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President Gbagbo

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2008-04-16
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2008-04-16
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  1. “We have established an inter-Ivorian dialogue with Burkina Faso facilitation. I believe that Africans have a great deal to offer Africa in terms of peace. They have a great deal to offer, and I want them to give a great deal - and to give more. I want the United Nations to support them so that they can give even more to peace in Africa.”

    2008-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5868 (2008) · source

  2. “Reform of the United Nations does not mean only reform in terms of who is on the Security Council and who is not: it is a question of who does what in the world. The world has become too big: I believe that the world population was not even 2 billion when the United Nations was founded, and there were far fewer independent States. With every passing month and year, new countries have emerged. We must ensure that regional organizations play a larger role, and that they enjoy the support of the United Nations. That is my proposal, and that is why I came here today. Whenever cote d'Ivoire has made significant progress, Africans have been on the front line. In 2005 we made significant progress through South Africa's mediation; and we are making significant progress today through Burkina Faso's facilitation.”

    2008-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5868 (2008) · source

  3. “We need, however, to institutionalize all our progress, and the United Nations must support us. In Cote d'Ivoire, for instance, we have a Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Abidjan, but his work needs to reach out to our institutions and the United Nations must work to decentralize power. This is a question not merely of resources, but of responsibility as well. It is a structural issue. The African Union and subregional organizations, such as the Southern African Development Community, ECOWAS and the Arab organizations, must be provided with the structural responsibility to resolve the new types of conflict we are seeing today. That is what I wanted to suggest. Of course it is necessary to support the African Union and its membership. My expectation from the United Nations is that such reforms will take place.”

    2008-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5868 (2008) · source

  4. “Darfur is a somewhat unique case because it contains both an internal Sudanese conflict and a border conflict between the Sudan, Chad and the Central African Republic. It is perhaps the only case in which two or three States have faced off against one another in Africa. The others, even that in Kenya, are domestic conflicts, which were not exactly foreseen or contemplated as a reason for the establishment of the United Nations. I greatly admire the initiatives that Africans themselves have launched. We have done a great deal in ending our own conflicts. I commend all those who have led the African Union and the Organization of African Unity before it, as well as our colleague and brother President Konare, who is present among us, and his successor, who is striving methodically.”

    2008-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5868 (2008) · source

  5. “The first round of presidential elections will be held on 30 November, and everyone should support us morally and assist us to convene the elections and to put an era that does us no honour behind us. Today's meeting is an important one. I wish to make just a few points. The United Nations was established at the end of the Second World War. It is the same age as me and older than many current heads of State. It was created to resolve conflicts among States, but our conflicts in Africa generally take place within a State and are aimed at destroying it. That has been the case in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Somalia and wherever conflict has erupted.”

    2008-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5868 (2008) · source

  6. “Like previous speakers, I should like to thank President Thabo Mbeki for this initiative, as well as Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon, who, immediately upon assuming his official functions, began to take the steps necessary to assist cote d'Ivoire to emerge from its crisis. I also commend President Blaise Compaore of Burkina Faso, who helped us in his capacity as head of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). I wish to point out here that on Monday, before I boarded the plane, Cote d'Ivoire, having assembled all the actors to participate in the elections, set the date of 30 November for the first round of presidential balloting. It represents a victory for us all, and especially for cote d'Ivoire, which has grown weary of this erratic crisis.”

    2008-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5868 (2008) · source