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Ndaruzaniye

lines on the record: 27
first: 1998-06-29
most recent: 1999-03-19
sittings or episodes: 2
sources: un-security-council

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“Perhaps Africa's traditional talent for settling conflicts and resolving difficulties might help us out in the process of establishing the appropriate modern mechanisms to safeguard peace and security in our countries and throughout the world.”
1999-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3987Resumption1 (1999) · source
“These problems include the forcible displacement of persons within and outside countries, the unlawful movement of arms throughout the region, distinguishing between combatants and unarmed civilians, the increase in the number of abandoned children, and the proliferation of militias with various and divergent purposes, among others. Along with dialogue among the protagonists with a view to putting an end to the war and taking the path of a peaceful solution to the conflict, we must give serious consideration to these new phenomena in order to help States establish adequate machinery to deal with these problems. I would like to express support, on behalf of my Government, for the serious consideration that Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the Security Council have undertaken to give to the resolution of conflicts in Africa.”
1999-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3987Resumption1 (1999) · source
“I should like also to call upon the United Nations and the international community to take additional and complementary steps in areas where regional initiatives will have limitations, especially in material and organizational terms. While the protagonists are responsible for the outbreak of the conflict, they also hold the key to the solution because they know its root causes better than anyone. Only dialogue at a negotiating table can reduce tensions initially and later lay the foundations for a peaceful solution to the conflict. New problems stemming from the complexity of war require first and foremost the attention of States and then that of the international community.”
1999-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3987Resumption1 (1999) · source
“For security to prevail, we necessarily have to stop crime, because the instability of a neighbour not only does not guarantee security for oneself but can also be a persistent source of destabilization in the shared region. We must create or restore State or inter-State mechanisms in order to achieve the common objective of peace and stability in the region, and here the support of the international community is necessary. The achievement of these goals requires a cooperation that should be dictated not by a state of war but rather by a constant quest for peaceful coexistence among States and peoples. In conclusion, I should like to reaffirm the support of the Government of Burundi for regional initiatives as well as those taken by the OAU for a peaceful solution to the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.”
1999-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3987Resumption1 (1999) · source
“My delegation has taken due note of that document and of the step taken with the Security Council. Nevertheless, it seems to us that it would have been fairer and more constructive to submit a complete report on human rights violations in his country rather than just adding to the list of external aggressors, because the deep- seated conflict that is raging in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is of an internal nature, and its lasting solution depends to a great extent on the Congolese people themselves. Today's topic should orient us towards an approach of peace, of security for all, of dialogue for peace. Unfortunately, other forces are developing an approach that glorifies crime, and the media, through modern technology, are disseminating an approach of hate. The approach of peace must win out over that of hate and violence.”
1999-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3987Resumption1 (1999) · source
“Bands of criminals do not hesitate to proclaim themselves heroes of liberation beyond their borders, and funds are set up to fuel these networks of illicit arms traffic, which then foment continual cross-border wars in the region. The conclusions of the reports in documents S/1998/777 and S/ 1998/ 1096 of the United Nations International Commission of Inquiry on the movements of arms and of armed groups or genocidal militias in the Great Lakes region are eloquent on the subject, and deserve the close attention of the Security Council so that peace and security can be restored in that part of the world. The Congolese Minister for Human Rights referred us to document S/ 1999/205 on human rights violations in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which he submitted to the Security Council.”
1999-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3987Resumption1 (1999) · source
“As the President of the Republic of Burundi stated to the General Assembly at its fifty-third session, we are concerned about the persistence of a way of thinking that sets people against each other on the basis of ethnicity and about the use in the region of sinister militias and rebels. President Buyoya also drew the attention of all the parties to the conflict to the fact that they should not pursue that path, because of the great risk of conflagration in the region at large. Unfortunately, in that part of the world entire defeated armies and militias of all types are moving about throughout the region, making short-lived alliances here and there that spread terror and propagate the same ideology of extermination and genocide.”
1999-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3987Resumption1 (1999) · source
“The ideology of extermination and genocide, which in Rwanda led to the greatest genocide of the late twentieth century, is, unfortunately, still spreading throughout the region. While the violence of war scares all of us, verbal violence gives rise to a war mentality and an ideology of violence, against which we should all fight to our last breath. While earnestly calling for an immediate cessation of armed hostilities and for the opening of dialogue between the parties directly or indirectly concerned in this conflict, it is just as necessary and urgent to initiate throughout the Great Lakes region a genuine culture of peace that will restore the universal values of human rights.”
1999-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3987Resumption1 (1999) · source
“We are encouraged by what we have heard: that all the parties are increasingly resolved to adopt such an approach in order to resolve the conflict that concerns all of us taking part in this discussion. I should like to reaffirm that, if requested to do so, the Government of Burundi will make its full contribution and provide assistance to enable that approach to triumph so that peace can be consolidated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in the entire Great Lakes region. For decades, the Great Lakes region of Africa has been subjected to almost chronic instability. Cyclical insecurity has produced refugee flows and a whole series of problems that innocent people have been enduring for generations.”
1999-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3987Resumption1 (1999) · source
“Secondly, I should like to commend you, Sir, for the excellent approach you have taken to the subject: discussing a peaceful way of resolving the conflict that is tearing apart the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as the entire Great Lakes region. If all those involved and all those who have spoken share the same determination to find a peaceful way to resolve this conflict, my delegation has no doubt that the bases for a lasting resolution of this conflict will be established in order to block the possibility of further hostilities. My Government is convinced that only a peaceful approach and dialogue can initiate a lasting solution to any armed or non-armed conflict.”
1999-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3987Resumption1 (1999) · source
“Mr. Ndaruzaniye (Burundi) (interpretation from French): It is an honour and a privilege for me and my delegation to be invited to the Council table to convey my Government's modest contribution to our joint consideration of a peaceful solution to the conflict that is tearing apart the Democratic Republic of the Congo. At the outset, I should like to thank and congratulate you, Mr. President. I should like first to thank you and, through you, the entire Security Council, for opening this discussion to delegations that, though not members of the Security Council, are equally dedicated to a peaceful resolution of the conflict.”
1999-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3987Resumption1 (1999) · source
“This action must include various forms of assistance to war orphans; the rehabilitation of children traumatized by conflict experiences, such as the physically and mentally handicapped; and help for children to gain access to primary health care and elementary education. In this way they will be able to look forward to their rightful social reintegration and thus feel like full citizens of their nations. That is why we believe that Governments and the international community should mobilize to create a special fund to assist and rehabilitate child victims and survivors of armed conflict. In conclusion, my delegation fully supports the draft presidential statement of the Security Council on the situation of children in armed conflict.”
1998-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3896 (1998) · source
“We hope that our neighbouring countries will frankly acknowledge the political progress achieved in my country towards peace and that they will not take it upon themselves to impede the Burundi peace process by maintaining an illegal embargo that is literally destroying children who are already victims of a war for which they are not at all responsible. In conclusion, I wish to draw the attention of the international community to its role, and that of Governments, in condemning and suppressing all criminal acts against children. Specific action must be initiated to help those children who still have a chance to live.”
1998-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3896 (1998) · source
“We do not doubt the goodwill of neighbouring countries in their efforts to help Burundi restore peace, but the means adopted - economic sanctions - may betray their good intentions by decimating children, pregnant women, the elderly and other vulnerable populations. As a result of disruption in international trade law following the illegal imposition of economic sanctions against my country, the negative economic repercussions of organized smuggling have put a stranglehold on a landlocked country in need of relief from the war that has ravaged it for five years. On behalf of my Government, I would like to thank the Security Council and you, Mr. President, for your statement of 25 June 1998 on the situation in Burundi.”
1998-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3896 (1998) · source
“Institutions of transition under the new constitutional act are in place, and on 21 June in Arusha, Tanzania, all the parties to the conflict signed a joint declaration committing themselves to far-reaching political negotiations to resolve the Burundi conflict through dialogue, agreement and the rejection of violence. During this same period, despite considerable progress in the search for peace, my country was subjected to a total economic embargo by neighbouring States. This has had a particularly dire effect on children, especially the youngest. Child war survivors now suffer a total lack of school materials, vaccines, clothing and food, as if destiny itself were dooming them to the genocide from which many had miraculously escaped.”
1998-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3896 (1998) · source
“This law strengthens the commitment of my Government, which has ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Geneva Convention and its Additional Protocols. Our desire is that the international community deal more with this serious problem of the adoption of children in situations of war. In July 1996, there were political changes aimed at putting an end to the protracted fratricidal warfare. We are pleased to note today the progress achieved by the Burundi people in the search for peace over the past two years. A political platform and a constitutional act of transition resulting from a political partnership between the Government and the National Assembly have been set up.”
1998-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3896 (1998) · source
“Armed groups have destroyed primary schools to force children to follow them into combat. Hospitals and dispensaries have been destroyed, thus depriving the surviving children of primary health care. A misfortune never comes alone. Under the guise of humanitarian assistance, benefiting from the absence of appropriate legislation and the misery of these children, some organizations have established international systems of adopting children in dire straits, depriving them of their national identity, sometimes without their consent. That is why my Government has just proposed to the National Assembly a new law on national and international adoption, which would give maximum protection for the rights of children and their parents.”
1998-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3896 (1998) · source
“The establishment of ad hoc tribunals in no way creates inconsistencies in the elaboration and the application of international criminal law; for we believe that international criminal law must adapt itself in order to deal with new complications of crimes of international scope, and we cannot encourage the impunity of crimes while awaiting a political and academic debate that could redress any possible inconsistency in the application of international criminal law. The civil war has continued to exacerbate the plight of children in my country. War survivors have not been able to reunite with their families, and in the displacement camps it is not unusual for humanitarian agencies to find, for reasons of practical organization, regrouped families whose heads of household are no older than 12 years.”
1998-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3896 (1998) · source
“At any rate, my Government maintains that the future international criminal court will have to recognize these crimes perpetrated against children. But it would be cynical if the current exercise pertaining to the international criminal court were to remain a forum for academic debate for years without the victims of genocide and other crimes against humanity receiving proper and equitable justice. It is for this reason that while awaiting the effective establishment of an international criminal court, ad hoc tribunals will have to operate wherever evil shows its face.”
1998-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3896 (1998) · source
“My Government maintains that these acts of genocide must face appropriate judgment at the national and the international level. That is why, in the light of the conclusions of a United Nations international inquiry duly mandated by the Security Council, my Government has requested the establishment of an international criminal tribunal for Burundi in order to prosecute the perpetrators of these crimes of genocide if national courts cannot reach them. Unfortunately, some of these criminals travel freely throughout the world, sometimes under the protection of those who supported and encouraged the hate media that covered up their atrocities, assuring the perpetrators the impunity their crimes do not deserve.”
1998-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3896 (1998) · source
“The use of rape, sometimes by groups, as a means of humiliating women and girl children already condemned to die solely because of their ethnicity was observed in my country in several places during the three weeks of genocide. Dogs were unleashed to hunt down children hiding in the brush, and some men participated in a hunt for human beings like themselves, but upon whom they deliberately inflicted a beastly death. Other innocent children were eyewitnesses to these atrocities, and they continue to wander about without appropriate assistance, suffering from the after-effects of the psychological shock of seeing their friends being subjected to inhuman treatment for a crime they simply cannot understand - merely that of ethnic and/or political affiliation.”
1998-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3896 (1998) · source
“But at the same time, in various locations, children were killed one after the other by a political school administration that was responsible for protecting them. This practice of ideological genocide has unfortunately extended to other countries in the Great Lakes region, and this has now become a very sad reality. Not more than a month ago, in a neighbouring country, a school bus was the target of armed groups, and in another, more than 80 students were burned while sleeping inside their school. Children are no longer only Victims of conflicts, but they are the target of the ideological genocide that is developing in the Great Lakes region.”
1998-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3896 (1998) · source
“My testimony will deal first of all with children in the Burundi genocide and the armed conflict that prolonged it, and children under the economic embargo imposed on my country by neighbouring countries for the last two years. In October 1993 the Burundi crisis erupted through two simultaneous events: the assassination of the head of State and the organization of a genocide against a part of the population, which in only three weeks resulted in a death toll of over 100,000 people killed solely because of their ethnicity and/or political affiliation. Children, selected and arrested by their teachers, were condemned to be burned at the stake by the very people whose job it was to protect them. The best-known case is that of the high school in Kibimba where on 21 October 1993 nearly 100 pupils were burned alive by their school principal.”
1998-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3896 (1998) · source
“In addressing my delegation's congratulations to the Security Council for having organized this discussion under your presidency, Sir, I was not merely complying with the customary courtesy; this subject is of capital importance for the future of all humankind. My country, Burundi, is gradually emerging from a fratricidal war that has lasted for five years. My statement will serve as testimony to the new atrocities that children suffer in war, and I am sure that in other lands armed conflicts have not spared them. Not only are national and international legal instruments insufficient to protect the children, but these instruments are tossed aside, replaced by the law of the jungle, and only those most blessed by nature survive.”
1998-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3896 (1998) · source
“But unfortunately, through the nefarious acts of human beings our world is often plunged into wars, one more horrible than the next, thus eroding all hope, even hope of survival, for those to whom we would wish to bequeath a better world: the children. However, we are duty-bound to educate children in the values of humanity and to create an environment conducive to a sound assimilation of these values in the hope that they will build a more peaceful and prosperous world of tomorrow. It is up to all of us. It is our responsibility, and future generations will judge us on our decisions to give them a brighter future.”
1998-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3896 (1998) · source
“I would first of all like to take this opportunity to express my delegation's congratulations to you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council and for your outstanding stewardship of its work in the month of June, as well as to the Security Council, which decided to hold this debate on children and armed conflict at such a high level of responsibility within the United Nations. We welcome the work of Ms. Graca Machel and her report on the plight of children in armed conflict, and we fully support the work of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Mr. Olara Otunnu, who gave us a very clear and comprehensive introduction to this problem this morning. Children are the humankind of tomorrow and the future of the world, which everyone wants to be better.”
1998-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3896 (1998) · source
“Mr. Ndaruzaniye (Burundi) (interpretation from French): At the outset, my delegation would like to associate itself with the statements made by the representative of the African Group and other speakers and to express our condolences to the families, to the United Nations and to the various Governments of those who tragically lost their lives along with Maitre Alioune Blondin Beye. It is a great honour for my delegation and for me personally to participate in this public debate of the Security Council on the issue of children and armed conflict. This is a subject of great importance for the future of humanity.”
1998-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3896 (1998) · source