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  1. “We should make clear what the Sudan can expect from the international community if it shoulders its responsibilities in Darfur. And what it can expect if it does not. No one should doubt the international determination to see the conflict resolved.”

    2006-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5528 (2006) · source

  2. “But, in Darfur in particular, that prospect now hangs by a thread, and if that thread snaps, the people of Darfur will pay a terrible price. If our United Nations and this Council mean anything, we must make the effort to avert that. On 11 September this year, Kofi Annan asked the Council a question: "Can the international community, having not done enough for the people of Rwanda in their time of need, just watch as this tragedy deepens?" (S/PV.5520, p. 3). The answer to the question of the Secretary- General is a simple "no". If the Government of the Sudan is genuinely concerned about the welfare and protection of its citizens, there is no reason for it not to give its consent to a United Nations force. For us today, it is not about saving face; it is about saving lives.”

    2006-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5528 (2006) · source

  3. “And we should make clear that the responsibility for failures, increased conflict and death in Darfur will not rest with the United Nations, but with those responsible. It will be down to those who deny a United Nations peacekeeping force to the people of Darfur and who reject the offer of international support for the DPA and the sovereignty of the Sudan set out in resolution 1706 (2006). That is not a scenario that we want to realize; but it is a road that we may well have to travel if the Government of the Sudan does not relent in its opposition to the will and decisions of the international community. The United Nations was established to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war. In Darfur, as in southern Sudan, peace, not war is in prospect.”

    2006-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5528 (2006) · source

  4. “We must therefore redouble our efforts - in the United Nations, the AU, the European Union, the League of Arab States and the Organization of the Islamic Conference - as friends of the Sudan and its peoples, to make clear the positive contribution the United Nations will make in Darfur, in full respect of the sovereignty of the Sudan and with a heavy African character to the force, as the Council has repeatedly made clear. We must also make clear the benefits of peace for the Sudan's Government and people in economic, political, security and humanitarian terms. The Sudan is a country with great economic resources. It should be an economic powerhouse, not a humanitarian crisis spot.”

    2006-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5528 (2006) · source

  5. “This is first and foremost a responsibility for the State concerned to exercise, to protect its own citizens. It is clear that the Sudan is not protecting its people in Darfur, quite the contrary. In such cases the responsibility to protect means that the international community has a right to get involved, primarily in efforts to help the State concerned to carry out its responsibilities. That is what the United Nations has done in southern Sudan, and it is what we will all want to see happen in Darfur. But our responsibility cannot end there if our offers of help are turned away. We cannot, in all conscience, allow the situation in Darfur to slide from crisis to catastrophe because of the ill-founded fears of the Government of Khartoum.”

    2006-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5528 (2006) · source

  6. “The regional implications - for Chad in particular - of the present crisis and the risk of a downward spiral are of obvious concern. We urgently need proposals to provide humanitarian assistance and security to the camps in eastern Chad. The moral imperative for the international community to act, set out so eloquently by the Secretary-General in the Chamber last week, is clear. Every United Nations Member State at the Summit last year embraced the concept of the responsibility to protect. The Council affirmed it in a resolution drafted by the United Kingdom on the protection of civilians, which was adopted unanimously this spring and later recalled in resolution 1706 (2006), which was also drafted by the United Kingdom, three weeks ago.”

    2006-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5528 (2006) · source

  7. “We look forward to the crucial AU meeting to be held later this week. The United Nations and all of us must deepen and accelerate our support of AMIS and, more generally, of the humanitarian relief effort in Darfur. I am sure that we are clear why the United Nations has a right and duty to make this case to the Government of the Sudan. The scale of the disaster is already immense: 200,000 innocent people have died; almost 2 million have been displaced from their homes; nearly 3 million people in Darfur depend upon international aid for their survival, half a million being cut off from that aid by the fighting; and 50,000 more people have been displaced in the past couple of weeks. Imagine what further deterioration could bring.”

    2006-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5528 (2006) · source

  8. “My Government sees the priorities for resolving the tragedy of Darfur as clear and compelling. First, the Government of the Sudan and rebel groups must immediately stop fighting in Darfur - what Special Representative Pronk called a truce. Secondly, non-signatories must accept the Darfur Peace Agreement, and it must be implemented by all. Thirdly, we must prevent the development of a security vacuum. The Government of the Sudan must agree to the continuation of the African Union force and accept its transition to a United Nations force. We have to ask, in full recognition of the gravity of such a request, that the African Union Peace and Security Council continue its brave and arduous task of peacekeeping in Darfur while we intensify efforts to persuade the Government of the Sudan to accept a United Nations force to succeed AMIS.”

    2006-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5528 (2006) · source

  9. “It is unacceptable that the Government of the Sudan has so far refused to accept the idea of a United Nations force in Darfur, despite its successful cooperation with the United Nations force with an almost identical mandate in southern Sudan. Worse, the Government of the Sudan has proposed its own approach to implementing by military force the Darfur Peace Agreement, an approach that violates the Agreement and the Government's commitment to it, as well as resolution 1590 (2005) and 1591 (2005). In the words of Kofi Annan, that will be catastrophic for the people of the region. We are now at a tipping point for the future of Darfur. Antagonists, as we have just heard, have returned to violence, and humanitarian groups and AMIS forces are losing lives, along with the innocent people of Darfur. We need to arrest that collapse into chaos.”

    2006-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5528 (2006) · source

  10. “The Council remains united in its view that a United Nations force is the only solution to the crisis in Darfur. The African Union (AU) itself and the Council have favoured transition from the AU to the United Nations in Darfur for many months. We have all recognized that the complex task of implementing the DPA requires a larger, better supported and multidimensional peace operation. That is no reflection on the exceptional efforts of the African Union Mission in the Sudan (AMIS), which has done a remarkable job in very difficult circumstances but, rather, a recognition, fully shared by Africa's leaders, that the United Nations is best placed to provide the sustainable and comprehensive international peacebuilding support that Darfur needs.”

    2006-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5528 (2006) · source

  11. “May I begin by thanking Special Representative Pronk for his comprehensive briefing and for all of the efforts that he and his team are making to bring peace and security to the Sudan. The progress in implementing the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) owes a great deal to their efforts. Special Representative Pronk has also made plain this afternoon the continuing problems. We must continue to work to underpin the CPA, Where the United Nations Mission in southern Sudan has played such a valuable role. As was borne out in the Council's visit to the Sudan in May, it is clear that embedding peace in southern Sudan also depends upon on our ability to secure peace in Darfur. On 31 August, the Council decided to authorize a United Nations mission to support the implementation of the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA).”

    2006-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5528 (2006) · source