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  1. “I shall conclude by expressing the hope that the necessary support will be provided to ECOWAS to enable it to complete the follow-up of the implementation of the Moratorium and all other oversight activities of the national commissions to combat the proliferation of small arms and light weapons.”

    2003-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4720Resumption1 (2003) · source

  2. “As a result, it is increasingly appropriate to consider very seriously the issue of the equipping, arming and technically training national armies and national police forces so that they can become institutions that serve the rule of law and, if the conditions are such, so that we will naturally be able to lend enough help to the countries in which the democratic process is developing harmoniously, to assist the countries in which we observe concrete and significant efforts aimed at good governance. Because it is bad governance - marginalization of a part of the population, of the intelligentsia outside the political sphere - that creates frustration. Once again, that is fertile ground for the recruitment of mercenaries and of those who wish to take up arms to bring about political changes through violence and destabilization.”

    2003-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4720Resumption1 (2003) · source

  3. “Today, cooperation agreements that have been concluded, whether at the bilateral or the multilateral level, generally and systematically exclude the police and the army from their aims, on the pretext that those are institutions of State sovereignty and that cooperation is limited to economic, technical and financial aspects, among other things. But how can we create conditions enabling a national army to control the situation within a country's borders, to confront aggression and to protect State institutions, if that army itself is not a well- equipped army, a trained army, an army that does not function with respect for the constitution and for State institutions? The same applies to the police and the national police with regard to public security.”

    2003-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4720Resumption1 (2003) · source

  4. “Acting upon the source means that it should be understood that the proliferation of small arms and light weapons and the use of mercenaries have as fertile ground misery, poverty, the lack of a political system and institutional democracy, the proliferation of small arms and light weapons and endemic underdevelopment that persists in most of the southern countries and in the subregion I come from. As a result, the global problem of development assistance once again emerges. And, in the search for effective solutions to that problem, there is the problem of assistance to the armies and national police forces of underdeveloped countries.”

    2003-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4720Resumption1 (2003) · source

  5. “We read increasingly in the press - as I did on my way to New York yesterday - specialized articles to the effect that, given their weakness and their lack of money, poor countries are not able to organize their own security and that, as a result, it is legitimate that those States have recourse to certain services and agencies that specialize in security matters. Those companies, however, are the same ones that are the service providers for political groups that organize the destabilization of legal institutions within States. My fifth proposal - and it is of a general nature- is to act upon the source of these two scourges.”

    2003-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4720Resumption1 (2003) · source

  6. “They will not be able to sidestep their responsibility with respect to the State. We will have to admit that individuals, recognized as mercenaries from a particular country, engage, at the same time, the responsibility of States that have not been able to gain control over their institutions and nationals in illicit activities carried out abroad. The fourth proposal is that the Security Council should put in place a working group that would design, organize and carry out a media counter-campaign at the international level, against the campaign that we have seen for a while now, a campaign which tends to extol or preach the decriminalization of mercenary activities.”

    2003-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4720Resumption1 (2003) · source

  7. “Because today we increasingly are seeing actions recognizing these companies as providers of government protective services and protective services for official institutions, while in reality, these companies that provide lethal and destabilizing services are nothing but mercenary organizations. Therefore, we must admit that henceforth our assessment of the question of the proliferation of small arms and light weapons and of the use of mercenaries must clearly integrate the empowerment of States, holding them responsible, including groups of nationals, where groups of nationals have been identified as mercenaries. It will no longer suffice to invoke the personal freedom of individuals who have made the choice to engage in an activity, even if that activity is marginal, illegal or illicit.”

    2003-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4720Resumption1 (2003) · source

  8. “Therefore, countries that have this technology and these logistics, both in terms of manufacturing weapons and transporting, shipping and delivering them, are, clearly, fully responsible in this regard. Thirdly, we must put in place a United Nations convention for the dismantling of companies and agencies that specialize in so-called military-service- providing activities, which are nothing more than official mercenary companies, militias or private armies. These companies exist and are flourishing in the northern countries. In some southern countries, these companies have set up shop and have begun recruitment through legally placed advertisements. Why is that the case?”

    2003-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4720Resumption1 (2003) · source

  9. “We must establish an international convention that strictly limits the purchase of light weapons of war only to States and national armies, aiming particularly at the ability to trace weapons and at supplying them through official channels. Secondly, we must put in place at the international level provisions related to the dismantling of bodies, firms and international networks that sell weapons that do not have the agreed or official status of an exporting State of these light weapons of war. Benin draws the attention of all participants to the fact that poor countries such as ours have neither the technology nor the logistics to sell or manufacture, or to organize the flows or the delivery of weapon stockpiles.”

    2003-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4720Resumption1 (2003) · source

  10. “The essential things have been said, particularly by the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of Senegal, whose approach and conclusions, the relevance of his ideas, as well as the relevant statement of the honourable representative of the United Kingdom, I would like to publicly support. Benin believes that we must stop making speeches on the proliferation of small arms and light weapons. Rather, we must look to specific and effective actions. In that context, Benin believes that we must act upon the source and the fundamental reasons for two scourges - the proliferation of small arms and light weapons and the use of mercenaries. Our specific proposals in that regard are the following.”

    2003-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4720Resumption1 (2003) · source

  11. “But, very fortunately, that is not the case when you consider the number and the stature of the participants, in particular, the effective presence of Secretary-General Kofi Annan at this meeting's opening. I would also like to warmly welcome the positive inspiration of the Guinean Minister for Foreign Affairs- the President of the Security Council - to inscribe for reflection by this United Nations body this matter of concern for West African States - the proliferation of small arms and light weapons and the use of mercenaries. Regarding the topic submitted to us for our individual and collective reflection, and speaking after a series of speakers, there are not too many new things for me to say.”

    2003-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4720Resumption1 (2003) · source

  12. “Mr. Osho (Benin) (spoke in French): First, I would like to associate myself with preceding speakers in extending my sincere and enthusiastic congratulations to our brother, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Guinea, who has the honour of presiding over this meeting of the Security Council during this delicate month of March 2003. This is especially so in light of the burning acuteness of the present international political situation, which, as everyone knows, is almost completely polarized with respect to the Iraqi crisis. To note the speech given a few hours ago, the holding of a workshop such as this ran the risk of seeming a non-event.”

    2003-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4720Resumption1 (2003) · source