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President Kenyatta

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2014-09-24
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2021-10-12
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  1. “There are no more names inscribed on the list of speakers. Before concluding, I would like once again to thank all of the participants who joined us today. I would also like to thank the Member States and regional groups that have so far submitted written statements on the subject of today’s discussion. Statements that are received by the end of today will form part of the compilation of statements from this meeting. We look forward to receiving more. The meeting rose at 12.30 p.m.”

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  2. “I now resume my functions as President of the Council. I shall now give the floor to those members of the Council who wish to make statements. I call on the Permanent Representative of the United States and Member of President Biden’s Cabinet”

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  3. “Sixth, the United Nations, regional organizations and development partners should focus on State capacity-building that delivers competence, as opposed to the exclusive focus on good governance as a set of normative standards. Seventh, the United Nations and its peacebuilding initiatives should include diversity management as a component of peacebuilding and State stabilization. Eighth, we should initiate a collaborative approach among States, the United Nations system and social media companies to combat hate speech and incitement. That can include an agreed global code of conduct by companies and the development of early- warning tools to detect escalation trends and facilitate pre-emptive measures. I hope that those insights and recommendations will be embraced by the Security Council and the United Nations.”

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  4. “Fourth, the twenty-sixth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to be held in Glasgow next month, will be an opportunity to ensure that climate-change adaptation commitments are aimed at accelerating development, investment and job creation, particularly in the developing world. Climate adaptation must offer a clear and viable path to green industrialization for Africa and the Global South. Fifth, States should be offered every assistance to develop internal mechanisms for national dialogue and reconciliation. They should establish early-warning systems to avert conflicts and human suffering.”

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  5. “First, we should place safety rails on political competition in all States, democratic or not. That can be achieved by incentivizing a political culture that does not endanger national cohesion through exploiting identity to divide and create enmity among citizens. Second, we need to undertake thorough reviews of our international institutions to consider whether they are fit for purpose in building a more inclusive world and managing diversity better, particularly in times of crisis, such as the coronavirus disease pandemic. Third, we need to accelerate Security Council reform. The membership of the Council lacks transparency and inclusion.”

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  6. “The handshake was more than a political gesture; it was a political innovation that proposed to insert the safety, unity and prosperity of Kenya at the core of our politics. We sought to build those safety rails into how the State is structured and works through a national conversation. Kenya will continue to build and protect its unity. I hope that we sustain it and that other countries come to a similar conclusion. Our States would then be good at preventing conflict and would be exporters of stability and security to our neighbours. It is against that backdrop that I chose today’s topic to inform our debate. I want to offer a few recommendations that I consider essential in the management of diversity, which supports State-building and sustainable peace.”

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  7. “Political differences were increasingly being communicated by politicians as ethnic rivalry and exclusion. It was therefore not acceptable to continue on that path if we were indeed to build the prosperous and secure Kenya for which our people yearn. On 8 March of the same year, I had a handshake with the leader of the opposition. We did it to make the point to all Kenyans that our country’s cohesion and unity were far greater than our political rivalry. That handshake created a powerful surge of hope in Kenyans. Tempers cooled, and we remembered that we were part of a Kenyan family and not defined by our political rivalry. It became clear that we were fellow citizens, without regard to ethnicity or regional differences, and that we shared a common interest in peace.”

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  8. “A necessary start is to restructure global cooperation and governance so that they truly accord to the principle that all peoples and countries are of equal worth. We also need to change how we embrace diversity at the national and local levels. The State must be seen, and indeed act, as a leading protector of national unity and cohesion. That means that, as a core duty, it must embrace respect for difference. If the State is to demonstrate such a characteristic, the political leaders who lead it will need to emerge from a new politics of cohesion. In deeply divided countries, as a start, individual leaders can demonstrate that, although they may have deep political differences, they can unite for the sake of the nation. I am proud that Kenya demonstrated that approach when, in early 2018, Kenya was facing dangerous politics of division.”

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  9. “The inability of their countries to offer them viable opportunities is often the result of one-size-fits- all prescriptions and templates by powerful global institutions that fail to take into account the diversity and different needs of States, as well as the different contexts. They therefore perpetuate inequality and exclusion. Vaccine nationalism, travel bans and red lists further inflame the divisions between rich and poor States. Those are manifestations of the inability to deal with a diverse world. They are major factors in most conflict situations of which the Security Council is more often than not seized. We need to deal with that. That requires that we accept that there is a need to change our national and global economic and governance systems to manage diversity more effectively.”

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  10. “The escalation of a social or political conflict finds the State much less able to prevent or mitigate the crisis. It is worth emphasizing that, rather than serving to legitimize the State, in that environment of grievance based on identity, elections sometimes only further the divides. They become a zero-sum game in a winner- takes-all contest that appears to pit racial, ethnic and religious identities against each other. Images of desperate men and women on sinking rafts, trying to migrate in pursuit of economic opportunity, have today become commonplace. They point to an international political and economic system that is inadequate for the challenges of today and that is definitely not adequate to meet our Sustainable Development Goals.”

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  11. “Among other things, it leads to a lack of employment or livelihood opportunities for billions of people, purely based on their identities, and communities and countries being unable to benefit from their natural resources. It leads to climate injustice and an unfair trading system. The result is a profound sense of grievance and bitterness, which populists and demagogues can easily exploit. That is so especially when such feelings and narratives are carried by social media and its spreading of misinformation, disinformation and narratives that are often laced with incitement and extremism tendencies. It leads to trust in institutions deteriorating and State legitimacy weakening. It is fodder for terrorism, insurgencies, the rise of xenophobia, hate speech, divisive tribalism and racism.”

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  12. “I thank Ms. Koofi for her briefing. I shall now make a statement in my capacity as the President of Kenya. At the outset, I want to thank the Secretary-General, His Excellency Mr. António Guterres, His Excellency President Paul Kagame, His Excellency former President Thabo Mbeki and Ms. Fawzia Koofi for their insights. I am very grateful to all of them for honouring my invitation to participate in this important debate. The key message that I wish to deliver today is that the poor management of diversity is leading to grave threats to international peace and security. Inequality within and among States is too often the result of exclusion on the basis of identity. That exclusion is often institutionalized in governance and economic relations at the national and global levels. It manifests itself in stereotyping and bigotry.”

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  13. “In accordance with rule 39 of the Council’s provisional rules of procedure, I invite the following briefers to participate in this meeting: His Excellency Mr. Thabo Mbeki, former President of South Africa; and Ms. Fawzia Koofi, first woman Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Afghanistan. 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/2021/854, which contains the text of a letter dated 6 October 2021 from the Permanent Representative of Kenya addressed to the Secretary- General, transmitting a concept note on the item under consideration. I wish to warmly welcome the Secretary-General, His Excellency Mr. António Guterres, to whom I now give the floor.”

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  14. “In accordance with rule 37 of the Council’s provisional rules of procedure, I invite the representative of Rwanda to participate in this meeting. On behalf of the Council, I welcome His Excellency Mr. Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda. I request the Protocol Officer to escort the President to a seat at the Council table. Mr. Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda, was escorted to a seat at the Council table.”

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  15. “That is the pipeline for global terrorism. We must call attention to the enablers of that process, especially those providing financing at the grassroots level, where radicalization is taking place. Those efforts must take place within a wider strategy that brings in all States. The East African countries are also deepening security cooperation in concrete ways, alongside our economic integration agenda. We in Kenya and East Africa have taken up our responsibilities in the global war against terrorists and stand ready to partner with anyone and all parties willing to eradicate that menace.”

    2014-09-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7272 (2014) · source

  16. “The fragile security environment in Somalia continues to afford Al-Shabaab a safe haven in which to operate. In cooperation with other regional countries withintheAfricanUnionMissioninSomalia(AMISOM), as well as with the Somali National Army, Kenya has continued to undertake campaigns that are degrading Al-Shabaab's capability. We wish to underscore that sufficient support to the ongoing AMISOM. operations and stabilization efforts is integral to securing Somalia and denying the fighters operational space. In the light of that imperative, we strongly urge expanded support for AMISOM, particularly in facilitating ready access to force multipliers in the form of air and maritime support. Even as we take the battle to the existing terrorists, we need to expand our focus on the radicalization of youth.”

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  17. “Our conviction is that strong, enforceable action must be taken to tackle terror groups and the phenomenon of foreign fighters. That beliefis informed by our experience that terrorist groups are continuously evolving into new forms in response to opportunity. For instance, the closer collaboration of Al-Shabaab with Al-Qaida has led to strengthened links with other Al-Qaida affiliates, allowing for increased movement of foreign fighters and weapons. It has also renewed their strategic and communication capabilities. The risk is growing, and we are all in its path. We are geographically close to Al-Shabaab's Somali camps. Our status as a democracy, which terrorists associate with the West, also makes us a target. Our deepening democracy and our growing prosperity are anathema to terrorists.”

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  18. “President Kenyatta: Last weekend, Kenya commemorated the heinous attack on the Westgate Mall, which left 67 people, of 13 nationalities, dead. Half the terrorists who executed that attack were foreigners drawn from the ranks that have come to fight alongside Al-Shabaab. Tragically, the pool of foreign fighters is also being filled from our children in Kenya and the region. The alarming rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is also driven by the phenomenon of foreign fighters. It awakens us to the speed at which terrorist organizations can evolve. No doubt, a greater risk lies in the fighters returning to their homelands or finding new operating spaces in which to carry out their terrorist attacks. Such is the threat that we face from foreign fighters and operatives, who in the past have killed hundreds of our citizens.”

    2014-09-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7272 (2014) · source