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  1. “There are no more names inscribed on the list of speakers. The Security Council has thus concluded the present stage of its consideration of the item on its agenda. committed. We shall continue to use all tools at our The meeting rose ail/017.711.”

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  2. “I would like to thank His Majesty Mohammed VI and the Government of Morocco for their effective response strategy. We recall the attacks that we have all condemned, but I do believe that the strategy has been implemented and measures have been taken since then. For now, we can affirm that terrorism has been vanquished in that area. We also appreciate Morocco's willingness to cooperate with other States and to share its experience in order to enable them to combat terrorism.”

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  3. “I am of course in agreement with the analysis of the question just presented by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Luxembourg. I think we need a comprehensive approach, as he said. I would especially like to welcome his role in combating poverty through the actions that he indicated and encourage him to pursue that effort because the road is still long.”

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  4. “In accordance with the understanding reached among the members of the Council, I shall take it that the members of the Security Council agree to the statement, which will be issued as a document of the Security Council under the symbol S/PRST/2013/5. It is so decided. I shall now give the floor to the members of the Council.”

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  5. “Only subregional and international cooperation will allow us to fight criminal drug trafficking groups. Without the support of the international community, the African continent will not know how to defeat that scourge, which infects States, corrupts Governments and literally transforms people into the slaves of the twenty-first century. Only global governance - a world Government, as Jacques Attali of France says - developing effective policies would counterbalance the growing crime that all governments face. I now resume my functions as President of the Council. The Council has before it the text of a statement by the President on behalf of the Council on the subject of today's meeting. I thank Council members for their valuable contributions to this statement.”

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  6. “I am thinking in particular of the tax on international financial transactions. Its basic purpose was not to bridge the gaps created by banks in the partner countries but to uncover new resources for official development assistance. Eleven members of the European Union agreed to launch a tax on the Community's international financial transactions through strengthened cooperation, starting in February 2013. I welcome that measure, which will free up large amounts of funding, some of which, I hope, will be devoted to international aid. I would like to thank the President of the French Republic, who has committed here at the United Nations to devote 10 per cent of such assistance to development and the fight against health issues and pandemics.”

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  7. “I am thinking in particular of the devastating effects of climate change on our countries. Nevertheless, I would like to thank Denmark, Luxembourg, Norway, the Netherlands and Sweden for having met and sometimes even exceeded their official development assistance commitments. The figures are sufficiently clear and speak for themselves. The challenges are immense and the financial needs considerable. As President Bouteflika said way back in 2002, the fight against poverty is perhaps the first essential element in the fight against terrorism, since while poverty is humanly and morally unacceptable, it also destroys human virtues and the bases of social solidarity. While I urgently appeal to all of our partner countries to make an effort in terms of official development assistance. However, we must also find other sources of funding.”

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  8. “Thirdly, to implement those measures, it is urgent that the partner countries honour their commitments with respect to official development assistance. According to the most recent report of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development for 2012, official development assistance fell by 4 per cent in real terms between 2011 and 2012, after having fallen by 2 per cent in 2011. Total global official development assistance amounted to $125 billion in 2012, representing 0.29 per cent of the combined national wealth of the various donors, as compared to 0.31 per cent in 2011. That does not seem fair to me, since we know that poor countries are facing new challenges for which they are not necessarily responsible and which are clearly the result of the furious pace of industrialization by wealthy countries.”

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  9. “The strategy must further seek the greater involvement of the African continent in the international debate on terrorism and the global management of that scourge, as well as closer coordination between the African countries and between Africa and its international partners. The strategy must support the ownership of African countries and regional organizations in the fight against terrorism within their territory. In that respect, I commend the outstanding work by the African Union, which took a number of steps in the right direction at its ministerial meeting on 17 March, such as the strengthening of border security, exchanges of information and national capacity- building through experience sharing, training and equipment.”

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  10. “It should seek better control over conventional arms transfers to the continent's interior. Since the Arab spring, there has been a proliferation of small arms and light weapons. The transparency of any arms deal should be confirmed by a designated African authority. The strategy should also seek to achieve better border control. Following the conflict in Mali, new transit routes for cocaine have already opened up in some countries of Central Africa, according to the French criminologist Xavier Raufer. The strategy must focus on the regional approach to mitigate the risk of terrorist migration, in particular in Mali because of Operation Serval. We must be aware that the war in Mali is not without consequences, and several West African capitals have been cited by the MUJAO as potential targets for attacks.”

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  11. “In the Sahel, a third of the jihadists are fighting to defend their ideology, while the remaining two-thirds pursue social or financial interests. The response to these new forms of crime must be international. The international community needs to develop, in consultation with the countries concerned, a global strategy embodied in a number of long- term policy, diplomatic, socioeconomic and security initiatives. Such a strategy should seek to assist in improved governance, which should involve effective justice and the willingness to issue arrest warrants against those responsible for abuses. It should enhance the fight against youth unemployment, as highlighted by the Secretary-General and the Director General of the Intergovernmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa.”

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  12. “Criminal groups are gradually transformed into hybrid groups, as is the case currently with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia. That group, which was based on a political ideology, has over time mutated into a criminal narco-terrorist group. Similarly, the political and social demands made by Ansar Dine are facilitated by the availability of illicit sources of funding and cooperation with other movements, such as Boko Haram and the Mouvement pour l'unicite' et lejihad en Afrique de l'Ouest (MUJAO). According to the United States Drug Enforcement Agency, 60 per cent of terrorist groups are linked to narcotics trafficking, and 80 per cent of the Taliban are pursuing financial interests and not the desire to impose a religious doctrine.”

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  13. “A vicious cycle threatens those populations, as they are easy to persuade and thus provide a continuous flow of recruits for terrorist groups seeking new blood. Secondly, given the close links between terrorism and drug traffickers and other trafficking groups, it is essential that we adopt a holistic approach to fight that phenomenon, as these elements are two facets of the same reality. While terrorism seeks to use violence against individuals or property to coerce or to intimidate States and societies in order to achieve political objectives - as is the case in certain countries, for instance Uganda, with the Lord's Resistance Army - it cannot be treated separately from organized crime, which is ultimately aimed at financial gain.”

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  14. “The threat in the Sahel is not only military, Islamist and terrorist. It is also about food. Between the end of 2011 and the middle of 2012 the number of people dealing with food insecurity grew from 13 million to more than 18 million, of whom 8 million are facing a serious food crisis. Population movements inevitably worsen an already precarious situation. Increasing population losses, a lack of water and the loss of revenue are the key ingredients that can transform this humanitarian crisis into a truly political one, leading to renewed violence. In Mali, for example, on the eve of the lean season, the food situation continues to worsen. According to United Nations agencies and specialized non-governmental organizations, one in five households is facing severe malnutrition.”

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  15. “First, only a multi-pronged response, no longer a strictly military one, as the speakers before me have emphasized, will enable us to contain narco-terrorist criminal groups. The United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, adopted in 2006 and revisited in 2012, goes in that direction. It is essential to work on security issues together with development problems and issues around the promotion of human rights. It is also necessary to work upstream from terrorism on development, education and health programmes. It is only by ensuring the well-being of citizens and peoples, and of the poorest and weakest in particular, that they will be less receptive to extremist or violent ideologies. Only the promise of development and personal growth can compete with this sordid, murderous alternative.”

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  16. “The ports of West Africa and the Sahel have become hubs for drug trafficking networks, connecting suppliers of cocaine from Latin America and hashish from various African countries with markets in Europe and the Near East. Trafficking in immigrants ranges between 65,000 and 120,000 people a year; trafficking in light weapons is estimated at 8 million items a year, including 100,000 Kalashnikovs. Drugs from the Middle East and Latin America transit through the soft underbelly that is Africa via porous border before reaching Europe. The number of cocaine addicts in West Africa is now estimated at 1.5 million consumers. It is therefore more than urgent that we find ways to curb this new wave of narco-terrorist criminals operating globally. How can we end this rampant scourge? Three avenues should be explored.”

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  17. “If African Governments are not given the means to conduct an effective and lasting anti-terrorist policy by depriving these groups of their armies, it is alarmingly possible that we could see them consolidating not just a terrorist arc stretching from Mauritania to Nigeria and extending as far as the Horn of Africa, but also developing a lawless area available to traffickers from around the world. For ties are being created between the drug traffickers in the Sahel and European mafias such as Italy's Camorra and Latin-American groups, which exchange experience and expertise with them. It is clear that terrorism in Africa extends well beyond the African continent. The organized criminal activity there is constantly growing.”

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  18. “In the areas where it establishes itself it eliminates any possibility of programmes for economic and social development. That situation enables such organizations to take over as de facto authorities that regulate the areas under their control and discourage foreign investment, which leads to the isolation, indeed the economic collapse of the States concerned. Economic activity, both legal commerce and illegal trafficking, and the movement of people, whether migrating native populations, tourist travel or non-governmental personnel, is entirely at their mercy. Thus Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb now rules in the Sahel and has made it a fabulous gold mine for international hostage-taking, trafficking in cigarettes, drugs and arms, and money-laundering.”

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  19. “Established in Mali, Nigeria, Somalia and other countries, terrorist groups, entrenched in the desert, are becoming more and more active. They sow their seeds in African countries whose low development levels constitute fertile soil for their activities, conducted against a background of tribal conflicts, porous borders and social problems. Terrorism is the result of a confluence of political, security, economic, social and environmental factors interacting with one another. It is tied to poverty, weak governance and corruption, and thus to underdevelopment. It is particularly active in fragile States, countries in post-conflict situations where the absence of the rule of law and an administrative vacuum enable such groups to grow with complete impunity and to extend their influence over a powerless population with no hope for the future.”

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  20. “I would also like to thank the Secretary-General, not only for his statement on the subject under discussion but also for the activities he leads on behalf of our Organization to promote peace, security and stability wherever they are threatened, in Africa in particular. Terrorism is a global phenomenon that requires a global response. It strikes hundreds of innocent people every day and casts a tragic shadow over entire populations. Today its spectre is haunting Africa. The Sahelo-Saharan Strip, which crosses Africa from east to west, is dealing with a mass of security challenges that include growing religious extremism, radical Islamism, terrorism, trafficking of all kinds - including in human beings, drugs and arms - organized crime, and so forth. This is indeed one of the most disturbing threats of our time.”

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  21. “I thank Mr. Shehu for his very informative briefing, which clearly emphasizes that the response to terrorism cannot simply be a military one. Various factors must come together in order to end this genuine scourge. I will now make a statement in my capacity as representative of Togo. I would first like to welcome everyone, in particular the ministers who are participating in today's debate. Their presence reflects the attention that their countries attach to the issue of combating terrorism around the world and, more particularly, in Africa, as well as a demonstration of their determination to eradicate it.”

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  22. “I thank the Secretary-General for his statement and I welcome his commitment to bring the Organization into the fight against terrorism. I now give the floor to Mr. Shehu.”

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  23. “Under rule 39 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite Mr. Abdullahi Shehu, Director General of the Integovernmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa, to participate in this meeting. Under rule 39 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite Mr. Tete Antonio, Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations, to participate in this meeting. Under rule 39 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite Mr. Thomas Mayr-Harting, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations, to participate in this meeting. I recognize the presence of the Secretary-General, His Excellency Mr. Ban Ki-moon, and give him the floor.”

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  24. “The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. I wish to draw the attention of the members of the Council to document S/2013/264, which contains the text of a letter dated 30 April 2013 from the Permanent Representative of Togo to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General, transmitting a concept note on the item under consideration. I wish to warmly welcome the Secretary-General, the Ministers and the other representatives present in the Chamber. Their participation in this meeting is an affirmation of the importance of the subject matter under consideration. In accordance with rule 37 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite the representatives ofAlgeria, Benin, Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Somalia, the Sudan and Tanzania to participate in this meeting.”

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