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She Okitundu

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1999-03-19
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2018-03-07
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  1. “Since, as the saying goes, there's no place like home, these political exiles will seek every available means to rejoin their societies. That is an entirely legitimate right. Since, like their Governments, they find the language of arms more expressive than dialogue, insecurity will grow for natives and foreigners alike. The odious murder of the Western tourists in Bwindi Park, Uganda, is an unfortunate illustration of this and remains fresh in our memories. What objective attitude should responsible leaders have adopted in such circumstances? I suppose that they could have approached their opponents and negotiated with them, as they insist we do towards the reconstruction of their respective countries. Unfortunately, that was not the case. They found it easier to carry their war onto Congolese territory.”

    1999-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3987 (1999) · source

  2. “But this did not take into account the bad faith, and especially the grand ambitions, of the current aggressors, who endeavoured to ensure the failure of the initiative. This question of insecurity as a reason for such aggression is nothing new. The statement made by the Ugandan Minister for Foreign Affairs in Lusaka on 27 October 1998 is most telling. He said that Uganda's security concerns had existed before President Kabila took power in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Unfortunately, it can be seen that, in the case of Uganda and of its ally, Rwanda, just a few years after the coups carried out by the current authorities of those countries, no effort has been made to reach out to the exiled opponents to integrate them into the structures of their respective societies.”

    1999-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3987 (1999) · source

  3. “Must we still hear of the atrocities committed daily by those countries against the most vulnerable sectors of our population, atrocities that have repeatedly been condemned by non-governmental organizations? The Democratic Republic of the Congo shares with nine other countries more than 9,600 kilometres of land borders, none of which are free from threat or from the danger of direct or indirect stabilization. Upon his accession to office, President Laurent Desire Kabila had focused on pacifying and stabilizing the Great Lakes region, which was in the grip of great instability, and made it his goal to export peace, security and development. Let us recall the initiative of President Kabila, who, in close cooperation with the United Nations Development Programme, organized a regional conference on peace and development in the subregion.”

    1999-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3987 (1999) · source

  4. “As members are aware, My Government has just proposed a national debate involving all of the active forces of the Congolese nation. The level of these concessions is proof of our flexibility in responding to the need for a peaceful solution to the crisis in the Great Lakes region. None of our concessions have elicited a similar response on the part of the aggressors, and the Security Council is aware of this. The international community will recall that it had to bring great pressure to bear on Uganda and Rwanda in order for those two countries to acknowledge their military involvement on Congolese territory and their participation in this war. Is the pressure to stop there, despite the refusal by those countries to withdraw from the territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo?”

    1999-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3987 (1999) · source

  5. “My Government believes that resolving the current crisis requires the convening of a regional conference of the countries of the Great Lakes region that would bring together leaders and their respective opposition forces under the auspices of the Organization of African Unity and the United Nations. One need only look back at the negotiating process for peace, begun in Lusaka, to see that my country has considerably changed its position in favour of negotiations leading to a cease-fire. Let us recall in this context that my Government had decided to bring together, within or outside of the country, the population of the country as a whole with a view jointly to examining the causes of these disputes and to take account of them in the management of public affairs.”

    1999-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3987 (1999) · source

  6. “Accordingly, my Government, as a result of the impasse in the negotiating process, felt it timely to appeal to the international community to become more involved in the quest for a lasting and peaceful solution to the conflict. My Government wishes to draw the attention of the United Nations to the determination of the Congolese nation as a whole and of its tremendous need for peace and for internal and external security. It expects the international community to become genuinely and positively involved, with a View to inducing the aggressors to engage in sincere negotiations to ensure regional peace and stability. Such an atmosphere would be conducive to the realization of the programme of national reconstruction and development, which all Congolese yearn for.”

    1999-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3987 (1999) · source

  7. “The efforts deployed by certain countries that are Members of our Organization, at both the regional and international levels, to find a peaceful settlement to the conflict would have already succeeded had all the parties involved acted in good faith and with honesty throughout the negotiating process. However, the stubbornness and intransigence of Rwanda and their determination to remain on Congolese territory have been the sole obstacles to a peaceful solution to the Congolese crisis. To be sure, negotiations are continuing at the regional level in the Organization of African Unity, whose efforts I should like to hail, but it should be known that the effective involvement of the international community would in no way thwart those regional efforts.”

    1999-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3987 (1999) · source

  8. “It is for that reason that my delegation decided to initiate the process that has led to this debate, with the legitimate goal of drawing the Council's attention to the danger posed by the continuation of the conflict that is currently under way in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Far be it from us to tax the patience of this gathering by reiterating facts and events it is already quite familiar with. My delegation wishes to impress upon international opinion the finer points that have meant that despite all the concessions made by my Government, the negotiating process has not yet led to the signing of a cease-fire.”

    1999-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3987 (1999) · source

  9. “I should like also sincerely to thank the members of the Security Council for having responded favourably to this request, which is, after all, a legitimate one. Article 52 of the Charter encourages the Security Council to encourage the development of peaceful settlement of local disputes through regional agreements. My delegation is aware of the Security Council's efforts to ensure the proper implementation of that provision, in particular in two statements it made on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. For this we are most grateful. But we must not, however, lose sight of the fact that the last paragraph of that same Article allows the Security Council simultaneously to apply the provisions of Articles 34 and 35 of the Charter.”

    1999-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3987 (1999) · source

  10. “Mr. She Okitundu (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (interpretation from French): I wish to take this opportunity to express my pleasure at seeing you, Sir, presiding today over the Security Council. Your presidency is for me a source of pride, because China has excellent relations with my country, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I feel duty-bound to thank you for allowing my delegation to speak here in order to help find ways and means to put an end to the armed aggression suffered by my country. Nor can I fail to thank your predecessor, Mr. Robert Fowler, the Ambassador of Canada, for his skill in guiding the Security Council's work last month and particularly for his productive contacts with my country's delegation with respect to today's meeting.”

    1999-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3987 (1999) · source