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2017-08-17

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2017-08-17

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1. “In that regard, following the Secretary- General's recent letter on the executive summary of the Board of Inquiry report, we would like to call upon the Secretary-General to act in a swift manner and to establish a respective follow-up mechanism under his own authority, as his predecessor did in response to the Terrain Hotel tragedy in South Sudan. Finally, in terms of the Committee's modus operandi, we do not understand the situation when recommendations addressed to the Council by the Group of Experts that this very Council has established are prevented from reaching it. We call on all Committee members to work constructively in full cooperation with the Chair and each other to ensure the effective functioning of the body.”

   2017-08-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8026 (2017) · source

2. “The international community and the Council must spare no effort in assisting the Democratic Republic of the Congo to move towards the stability, peace and security that its people deserve. The holding of elections in 2017 remains an important element in that endeavour. The same applies to accountability. The killings of two members of the Group of Experts must not remain unanswered. We want to express our deepest condolences to the families of the victims present here. Those who committed these crimes have to be brought to justice.”

   2017-08-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8026 (2017) · source

3. “At the same time, one cannot deny that the existing sanctions regime has played an important role in mitigating some threats. For instance, it reduced opportunities for armed groups to benefit from illegal involvement in the exploitation of natural resources, particularly for tin, tantalaum and tungsten. However, the gold sector lags behind and the lack of traceability systems leaves an opportunity for smugglers to profit from that gap. Despite some positive trends, the overall situation does not show signs of significant improvement. We are therefore deeply concerned about further deterioration of the security environment in the country on the whole, which is evidently interconnected with the political stagnation.”

   2017-08-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8026 (2017) · source

4. “I should like to thank Ambassador Aboulatta, Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1533 (2004), concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo, for his briefing and his leadership. The Chair's statement and the final report of the Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (see S/2017/672/Rev.1) depict the grim reality on the ground. Illicit trade in natural resources, arms smuggling, the fragmentation of illegal armed groups, human rights abuses, ethnic clashes and atrocities committed by foreign and local armed groups remain widespread in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Moreover, a drastic destabilization in the Kasai provinces demonstrates that no part of the country is immune from such outrages.”

   2017-08-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8026 (2017) · source