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  1. “In conclusion, to address and neutralize the threat of mercenary activities in Africa, we must take robust measures to deal with this persistent source of instability on our continent. Only a collective and well- coordinated approach at the regional and international levels will allow us to end the phenomenon of mercenary activity by disrupting its financial networks and cross- border recruitment, thereby defeating its operations. I thank the President again for his decision to raise awareness of this critical matter.”

    2019-02-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8456 (2019) · source

  2. “It is for that reason that the Council can count on our full support for the objectives you, Sir, have outlined for this meeting. Mercenaries today are not only involved in active combat; we now see an increase in cyberattacks and industrial espionage carried out by mercenary groups from the comfort of their homes. They continue to evolve and innovate. We cannot, and should not, be static in our response. Therefore, the existing policy frameworks of the African Union and of the International Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries of 1989 need to be updated in order for them to cope with emerging realities. For its part, the African Union will review the 1977 Convention with a View to further strengthening its provisions.”

    2019-02-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8456 (2019) · source

  3. “It is important to make a distinction between the role played by providers of military and security services that are operating within a clear national legal framework and mercenary groups that are operating clandestinely to provide military support to groups determined to destabilize constitutional order and authority. Mercenaries are part of a worrisome increase in the incidence of transboundary criminal networks, some of which are well financed and have sophisticated communication and military equipment, and many of which are connected to global terrorist networks. The Council is aware that Rwanda is among the countries of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region that have been victims of such cross-border terrorist networks, as reported to the Council in document S/2018/1133.”

    2019-02-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8456 (2019) · source

  4. “You represent our common goal to achieve substantial progress in promoting peace and prosperity in Africa and all over the world. The issue of mercenaries has a long history in Africa and has presented a grave threat to the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Member States. In reaction to that threat, the Organization of African Unity (OAU) established the Convention for the Elimination of Mercenarism in Africa, as adopted by the Heads of State and Government of OAU member States in 1977. The term "mercenaries" at that time was used to refer to persons recruited locally or abroad to fight for financial or material gain. However, that definition, including the mercenary activities covered in the 1977 Convention, may no longer be adequate to describe mercenary activities in Africa today.”

    2019-02-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8456 (2019) · source

  5. “I address the Security Council today on behalf of His Excellency President Paul Kagame, who was invited in his capacity as Chairperson of the African Union to contribute to this important discussion, which will help us highlight the threat posed by mercenary activities to peace and stability in our region. I bring the Council his greetings and good wishes for the success of this meeting. I also take this opportunity, on behalf of President Kagame, to congratulate His Excellency President Obiang Nguema Mbasogo and the Government of Equatorial Guinea as they steer the work of the Security Council for the month of February. You, Sir, can count on the active support of the African Union and Rwanda during your presidency.”

    2019-02-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8456 (2019) · source

  6. “The Commission has contributed to the emerging return of confidence among the Governments of Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Uganda, enabling them to identify common threats and to face them collectively. I thank the Group of Friends of the Great Lakes Region, co-chaired by Canada and the Netherlands, for their invaluable assistance to the International Conference on Peace, Security, Democracy and Development in the Great Lakes Region. All those concerted efforts have led the region to the brink of lasting peace and sustainable development. Rwanda believes that this is not the time to rest and do less; it is the time for a recommitment to do more - much more.”

    2006-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5359 (2006) · source

  7. “Rwanda also pledges to continue to make its contribution to the return of peace and stability to the region and to the protection of vulnerable populations, especially on our continent, in concert with the African Union and the United Nations. I would like to conclude by paying tribute to all those who have worked tirelessly for peace in our region. First of all, my tribute goes to the people and the leaders of the region, who have decided to take its destiny in their hands. They need the Council's support. We wish to recognize the invaluable role played by the United Nations and all its organs and by the African Union and all its organs. We thank the United States of America, the facilitator of the Tripartite Plus One Commission.”

    2006-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5359 (2006) · source

  8. “The formal establishment of a Peacebuilding Commission in December 2005 by the Security Council through its resolution 1645 (2005) and by the General Assembly through its resolution 60/180 is a very welcome event. Many countries in the Great Lakes region are in transition from conflict to sustainable peace and development. They are therefore ideal candidates for assistance from the Commission. Rwanda, given its history, is ready to contribute to the Commission's success. It is important that the initiatives currently under way in the Great Lakes region find some link with the Commission. We are ready to make our contribution when called upon to do so, be it through the sharing of ideas, material resources or personnel.”

    2006-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5359 (2006) · source

  9. “It has raised the expectations of millions of citizens in the region. In order for those expectations to be met, additional resources will have to be mobilized both within the region and from the international community. If that is not done, then it will simply be another conference that makes lots of headlines but has no measurable impact on the region's poor. As the region establishes a follow-up mechanism for the Conference, there is a need for serious discussions on mechanisms for continued partnership with the international community in the years ahead. Serious thought will also have to be given to novel ways of funding the identified outcomes, which will be reflected in the pact.”

    2006-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5359 (2006) · source

  10. “As the region works towards the signing of the proposed Security, Stability and Development Pact, the key principles of the region's ownership of both the process and the outcomes, sustained international partnership and inclusion, which are the pillars of the Conference process, will continue to be critical. It is also important to reaffirm the link among peace and security, good governance and economic development. Peace and security processes that are not anchored by good governance practices, sustained growth and poverty reduction are fragile indeed. That is why we believe that the four themes of the Conference are equally important. The Conference process has fostered dialogue among Governments, parliamentarians, civil society actors, the private sector, women's groups, young people, media professionals, religious leaders and others.”

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  11. “Rwanda, for its part, will continue to extend to any and all members of the FDLR who repatriate all the rights and responsibilities that Rwandans enjoy, as is their unconditional and inalienable right. An important building block in the emerging architecture of peace in our region is the International Conference on Peace, Security and Development in the Great Lakes Region. The first Summit of Heads of State and Government, held in Dar es-Salaam in November 2004, provided a vision of a region transformed from a theatre of incessant conflict to one of shared prosperity. They also provided a road map for how that transformation could occur. Rwanda hopes that the postponed second Summit will take place as expeditiously as possible.”

    2006-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5359 (2006) · source

  12. “Rwanda would like to take this opportunity to express its condolences to the Government and the people of Guatemala, to the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and to the entire United Nations family on the loss of the Guatemalan peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The deaths of those valiant peacekeepers should spur the Council to further, stronger and more effective action. The Governments of the region, through their ministers for foreign affairs, meeting in Kampala in October last year, provided the Council with suggestions about how that could be done. I hope that this body will take the necessary decisions.”

    2006-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5359 (2006) · source

  13. “They would like to know why the Security Council has not yet permanently ended the threat posed by those forces, and they question why the sanctions Committee established pursuant to resolution 1533 (2004) and the Group of Experts re-established under resolution 1596 (2005) have not yet tackled the issue of the flow of arms and other supplies to those groups with the seriousness it deserves. I dare to hope that this open meeting will provide the answers to those questions, both through the draft resolution to be adopted later and through actions taken by United Nations forces on the ground.”

    2006-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5359 (2006) · source

  14. “Until and unless the people of the region are freed of the fear, the tyranny and the attacks of the forces currently calling themselves the Forces democratiques de liberation du Rwanda (FDLR), the Lord's Resistance Army, the Palipehutu-Forces nationales de liberation and other armed groups that currently sow desolation in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the rest of the region, the emerging peace will continue to be fragile and development will remain a distant dream for many of our people. Rwandans continue to ask why, for 11 years now, they have had to continue to live with the spectre of genocide.”

    2006-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5359 (2006) · source

  15. “In order to effectively do that, however, we will all need to address the unfinished business of the Lusaka process. As I have already said, many of the building blocks for regional peace, as identified by that process, have been put in place. Unfortunately, there still remains one key impediment to lasting peace: the presence of genocidal forces and other armed groups in the region, whose sole purpose is the continued destabilization of our countries.”

    2006-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5359 (2006) · source

  16. “The Congolese people have a new political dispensation and are involved in a process that will further cement it, as they move beyond the transitional arrangements agreed on at Sun City, South Africa, and establish structures reflective of the will of the people. Foreign troops have withdrawn from the Democratic Republic of the Congo in a process aided and observed by the region and by the international community. Rwanda believes that the prospects for lasting peace, deepened stability and shared prosperity are better now than they have been at any other moment since the genocide of 1994. The region and the rest of the international community need to work together to consolidate the gains in peace and security, while also laying a solid groundwork for sustained and sustainable shared prosperity.”

    2006-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5359 (2006) · source

  17. “They continue to play a key role in finding solutions to the crises in Somalia and the Sudan. The principles of regional ownership of peace processes and international partnership are not merely empty slogans. Our region has shown that they are possible, and that, when applied correctly, they produce results. Rwanda is encouraged by the progress of the political process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Many of the pillars of the Lusaka Ceasefire Agreement of 1999 have slowly but surely been realized. The war, which at its peak involved many States, has stopped. Instead of confrontation and conflict, States in the region are now exploring avenues of increased cooperation.”

    2006-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5359 (2006) · source

  18. “More specifically, it seeks to address peace, security and development in the region. Those issues are, indeed, all interrelated and crucial. The people of our region are not only interlinked ethnically, culturally, linguistically and economically, but they also have - as the developments in post-genocide Rwanda, the elections in Burundi and the electoral process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo attest - expressed their desire and their determination to forge a better future, despite, and moving beyond, the traumas of the past. The countries of the region have been tireless in the search for peace and stability in the region. They have played a major role in the return of peace in Burundi and the advent of a new political dispensation in that country.”

    2006-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5359 (2006) · source

  19. “I would like first of all to thank you, Madam President, for having associated Rwanda with the deliberations of this meeting of the Security Council. We are pleased and honoured to see the United Republic of Tanzania presiding over the proceedings of the Council this month. We are extremely glad to see you, Madam, occupying the presidency. We have no doubt that your able leadership will make the work of the Council extremely productive. We pay tribute to the United Republic of Tanzania, working in concert with all of its neighbours, for its tireless efforts in the search for peace and shared development in the Great Lakes region and, indeed, in the entire African continent. This meeting of the Security Council is dedicated to the examination of events in the Great Lakes region.”

    2006-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5359 (2006) · source