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Shareef

lines on the record: 35
first: 2001-12-14
most recent: 2005-09-20
sittings or episodes: 3
sources: un-security-council

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“Finally, let us create meaningful partnerships between national, regional and international civil society organizations, including with the United Nations, at all levels. The Security Council will be able to make more and better informed decisions with input from civil society, as has been aptly demonstrated under the Arrias formula relationships.”
2005-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5264 (2005) · source
“Encouraged by Security Council resolution 1325 (2000), the role of women's organizations in conflict resolution in the Great Lakes region has been effective and encouraging. Women's organizations are currently playing an active role in preparing for the next Great Lakes region summit in Nairobi later this year. Let me conclude by emphasizing the importance of partnerships in conflict prevention and resolution. We need to build an effective partnership between States and civil society organizations so that they can be twin pillars of conflict prevention and resolution efforts. We should also establish a firm collaborative partnership between States, civil society, regional organizations and the United Nations system that can help create a more peaceful world.”
2005-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5264 (2005) · source
“Our memories of the virulent propaganda of Radio Mille Collines, which spread the ideology of genocide in Rwanda, are still fresh, and we are striving to moderate inflammatory journalism in sections of the media in Cote d'Ivoire to rescue the peace process there. While acknowledging the positive contribution of civil society organizations in preventing and resolving conflicts, our practical experience in the Great Lakes region of Africa has taught us that proximity matters when it comes to preventive action. Our specific recommendation, then, is that civil society organizations near conflict areas should play a proactive role and seize the initiative to move Governments to take action to prevent and resolve conflicts. Other non-governmental organizations outside the neighbourhood of the conflict should play a complementary role.”
2005-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5264 (2005) · source
“They should be encouraged to use their specialized knowledge, experience and resources in assisting conflicting parties to resolve their differences and foster reconciliation. Civil society organizations have the advantage of informality and are less politically constrained from taking action in a critical manner, but they should also remain constructive and responsible. At the same time, we should be on our guard and not hesitate to take preventive action against sections of civil society that deliberately engage in propagating, inciting and fuelling conflicts. Only last week we were compelled to take action in a case of incitement to terrorism.”
2005-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5264 (2005) · source
“The same organizations should generate awareness and spur early political action nationally, regionally and internationally to defuse and resolve problems which could develop into violent conflicts and wars. That role requires organization, capacity-building and networking among civil society organizations with different mandates. Civil society organizations have been instrumental in reducing or resolving conflicts between groups and nations by maintaining informal lines of communication to promote understanding. They have been useful in decreasing tension, anger, fear and misperceptions between conflicting parties. They have also been able to facilitate and prepare the groundwork for more formal negotiations.”
2005-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5264 (2005) · source
“Civil society - as individuals or community organizations, with the help of the media - is strategically placed to influence the policies and decisions on conflicts and peace and to persuade or compel Governments to take timely and appropriate action to avert impending conflicts. To that extent, Governments should be partners with civil society in preventing conflicts. Civil society organizations - especially institutions such as universities, research centres, the media and human rights groups - should be in the forefront in the early detection of systemic stresses and strains on society that could be the root causes of violent conflicts. Early warnings of impending crises have often come from civil society.”
2005-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5264 (2005) · source
“The role and effectiveness of civil society in preventing conflicts and promoting peace and security are enhanced by the extent to which civil liberties are enjoyed in that society: by permitting freedom of expression and association in shaping and influencing opinion and allowing for participation in political action on issues of conflict, peace and security at both the national and international levels. The primary focus for action to prevent conflicts in a democratic society should be national parliaments. Citizens and their organizations are the constituencies to whom legislators are accountable.”
2005-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5264 (2005) · source
“I wish to thank the Secretary of State of the Philippines for convening this important session. I wish also to thank Mr. Paul van Tongeren, Mr. Andrea Bartoli and Mr. Vasu Gounden for their insightful presentations. We find the topic of today's debate useful and relevant to that of last week's Security Council summit. Whereas the summit focused on the role of States and intergovernmental institutions in preventing and resolving conflicts, today's topic on the role of civil society in the same endeavour is a complementary imperative. In today's conflicts and wars and in this era of terrorism the major victims are ordinary men, women and children. Civil society should, therefore, have a high stake in preventing conflicts, as they are the immediate beneficiaries of peace and security in every society.”
2005-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5264 (2005) · source
“Finally, I want to underscore the fact that, for the conference for the Great Lakes region to succeed, it is important for the countries of the region to assume ownership of the process, as outlined by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General. At the national level, the process has already started as an all- inclusive endeavour. We commend the ongoing work of Mr. Ibrahima Fall and his team, in partnership with the African Union. We shall continue to work with him and extend all the needed support from our respective national committees. In conclusion, I should like once again to thank the Secretary-General and the Security Council for having convened this meeting and to thank the countries of the Great Lakes region for having appointed the United Republic of Tanzania to address the Council on their behalf.”
2003-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4865 (2003) · source
“It is important, therefore, that measures be taken, on an urgent basis, by the United Nations, as well as bilateral initiatives, to provide support expeditiously to facilitate the preparatory process and enable it to proceed. According to the time frame approved by the national coordinators, the first national preparatory committee meeting was supposed to be held in Nairobi in October 2003. The United Republic of Tanzania is particularly keen on the success of this conference. We have been given the responsibility of hosting the first summit, scheduled for June 2004. It is important for all of us who are involved to ensure that preparations for the conference are made in a timely and efficient manner at every stage.”
2003-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4865 (2003) · source
“The main constraint experienced by all our national committees is the lack of budgetary resources to organize meetings of major grass-roots stakeholders to enable them to provide necessary inputs for achieving and sustaining the peace, stability and development objectives of the countries of the Great Lakes region. We also appeal to the international community to provide financial and material support towards the preparation of the conference in its different stages. This issue of resources was raised at the Nairobi National Coordinators Meeting, but, in the end, it was not clear where the resources for the preparatory process would come from. Each country was left to fend for itself. Consequently, the status of preparations for the conference at the national level is not satisfactory.”
2003-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4865 (2003) · source
“We expect the conference to provide an opportunity to refocus international attention on facilitating the implementation of durable solutions for refugees, internally displaced persons and ex-combatants, as well as on encouraging an environment conducive to tolerance and respect for human rights. I should point out that, in preparing for the conference, it has been recognized that a key to the success of the preparatory process of the conference is the involvement of major stakeholders in the envisaged conference outcomes. National committees need to be supported in overseeing and coordinating intergovernmental consultations and the participation of non-governmental organizations and civil society groups, such as those involving youth or women.”
2003-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4865 (2003) · source
“We trust that the conference will result in the establishment of a kind of Marshall Plan for the recovery and reconstruction of the Great Lakes region. We therefore appeal to our development partners to provide adequate resources, specifically targeted to enable the countries of the Great Lakes region to achieve their development goals and develop programmes for regional cooperation and integration. The New Partnership for Africa's Development offers an added opportunity for the countries of the Great Lakes region to realize their respective national and regional economic development goals. On the humanitarian front, the Great Lakes region has, over the past decade, witnessed massive movements of refugees, displaced persons and victims of gross human rights violations.”
2003-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4865 (2003) · source
“We believe that those are the conditions necessary for sustainable peace and development in the Great Lakes region. In the specific area of economic development, it is perplexing that the Great Lakes region, which is endowed with abundant natural resources, is also among the least developed areas of Africa. Our expectation, therefore, is that after restoring peace and security, the international community should mobilize and provide substantial economic assistance to enable the countries of the Great Lakes region to harness their enormous economic resources, in partnership with bilateral and multilateral support from the international community, for the recovery and development of their economies and the well-being of their people.”
2003-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4865 (2003) · source
“On issues of peace and security, the conference will be judged to have succeeded if it produces concrete measures designed to ensure a comprehensive safeguard against a future resurgence of violence, genocide and instability in the region, as well as to contain cross-border criminality, including the illicit trade in drugs and small arms and illegal immigration. A pact against the recurrence of genocide, a non- aggression treaty and a programme with clear time limits aimed at disbanding militias and prohibiting the supply of illegal small arms to the region, with an agreed mechanism for enforcement and verification, would ensure not only peace and security in the region, but also democracy, justice and good governance within the borders of each country.”
2003-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4865 (2003) · source
“The proposed conference for the Great Lakes region is expected to agree on a set of principles on good-neighbourly relations, stability, democracy and the launch of programmes of action for socio-economic revival and development for the people of the region. We believe that one of the major causes of the political and social instability in the region has been, to a great extent, the state of underdevelopment and poverty in the region, which should be addressed decisively by that conference.”
2003-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4865 (2003) · source
“We congratulate the Transitional Government of Burundi and the Conseil national pour la defense de la democratie-Force pour la defense de la democratie for the historic global ceasefire agreement signed in Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania, on 16 November 2003, which aims to end 10 years of conflict in Burundi. We urge the two parties to cooperate closely in its implementation. Meanwhile, we appeal to the Parti pour la liberation du peuple hutu/Forces nationales pour la liberation faction to stop fighting and join the negotiations for a ceasefire and a comprehensive peace accord. The immediate task in both the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burundi is the consolidation of the peace accords through a comprehensive programme for post-conflict reconciliation, reconstruction and development.”
2003-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4865 (2003) · source
“The holding of the conference will thus consolidate the overall achievements by the countries of the region and, in particular, the progress made in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burundi peace processes. In this context, we welcome the agreements reached in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for the installation of an all-inclusive transitional Government, which will prepare that country for a democratic political dispensation in two years' time. In the same vein, we also welcome the Arusha Peace and Reconciliation Agreement for Burundi, signed on 28 August 2000, which constitutes the cornerstone of the Burundi peace process.”
2003-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4865 (2003) · source
“At the first meeting of the National Coordinators of the international conference for the Great Lakes region, held in Nairobi, Kenya, from 23 to 24 June 2003, the six core countries unanimously welcomed the proposed conference. The region also endorsed four themes: peace and security; economic development and regional integration; democracy and good governance; and social and humanitarian issues. In our view, those themes adequately cover the main challenges facing the Great Lakes region. The National Coordinators also agreed on the structure and timetable for the preparatory process. The proposal to hold an international conference on the Great Lakes region has come at an appropriate time, when all signs indicate that conflicts in that region are nearing an end.”
2003-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4865 (2003) · source
“In this regard, we would like to express our gratitude to the Secretary-General, Mr. Kofi Annan, and his Special Representative for the Great Lakes Region, Mr. Ibrahima Fall, for their tireless efforts in building both regional and international consensus for this important conference. We also owe special gratitude and appreciation to the African Union for its political encouragement and involvement in preparations for the conference. The Chairman of the African Union is providing needed support to the Special Representative of the Secretary- General, who is working closely with the Special Envoy of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission. The partnership between the United Nations and the African Union will continue to be crucial for the success of the conference.”
2003-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4865 (2003) · source
“It was an encouraging expression of concern over the situation there and of solidarity with the Governments and people of the region. The deployment of French peacekeeping troops and the subsequent expansion and presence of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is contributing significantly in the stabilization and restoration of peace in the Ituri region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The human rights situation has also improved remarkably. We thank the entire peacekeeping mission for the work that it is undertaking. We are particularly appreciative that, after almost a decade of intensive consultations among various stakeholders, a consensus has finally been reached on convening an international conference on the Great Lakes region.”
2003-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4865 (2003) · source
“I should like, on behalf of the countries of the Great Lakes region, to express our gratitude to you, Mr. President, and to all the members of the Security Council, for having convened this special meeting to discuss the proposed international conference for the Great Lakes region. This is a clear demonstration of the solidarity and interest of the United Nations and the African Union in the development of the Great Lakes region as a zone of peace and stability and, therefore, of the urgent need to resolve pending security issues and to address the socio-economic problems facing the region. We recall with appreciation the mission of the members of the Security Council earlier this year to the countries of the Great Lakes region.”
2003-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4865 (2003) · source
“Nevertheless, I would like once again to reiterate that the Council can count on our continued support and cooperation. We have nothing to hide.”
2001-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4437 (2001) · source
“Another important observation: the report would have been more comprehensive had it included also the end users of the natural resources plundered from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I am here not only because the credibility of my country has been called into question by the accusations in the report, but also because those accusations undermine the United Republic of Tanzania's efforts in the pursuit of lasting peace in the Great Lakes region. We respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and its rights over its natural resources for the benefit of all its people. We expect the other neighbours of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and indeed the international community at large, to do the same. I hope that the Council will understand our concerns.”
2001-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4437 (2001) · source
“It is also our expectation and our sincere hope that the Panel will make available to my Government the so-called credible evidence it claims to have obtained on the matters raised in its report. The cooperation of the Panel in that regard would be in the interest of furthering the peace process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in particular and of ensuring peace and stability in the Great Lakes region as a whole. We look forward to the day in the not too distant future when the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo will be so stable as to allow the refugees - of whom the new caseload currently in my country numbers more than 170,000 - to return home.”
2001-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4437 (2001) · source
“I believe the Council is aware that the United Republic of Tanzania has been playing a leading role in the search for peace and security in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in the Great Lakes region as a whole. In that regard, the United Republic of Tanzania is one of the architects of the Lusaka Accord, whose full implementation would lead to lasting peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We are gratified that the Council has been actively seized of the peace process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The United Republic of Tanzania will continue to cooperate with the Council on this question, and it is our hope that the final report of the Panel will address the shortcomings I have outlined.”
2001-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4437 (2001) · source
“We regret that those allegations are contained in one sweeping statement without a tinge of evidence, explanation or detail. Such allegations not only damage the credibility of the Panel but also could adversely affect my country's relations with its neighbours, for my country is on record as having played a neutral role with respect to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, right from the beginning of the conflict, and it continues to play such arole. In the same vein, the United Republic of Tanzania does not serve as a transit point for arms belonging to rebel groups involved in the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is therefore surprising and highly regrettable that the Panel saw fit to accuse the United Republic of Tanzania of acting as a conduit for weapons to the armed groups.”
2001-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4437 (2001) · source
“As such, unless there are United Nations sanctions imposed by the Security Council against a country or reasons to suspect a particular shipment, the shipping authorities of Tanzania respect the documents of the pre-shipment inspection companies and of the exporting countries. The Government of the United Republic of Tanzania expected the Panel to provide it with its evidence that could prove the authenticity of those claims. During its visit, the Panel was told that the United Republic of Tanzania does not support or administer on its territory rebel camps of the groups mentioned in the report. We strongly deny the allegation that some Mayi-Mayi groups are based or have established a vaguely structured presence in the United Republic of Tanzania.”
2001-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4437 (2001) · source
“However, the reference in the report to the vessel Karina S as having shipped coltan and as having left the port of Dar es S/l'VA437 Salaam on 13 July 2001 is totally inaccurate information. No ship by that name docked and left with the reported cargo at that date or in that period of time. My Government would appreciate being furnished with evidence that the said ship visited the port of Dar es Salaam as reported. The United Republic of Tanzania, as a transit country, has international obligations to serve its landlocked neighbours in the import and export trade. Those countries use our ports, railways, roads and airports.”
2001-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4437 (2001) · source
“However, as the Panel was informed by the Government, the United Republic of Tanzania has been handling cinchona bark from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and not timber. The Panel claims that it has obtained documents indicating that at least two shipments of timber originating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo were transported through the United Republic of Tanzania. We are surprised, however, that the Panel did not share this so-called evidence with the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania. Another example is that of coltan, or columbo- tantalite. It is not true that the Government and the Tanzania Harbours Authority "vehemently denied" (S/2001/1072, para. 24) that coltan originating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo had ever been exported from the port of Dar es Salaam.”
2001-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4437 (2001) · source
“Moreover, diamonds in the United Republic of Tanzania are exported legally by licensed dealers, as acknowledged by the supplementary report of the Monitoring Mechanism on Sanctions against UNITA, document S/2001/966, in paragraphs 188 to 200. We are therefore dismayed that the Panel is repeating the same accusation contained in the report in document S/2001/357 of 12 April 2001 to the Council without making available any evidence which would have helped the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania to conduct further investigations. As regards timber exports, available records show that the Tanzania Harbour Authority did not handle timber for export during the period under review.”
2001-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4437 (2001) · source
“Further reading the report shows that the United Republic of Tanzania is accused of facilitating the transportation of diamonds, timber and coltan through the port of Dar es Salaam. Allow me to take this opportunity to comment on each item referred to in the report. During its visit to the Bank of Tanzania, the Panel was assured that the Central Bank, which is modelled on the British system, the Bank of England, deals with fiscal and macroeconomic management. It is thus neither a marketing board nor a clearing house for exports and transit goods. Our Central Bank, therefore, does not deal in diamonds.”
2001-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4437 (2001) · source
“To start with, in paragraph 7, the Panel alleges that information was not forthcoming from, among others, the United Republic of Tanzania and this factor "as well as the constraints of its short mandate, limited the Panel's ability to present a more complete addendum". In the second paragraph of annex I of the addendum, the Panel also "expresses its disappointment at the lack of adequate cooperation from the Governments of the United Republic of Tanzania". It is further regrettable that my Government is accused of demonstrating hostility towards the Panel during its visit to Dar es Salaam. On the contrary, the Panel was accorded every possible assistance to facilitate its work while in Dar es Salaam.”
2001-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4437 (2001) · source
“The Panel visited the United Republic of Tanzania on 17 and 18 September 2001. Notwithstanding the short notice, during the visit it met with senior Government officials from the ministries of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Defence, Energy and Minerals, Industry and Trade, Finance, Transport and Communications, and Home Affairs, as well as the Tanzania Railways Authority. The Panel also met with the Governor of the Bank of Tanzania and the Acting Director General of the Tanzania Harbour Authority. The discussions were conducted in a cordial and frank atmosphere. Regrettably, the addendum to the report of the Panel has made unsubstantiated allegations against my country.”
2001-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4437 (2001) · source
“Allow me to begin by congratulating you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. We wish you every success in these troubled times. I welcome the efforts that the Security Council has been exerting to bring peace and stability to the Great Lakes region in general, and, in particular, to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In that regard, the United Republic of Tanzania wishes to reiterate its support for the work of the Panel of Experts on the Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources and Other Forms of Wealth of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is for this reason that the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania and its institutions extended its full support to the Panel when it paid a visit to my country in pursuit of its mandate.”
2001-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4437 (2001) · source