001) of 15 June 2001.”

    2001-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4361 (2001) · source

  20. “Amos Namanga Ngongi. I am sure that upon taking over his duties, he will diligently work for the scrupulous application of the various resolutions and recommendations of the Security Council and for a massive, rapid and complete deployment of MONUC under phase III of the operation, thereby justifying the confidence the Secretary-General has placed in him and responding to the well-known expectations of the Congolese people. I also wish to congratulate the facilitator Sir Ketumile Masire for the success of the Gaborone meeting. As for the members of the Council, everyone is aware that the involvement of the Council and the international community in the peace efforts in my country has enabled several advances. However, it must also be recognized that the Council could have done better.”

    2001-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4361 (2001) · source

  21. “This honour is due particularly to Secretary- General Kofi Annan, who has personally intervened in relations with donor and troop-contributing countries and with the African Union in their tireless efforts towards peace in my country. The present moment is also an opportunity to pay well-deserved tribute to Ambassador Kamel Morjane, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. His leadership at the head of MONUC was crowned with success after successfully dealing with several turbulent areas, especially during the deployment of military liaison officers in the rear of the various military headquarters and during the deployment of the military observers while carrying out phase II of MONUC. On behalf of my Government, I welcome the arrival at the head of MONUC of its new leader, Mr.”

    2001-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4361 (2001) · source

  22. “Since we are all eagerly awaiting the launching of phase III of the deployment of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC), I would like to take this opportunity in addressing the Council today to convey the encouragement of my delegation and of the entire Congolese people to those whose dedication to the cause of peace has allowed the opening of a real window of opportunity in the peace process in my country. This window of opportunity, unless it is closed, will enable us to see in the very near future the end of a war that has torn my country apart for more than three years.”

    2001-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4361 (2001) · source

  23. “Mr. Mukongo N gay (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (spoke in French): Mr. President, at a time when your presidency of the Security Council is reaching its end, I have the pleasant duty to convey to you my heartfelt congratulations and say how very much my delegation admires the excellent quality of the work you have accomplished during the deliberations of the Security Council during the month of August. I would also like to congratulate the Permanent Representative of China, your predecessor, for having successfully guided the discussion of very complex items before the Council in July.”

    2001-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4361 (2001) · source