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  1. “I thank the Council for its support, and I hope that we in the United Nations Peace-building Support Office in the Central African Republic (BONUCA) will continue to enjoy the confidence of the Secretary- General and the Security Council.”

    2001-01-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4261 (2001) · source

  2. “As concerns the internal problems of the Central African Republic, I think that today we can say that headway is being made. There has been progress in terms of the promotion and respect of human rights, and the partners are beginning to understand the scope of the crisis and realizing that they have to be more flexible in their interventions. I am thinking in particular of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, but also of the Central African Republic's bilateral partners. I think that there are grounds for hope. I will leave this meeting with a degree of optimism based in part on the very insightful statements made by the members. I was very struck also by the attentiveness with which they read the Secretary-General's report, by the relevance of their comments and by the richness oftheir contributions.”

    2001-01-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4261 (2001) · source

  3. “I do not think that I have a great deal to say following the very detailed and relevant statements made by the various members of the Council and their guests. I would merely like to underscore - as you yourself did very aptly, Mr. President - that this is a critical peace-building phase in a subregional context characterized by a high level oftension. Even if solutions were to be found to the domestic problems of the Central African Republic, this might not be enough to guarantee peace and stability in that country. A comprehensive approach must therefore be considered. In this connection, Minister Amara Essy's mission and the very relevant conclusions he has reached could help us to consolidate the necessary components of a subregional solution.”

    2001-01-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4261 (2001) · source

  4. “Finally, the Secretary-General draws the attention of the Council to the fact that the investment made by the international community to restore peace in the Central African Republic is in danger of being completely wasted if emergency assistance is not provided to the Central African authorities. In this regard, I should like to stress the range and gravity of the challenges facing the United Nations Peace-building Support Office in the Central African Republic. Such challenges are both political and institutional, and require sustained attention on the part ofthe international community.”

    2001-01-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4261 (2001) · source

  5. “Because ofthe economic and financial difficulties facing it, the Government of the Central African Republic has enormous expectations of the international community in general and of the United Nations in particular. Unfortunately, pledges made at the special donors' meeting in New York in May 2000 were not followed up on immediately. It would be very desirable for the partners of the Central African Republic to honour all their commitments. In this regard, I should like, on behalf of the Secretary- General, to thank all those Member States that have lived up to the promises that they made at the May 2000 meeting.”

    2001-01-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4261 (2001) · source

  6. “I would now like to draw the attention of members of the Council to the observations contained at the end ofthe report. The situation in the Central African Republic today is of great concern. Political and social tension and the negative impact of the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo mean that the Central African Republic is the soft underbelly of the subregion, a fact that seriously jeopardizes any chance of strengthening peace and stability. The Secretary-General urges political actors in the Central African Republic, including the Government, to muster the necessary political will to overcome the current crisis.”

    2001-01-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4261 (2001) · source

  7. “However, there have been no tangible results in the demobilization and reintegration programme due to a lack of adequate resources. The programme was restructured, but it has been suspended for technical reasons. It will resume as soon as the necessary resources are available. The report before the Council stresses the impact of the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the Central African Republic. That war has led in particular to an influx of refugees into the southern part of the country, thereby contributing to the worsening of the economic situation. Needless to say, the recent death of President Kabila only serves to add to the uncertainty looming over the subregion, which in turn makes peace in such a vulnerable country as the Central African Republic even more fragile.”

    2001-01-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4261 (2001) · source

  8. “The United Nations Office has organized many training courses in cooperation with the Government to strengthen capacity in this area. About 300 law enforcement officers have been given training in human rights and international humanitarian law. There is an urgent need to strengthen the country's judicial and prison systems, but that can be done only with substantial assistance from donors. With regard to security and military questions, the report indicates that the overall situation in Bangui and the interior of the country is calm. However, there have been acts of urban banditry and major roads have been blocked for the purpose of highway robbery in the provinces. The programme to restructure defence and security forces continues, and several positive steps have been taken.”

    2001-01-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4261 (2001) · source

  9. “However, one can hope that the recent financial support measures taken by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will enable the Government to deal gradually with the problems facing it, including the problem of salaries. With regard to the human rights situation, we have been happy to see a decrease in the number of summary and extrajudicial executions. However, another form of human rights Violations has emerged in the Central African Republic: the popular justice referred to as "neighbourhood justice", which is common in Bangui and in which victims - thieves and "witches" - are often beaten to death. The situation in the jails is also a cause for concern. Conditions for prisoners in police stations and gendarmerie brigades are not in keeping with international standards.”

    2001-01-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4261 (2001) · source

  10. “The Central African economy has not yet recovered from the destruction that took place in connection with the mutinies. The overall crisis in the country has worsened as a result of the problems in fuel supplies that began in June 2000. The situation has also worsened as a result of the war in neighbouring Congo, the consequent disruptions in shipping on the Ubangui River and the resulting disruption in the supply of basic goods to the country. There has been a drop in tax and customs revenues, which has made it impossible for the authorities to improve public finances or to deal with the country's financial obligations.”

    2001-01-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4261 (2001) · source

  11. “Civil servants are calling for the payment of 12 months' worth of arrears out of the 30 months' worth of salaries due them. The opposition is siding with the unions and is attempting to exploit the social situation politically. I must draw the attention of members of the Council to the fact that the operation referred to as "Central Africa: a dead country", which had been called for by trade unions, has been a complete failure, as the orders of the unions headquarters were not heeded. This development could lead to the opposition showing a degree of flexibility that might make possible the establishment of a genuine dialogue with a View to a definitive settlement ofthe social crisis. The economic situation is very precarious.”

    2001-01-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4261 (2001) · source

  12. “Although all those arrested were released after the trial held on 29 December 2000 and 3 January 2001, the tension is far from dissipated. Opposition deputies have been boycotting the work of the National Assembly since then. The developments in the political situation and, in particular, the lack of consultation or dialogue among political players, are obstacles to strengthening the young democratic institutions of the Central African Republic. The second report on the situation in the Central African Republic stresses the serious nature of social problems in that country today. The social situation is still very tense and has worsened since October as a result of the prolonged civil service strike precipitated by the accumulation of unpaid salary arrears and current salaries.”

    2001-01-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4261 (2001) · source

  13. “As members of the Council will see from the report before them, the political situation in the Central African Republic is characterized by considerable tension in relations between the ruling party and the opposition. There is little communication or dialogue between the political players. President Patasse' has not yet organized the meeting with the country's political players that he promised in June 2000. The opposition, which seems to favour confrontation, is today calling for the President's resignation. The tense relations between the ruling party and the opposition worsened in December 2000 with the arrest and trials of over 60 persons - including four opposition parliamentarians - in connection with their participation in an unauthorized meeting.”

    2001-01-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4261 (2001) · source

  14. “I have the honour today to introduce to the Security Council the report of the Secretary-General on the situation in the Central African Republic, contained in document S/2001/35. This is the second report ofthe Secretary-General since the establishment of the United Nations Peace-building Support Office in the Central African Republic (BONUCA), on 15 February 2000, and covers the period from July 2000 to January 2001. The report describes the overall situation in the Central African Republic and gives an account of what the Office has been doing to support the authorities and all segments of Central African society in their efforts for national reconciliation and peace-building.”

    2001-01-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4261 (2001) · source

  15. “By doing so, the Council would send a message of deterrence to the Serbian side, whereas if it does not, it would hand it another incentive to persist in its intransigence and in its contempt for the law and for the force of reason. I am sure that, faced with this choice, the Council will take the right decision, or risk seriously damaging its credibility, which is more than ever threatened, and dashing the many hopes that have been rested on it.”

    1993-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3247 (1993) · source

  16. “This step is in no way contradictory to pursuing the peace efforts because, in an armed conflict, one cannot prevent one party, let alone the victim of known aggression, acquiring the necessary means to ensure its self-defence while the other party continues to arm and to expand its territorial conquests with a.view, even if it does not achieve its sinister design, of at least considerably strengthening its position in possible negotiations. This is the real thrust of the draft resolution before the Council, which we support wholeheartedly and are sponsoring for the reasons I have mentioned, in the sincere hope that the Security Council will adopt it.”

    1993-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3247 (1993) · source

  17. “In conclusion, I should like to reaffirm that we would have preferred there to be a strict application of the Security Council's resolutions, but the fact remains that the Council has not yet given us any meaningful proof of its determination to act along such lines, even though it has already proved that it does have the means to do so. Also, time is not on the side of the future of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the survival of its people. We therefore feel that urgent counter-measures must be taken, including lifting the military embargo against Bosnia and Herzegovina which, all things considered, applies to that country alone.”

    1993-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3247 (1993) · source

  18. “The Security Council's inability - or rather, its lack of political will - to impose a cease-fire on the forces of aggression in order to bring them to seek a negotiated solution is on the point of creating - and will create, if we are not careful - a precedent that is dangerous, particularly for a world in the throes of change where confrontation must give way to peaceful coexistence and the selfishness of States to genuine international solidarity. We also run the risk of opening the door to all sorts of dangerous ventures based on goals similar to those openly being pursued by the Serbs.”

    1993-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3247 (1993) · source

  19. “The Security Council's persistent wish to deny the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina its right to self-defence as authorized under Article 51 of the United Nations Charter is paradoxically rewarding the aggressor, who, despite the military embargo, has ulways had the benefit of weapons of every kind. The Security Council has, unfortunately, enabled the aggressor to expand and consolidate his territorial gains, in violation of the principles and ideals of the Charter of our Organization, which the Security Council is none the less obliged to uphold.”

    1993-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3247 (1993) · source

  20. “This is the most ardent hope that we should have liked to see the Security Council fulfil in Bosnia and Herzegovina, without foot-dragging or hesitation, or any sign of acquiescence or culpable weakness. What has been happening in that country for more than a year now has, however, caused us to have our doubts, as all the Security Council's resolutions, including resolutions 713 (1991), 757 (1992), 824 (1993) and 836 (1993), have been igroved and flouted by the aggressor. The lack of a sufficient and appropriate reaction to this attitude of scorn and defiance towards the international community has certainly compounded the tribulations of the people of that country.”

    1993-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3247 (1993) · source

  21. “In our view, the Security Council has the duty and the responsibility to put an end to the genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina and to ensure peace and security there. It has that duty, because, as a sage once put it, its principal mission is that of preventing this world, with its greed and its injustices, from resembling hell. The Council must cause peace and security to reign so that the Earth becomes a haven of perfect peace where there is no more greed, hate, ignorance, suffering or obscurantism. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, as indeed everywhere else that human lives are threatened, the Council must ensure that w.sdom enlightens all miads and that the gentle rain of compassion waters all hearts to transform the blood that has been spilled into the milk of human kindness, and cruelty into respect for human dignity and the rule of law.”

    1993-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3247 (1993) · source

  22. “Abdou Diouf, current Chairman of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, has consistently drawn the attention of the international community to this risk and to the need to take the measures necessary to find a good and just solution to this question, one based on respect for law and on equity. This solution, and I repeat it formally here, must necessarily be based on an immediate cessation of hostilities; the withdrawal by the Serbs from the territories they have occupied by force; compensation for the consequences of "ethnic cleansing" and, specifically, the return of the refugees to their homes; and, lastly, the restoration of the territorial integrity of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.”

    1993-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3247 (1993) · source

  23. “We were extremely disappointed when the Serb side, its actions having gone unpunished, simply continued its aggression, indulging in the luxury of proposing the replacement °f the Vance-Owen Plan with a bald partition of Bosnia and Herzegovina into three republics delineated on ethnic lines. If the Security Council accepts that proposal, it will have enshrined the fait accompli desired by the aggressor, whose ultimate purpose is without doubt to wipe Bosnia and Herzegovina off the map against the sovereign will and deep-seated aspirations of its people, as freely expressed when it founded the Republic. For its part, Senegal cannot endorse such an approach, especially since our Head of State, His Excellency Mr.”

    1993-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3247 (1993) · source

  24. “Frequently, the Plan had even served as a pretext for discouraging the Bosnian authorities from requesting that the embargo imposed on the former Yugoslavia by resolution 713 (1991) be lifted in the case of their country to enable it under Article 51 of the Charter to engage in self-defence. The proponents of this thesis, once the Plan was signed and accepted. promised by all means available, including the use of force, to make the Serb side to go along with the Plan. Hence, when it was announced that those two parties had accepted the Plan we hoped sincerely that Bosnia and Herzegovina and its people would finally regain peace and security. We anticipated determined action by the Security Council to impose its authority and put an end to this deplorable conflict.”

    1993-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3247 (1993) · source

  25. “'The aggression perpetrated by the Serbs against the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the ensuing violations of international humanitarian law, the most serious of which is "ethnic cleansing", has now attained proportions that yet again challenge our collective conscience. The daily deterioration of the situation in that country is all the more intolerable because it clearly stems from the systematic refusal by the Serbs to abide by the numerous Security Council resolutions on this matter. The Serbs have met with contempt and arrogance the Vance-Owen Peace Plan, which was accepted and signed by two of the three parties involved and on which the international community had pinned great hopes. Yet I would recall that that Plan had always teen put forward as the only and the best solution.”

    1993-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3247 (1993) · source

  26. “Mr. SY (Senegal) (interpretation from French): The delegation of Senegal - a country with excellent relations of friendship and cooperation with your country, Sir - is pleased to see you presiding over the work of the Council this month - a task you are carrying out with ability, selflessness and skill. As I warmly congratulate you, I want to reaffirm our total support as you endeavour to find good solutions to the important issues before the Council. Our congratulations go also to your predecessor, His Excellency Ambassador Yuliy Vorontsov, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation, for his remarkable work last month. I want finally to thank all the members of the Council for this opportunity to participate in this important debate on the tragic situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.”

    1993-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3247 (1993) · source