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2014-12-16
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  1. “Uganda continues to be a champion of pan-Africanism, with a strategic objective of eliminating conflicts and associated vices in our region so that we can embark on the road to peace, peaceful transformation and prosperity for our people. Uganda associates itself with the efforts of this organ to address the problem of trafficking in persons in conflict, and pledges to work together with our international partners in supporting measures aimed at eradicating it.”

    2016-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7847 (2016) · source

  2. “Working together through the Security Council by adopting a resolution with effective measures that address the vices of human trafficking, money-laundering and terrorism in a holistic manner would help to send a strong message to the perpetrators of these crimes and to undermine and curtail the capabilities of their networks to execute these criminal activities. In the same vein, the efforts of the international community aimed at addressing the root causes of conflict would help to deny these networks the conducive environment in which they thrive. That is why Uganda continues to play a key role in the region in fighting terrorism in Somalia and the Central African Republic, and in engaging with partners to address the conflicts in our neighborhood.”

    2016-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7847 (2016) · source

  3. “Given the transnational nature of this crime, it requires the combined efforts of the international community to decisively address this problem. As ably amplified in the concept note provided by the Spanish presidency for this debate (S/2016/1031, annex), trafficking in persons in conflict is closely intertwined with other transnational organized crimes, such as money-laundering and international terrorism. The financial resources that accrue from human trafficking enable money-laundering to thrive and in turn largely contribute to funding terrorist activities. And the cycle continues. It is therefore evident that this requires a holistic approach that addresses the interconnectedness of these vices in our societies.”

    2016-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7847 (2016) · source

  4. “Our Government recently set up an interministerial committee, coordinated by the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development, to investigate these abuses and to devise appropriate measures that can be undertaken to effectively address the problem. This is in addition to various other interventions that the Government has made in the past to address this challenge. One of the major steps that needs to be undertaken by Member States, with the support of the international community, is the harmonization of legislation that comprehensively provides for judicial mechanisms to harshly punish and deter offenders and would-be offenders, and for there to be a coordination mechanism for their enforcement. Such efforts will require the strong support of this organ.”

    2016-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7847 (2016) · source

  5. “The conflicts in the Central African Republic, the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia and, more recently, South Sudan continue to expose the most vulnerable sections of our population to the criminal networks that traffic in them for mainly cheap labour, sexual exploitation and, in other cases, slavery. A number of reports have recently revealed some of the most horrific experiences that the children and women who have been trafficked go through in some of the countries where they end up being sold as objects. Uganda itself has been a victim ofthis scourge, whereby some our children, particularly girls and young women, who have been trafficked have endured torture and sexual abuse at the hands of their tormentors.”

    2016-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7847 (2016) · source

  6. “Trafficking in persons in conflict is perhaps one of the most challenging evils that the world is currently confronted with, and the organization of this debate is very timely in providing an opportunity to Member States to share insights into how the challenges being encountered in countering this scourge can be effectively addressed. Uganda happens to be in a region that has experienced a lot of conflict, which has exacerbated the problem of human trafficking in our region. The conflicts in our region have made the majority of our people, particularly women and children, vulnerable to organized criminal networks that take advantage of our weak institutions in immigration and the judiciary to engage in the trafficking mainly of women, children and other vulnerable people across borders to far distant places.”

    2016-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7847 (2016) · source

  7. “I shall begin by expressing Uganda's condolences to the Permanent Missions of Russia and Germany for the tragedies that befell their nationals yesterday. Furthermore, I bring warm greetings from His Excellency President Museveni of Uganda, who has sent his apologies for not being able to come and participate personally in this important debate due to other, previously planned duties. He extends his greatest appreciation to you, Sir, for the honourable invitation extended to him to participate in this debate on a topic that is so critical to Uganda. My delegation also appreciates the briefings delivered by the Secretary General, Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, and other briefers.”

    2016-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7847 (2016) · source

  8. “For, as the unfortunate examples of Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaida, and currently the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, clearly illustrates to us all, we ignore the growing terror threats in Africa at our own peril.”

    2014-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7351 (2014) · source

  9. “Such intervention would enable the blossoming of legitimate internal regional cross-border and broader international trade, hence supplanting the terror-driven illicit trade. The political will to create viable State structures through well-conceptualized Marshall plans in situations of weak States or statelessness, in such countries as, for instance, Somalia, Libya, South Sudan and the Central African Republic, is also required. There is also a need for the international community to ensure that illegitimate trade such as poaching and poached commodities such as ivory and illegally mined minerals is also severely constrained. All of this must be done in a spirit of enlightened self-interest.”

    2014-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7351 (2014) · source

  10. “For this body, together with the broader international community, to definitely solve the menacing challenges of terrorism in Africa, we must seriously consider providing the following interventions: support the ongoing regional integration efforts, as, for instance, with the East African Community, the Southern African Development Community and the Economic Community of West African States, among others, for those bodies would facilitate the required process of creating viable States, economies and regional legitimate trade. Indeed, the international community must assist these efforts towards regional integration through support for the construction of our physical infrastructure such as roads, rail transport and airports.”

    2014-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7351 (2014) · source

  11. “In the 1970s, it was estimated that there were up to 20,000 elephants roaming freely in this vast, exceedingly beautiful nature reserve. However, today, 40 years later, more than 90 per cent of those animals have been indiscriminately slaughtered for illicit trading, namely, but not only, by the Lord's Resistance Army and other criminal networks. This is indeed a devastating loss not only for the Democratic Republic of the Congo but for all of humankind.”

    2014-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7351 (2014) · source

  12. “The Balkanization of the African continent, within the context of its having fragile States and political structures, is another factor that fuel the unfortunate thriving of terrorism. Indeed, this unhealthy cocktail - being Balkanized, landlocked, poor and with stateless geopolitical entities - unfortunately encourages opportunistic terror groups with an enabling environment to thrive in, and I have in mind here, among others, terror groups as the Allied Democratic Front, the Lord's Resistance Army, Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb and Al-Shabaab. Terrorism-driven intra- and cross-border trade is devastating our continent. Take the example of the elephant population of Garamba National Park, in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.”

    2014-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7351 (2014) · source

  13. “This form of systematized and organized terror and terrorism affected the lives of millions of our people and resulted in acute societal dislocations whose negative consequences still afflict us today. If we are to sincerely appreciate the reasons why terrorismisprevalentinAfrica,then itwouldbeinsincere if we were to ignore the legacy of colonialism on the continent. For, of the 20 or so African countries that are affected by terrorism, at least half are landlocked, and, in the main, landlocked African countries tend to be the most underdeveloped and have the lowest global human development indices. This is due in part to the extremely high costs of trade they routinely encounter, that is, when legitimately trading within themselves, or when engaged in regional cross-border trade or, indeed, that of the broader international type.”

    2014-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7351 (2014) · source

  14. “Uganda thanks you, Mr. President, for a theme well selected, as, for Africa, it has an added poignant relevance, bearing in mind the worrying contemporary situation on our continent. The theme is relevant because currently 20 African countries are afflicted by terrorism, the majority of which are in the Horn, East and Central Africa, in addition to the Sahel and the western and northern parts of our continent. Additionally, Africa, most unfortunately, humanitarianosts at least two dozen United States State Department-listed terrorist organizations. The experience of organized, systematized terror and terrorism is not new to the African continent. It was clearly manifest in the transatlantic and trans-Sahara slave trades, in addition to the equally nefarious East African slave trade.”

    2014-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7351 (2014) · source

  15. “Uganda profoundly appreciates Chad's Minister for Foreign Affairs presiding over this relevant open debate. We also appreciate the statement of Mr. Jeffrey Feltman, Under- Secretary-General for Political Affairs, and indeed that of Ambassador Te'te Anto'nio delivered on behalf of the African Union, which Uganda fully subscribes to. The participation in this open debate of the Foreign Ministers ofNigeria, Luxembourg and Argentina and of Chile's Director General for Foreign Policy illustrates its crucial nature. Uganda once again presents its condolences to Pakistan, Nigeria, Kenya and Australia for the senseless terrorist killings that they have experienced this month, in addition to the recent victims of the rabid Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham. Uganda is committed to the fight against terror within its borders and the region.”

    2014-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7351 (2014) · source

  16. “During next year's joint review of AMISOM there will be a need to factor in the capacity-building of the forces for peace, in addition to obtaining the Security Council's commitment to build Somalia's State structures and economy. A similar framework will also need to be provided for South Sudan, the Central African Republic and the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The creation of State structures is important to ensuring that there is stability and that terrorist groups cannot take refuge in that kind of setting.”

    2014-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7343 (2014) · source

  17. “relationship between the African Union (AU) and the United Nations requires further consolidation, for peace in Somalia translates into peace in the region, the western Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea. As a way forward, the conditions that cause conflict - for instance, the burden of being landlocked - need to be meaningfully addressed by the Security Council and the global community. On the infamous Berlin partition of Africa, as a continent Africa has a disproportionate number of landlocked countries, many of which - the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Mali and South Sudan - are extremely underdeveloped and conflict-prone. Conflict in such a setting does not occur by mere bad luck.”

    2014-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7343 (2014) · source

  18. “Burundi, Kenya, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Sierra Leone are the other troop contributors to the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), while Uganda, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Sierra Leone have also contributed police officers to Somalia. When Uganda joined the Security Council for the period for 2009-2010, we joined hands with other non-permanent members and permanent members of this critical United Nations organ to ensure that it accepted to offer logistical support to AMISOM. Among other things, that included the provision by the United Nations of hospitals, vehicles, troops, armour and rations for the Mission's troops. The symbiotic AMISOM.”

    2014-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7343 (2014) · source

  19. “With that fruition of that particular thinking being well exemplified through the conclusion, for example, ofthe Burundi peace process and the 1999 Lusaka Peace Accord, subregional and regional organizations, as a norm, tend to be well versed on the issues behind local or regional conflicts - and hence their appropriateness in getting them resolved. We are of the view that the Security Council should normally intervene in resolving local conflicts in a framework that is supportive of the subregional and regional efforts I have mentioned. It is with that thinking and spirit that, through initial African Union sanctioning, Uganda contributed troops to the effort to bring about peace in Somalia in 2007. It is critical to add that this took place with the Security Council's concurrent sanction for the intervention.”

    2014-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7343 (2014) · source

  20. “Uganda expresses its appreciation for the President's selection ofthis relevant topic for discussion at this open debate. This is indeed a good way to place Africa - our marginal continent in global political and economic terms - at the centre of the Security Council's agenda, especially as about 70 per cent of the Council's work focuses on Africa. At the cornerstone of Uganda's foreign policy is the idea that subregional and regional organizations have to play the primary role in addressing the concerns of their particular geopolitical areas, with the Security Council and the international community performing a complementary supportive role guided by international law.”

    2014-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7343 (2014) · source

  21. “Uganda appreciates the presence of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Chad, presiding over this relevant and important debate, as well as the statements of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and President Buyoya, who is currently African Union High Representative for Mali and the Sahel. Uganda hereby presents its profound condolences to the people of Pakistan for the barbaric murder of its school children by the Taliban. In the same vein, we further extend our condolences to other countries that have experienced similar killings in the month, including Nigeria, Australia and Kenya. That event serves to highlight the relevance of this open debate. Allow me also to express our sincere appreciation for the President's able stewardship of the business of the Security Council during the month of December.”

    2014-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7343 (2014) · source