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  1. “We have learned the value of sharing, the value of communities finding and consciously forging ways to promote living side by side in peace and mutual respect. It is these initiatives that this joint meeting needs to recognize; it needs to enhance mechanisms to help nurture and enhance long- lasting peace and stability. In conclusion, I express the hope that the outcome of this meeting will be a firm and clear mechanism to strengthen the mechanisms for institutionalizing relations between the United Nations and regional organizations, particularly the African Union, in the crucial areas of conflict resolution and peacekeeping. Once again, an opportunity is before us to translate our many challenges and opportunities into a shared destiny of peace, security and prosperity for all.”

    2008-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5868Resumption1 (2008) · source

  2. “This poses a serious threat to peace and security, and we urge the Security Council and regional organizations to discourage and deal with the threat. Today in Rwanda we face a situation where, ironically, those who stopped the 1994 genocide are being labelled as perpetrators by those seeking to manipulate the international system; these allegations are based on misinformation provided by perpetrators still at large or by their sympathizers. Our painful experience in Rwanda taught us that peace comes at a huge price. There can be no peace without reconciliation and without recognition of the rights and interests of all people, including the right of States to exist and the right of self-determination. We have learned that no community's rights can or should supersede another's.”

    2008-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5868Resumption1 (2008) · source

  3. “My delegation therefore welcomes the recent adoption by the Security Council of resolution 1804 (2008), which aims to address the threat posed by those forces not only to Rwanda but also to the entire Great Lakes region. Any delay in the response to this threat undermines us all. It allows the international supporters of those forces to increase their activities of destabilization, which are manifested in the current blatant activities and international conferences aimed at genocide denial. Genocide denial, as a last stage of the implementation of the genocidal ideology, is a formidable threat to peace and security, as it energizes perpetration. We all need to watch out for masked political manoeuvres aimed at undermining peace and stability.”

    2008-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5868Resumption1 (2008) · source

  4. “Rwanda is happy to contribute to the promotion of international peace and security through its military and police contributions to United Nations and African Union peacekeeping missions in the Sudan, Liberia, cote d'Ivoire, the Comoros and Haiti. We are committed to continuing these contributions for as long as they are required, and as our meagre financial resources permit. We are committed to this quest for a working partnership to spread peace because, more than anybody else, we have tasted the lack of peace and security, and we know what the lack of peace means for a country and a region. The failure to address the threat posed by genocidal forces such as the members of the former Rwandan Armed Forces and Interahamwe, also known as the Forces de'mocratiques de liberation du Rwanda, has perpetuated conflict in the Great Lakes region.”

    2008-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5868Resumption1 (2008) · source

  5. “Thirdly, as most African nations willing to contribute to United Nations peacekeeping operations do not have the matching resources, we feel that, whenever regional organizations undertake peace and security roles, the United Nations should work out ways to immediately prepare light and heavy support packages to ease the transition from operations by regional organizations to United Nations operations, in order to avoid the costly delays that have plagued some of the missions in the region, such as those in Somalia and Darfur. Consider how much the former African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) - the current African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) - would have been able to achieve with better mobility, better logistics and well-paid, well-fed forces provided with proper health care.”

    2008-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5868Resumption1 (2008) · source

  6. “These measures include the following. First, AU peace and security measures taken to resolve conflicts should be considered pivotal and should be reinforced and supported by the Security Council. Secondly, we feel that the United Nations should work on more predictable ways to fund peacekeeping operations. More reliable funding should be considered through assessed contributions by Member States, because we find that these resources are more predictable and therefore facilitate better planning and contribute to greater efficiency. Current fundraising measures need to be reviewed.”

    2008-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5868Resumption1 (2008) · source

  7. “Greater participation by regional organizations in conflict resolution needs to be tapped more and more, given the fact that those regional organizations have greater proximity to conflict areas and a better appreciation of the political and cultural issues. Therefore, it is urgent to institutionalize relations between the United Nations and regional organizations, particularly the African Union, in the areas of conflict resolution and peacekeeping by building the AU's capacity to implement initiatives that are in fact possible but that seem impossible at current resource levels. My delegation therefore wishes to propose, inter alia, the following measures, some of which have already been mentioned by other delegations. We wish also to support all the proposals set out in the draft resolution before the Council.”

    2008-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5868Resumption1 (2008) · source

  8. “AU member countries are capable of raising sizable numbers of professional military and police personnel for peacekeeping, but they are still largely incapable of properly equipping them. The United Nations therefore needs to agree to effectively maintain its central role of sustaining peacekeeping forces in conflict areas by equipping them effectively and by making available the logistical support they need to perform their duties. In our view, this meeting offers us an opportunity to forge a greater mutual partnership to address regional conflicts by putting in place a joint team from both organizations to work together to deal with practical issues that have hampered our effectiveness in the past. We are grateful that this has been provided for in the draft resolution before the Council.”

    2008-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5868Resumption1 (2008) · source

  9. “What we need to do is direct our efforts towards creating a mechanism that will address effective and efficient coordination of both organizations in order to deliver peace and security where it is needed most: in conflict areas. AU member countries have taken up their responsibility. They have shown goodwill and a readiness and willingness to actively engage in peacekeeping and security maintenance, mainly on the African continent but also in other parts of the world. What we expect from the Security Council, which is mandated by the Charter to maintain international peace and security, is the realistic, timely and predictable provision of adequate resources to accomplish those missions. Timely intervention has been hampered by the inefficient provision of resources, which in turn leads to missions being ineffective.”

    2008-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5868Resumption1 (2008) · source

  10. “The Rwandan delegation applauds the initiative of President Mbeki of South Africa to strengthen the relationship between the United Nations and regional organizations, in particular the African Union (AU), in the maintenance of peace and international security. More particularly, it could not have come at a more appropriate time than at this moment, when people all over the world are remembering the over 1 million Rwandans who lost their lives 14 years ago in circumstances that could have been prevented or halted later on. This forum thus offers us an opportunity to review mechanisms by which we can prevent and effectively intervene in future conflicts in Africa and other parts of the world with greater coherence and effectiveness.”

    2008-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5868Resumption1 (2008) · source