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  1. “We also would like to reaffirm our attachment to the reform of the Security Council along the lines of the African Union position — the only way to ensure balance and equity within the Security Council. Inclusivity, coherence, objectivity and equity, in our view, should guide the working methods of the Security Council in order to achieve unanimous and effective decisions.”

    2023-09-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9410Resumption1 (2023) · source

  2. “We increasingly observe that certain members of the Council are choosing a mechanical alignment, without real objectivity, on bloc-based positions, which, wrongly or rightly, classifies countries on the agenda as good or bad. Such an approach, together with a lack of understanding sometimes seen of the real situation of countries on the agenda, in addition to reports that can be biased, can only have a negative impact on the resolution of crises. The Central African Republic beliefs that field visits are critical to a better understanding among Council members of the various problems countries face and promote — we hope — greater objectivity. We therefore support the initiative to increase such visits.”

    2023-09-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9410Resumption1 (2023) · source

  3. “Also, for several years the Council maintained a now immoral arms embargo against the Central African Republic, thus limiting and redirecting the capacity of our national defence and security forces while allowing terrorist groups to prosper for a very long time, massacring and attacking civilians at will, with a peacekeeping force that is inoperative and ineffective due to an inappropriate mandate. We therefore believe that evaluations are critical to enable the Council to achieve its primary goal — the maintenance of international peace and security. In conclusion, the Central African Republic remains particularly concerned about the negative impact of certain conflicts with geopolitical impacts on the decisions and the work of the Council.”

    2023-09-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9410Resumption1 (2023) · source

  4. “In our view, the ongoing pursuit of effectiveness and coherence should guide the actions and decisions of the Council. The independent evaluations are therefore an essential tool to objectively judge the coherence, appropriateness and effectiveness of the agreed objectives. The Central African Republic would like to reiterate here our wish to see those evaluations applied to sanctions regimes and peacekeeping force mandates. Individual sanctions through the freezing of assets and travel restrictions have been taken against the leaders of armed groups for at least 10 years, yet they have not turned out to have a real impact on crisis resolution. In the context of the Central African Republic, such sanctions are more symbolic than a means of effective action to achieve peace.”

    2023-09-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9410Resumption1 (2023) · source

  5. “The Central African Republic continues to think that all members of the Council should have the same opportunity to fully and usefully participate in elaborating the documents of the Council, including resolutions, presidential statements and press releases, in conformity with note S/2017/507. On this point, we would like to suggest the idea of introducing a restriction or annual limit per member of the Council on the penholder function, all while reflecting on a mechanism that would share that function. That arrangement, in turn, would strengthen the effectiveness of the Council and ensure that drafting Council documents is more inclusive and enables the full participation of all members of the Council for effective and valid decision.”

    2023-09-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9410Resumption1 (2023) · source

  6. “The Central African Republic nevertheless deplores the inertia on the fundamental and decisive subjects already mentioned last year by several delegations. Those matters have yet to be resolved, which leads to our ongoing concern regarding our objective to make the decisions of the Security Council more effective and efficient. I want to mention the penholder issue, where we continue to note those negative trends, namely the monopolization of that primary function by one or a very limited number of countries. That often leads to imposed and misunderstood unilateral decisions that are not unanimous, but rather contested, and are the result of inadequate consultations with countries on the Council’s agenda, which disregard those countries’ main points of view and those of the regional, continental and subregional organizations concerned.”

    2023-09-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9410Resumption1 (2023) · source

  7. “Mr. Sepe (Central African Republic) (spoke in French): The Central African Republic applauds the Albanian presidency of the Security Council for this month of September. We also welcome once again the initiative of this open debate on the working methods of the Security Council. The Central African Republic welcomes the progress made on this issue through the adoption of two additional notes and the publication by the Informal Working Group on Documentation and Other Procedural Questions of its first annual report. Those strides forward help to reassure us that our annual meetings on this issue are not simply a type of group therapy serving as an outlet for our pent-up frustrations in the face of the inequity and the ongoing lack of understanding.”

    2023-09-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9410Resumption1 (2023) · source