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Tshibanda Ntungamulongo

lines on the record: 125
first: 2013-03-28
most recent: 2016-11-07
sittings or episodes: 7
sources: un-security-council

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“To conclude, let me express the gratitude of my country for the commitment of peacekeepers, police officers and civilian staff, who perform their Vital tasks, often under difficult conditions, working to implement the demanding mandates that the Security Council entrusts to them. We salute the memory of the thousands of men and women who have sacrificed their lives in the exercise of their functions to the United Nations in order to maintain international peace and security. I am convinced that the best tribute we can pay them is to learn the lessons of the past in order to improve peacekeeping operations and ensure that they are relevant and effective. That is why today's meeting is so important, and I hope it will not remain a dead letter.”
2016-11-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7802 (2016) · source
“We remain convinced that providing the soldiers of the United Nations with the necessary support and equipment will ensure that they are safe and secure and that they will have the necessary means to provide security to the civilian population, which is one of the most significant threats that we face. The complexity of the conditions in which peacekeeping missions operate today requires enhanced partnerships between all stakeholders, including regional and subregional organizations, the entire United Nations family, financial institutions and international and regional donors and multilateral and bilateral partners, not to mention the troop-contributing and police-contributing countries. Only that level of cooperation will allow us to collectively address the challenges that we face today and those that we will face in the coming years.”
2016-11-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7802 (2016) · source
“In many cases, the negative forces, whose actions we deplore, base themselves in neighbouring countries from which they buy their weapons, ammunition and other tools necessary for their operations. In order to avoid such situations, the countries of the Great Lakes region of Africa signed the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Region in 2013 in Addis Ababa. We should act in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity through continued cooperation with the regions so as to promote the prevention and resolution of crises, while uncompromisingly enforcing international law. I condemn the attacks against peacekeepers regardless of their motivation.”
2016-11-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7802 (2016) · source
“The adoption in September 2015 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (General Assembly resolution 70/1) was an important step in the efforts of the international community not to leave anyone behind and to ensure that all inhabitants of the world live happily and in peace. It is necessary to respect international commitments to which States have subscribed in order to end all support for negative forces, break the supply chains of those forces and discourage the pillaging of natural resources, which is often at the root of today's conflicts. That is all the more important since, although inter-State wars have disappeared, some countries continue to practice them under the cover of the internal rebellions that they support.”
2016-11-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7802 (2016) · source
“There is a need to draw upon the private sector and to mobilize civil society as positive forces in the development of a public conscience and the search for a better life together, rather than exploit civil society for nefarious purposes or use civil society to oppose public authority, whether it is democratically legitimate or not. All three of the elements that I have outlined are important in order to maintain a constructive partnership. There is a need to deal quickly with situations requiring international solidarity, especially in harsh humanitarian crises. That would help to alleviate the feelings of frustration and injustice or simply the reflex behaviours that emerge in the search for survival and often lead to violence.”
2016-11-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7802 (2016) · source
“The missions must go about their business in compliance with the laws and institutions of the host country; they must be seen as fundamentally transient. They must also take an approach that is firmly focused on the crisis and the restoration and consolidation of the host State in its regulatory functions and its abilities to meet the legitimate aspirations of its people. They should therefore primarily contribute to the restoration of State authority and the security of persons and property, particularly through concerted programmes of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration, as well as through security-sector reform.”
2016-11-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7802 (2016) · source
“More specifically, there is a need to assist in the appropriation and internalization of a culture of peace and the universal values of tolerance and respect for others, rather than the imposition on others of an agenda that stems from New York. We need to bolster cooperation and strengthen trust with the host country. Peacekeeping operations are often deployed at the invitation of or with the consent of the Government, so as to facilitate the necessary cooperation between the national security and defence forces and the forces of the United Nations. Such operations are charged with restoring peace, while avoiding getting in the way of national forces and avoiding having such missions be deployed ad infinitum with no hope of resolution.”
2016-11-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7802 (2016) · source
“In that context, the Organization should, inter alia, bolster its cooperation with Governments, as well as with regional and subregional organizations, which play an important role not only in creating partnerships for conflict prevention and mediation, but also in establishing crisis responses that are fast and effective, thanks to their financially inexpensive nature. Such responses will be effective because they will be based on the knowledge of the specificities of the local environment. The United Nations should continue its support to the efforts of Member States to establish strong institutions and strengthen democracy and the rule of law, so as to support States, not replace them.”
2016-11-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7802 (2016) · source
“Contrary to the provisions of the resolutions that authorized those two advances, which stipulated that the establishment of the Force Intervention Brigade, as well as the use of drones, was authorized but only on an exceptional basis and did not constitute a precedent, we should be realistic and bold enough to consider a change in the paradigm that would make those tools available whenever the situation on the ground requires them. That would be subject, of course, to the agreement of the country where the Blue Helmets are to be deployed and of the troop-contributing countries concerned. Regardless of what improvements can be made to support peace operations, the increasing complexity and increasingly high cost of such operations underline the fact that prevention remains the best option.”
2016-11-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7802 (2016) · source
“That has contributed to strengthening security in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and has restored the credibility of MONUSCO from the point of View of the civilian population. The same applies to the authorized use by the Security Council of new technologies, such as drones or unarmed, unmanned aerial vehicles that significantly contribute to the collection of information about the adversary and often strengthen the prevention and intervention capacities of the Force.”
2016-11-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7802 (2016) · source
“While we wait for the nature and composition of peacekeeping missions to change in order to enable them to carry out military operations aimed at fighting terrorism and at dealing successfully with asymmetric wars, there is a need to increase the clout of those missions by establishing units capable of performing their tasks and by providing them with the new generation of force multipliers. The experience of my country is full of lessons that can be learned. Indeed, the Intervention Brigade, created within the framework of MONUSCO pursuant to resolution 2098 (2013), has made it possible to significantly increase the deterrent capacity of the United Nations forces and to inflict a heavy defeat on the ex-M-23 forces.”
2016-11-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7802 (2016) · source
“In the case of my country, last August, just as before, the civilian population - in Beni and throughout the Democratic Republic of the Congo, specifically in Goma after the city fell into the hands of the rebels of the Mouvement du 23 mars (M-23) a few years ago - attacked the installations and facilities of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), expressing their frustration, their inability to understand and their disapproval regarding the inability of the protectors to act effectively, given the modus operandi of United Nations peacekeeping operations. A number of other peacekeeping missions throughout the world have experienced similar problems with the local civilian population.”
2016-11-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7802 (2016) · source
“With respect to the civilian population, it is difficult to understand how it happens that they have been repeatedly attacked and massacred by hostile forces and that the soldiers and peacekeepers, who are there to protect them, have been unable to do so, regardless of the technical and legal reasons involved.”
2016-11-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7802 (2016) · source
“As is the case with all armies, military personnel must be ready to make the ultimate sacrifice, if necessary, to fulfil their mandate. Although referred to as peacekeepers, United Nations peacekeeping forces must, if necessary, behave like real soldiers and be perceived as such, rather than as police officers in military uniform, in order to ensure their credibility, which is essential. Given that their role in maintaining peace and international security is irreplaceable, the United Nations must avoid situations in which civilians are killed while peacekeeping missions responsible for protecting them have troops stationed nearby.”
2016-11-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7802 (2016) · source
“The United Nations must ensure that the peace operations deployed in conflict areas have mandates with rules of engagement and the human and material capabilities necessary to operate effectively, perform their tasks efficiently and achieve the desired results. To that end, they must be prepared to consider, if necessary - and this happens more often than in the past - peace operations and missions based on Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, with a more robust, even offensive, mandate and greater operational flexibility that, if need be, can impose peace and safeguard it under all circumstances. The United nations must consider equipping peacekeeping missions with appropriate logistics and substantial financial resources, as well as with civilian and military personnel adapted to each mission.”
2016-11-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7802 (2016) · source
“Peacekeepers are often compelled to justify their inability to protect civilians or be proactive in defending missions, which is simply an admission of our own lack of political will or of our inability to implement the reforms necessary to remain relevant. Given the ever-greater number of casualties among peacekeepers and the civilians to be protected, we must take urgent and bold steps to uphold the traditional philosophy of peacekeeping operations. Such measures are to be developed within the United Nations and at the level of its Member States, including troop- and police-contingent contributors. The General Assembly, the Security Council and United Nations agencies have a crucial role to play in that regard.”
2016-11-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7802 (2016) · source
“In such conditions, the three main principles for the deployment of peacekeeping operations - namely, the consent of the conflicting parties, impartiality and the non-use of force - are increasingly difficult to maintain. Such principles remain relevant to conflicts between States, which are subjects of international law and equal in sovereignty, but are, when dealing with asymmetric threats, at the very least, anachronistic or outdated, as if one expected criminals to act in good faith and be willing to agree to their own neutralization or elimination. What is worse is that such conflicts make any serious efforts by peacekeeping operations to restore or maintain peace unlikely and ineffective.”
2016-11-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7802 (2016) · source
“The adversaries that peace operations face today are lawless men, women and organizations that carry out merciless acts, with no fear of dying. Their actions pose a genuine threat to the safety and security of United Nations staff, as we have witnessed in Mali and in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the asymmetrical war being waged by the Allied Democratic Forces-National Army for the Liberation of Uganda has led to losses among the military and armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.”
2016-11-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7802 (2016) · source
“The conflict situations that the Organization is called upon to manage today are very different from the ones that it faced at the end of the Second World War. At that time, conflicts were mainly inter-State conflicts, which gave rise to ceasefire agreements that peacekeeping missions were called upon to enforce. Today's conflicts are characterized by asymmetrical and unconventional threats that involve non-State actors, illicit trafficking in drugs and weapons, war crimes and crimes against humanity, and are often expressed in the form of terrorism, violent extremism and cross- border crime, which do not hesitate to use civilians as human shields, making the environment and working conditions for peace operations increasingly difficult.”
2016-11-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7802 (2016) · source
“Jean-Paul Laborde, for being here today and for their excellent briefings. The maintenance ofinternational peace and security is not only central to the mission of the United Nations, it is also the prerequisite for its success in development efforts and the advancement of humankind. Regrettably, the United Nations finds itself working to maintain peace and security in a world where security threats are constantly changing and increasingly complex. The environment that prevailed in 1945, the year of the Organization's founding, and the implementation of peacekeeping operations have undergone fundamental changes. Over time, the challenges that it must face have increased in number and become ever-more diverse.”
2016-11-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7802 (2016) · source
“Mr. Tshibanda N'Tungamulongo (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (spoke in French): I have heard your call for brevity, Sir, but request your indulgence, given that this is a statement from the country that hosts the largest peacekeeping mission in the world. First and foremost, I would like to commend you, Mr. President, for convening today's meeting of the Security Council on the important and relevant topic of "Peace operations - facing asymmetrical threats", and to thank you for inviting my country, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to participate. I also thank Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson; the Secretary-General of the International Organization of La Francophonie, Ms. Michaelle Jean; and the Executive Director of the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate, Mr.”
2016-11-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7802 (2016) · source
“Maman Sidikou, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and to Mr. Said Djinnit, Special Envoy of thc Secretary-General for The President: I now invitc Council members to the Great Lakes Region, for the" commitment and informal consultations to continue our discussion on devotion to the cause of my country and to the Great Lakes region. To all member of the Security Council, I reiterate my country's full recognition and gratitude. The meett'ng rose at I] a.m. the subject.”
2016-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7654 (2016) · source
“My Government therefore believes that the Council should consider sanctions against the M-23 leaders, who are holding the former combattants of the Movement hostage and preventing their repatriation, and hence their social reintegration in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in accordance with the decision taken in New York on 29 September 2015 by the Heads of States signatories of the framework agreement at the sixth high-level meeting of the Regionl Oversight Mechanism of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Region. As far as the countries that have hosted the former rebels, it is also very important to put pressure on them to have them meet their commitments and facilitate repatriation. I cannot conclude my statement without expressing the gratitude of my Government to Mr.”
2016-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7654 (2016) · source
“According to the latest ultimatum, of 15 December 2015, of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region for the unconditional repatriation to the Democratic Republic of the Congo of all former Congolese combatants of the M-23 still cantonned in Uganda were rejected by the leadership of the M-23. Only 13 former combatants responded to that appeal and accepted repatriation. That makes a total of 221 former M-23 combattants repatriated from Uganda since December 2014. Based on that, it is possible to assert that the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the only signatory country to the Nairobi Declarations that is implementing them. The M-23 former combatants, taken hostage by their leadership, still have not accepted to be part of the repatriation exercise.”
2016-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7654 (2016) · source
“It should be recalled that, following the military defeat of M-23, those combatants from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other countries fled to Uganda and Rwanda. According to the amnesty law, only those from the Democratic Republic of the Congo are eligible for amnesty. Upon application of the law, 970 citizens of the Democratic Republic of the Congo who are former combattants of the M-23 who were not guilty of war crimes or crimes against humanity were granted amnesty by the Government. Of that number only 208 were repatriated from Uganda to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.”
2016-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7654 (2016) · source
“In the spirit of partnership that is supposed to be at the heart of our relationship, we hope, as part of the efforts of the Government to achieve the established goal of reduction, that we can count on the support, without any ulterior agenda, of the members of the Council so that we can, within a reasonable time frame, celebrate together the successful completion of the largest peacekeeping operation in the world. My country's Government deplores the slowness in the implementation of one of the important provisions of the Nairobi Declarations, namely, the repatriation of eX-combattants of Mouvement du 23-Mars (M-23). The slow pace is due mainly to bad faith on the part of the leadership of the M-23.”
2016-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7654 (2016) · source
“That is a very ambitious goal, to contribute to creating the concrete conditions that will make possible by the end of this year the withdrawal of half of the MONUSCO contingent currently deployed on our territory without undermining security and the stabilization of the country. We call on those who continue to oppose the people and the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to look closely at the political and security situation, as well as the required responses, particularly with regard to the role of MONUSCO. The Council has embraced changing the operational concept of the Mission by giving preference to strengthening its capacity for projection rather than simply focusing on the number of personnel.”
2016-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7654 (2016) · source
“I would underscore that the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is aware of the actions expected of it in order to make the withdrawal irreversible and to accelerate its pace, particularly in terms of security sector reform. Measures are currently being taken so that the three battallions of the rapid reaction force that is being developed within the FARDC, which have already been trained, equipped and successfully deployed on the ground, in particular in the course of operations against the ADF and FDLR, will be further bolstered within a few months by other units, which will make possible the assumption of full responsibility for all needs for securing the eastern part of the country.”
2016-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7654 (2016) · source
“I would like to appeal to the Council to make sure that this essential exercise, which it requested and to which the Government is committed in good faith and which is making progress in a satisfactory way in a spirit of trust re-established between the parties, does not remain a dead letter. With regard to the renewal of the mandate of MONUSCO, which is scheduled to take place at the end of this month, the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo hopes that the Council will take into account the progress in the strategic dialogue and the need to maintain between the two parties to the dialogue an environment that is conducive to its continuation, in particular in its next phase, which will be devoted to developing a road map for the orderly and definitive withdrawal of MONUSCO from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.”
2016-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7654 (2016) · source
“First, a withdrawal strategy paper has been drafted and is in the final stages of completion. Secondly, based on the principles agreed in the paper, the experts completed the first phase of their work by setting forth in a memorandum, signed by the Government and MONUSCO on 21 March, the current deployment arrangement of the MONUSCO contingents region by region, the criteria to be used to evaluate the situation on the ground, the remaining pending threats and challenges, ongoing actions or those expected to be undertaken by the Government to deal with the threats and challenges and, in each case, the specific MONUSCO assistance expected in support of the Government. Specific recommendations permit this joint exercise.”
2016-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7654 (2016) · source
“After a series of meetings at the political level that helped lay the foundations for consensus on the principles and main lines of the exit strategy, a joint working group made up of experts from the Government and MONUSCO met from 9 to 19 March, with the major task of defining objective and realistic criteria for assessing the situation in the geographic areas where MONUSCO personnel are deployed, from the dual perspective of safety and the requirements of stabilization, on the one hand, and the drafting, in a second phase, ofa road map for an orderly and gradual withdrawal of MONUSCO from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the other hand. I am pleased to report that, at this stage, the following important results have already been recorded.”
2016-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7654 (2016) · source
“In response to the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo's legitimate request to begin the downsizing of MONUSCO, in recognition of the irrefutable progress made together with the United Nations over the past 17 years in terms ofre-establishing peace and State authority, as well as in stabilizing the country's institutions, the Council had advocated for setting up a strategic dialogue between the Government and MONUSCO with a view to working together to develop an orderly exit strategy that ensures that the gains made will be preserved. Thanks to MONUSCO's new leadership and the personal recommendations of the Secretary-General, the strategic dialogue between the Government and MONUSCO, which was interrupted in the last quarter of 2015, resumed about a month ago in a constructive spirit.”
2016-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7654 (2016) · source
“For a country like ours, whose population has greatly suffered from the impunity of the privileged due to their status or social standing, to be lenient in this area does not help to strengthen democracy, but rather to derail it. The same goes, necessarily, when serious violations of human rights or crimes against humanity are overlooked.”
2016-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7654 (2016) · source
“And the State, guarantor of the freedoms and rights of all, has the duty to see to it that this is so, particularly in the light of the adage that states that the rights of one end where those of others begin. An individual's rights and freedoms do not permit him or her to defy with impunity the legal arsenal that protects the rights and safety of all. Therefore, when necessary, courts intervene, acting in an independent manner, to sanction, as in any constitutional State, offences committed. Membership in the opposition, in the majority, in civil society or in the uniformed military does not release the perpetrator of an ordinary offence from responsibility.”
2016-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7654 (2016) · source
“Media oversight is constitutionally ensured by the Superior Council of Audiovisual and Communication, a democracy- supporting institution in which representatives from Congolese society in all its diversity sit. Further proof of the openness of the Congolese political space is the undeniable fact that, unlike some countries where being in the opposition means necessarily living outside the country, virtually all Congolese political leaders live in Congo, carry out their political activities, leave and return to the country without any restrictions related to their political opinions. However, as in any constitutional State where the essential principles are the primacy of law and every citizen's equality before the law, public freedoms must be exercised in accordance with the law and by respecting the requirements of public order.”
2016-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7654 (2016) · source
“By setting up the National Human Rights Commission, on the one hand, and the Human Rights Liaison Entity, on the other hand, my country wished responsibly to send a strong signal of its steadfast determination to protect the rights of all its citizens, and even those of foreigners living on our territory, in accordance with national laws and international commitments. The political space in the Democratic Republic of Congo is the most open of the entire region and it will remain so. Proofofthat can be seen with the existence of more than 400 political parties and hundreds of private radio and television channels that freely set their editorial policy, many of which are owned by political actors known to be part of the opposition.”
2016-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7654 (2016) · source
“I cannot leave this subject without mentioning that the 340 former combatants from the FDLR who had voluntarily surrendered last year, and their dependents, have been confined until today to the transit sites in Kisangani and Kanyabayonga. While thanking the United Nations for taking charge of those former combatants, my Government reiterates that it is the responsibility of the international community to repatriate them to Rwanda, their country of origin, or relocate them to a third country outside the Great Lakes region.”
2016-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7654 (2016) · source
“That means that even the Rwandan authorities recognize the progress made towards neutralizing that negative force, even if, like them, we think that there is still some work to do. Equally encouraging results have been seen in the fight against the ADF. Although it, too, has been reduced to a bare minimum, it remains a source of the most grave security concerns because of its established connection with certain Islamic groups and its terrorist actions, which, in just a few months, have led to the death, in atrocious conditions, of more than 500 Congolese men and women in the territory of Beni in North Kivu. Together with the FDLR and the FRPI, it is the main target of the operation that the FARDC will soon undertake with the support of MONUSCO.”
2016-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7654 (2016) · source
“And, even if we were to add to that figure the few FDLR elements that had once been returned to Rwanda before being recycled and re-injected into our country for the purpose of perpetuating insecurity and plundering the natural resources of our country, we are not facing a force that the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo, supported by the United Nations, cannot overcome. There is no more eloquent testimony on this subject than that of an individual who cannot be suspected of being soft on the matter, namely, the Defence Minister of the Republic of Rwanda, who, on 11 February 2015, in response to a question by an elected representative and member of the Rwandan Parliament's Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and Security, affirmed that the FDLR was no longer a military threat to Rwanda.”
2016-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7654 (2016) · source
“As evidenced by paragraph 5 of the report of the Secretary-General, the Forces armees de la Republique democratique du Congo (FARDC) have led, and continue to conduct, operations against the Forces democratiques de liberation du Rwanda (FDLR), the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) and the Forces de resistance patriotiques en Ituri (FRPI). The operations will end only when all of those rebel movements have been eradicated. However, remarkable results have already been recorded. As such, out of the 1,200 FDLR combatants estimated at the beginning of operations, today only 108 elements remain to be neutralized.”
2016-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7654 (2016) · source
“My Government also welcomes the 16 February communique published jointly by the African Union, the European Union, the International Organization of la Francophonie and the United Nations, as well as the 24 February appeal by the Secretary-General, each of which insisted on the importance of that dialogue and called on all political actors in the country to fully cooperate with the duly appointed facilitator, former Prime Minister ofTogo, Mr. Edem Kodjo, with a view to the consensual and timely preparation and organization of free, transparent and credible elections. My Government has made considerable efforts in the fight against negative forces and armed groups.”
2016-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7654 (2016) · source
“The third pitfall concerns the securing of the electoral process in order to ensure the proper conduct of elections and the role politicians should play in the promotion of an environment that is conducive to a peaceful electoral process. Finally, the fourth pitfall is the funding of the electoral process. The Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo welcomes the invitation to participate in the dialogue among political actors launched by Pope Francis.”
2016-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7654 (2016) · source
“The first is the lack of a reliable and inclusive electoral register that takes into account all eligible Congolese voters, such as those newly of voting age, Congolese abroad and displaced persons and refugees who have returned to their place of residence. The organization of sound elections also requires the updating ofvoter lists, which must necessarily take into account the country's new administrative nomenclature stemming from the creation of new provinces, as well as the issuance of voting cards to all Congolese of voting age. The second pitfall is the ongoing failure to establish a consensual and realistic timetable. The timetable issued at the time by the National Independent Electoral Commission was rendered non-operational after multiple discordant voices from the political class were heard.”
2016-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7654 (2016) · source
“However, it should be recalled that, following the political intolerance and non-acceptance of the results by the defeated parties on the occasion of the 2006 and 2011 elections, my country experienced severe violence accompanied by a significant loss of human life and property. To avoid a recurrence of that situation, the President of the Republic, His Excellency Mr. Joseph Kabila Kabange, placed the country on the path of political dialogue so that, together, politicians from all sides, civil society, religious and customary authorities could agree on the ways and means to overcome the pitfalls found along the road to peaceful elections and to establish consensus on the current electoral process. There are four major pitfalls.”
2016-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7654 (2016) · source
“Given the history of our country, the fragility of our institutions, the trauma experienced by our people and the heavy price paid by our economy due to armed conflicts as well as unruly social movements, the Democratic Republic of the Congo cannot put a price on peace and stability. They are our first priority. In that respect, and with specific regard to the cause and effect relationship between the elections and violence and instability, I affirm that there is no - not in absolute terms but in the specific context of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - empirical evidence that not holding or organizing elections on a given date has been, in itself, the cause of large-scale violence.”
2016-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7654 (2016) · source
“For clarification purposes, allow me to comment on some of the issues addressed in those reports, in particular those related to the progress in the electoral process, the security situation in the eastern part of my country, human rights, the strategic dialogue, including the reduction of the MONUSCO force, and the implementation of the commitments made by my country under the Addis Ababa framework agreement. With regard to the electoral process, I would like to reaffirm before the Council that my country is committed to the organization of free elections in accordance with international standards of inclusiveness, transparency and credibility. However, my country also wishes to ensure that the elections are not marred by violence - before, during or after.”
2016-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7654 (2016) · source
“We just listened with great interest to the presentation of the report (8/2016/233) of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) and the report (S/2016/232) on the implementation of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Region, delivered by Mr. Maman Sidikou, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Democratic Republic of the Congo.”
2016-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7654 (2016) · source
“Finally, once again I wish to express the gratitude of the people and the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo for the efforts undertaken by the United Nations to preserve the sovereignty and territorial integrity of our country and to ensure its peace and stability. Allow me, before continuing my statement, to condemn, on behalf of the President of the Republic, the Government and the Congolese people, the cowardly terrorist attacks that occurred recently in various places around the world, and in Brussels on 22 March. The Democratic Republic of the Congo extends its condolences to the Belgian Government, the Belgian people and the families and friends of the victims of this friendly country, as well as to those of all the other States affected by this scourge.”
2016-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7654 (2016) · source
“Mr. Tshibanda N'Tungamulongo (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (spoke in French): At the outset, I wish to reiterate my congratulations to Angola for its assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of March 2016. I also wish to reiterate how honoured we are to see the outstanding manner in which the friendly country of Angola is carrying out this task. I thank you, Mr. President, for giving me another opportunity to address the Council at this meeting focusing on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I wish also to take this opportunity to pay well-deserved tribute to Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon, who has worked tirelessly over the past several years towards the restoration of peace in my country.”
2016-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7654 (2016) · source
“Without forgetting anything that had happened, they were still able to renounce indefinite reckless vengeance and a resort to force rather than the force of law to resolve disputes. The prosperity and peaceful understanding of those countries today should be our inspiration.”
2016-03-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7653 (2016) · source