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2003-11-24

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1. “We would like to conclude by expressing our profound appreciation to the international community for its continued support of the Tribunal through both assessed and voluntary contributions. As we begin the last leg, we urge the Council to continue its commitment to ensuring that the Tribunal is adequately resourced so that it can conduct its work efficiently and effectively. We also thank the Tribunal's President, Prosecutor and Registrar and their respective teams for their work in ensuring the implementation of the completion strategy.”

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2. “In view of the limited time remaining for the Tribunal, we urge that it strive towards greater effectiveness in its outreach programme and ensure that the existing information centre, training programmes for jurists, internships and relationships with academic institutions and civil society groups aim to educate and build capacity among Rwandans. While we welcome the efforts of the ICTR in highlighting some of these issues, which were mentioned in the statement of the Prosecutor, we once again call upon the Tribunal to increase its recruitment of Rwandan jurists and investigators, either as interns or on a permanent basis, in order to ensure knowledge transfer from the ICTR to Rwandan professionals.”

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3. “The Rwanda Government is open to discussions with the United Nations and Member States on how best to take that proposal forward. However, we should be cognizant of the need to act quickly, given the limited time left before the Tribunal completes its work. We welcome the information contained in annex 5 of the report concerning the ICTR outreach programme, and we welcome the remarks made in that connection by the representative of Japan. We see that as being inextricably linked to my previous point.”

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4. “As we continue to consider the legacy of the Tribunal for international justice in general and, more specifically, its effect on Rwanda, we believe that the completion strategy should incorporate the transfer of all court documents and materials to Rwanda, where they could provide a nucleus for a research and education centre which would contribute to raising awareness and to genocide prevention in Rwanda and beyond. We believe that as the ICTR completes its work, the United Nations and the international community should bequeath to Rwanda a genocide prevention and education centre not only to serve the memory of the genocide's 1million victims, but also to act as a centre for research and for understanding the lessons learned from the Rwanda genocide and as a centre to promote justice, reconciliation and human rights.”

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5. “The initial concern about the administration of sentences in Rwanda was the lack of a detention facility that met international standards. However, a detention facility was built more than two years ago and was inspected by the ICTR, which certified that it met international standards, and signed a memorandum of understanding to that effect. Despite that, there continues to be delay in effecting the transfers. It is unclear to us why that is the case. We would therefore appeal to the Council to intervene to ensure that those transfers are carried out expeditiously. The fourth point relates to the transfer of documents and materials.”

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6. “In this context, we do not believe that transferring cases to jurisdictions other than that of Rwanda would achieve the best results for the international community. We believe that with further support from the international community, including financial support for the trials, Rwanda would have the capacity to conduct them in a manner consistent with international standards of fair trial. The third point relates to transfers of convicts. The Rwanda Government has consistently stated that that all ICTR convicts should serve their sentences in Rwanda, where the crimes were committed. Once again, we believe that this is essential for justice and reconciliation in Rwanda the main reason why the ICTR was established in the first place.”

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7. “But transferring trials to other jurisdictions does not address the core challenge, which is how to equip Rwandans with the capacity to build a criminal justice system that would, for the long term, fight impunity and promote the rule of law and human rights. This we believe to be the core issue. Transferring cases to Europe or elsewhere simply would not address that core challenge. Council members will recall that this is a discussion that we had in the context of the establishment and operationalization of the Peacebuilding Commission - a discussion that you, Madam President, co-chaired. The key issue, as we see it, is how to ensure that international interventions like the ICTR have a sustained positive impact on countries that are emerging or have emerged from conflict.”

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8. “On the second issue raised in paragraph 41 of the report under consideration - lack of capacity within the Rwandan judiciary - we have had occasion in the past to inform the Council that we have been steadily building and enhancing the capacity of our judiciary over the last decade. Furthermore, the caseload before the Rwandan judiciary has been significantly reduced following the introduction of the Gacaca justice system. That is not to say, however, that our judiciary does not need strengthening; it does, indeed, need strengthening. We would be the first to acknowledge that, and we would welcome any assistance in that connection from the United Nations and through bilateral arrangements.”

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9. “The Rwandan Government has discussed this issue extensively with the ICTR, particularly with the prosecution. Following those meetings, and in close consultation with the Tribunal, my Government has drafted new legislation to prepare for those transfers. The draft legislation includes addressing procedural issues and the creation of special chambers. The draft legislation addresses the issue of the death penalty, which has been raised this morning by several delegations. It is our intention to waive the death penalty for the transferred cases. We expect that the draft legislation will be tabled before Parliament and adopted as law within the coming weeks.”

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10. “If they did, it would be an extremely sad indictment on us all and would send the wrong signal about the commitment of the international community to prevent genocide by combating impunity. The second area concerns the transfers of cases. It is a widely accepted principle that trials, especially for crimes as serious as genocide, should take place as close as possible to where the crimes were committed. In this connection, we welcome Prosecutor Jallow's reiteration this morning that Rwanda continues to be the major focus of referrals. It is our view that trials targeted for transfer should take place in Rwanda because that would contribute to our own efforts to eradicate the culture of impunity and promote reconciliation in Rwanda, as our people would be first- hand witnesses to justice being done.”

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11. “First, with regard to fugitives still at large, my delegation has on several occasions stated that the perpetrators of the genocide should not be allowed to evade justice, even after 2008. The Tribunal's completion strategy should not be seen as an exit strategy for the international community in its obligations to bring all those suspected of the crime of genocide to trial at the ICTR or in Rwanda. We would welcome appropriate measures that would ensure that all accused are brought to justice, even after the Tribunal's mandate has expired. My delegation has repeatedly expressed Rwanda's commitment, which I reiterate here today, to work with Governments around the world to bring those suspects to justice. We must not allow notorious suspects such as Felicien Kabuga and Augustine Ngirabatware to evade justice.”

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12. “We look forward to future reports being issued in good enough time to allow for informed consultations among both Council and non- Council members. The Rwandan Government also wishes to express at the outset its satisfaction with its good working relationship with the Tribunal. We wish to reiterate our commitment to work closely with the Tribunal to bring to justice those who bear the greatest responsibility for the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. With only two and a half years remaining for the Tribunal to complete its work in accordance with the completion strategy, it is clear that not much time is left and there is still plenty of work to be done. The following are some of the areas where we believe urgent progress is essential in the next few months.”

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13. “We wish to thank you, Madam President, for convening this meeting to discuss the reports of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) (8/2006/353) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (S/2006/358). We shall focus our remarks on the ICTR. My delegation wishes to express its profound thanks to the ICTR President, Judge Erik Mose, and the Prosecutor, Hassan Bubacar Jallow, for their respective presentations. We commend them for their continued hard work and commitment to the successful implementation of the completion strategy in accordance with Security Council resolutions 1503 (2003) and 1534 (2004). The late issuance of the report under consideration has created some difficulties for my delegation in preparing for this meeting, as I am sure it has for Council members.”

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14. “With regard to economic transformation, a holistic approach must look at issues such as the marginalization of Africa in general, and Central Africa in particular, in the global trading system and look at what international support can be mobilized for education and training to enable those countries to transform their economies by adding value to, and increasing the volume of, their exports. Finally, HIV/AIDS presents a serious challenge to security and development in the subregion. Given the high level of the cross-border movement of people, we must develop joint strategies to address that growing challenge. Subregional organizations should provide a coordination and reporting function and also act as a focal-point for international support for initiatives to fight the epidemic.”

    2003-11-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4871 (2003) · source

15. “We recognize that the approach of the conference must, in a holistic manner, address the present challenges to peace and security in the region on the one hand, and on the other reflect on the measures that need to be taken at the national, regional and global levels to transform our economies and give the people of Central Africa hope for a better life. That holistic approach should consider that one of the major challenges to peace and security at present is the existence of large numbers of armed and dangerous militia in some parts of the subregion. We must focus our attention on how the threats posed by those negative forces can be effectively neutralized.”

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16. “We also welcome the positive developments taking place in Angola, Burundi, the Central African Republic, Sao Tome and Principe and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the formation of a new transitional Government of national unity has given that country its first realistic prospects for peace and stability in many years. Those developments give us optimism for the entire Central African region. Rwanda shares the mission's observation about the link between poverty and conflict. We therefore also agree on the need to develop holistic and integrated strategies to address the problems of the region. We welcome and strongly support the ongoing preparations for the conference on peace, security and development in the Great Lakes region.”

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17. “In that connection, it gives me great pleasure to note that Rwanda now has the highest percentage of elected women representatives in national parliament, comprising 48.8 per cent of the National Assembly and 30 per cent of the Senate. The elections in Rwanda came after a constitution-making process, which for the first time in our history involved the entire population in the drafting process. A dynamic and progressive national unity and reconciliation programme has been ongoing for six years now and has made significant progress in helping heal the wounds of the past while reminding us of what we must do to ensure that those mistakes are not repeated.”

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18. “We held free and fair presidential and parliamentary elections in August and September, ending the nine-year transition process, and consolidated the national democratization programme that began in 1998 with elections at the grass-roots level of administration. Today, all levels of administration have been democratized and elected local Governments have been empowered by a decentralization programme that aims at giving them a leading role in the decision-making process. Sections of our population that for generations had been marginalized, such as women, are now playing an active role in the political process.”

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19. “It is indeed a great tragedy that, while Central Africa has the human and natural resource potential to make it among the richest subregions of the world, it is among the world's poorest subregions, blighted by extreme poverty, hunger, disease and ignorance. Both cause and effect of this are political instability, internal strife and nations with very weak State structures. Rwanda fully supports the mission's View that, as a result of the cross-cutting challenges that transcend national boundaries, an integrated and holistic subregional approach is required to complement national solutions to the numerous challenges that affect Central Africa. There have been important positive developments in the region over the last few months. My country, Rwanda, is a very good example.”

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20. “This being the first time my delegation has taken the floor in the Security Council this month, I would like to begin by warmly congratulating you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Council and to congratulate you on the very able manner in which you have chaired its work. I would also like to express our thanks for your convening this meeting and that earlier this month on the Great Lakes region. We would also like to thank the Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Mr. Kalomoh, for presenting the interim report of the multi- disciplinary assessment mission to Central Africa and to congratulate him on the success of the mission. We find the report to be wide-ranging and comprehensive, focusing as it does on issues of peace and security, economic development, humanitarian affairs, human rights and HIV/AIDS.”

    2003-11-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4871 (2003) · source