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Ndombasi

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2000-06-15
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2000-06-15
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  1. “We call on all to ensure that this is handled boldly by, for example, linking phases II and III, which I hope are soon to follow, in order to hasten the process. The fact is that we are in a hurry.”

    2000-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4156 (2000) · source

  2. “The Council must implement its own resolutions so that this remarkable progress, unprecedented in its boldness and courage, can be exploited to hasten the end of the war and the restoration of stability. That being our final aim, let us turn water into electricity, as Paul Eluard put it, and make each man - even the man to my right - our brother. That is the aim of the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We expect the Council's decisions to speed up that process. I assure members that my Government is committed to making inter-Congolese dialogue easier - to facilitating facilitation and creating conditions conducive to calm, efficient work undertaken in secure and safe conditions by the United Nations forces.”

    2000-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4156 (2000) · source

  3. “He knows that he can come to my office whenever he wants and that we have devised an entire system to facilitate contacts between ourselves and MONUC. We have established a general government bureau for MONUC affairs. The commissioner, Mr. Ntuaremba, is here with me. The bureaucratic apparatus may create occasional difficulties, but we are determined to solve any that may arise as we deal with the Security Council. I would urge the Council to ensure that its own resolutions - adopted with unanimity one after the other, which is rare in itself - support the recent progress made by our brother Mr. Kofi Annan, who recently emerged from an atmosphere similar to that described by Conor Cruise O'Brien in his book To Katanga and Back.”

    2000-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4156 (2000) · source

  4. “When intolerable and repeated massacres occurred in parts of our country not under our control, our people were compelled to express their profound outrage at the incompetence of the United Nations forces and their inability to launch such an operation. I know that some rocks have been hurled at the United Nations building, but I do not believe that Mr. Morjane is ready to offer himself as a target for those directed at Mr. Bernard Kouchner. We will see to it that such incidents do not recur, though we do understand how young students, in a city of 5 million that is up in arms and outraged, might throw some stones - Congolese stones, not Kosovar. I give Mr. Morjane my word that he can work in complete freedom and in full safety and security.”

    2000-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4156 (2000) · source

  5. “I hope this is done soon, contrary to prior experience, when it took a long time to fill the post of facilitator, through no fault of our own but as a result of repeated obstructions from other sides. We are prepared to work with the new embodiment of facilitator. Let me repeat that we are for facilitation and the implementation of the Lusaka Agreement. So far as we are concerned, the Security Council's horizons are crisscrossed with references guiding its actions. These are, in addition to the Lusaka Agreement, which we have signed, the resolutions of the Security Council and the United Nations Charter - the trinity of our Bible. That is how we see it. In conclusion, let me reassure the Council about MONUC, which we summoned to our country.”

    2000-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4156 (2000) · source

  6. “My Government has reasons for believing that the current embodiment of that facilitation is no longer appropriate to the progress of the operation. We are in favour of facilitation. We have already asked the Organization of African Unity to appoint someone else who, with the consent of the parties, can facilitate dialogue among all Congolese. Let me stress that, in the midst of all this, we are a sovereign Government that is continuing to govern. It may happen that a lack of prior coordination or synchronicity between one particular facilitator and our sovereign decisions leads to contradictions. Let me assure the Council, however, that we favour facilitation. We feel that, with respect to ensuring that the role of facilitator is filled, the ball is in the United Nations court.”

    2000-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4156 (2000) · source

  7. “Of course, when the veil that shrouds the future is torn open, it will be easy to judge, but so long as the present remains blind, no one can forecast with precision what is going to happen. That is why the Lusaka Agreement was signed and only later did it become imperative for the dates on the timetable to be modified, although the urgency of implementation was never lessened. Let me repeat: we are in favour of the Lusaka Agreement and will give our all to ensure that its implementation is facilitated. My Government wants inter-Congolese dialogue to be facilitated. Of course, such facilitation is embodied in one person whom the Organization of African Unity has appointed and who has won the agreement of all parties.”

    2000-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4156 (2000) · source

  8. “It is simply something designed to avoid having something unfortunate happen to these people who we need, as I said a little while ago, to get us out of this business, to put an end to the war and for us to be able to resume national reconstruction. I must also provide assurances to the effect that the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo negotiated, through me personally, the Lusaka Accords and President Kabila himself signed them. We are in favour of the Lusaka Agreement and call for its full implementation, even if, for example, the timetable was set inconsistently with provisions of the Agreement. We did not exploit that inconsistency to call the Agreement itself into question. We are in favour of the implementation of the Lusaka Agreement. Everyone should clearly understand that.”

    2000-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4156 (2000) · source

  9. “I can give the assurance of the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo that, so far as United Nations force deployment and the preliminary MONUC deployment are concerned, in accordance with the status of forces agreement these forces will enjoy full freedom of movement; freedom not in the sense such as Kant spoke of, the freedom of indifference, as in: "I do what I like when I like and cross the street when there is a red light". Freedom is freedom of knowledge of cause, because you know the effect that a vehicle doing as it wishes can have on a body that crosses its path. Freedom is organized on the form - I discussed this with Mr. Morjane - of notification. It is only natural that as a sovereign Government we know when, who and where MONUC and United Nations aircraft will operate in our skies. This is not harassment.”

    2000-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4156 (2000) · source

  10. “What we call aggression against our country by our brothers from the east remains the key to further developments and the events that have prompted us to meet in a quest for peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. With regard to the security of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC), the recent evacuation of 20 of its representatives from Kisangani shows that as long as all these people are in our country fighting one another, there will be no security for MONUC. Evacuating them, given the logic of events, was an obligation. As a Minister of State, I am duty-bound to provide assurances that the Democratic Republic of the Congo needs the United Nations, needs MONUC. It would be ridiculous for us to need MONUC, while at the same time we complicate its work.”

    2000-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4156 (2000) · source

  11. “In this year of the Africa Cup and Euro 2000, people can say whatever they please, because we do not know the hidden sense of their insults; a period to flex their muscles to the detriment of the infrastructure, the people and the territorial integrity and national sovereignty of the Congolese people, and this in accordance with the symbol which is the United Nations Charter. As long as these gladiator brothers are in our country, nothing can be guaranteed, since they are already in the third round of their championship. No one can guarantee what will happen from one moment to the next, even after a ceasefire. No one can guarantee that clashes will not resume if they remain on our territory.”

    2000-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4156 (2000) · source

  12. “This good will of all heads of States that are signatories of the Lusaka Accords is being manifested through subsequent provisions, particularly those of Kampala, which set out the process for establishing a climate of security for our people and for United Nations forces, who, it goes without saying, benefit from enhanced security when they are operating in a country that is not at war. For us the mere presence of uninvited foreign forces is an act of war, and nothing can ensure the security necessary to offer to the troop-contributing countries who send their children to help us solve our problems. That security is unstable and fraught with unpredictable elements, since uninvited foreign armies occupy the country and push their hostilities to the point of fighting each other.”

    2000-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4156 (2000) · source

  13. “Here, in this building, President Laurent-Desire Kabila addressed the Council, and the terms, the words and the meaning he imparted are still alive in the minds of members to show that what I am saying is not empty, flattering rhetoric, that rather it reflects commitments, assurances and clarifications I wish to provide during my statement. The arrival and address of President Kabila prompted a great deal of hope, as it led to the adoption of resolution 1291 (1999). That followed the adoption of resolution 1234 (1999), which is still alive with the potential it affords us to bring a speedy end to war.”

    2000-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4156 (2000) · source

  14. “This is the moment to take advantage of the good omens for your mandate as it begins, Mr. President, and for us to pay an emphatic tribute while voicing the hope that the work to be done under your leadership will be crowned with success so that a man of the court, like myself, will not vacillate. The Lusaka Accords, United Nations resolutions and the United Nations Charter are symbols that guide us, the Congolese of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to show good will throughout and readiness to hasten the end to the war to begin national reconciliation.”

    2000-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4156 (2000) · source

  15. “Mr. Ndombasi (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (spoke in French): I find myself in a position that reminds me of the teachings of the "Spanish Machiavelli", Baltazar Gracian y Morales, about what one should be and what one should do, in his book The Courtier's Oracle. I appear here as a courtier, trying to walk on eggs without crushing them, and obliged to reassure, to explain and to take a position. At the outset, I convey to you, Mr. President, and to the other members of the Council my heartfelt congratulations on your initiative following the visit of the Security Council mission to us in Africa. I should also like to thank the Permanent Representative of the People's Republic of China and convey to him our gratitude and our congratulations on his success in carrying out his mandate as President of the Council last month.”

    2000-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4156 (2000) · source