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“Thomas Mayr-Harting, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations, to participate in this meeting. The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. I wish to draw the attention of Council members to document S/2014/656, which contains the report of the Secretary-General on the situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international peace and security. I now give the floor to Mr. Kubis.”
2014-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7267 (2014) · source
“In accordance with rule 37 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite the representatives of Afghanistan, Canada, Germany, India, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Italy, Japan, Pakistan, Poland, Slovakia, Spain and Turkey to participate in this meeting. In accordance with rule 39 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite Mr. Jan Kubis, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, to participate in this meeting. On behalf of the Council, I welcome Mr. Kubis, who is joining today's meeting via video-teleconference from Kabul. In accordance with rule 39 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite His Excellency Mr.”
2014-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7267 (2014) · source
“I thank Mr. Serry for his briefing. I now invite Council members to informal consultations to continue our discussion on the subject. The meeting rose at 10.25 am.”
2014-09-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7266 (2014) · source
“In accordance with rule 39 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite Mr. Robert Serry, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative of the Secretary-General, to participate in this meeting. The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. I give the floor to Mr. Serry.”
2014-09-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7266 (2014) · source
“There are no more names inscribed on the list of speakers. I now invite Council members to informal consultations to continue our discussion of the subject. The meeting rose at 10.50 am.”
2014-09-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7264 (2014) · source
“Olivier Nduhungirehe, Deputy Permanent Representative of Rwanda, in his capacity as representative of the Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011). I now give the floor to Mr. Leon.”
2014-09-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7264 (2014) · source
“In accordance with rule 37 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite the representative of Libya to participate in this meeting. In accordance with rule 39 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite Mr. Bernardino Leon, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya, to participate in this meeting. The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. I wish to draw the attention of Council members to document S/2014/653, which contains the report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Support Mission in Libya. At this meeting, the Security Council will hear briefings by Mr. Bernardino Leon and Mr.”
2014-09-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7264 (2014) · source
“I shall put the draft resolution to the vote now. A vote was taken by Show ofhands. In favour: Argentina, Australia, Chad, Chile, China, France, Jordan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Nigeria, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, Rwanda, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and United States of America The President: The draft resolution received 15 votes in favour. The draft resolution has been adopted unanimously as resolution 2176 (2014). The Security Council has thus concluded the present stage of its consideration of the item on its agenda. The meeting rose at10.10 am.”
2014-09-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7263 (2014) · source
“The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. Members of the Council have before them document S/2014/664, which contains the text ofa draft resolution submitted by Chad, France, Nigeria, Rwanda, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America. I wish to draw the attention of Council members to document S/2014/598, which contains the twenty- eighth progress report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Mission in Liberia. I also wish to draw the attention of Council members to document S/2014/644, which contains a letter dated 28 August 2014 from the Secretary-General addressed to the President of the Security Council. It is my understanding that the Council is ready to proceed to the vote on the draft resolution before it.”
2014-09-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7263 (2014) · source
“I thank Minister Samukai both for his briefing and for travelling here to present the facts of what is happening in his country. There are no more names inscribed on the list of speakers. I now invite Council members to informal consultations to continue our discussion on the subject. The meeting rose at10.45 am.”
2014-09-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7260 (2014) · source
“I thank Ms. Landgren for her briefing, and particularly for tailoring it to the crisis at hand. I now give the floor to Mr. Grunditz.”
2014-09-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7260 (2014) · source
“I wish to draw the attention of Council members to document S/2014/598, which contains the twenty-eighth progress report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Mission in Liberia. I also wish to draw the attention of Council members to document 8/2014/644, which contains a letter dated 28 August 2014 from the Secretary-General addressed to the President of the Security Council. I now give the floor to Ms. Landgren.”
2014-09-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7260 (2014) · source
“In accordance with rule 37 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite the representative of Liberia to participate in this meeting. On behalf ofthe Council, I welcome His Excellency Mr. Brownie J. Samukai, Minister of National Defense of Liberia. In accordance with rule 39 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite Ms. Karin Landgren, Special Representative of the Secretary- General and Head of the United Nations Mission in Liberia, to participate in this meeting. In accordance with rule 39 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite His Excellency Mr. Marten Grunditz, Chair of the Liberia configuration of the Peacebuilding Commission and Permanent Representative of Sweden, to participate in this meeting. The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda.”
2014-09-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7260 (2014) · source
“Why should they believe that it will be different, if tomorrow President Putin decides to start supporting armed separatists and allowing soldiers on vacation to fight in their countries? And, just as important, what message are we sending to other countries with similarly alarming ambitions around the world, when we let Russia violate the rules without sufficient consequences? In the face of that threat, the cost of inaction is unacceptable.”
2014-08-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7253 (2014) · source
“Those rules and principles have taken generations to build, with unparalleled investment - countless lives have been lost in the process of establishing and defending those principles, and every single one of us has a stake in defending them. A threat to the order - the international order - is a threat to the peace and security of all of us. Those are the rules that Russia is flouting when it illegally seizes territory and when it arms, equips and fights alongside illegal groups in neighbouring countries. Ukraine is one of roughly a dozen countries that share a border with Russia. Let me conclude with a couple of questions. How can we tell those countries that border Russia that their peace and sovereignty is guaranteed, if we do not make our message heard on Ukraine?”
2014-08-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7253 (2014) · source
“In the face of Russia's continued aggression and blatant disregard for the Charter of the United Nations and the Helsinki Final Act, we will continue to work closely with our G-7 and European partners to ratchet up the consequences on Russia. I understand that there are real costs felt by citizens of countries when their Governments take such actions. It has costs for businesses that trade with Russia and sell to Russian markets, from small-scale farmers to big factories. Those costs are considerable, and nobody should take them lightly. But let us be clear: if unchecked, the damage that Russia's blatant disregard for the international order poses is much, much greater.”
2014-08-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7253 (2014) · source
“But Russian separatists not only have no interest in observing a ceasefire, they cynically use the time to rearm and wait for additional soldiers and supplies to flow across the border from Russia. In the face of those deeply alarming actions, the most important question for us now is not what we should say to Russia; rather, the most important question is what we should do to make Russia listen. Throughout the crisis, the United States has, in close coordination with our European partners - the European Union and the group of seven (G-7), exerted targeted, effective pressure so that the message is heard, so that Russia begins to de-escalate rather than escalate and so that the reasonable peace plan put forward by President Poroshenko is adopted and implemented.”
2014-08-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7253 (2014) · source
“In contrast, President Putin was still unwilling acknowledge the most basic facts, facts that we all know, namely, that Russia has armed, equipped and now joined illegal separatists fighting in Ukraine. Serious negotiations are needed - urgently needed - but Russia has to stop lying and has to stop fuelling the conflict. The mask is coming off. In its recent acts, we see Russia's actions for what they are: a deliberate effort to support and now fight alongside illegal separatists in another sovereign country. Russia has claimed that Ukraine is not interested in a ceasefire. But let us be clear: Ukraine has every interest in a ceasefire, as do we, as long as it a real one.”
2014-08-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7253 (2014) · source
“They are demanding answers about how their loved ones were killed. Journalists who try to cover the funerals are being harassed and threatened by armed men. Yet still, according to the Russian Government, the soldiers were never there. They were never in Crimea either, until Russia announced that those soldiers who were never there had annexed Crimea. The last 48 hours fit into a well-established pattern for Russia. Each step has paved the way for the one that followed. And yet, in spite of all of those outrageous actions, Ukraine has repeatedly sought a political solution to the crisis. It has repeatedly sought a path to de-escalation. Despite the pattern, President Poroshenko showed up in Minsk to meet with President Putin.”
2014-08-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7253 (2014) · source
“Other Russian deployments into Ukrainian territory include advanced artillery and air-defence systems not found in the Ukrainian inventory. Those artillery systems have shelled Ukrainian positions outside Luhansk city in conjunction with the recent separatist counteroffensive. One of the separatist leaders that Russia has armed and backed said openly that 3,000 or 4,000 Russian soldiers hadjoined their cause. He was quick to clarify that those soldiers were on vacation. But a Russian soldier who chooses to fight in Ukraine on his summer break is still a Russian soldier, and the armoured Russian military vehicle he drives there is not his personal car. Meanwhile, in Russia, family members of Russian soldiers are holding funerals for their loved ones who have been killed in the fighting in Ukraine.”
2014-08-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7253 (2014) · source
“In response, Russia claimed that the soldiers had wandered into Ukrainian territory by mistake. That, supposedly, in a time of conflict along one of the most carefully watched borders in the world. The day after the Minsk talks, Russia fired Grad rockets from inside Russia at Ukrainian positions in Novoazovsk and then attacked with two columns of Russian armoured vehicles and tanks. Russian armoured vehicles and Uragan multiple rocket launchers are positioned on the outskirts of that town as we speak. Russia's force along the border is the largest it has been since it began redeploying forces there in late May, and includes significant numbers of combat aircraft and helicopters. Russian unmanned aircraft routinely cross into Ukrainian airspace.”
2014-08-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7253 (2014) · source
“Instead of listening, instead of heeding the demands of the international community and the rules of the international order, at every step Russia has come before the Council to say everything except the truth. It has manipulated. It has obfuscated. It has outright lied. We have therefore learned to measure Russia by its actions and not by its words. In the last 48 hours, Russia's actions have spoken volumes. On 26 August -just this past Tuesday - after meeting with Ukrainian President Poroshenko in Minsk, President Putin spoke of the need to "end bloodshed as soon as possible". Yet the same day satellite imagery showed Russian combat units south-east of Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine. That same day in Luhansk, Ukraine detained regular Russian army personnel from the 9th Brigade.”
2014-08-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7253 (2014) · source
“This is our twenty-fourth meeting to try to rein in Russia's aggressive acts in Ukraine. Every single one of those meetings has sent a straight-forward, unified message: Russia, stop this conflict. Russia is not listening. We said it when Russia flagrantly violated international law by occupying Crimea. We said it after the shocking downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH-l7, which took the lives of innocent men, women, children and infants from 11 countries. And we say it today, as Russia's soldiers, tanks, air defence and artillery support fight alongside separatists and open a new front in a crisis manufactured in and fuelled by Russia. But Russia is not listening.”
2014-08-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7253 (2014) · source
“We believe that Iraq's future political success will depend on preserving its unity and on maintaining its vibrant diversity. We were encouraged by Prime Minister Al-Maliki's decision to support Prime Minister-designate Al-Abadi. That peaceful and historic transition of power demonstrates that Iraq is on its way to developing the kind of fully inclusive Government that it will need if it is to unify all Iraqis in the fight against ISIL. The international community must support Iraq to that end.”
2014-08-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7242 (2014) · source
“Reportedly, as many as 12,000 have participated in the conflict, and the return of radicalized and battle-hardened jihadists to their home countries or other vulnerable destinations has the potential to widen the scope of the violence. The resolution should help to stem the flow of money and people, and I urge all Member States to expend every effort to help achieve such goals. The United States is proud to have taken unprecedented steps to protect and assist the Yazidis who were trapped on Mount Sinjar. Today, we join with others on the Council in calling on all parties to prevent or to stop the widespread or systematic attacks directed against any civilian populations because of their ethnic background, political views, religion or beliefs.”
2014-08-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7242 (2014) · source
“Today's resolution 2170 (2014), which the United States is proud to co-sponsor, represents the Council's strong and unified position that all Member States must disrupt the terrorist financing and foreign fighter recruitment networks that are fuelling the violence perpetrated by ISIL, the Nusra Front and other associates of Al-Qaida in the region. By imposing sanctions on six individuals, the resolution demonstrates the Council's sense of urgency and its willingness to take concrete action against those who carry the guns and those who supply them. Unchecked, the current terrorist financing and the foreign fighter recruitment networks will only prolong the terror that we have seen unleashed in the region. The numbers of foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq, as well as their source nations, are unprecedented.”
2014-08-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7242 (2014) · source
“A Christian patient who refused to convert was shot in the head. Two who agreed to convert, denounced as infidels, had their throats slit. Yazidis have been buried alive, beheaded or killed in mass executions. Thousands were forced to flee to Mount Sinjar, where many ultimately perished from thirst or exposure to the elements. The Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights estimates that 500 Yazidi women and girls have been abducted. There are reports of them being raped, trafficked and killed. ISIL and Jabhat Al-Nusra continue to carry out similar atrocities in Syria with seeming pride, posting gleeful images to the Internet. ISIL also continues to confiscate much-needed humanitarian aid bound for thousands of civilians in eastern Syria. They have no shame whatsoever.”
2014-08-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7242 (2014) · source
“ISIL and the Nusra Front have used Syria's civil war and Iraq's instability to claim territory, into which they attract others who are bent on violent extremism and from which they can potentially launch attacks across the region and to other parts of the world. That is the new front of the terrorist threat, with a devastating human cost. ISIL's recent attacks in Ninewa have displaced an estimated 200,000 people, bringing the total number of internally displaced persons in Iraq since January to a staggering 1.4 million. The stories that have emerged from ISIL'S bloody wake are the stuff of nightmares. Christians have been driven from their homes with the threat of "convert or die". Earlier today, I met with a bishop who was in Iraqjust after the fall of Mosul. He described one ISIL attack on a hospital.”
2014-08-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7242 (2014) · source
“The growth of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Nusra Front and other associates of Al-Qaida represents a grave threat to the people of Syria and of Iraq, as well as to the region and the larger international community. Through its rapid and brutal advance across northern Iraq, ISIL has secured heavy weapons and used them to push back the Iraqi and Peshmerga forces who are trying to defend towns and cities. It has seized some of the country's precious natural resources and taken control of critical infrastructure. ISIL now has the ability to block the flow of electricity and to control access to the water supplies on which people depend.”
2014-08-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7242 (2014) · source
“Playing the role of Luhansk and Donetsk was the province of South Ossetia. We all know what followed. South Ossetia, Crimea, now eastern Ukraine - similar words have presaged military action. The onus is on the Council and the entire international community to meet legitimate humanitarian needs and do so urgently, but in so doing to make sure that history does not repeat itself.”
2014-08-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7239 (2014) · source
“In conclusion, let me read from a statement given by a senior Russian official: "The population is panicking and there are a growing number of refugees who are attempting to flee in order to save their lives. A humanitarian catastrophe is in the making. Over the past week, the Russian Federation has continued to receive refugees. However, tens of thousands of innocent civilians remain in the conflict zone. Those circumstances dictate the logic of the steps to be taken by us now." Those remarks were delivered by a senior Russian official in the Security Council about a region where Russian-backed separatists were sowing violence. Only the remarks were delivered on 8 August 2008, six years ago to the day, and the country that the Russian senior official was speaking about was not Ukraine but Georgia.”
2014-08-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7239 (2014) · source
“On Wednesday, international investigators were once again forced to suspend their work at the MH-17 crash site due to risks of being taken hostage by illegal armed groups and the threat felt by the increased concentration of Russian troops nearby. That is deplorable. It is yet another insult to the dignity of the victims and their loved ones, who have already endured more than any families should ever have to endure. It flies in the face of the resolution adopted by the Security Council and the unified commitment to justice that the resolution embodies (resolution 2166 (2014)). It obstructs efforts to punish those responsible for that abhorrent crime.”
2014-08-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7239 (2014) · source
“Russian tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, multiple rocket launcher systems and truckloads of munitions continue to flow to separatists while new fighters are trained on Russian soil. Russia continues to take actions that escalate the conflict, amassing more and more troops and hardware near the border, launching extensive military exercises this week and shelling across the border into sovereign Ukrainian territory. Perhaps most shocking is that Russia has doubled- down on its support for rebels and provocative actions after witnessing the horrific carnage that resulted from the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH-17.”
2014-08-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7239 (2014) · source
“The very humanitarian problems that Russia is decrying in eastern Ukraine and turning a blind eye to in Crimea are directly traceable to violence it has facilitated or supported. Why have thousands of people been displaced? Look no further than the "egregious human rights abuses" in separatist-controlled areas documented in the United Nations report. Why do civilians lack access to basic services? The United Nations report documents the "deliberate targeting by the armed groups of critical public utilities like water, electricity and sewage plants". In recent weeks, Russian cross-border military assistance to illegal separatists has actually increased substantially.”
2014-08-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7239 (2014) · source
“We have seen the peace that Russian occupation has brought to Crimea since that time. As the most recent United Nations report makes clear, the freedoms of speech and assembly have been violently repressed, ethnic minorities systematically persecuted and civilians abducted with impunity, 350 of whom are still unaccounted for. The United Nations also said that no progress has been made on any of the 17 previous recommendations it has made to Russia on serious human rights problems in Crimea. Russia has repeatedly accused members of the Council of politicizing a humanitarian situation, but Russia has it backwards. In fact, it is Russia that is trying to disguise a political crisis - one manufactured and exported by Moscow - as a humanitarian one.”
2014-08-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7239 (2014) · source
“If Russia wishes to channel aid to those populations, I am certain that my colleagues on the Council can take swift steps to ensure that an impartial international aid organization like the International Committee of the Red Cross can deliver the aid on Russia's behalf. Last week the Russians again floated the idea of sending Russian "peacekeepers" to eastern Ukraine. A Russian peacekeeper in Ukraine is an oxymoron. At every step in the current crisis, Russians have sabotaged peace, not built it. It is particularly worrisome given Russia's purported annexation of Crimea, which was predicated on calls by an illegitimate puppet Government for Russia to send troops to restore peace. Peacekeepers are impartial, yet Russia fully supports Russian armed separatists in the conflict.”
2014-08-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7239 (2014) · source
“Given that Ukraine has allowed international humanitarian groups to deliver aid within its territory, there is no logical reason that Russia should seek to deliver it. Therefore, any further unilateral intervention by Russia into Ukrainian territory, including one under the guise of providing humanitarian aid, would be completely unacceptable and deeply alarming, and it would be viewed as an invasion of Ukraine. We welcome today's statement by the International Committee of the Red Cross that it is exploring the possibility of providing more support in conflict areas, which is something they can do once they have worked out the modalities with the Ukrainian authorities and, critically, once they have the security guarantees they need from the armed separatists, something Russia has not yet helped to secure.”
2014-08-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7239 (2014) · source
“That is why we welcome the fact that the Ukrainian Government has created humanitarian corridors, which are allowing critical aid to get into - and civilians to get out of - separatist- controlled areas. Ukraine is making a concerted effort to address the complex needs of approximately 117,000 people who have been internally displaced. In doing so, Ukraine is working effectively with international humanitarian organizations to provide assistance. This week, Russia proposed creating humanitarian corridors to assist the affected populations in Ukraine. But in Ukraine, urgent humanitarian assistance should be delivered by the international humanitarian organizations that have the expertise, experience and independence to provide it. It should not be delivered by Russia.”
2014-08-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7239 (2014) · source
“I thank Assistant Secretary-General Simonovie and his team for the thorough research contained in the report of the United Nations human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine. This is an extremely challenging time for the people of Ukraine. No-one should be driven from their home, and we are committed to doing everything possible to assist the displaced, regardless of where they have fled. No-one should be forced to live without access to essential medicine or with only an hour of access to water a day. As we have consistently made clear throughout this conflict, and as we reiterate today, all sides must take every precaution to prevent the loss of civilian life. The humanitarian situation needs addressing, but not by those who have caused it.”
2014-08-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7239 (2014) · source
“That, today, so much progress has been made towards making them real is a result of unprecedented regional leadership and cooperation, robust peacekeeping and a two-track approach that couples demobilization with significant military pressure. That formula has worked so far, and if it is applied to the FDLR and the remnants of other armed groups, the end of one of the longest and deadliest conflicts in the work is within reach. We must not stop yet.”
2014-08-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7237 (2014) · source
“It is also crucial that countries across the region continue to shore up what President Obama called the ingredients of progress - the rule of law, open Government, accountable and transparent institutions, strong civil societies and respect for the universal human rights of all people. As he made the case to nearly 50 Heads of State from Africa this week in Washington, DC, while hosting the Africa Leaders summit, those ingredients promote not only free societies but also vibrant economies. A year and a half ago, the commitments contained in the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework Agreement were just that - commitments, words on paper, aspirations.”
2014-08-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7237 (2014) · source
“We call on the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with cooperation from Uganda and Rwanda, to finalize implementation of the process. Beyond the urgent objective of ending the violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, countries in the region can also advance peace, stability and prosperity by continuing to shore up democracy and good governance. In the next three years, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi and Rwanda will all hold elections. While we all know that elections alone do not make democracy, concrete steps may be taken today to help lay the foundation for free, fair and participatory processes in accordance with international standards. To that end, it is critically important that electoral calendars be determined promptly and that opposition parties be guaranteed space for equal participation.”
2014-08-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7237 (2014) · source
“Given the FLDR's track record of committing atrocities at the same time that it claims to be demobilizing, that would put even more innocent civilians at risk and undercut broader efforts to establish peace and stability. Therefore, even as the demobilization process is under way, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and MONUSCO must continue to apply robust and persistent military pressure on the FDLR, specifically against those parts ofthe FDLR that have refused to engage in a process of demobilization. Another obstacle is posed by members of the M-23 who remain in Rwanda and Uganda. Members eligible for amnesty should be promptly repatriated, while those who are not must be held accountable for their crimes.”
2014-08-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7237 (2014) · source
“As Special Representative Kobler has put it, standing still means we are moving backwards. We cannot move backwards. Spoilers will re-enter the game. Yet we hear that the FDLR is cancelling meetings and ignoring international delegations. Any demobilization process must lay out specific time-bound benchmarks. In the 20 years since the genocide in Rwanda, the FDLR has made many promises to disarm. Results are all that matter, and military pressure is needed, we have found, for results to be obtained. We have seen that with the M-23, we have seen it with the Allied Democratic Forces, and we will need to see it applied against any and all FDLR holdouts. The six-month timeline should not be treated as a grace period during which military pressure on the FDLR is suspended.”
2014-08-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7237 (2014) · source
“Their crime was refusing to carry out forced labour. The FDLR also continued to forcibly recruit children. Those abuses, in turn, fuel more intercommunal violence, displacement and fear, and foster a climate in which new armed groups are likely to emerge. The longer FDLR militants remain at large, the greater the risk to all that has been achieved up to now. The FDLR leadership must be held accountable for their crimes, beginning with Sylvestre Mudakumura, who was charged by the International Criminal Court on nine counts of war crimes, including murder, mutilation, torture and rape. He should be immediately handed over. We have heard here today an alarming report from the Special Representative of the Secretary-General. The FDLR has interpreted the recent announcement of a six-month timeline as a call to stall the process.”
2014-08-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7237 (2014) · source
“We welcome MONUSCO's commitment to investigating any and all occasions when civilians are massacred when United Nations peacekeepers are nearby, as well as Special Representative Kobler's call today to shift from a mindset of protection by presence to one of protection by action. However, significant obstacles continue to stand in the way of peace in the Great Lakes region, which undermines the hard-won progress of our collective effort. The greatest threat is posed by the Forces democratiques de liberation du Rwanda (FDLR), whose members continue to carry out serious human rights violations and sow fear across the Democratic Republic of the Congo. For example, according to the report of the Secretary-General, in April, the FDLR abducted at least 60 civilians in the Walikale territory (S/2014/450, para. 69).”
2014-08-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7237 (2014) · source
“With strong support from the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), the Democratic Republic of the Congo's military defeated the Mouvement du 23 mars (M-23), which is currently being demobilized, as well as several other armed groups. MONUSCO'S Force Intervention Brigade has demonstrated that with a robust mandate, peacekeepers can effectively protect civilians from atrocities. They have performed with bravery and competence, putting their lives on the line for people from a country that is not their own.”
2014-08-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7237 (2014) · source
“A year and a half ago, leaders from across the region came together to create an ambitious agreement to break the horrific and long-running cycle of violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework Agreement that they signed was predicated on the understanding that not only the region but the entire international community had a stake in forging a durable and lasting peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, an understanding reflected in the significant, unprecedented support that the accord received from the African Union, the United Nations, the World Bank and other partners. In the time since, significant progress has been made towards that collective goal.”
2014-08-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7237 (2014) · source
“I wish to thank Minister Simmonds of the United Kingdom for having convened this important event. I should also like to thank Angolan Defence Minister Goncalves Lourenco; the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mr. Tshibanda N'tungamulongo; South African Defence Minister Mapisa-Nqakula; and Ugandan State Minister Okello for making the time to join us today at this critical meeting. I also thank Special Representative Martin Kobler, Special Envoy Mary Robinson and Force Commander Dos Santos Cruz for all of their herculean efforts to ensure that the people of the Great Lakes finally once day get to live free from fear and free from want.”
2014-08-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7237 (2014) · source
“He cabled United Nations Headquarters and said that he could do more. He needed more and better trained peacekeepers, he said. He recognized that if he could send a clear message early on, a wholesale massacre might be averted. Regional organizations have shown that they not only can do more but also are willing to do more. As they step forward, it is not only the people whom they protect who benefit from greater peace and stability, we all do. We owe it to regional and international peace and security and to the many civilians in harm's way right now to give them our full support.”
2014-07-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7228 (2014) · source