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Ntahomvukiye

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2000-01-19
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2000-01-24
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  1. “In keeping with our traditional policy of good- neighbourliness, Burundi entirely endorses the measures recommended in chapter 12 of the Agreement. In this connection, it reaffirms its desire to cooperate with all signatories to the Agreement and other involved parties. Peace and stability in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are indispensable to lasting peace in the subregion and in Burundi in particular.”

    2000-01-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4092Resumption1 (2000) · source

  2. “More than in the various meetings in Kampala, Lusaka and Harare, Burundi requests to be particularly associated with the settlement of the following items identified in the Agreement: first, disarmament of armed groups, including the Forces for the Defence of Democracy of Burundi, as stipulated in chapter 8, article 8.2.2 and chapter 9 of the Agreement; secondly, the voluntary repatriation of Burundian and Congolese refugees, as stipulated in chapter 8, article 8.2.2; thirdly, reintegration into society of members of armed groups, as stipulated in chapter 8, article 8.2.2 of the Agreement; and fourthly, normalization of the situation along the common border between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burundi, as stipulated in chapter 12 of the Agreement.”

    2000-01-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4092Resumption1 (2000) · source

  3. “One of the causes of the resurgence of violence in recent months is rooted in the coalition of armed rebel groups that come and go in the subregion where militias and other armies have taken to the bush and continue their guerrilla activities. I will not revert to the explanations already given here at the United Nations and elsewhere on Burundi's position in the war that is ravaging the Democratic Republic of the Congo. However, I would like to recall that Burundi stands ready to make its contribution and to play its full role in implementing the Lusaka Agreement, which explicitly acknowledges its security concerns along its border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo due to the activity of part of the Burundi rebellion in that country.”

    2000-01-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4092Resumption1 (2000) · source

  4. “Mr. Ntahomvukiye (Burundi) (spoke in French): Allow me at the outset to commend the Security Council and the presidency of the United States for having included on the Council's agenda security issues of the countries of the Great Lakes subregion. The problem of security in this part of Africa is at the centre of Burundi's concerns, given the tension and the internal, cross-border and interrelated wars that develop there to the point of imperiling entire nations now for many years. The Government of Burundi welcomes the opportunity offered to express its great hope that the implementation of the Lusaka Agreement will create a favourable climate for the process of peace and reconciliation undertaken in my country over the past three years.”

    2000-01-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4092Resumption1 (2000) · source

  5. “By continuing to impoverish the population in this way, the international community will only serve to vindicate those people. They are close to achieving their aim of bringing about an indefinite halt to the peace process by instilling in the people of Burundi a sense of distrust and disbelief in the Government, the regional community and the international community.”

    2000-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4091 (2000) · source

  6. “We see no valid reason for not resuming such cooperation; even reasons of insecurity are not well founded, given that three fourths of the country is secure. Even less well founded is the wait-and-see approach regularly taken with respect to the peace Agreement and to meaningful progress in the negotiations, any assessment of which is far from being precise. I am making a veritable cry for help. Strikes began on Monday, 17 January, this year. Looking at it closely, it is clear that they are due not only to the increasing unavailability of the minimum means of subsistence, but, more seriously, to the political manipulation of our poor citizens by extremists and those who are against the peace process - and they indeed exist.”

    2000-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4091 (2000) · source

  7. “We call on the entire international community to provide him with unwavering support. I have already had occasion to express my Government's concern with regard to the socio-economic situation. The needlessly prolonged and extreme economic pressure on my country due to the embargo on international cooperation threatens to lead to an explosion. That explosion would be not only at the level of society, but also at that of security. The peace process in which the people of Burundi and the international community have placed their hopes runs the risk of collapsing. The link between peace and development is now more necessary than ever before. Burundi calls on its partners to review and correct their analysis of this situation and to resume cooperation immediately.”

    2000-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4091 (2000) · source

  8. “Military victory, from wherever it might come, will not bring lasting peace to Burundi. With regard to the Arusha peace process, my Government welcomes the appointment of President Mandela as the new mediator. We assure him of our honest, willing, accountable and resolute cooperation in this process, which must be reconfigured to ensure inclusive participation by all the parties to the conflict so that an appropriate pace and working method can be established in order to bring about a swift and positive conclusion. The situation is extremely urgent. We have confidence in the new mediator's abilities in this area, and his prestige is such that he can rally all Burundians around our true national interests and help bring Burundi back into the mainstream of international solidarity.”

    2000-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4091 (2000) · source

  9. “N o restrictions are imposed, contrary to certain untrue information that has been disseminated, and protection is provided on request. It is true that overall, living conditions in the camps are harsh. The real and definitive solution is to stop the war. This has been the Government's position since the inception of the Arusha process, but the rebels also have to made to understand this. The international and regional communities must become involved, for the rebellion is not only internal; it has taken root in neighbouring and even distant countries as far away as southern Africa, where, supposedly, the militarist option is once again gaining support in certain countries. There the Government of Burundi is powerless. All countries, without exception, must struggle against the logic of war.”

    2000-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4091 (2000) · source

  10. “I would like to reiterate once again that regroupment is not an end in itself. Absolutely all of the camps will be gradually dismantled as satisfactory security conditions are restored. For the national security reasons mentioned earlier, the camps around the capital will be the last to be closed, that is to say, after we have completely done away with any threat of destabilization. Meanwhile, the Government, with the invaluable assistance of humanitarian organizations, is making every effort to provide health care, food and shelter to the regrouped persons. People are increasingly able to resume their usual farming, trading, educational and professional activities. We would reiterate that all camps are accessible and open to all monitors and humanitarian personnel, enabling them to carry out their work there.”

    2000-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4091 (2000) · source

  11. “There is no selectivity in that province; it has the same mixture of Hutu and Tutsi as the others. The only goal of those operations was to ensure security. We had to avert a national threat and to prevent people from being caught in the vice grip of confrontations between the army and the rebels, which were using them as cannon fodder and human shields. Unfortunately, this is the price of State security when the entire nation is at risk. Currently the Government is taking stock of the security situation in Rural Bujumbura three months after the regroupment operation began. We can now inform the Security Council that we will be able to close about 10 of the 50 camps within two weeks. They will be dismantled in a fully transparent way, in the presence of national and international monitors.”

    2000-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4091 (2000) · source

  12. “Clearly, Rural Bujumbura had become the focus of an undertaking aimed at overwhelming the security forces and destabilizing the capital through indiscriminate terrorism, which would have led to what could be termed the "Somalia-ization of the country", with a resurgence of militias and various uncontrolled self-defence organizations throughout the entire national territory. This is fact, not fiction. In that same region, genocide already occurred when national security forces lost control of the situation, giving the upper hand to militias and leading to chronic vendettas. The Government categorically rejects allegations that regroupment camps are part of an "ethnic cleansing" system or that they involve human rights violations. That is pure anti-Govemment propaganda and disinformation.”

    2000-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4091 (2000) · source

  13. “Overall the situation is under control, and one can say that no national catastrophe in terms of widespread massacres is really imminent at this point. Only four provinces out of 17 still suffer from a lack of security. With respect to Rural Bujumbura - one of those four provinces - the Government had to take special security measures establishing sites, known as regroupment camps, for the protection of the people. The underlying grounds for that decision were explained in detail in a statement made public on 13 November 1999.”

    2000-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4091 (2000) · source

  14. “Mr. Ntahomvukiye (Burundi) (spoke in French): The Government of Burundi welcomes this special meeting of the Security Council and hopes that it that in its wake there will be even greater understanding on the part of the international community of the actual situation, resulting in increased determination on its part to help Burundi to emerge from the security and socio-economic crisis that has been disrupting it since 1993. I have the honour to speak before the Council in order to present my Government's views on security, the peace process and the economy. Speaking first on security, compared to the years 1995 and 1996, when virtually the entire territory was engulfed by civil war, the situation in general has significantly improved.”

    2000-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4091 (2000) · source