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first: 1994-02-15
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“The Sudan will also take a keen interest in maintaining good-neighbourly relations with all neighbouring States, in particular Egypt, and will attempt to develop regional and bilateral cooperation with these States. The Sudan will continue to engage in dialogue with all the parties concerned with this question. Our doors will continue to be open for cooperation. All this is due to Sudan's strong interest in clarifying the facts and dispelling doubts. It is not seeking sympathy or justifying its position. It wishes only to clarify the facts and to take a clear stance on this important matter. I apologize for speaking at such length.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“Finally, allow me to reaffirm that the Sudan, true to its principles, which are rooted in its religion and in its traditions, maintains its commitment, entered into earlier and since repeated in many forums and at all levels, to condemn, in the strongest possible terms, terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, regardless of its causes, motivations or perpetrators. The Sudan has not allowed, and will not allow, its territory to be used for any terrorist action or to be a shelter for terrorists or for fugitives from justice. The Sudan remains committed to the implementation of all resolutions adopted by all international organizations, including the OAU, and those of this Council, however contrary they may be to the spirit of justice and equality.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“The Council's return, at the instigation of some of its members, to adopt a resolution to impose sanctions against the Sudan, despite all those facts, raises a number of questions as to the priority in the work of the Council, in accordance with the principles of the Charter of the United Nations. Is it to promote the principles of international cooperation and the maintenance of international peace and security, or is it to increase the suffering of peoples and impose sanctions on them, one after the other? The Sudan is the third State in one geographical region to be isolated and to have sanctions imposed on it. Can we consider this a coincidence, or is this a deliberate strategy against that region, its peoples, its cultures and its faiths?”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“Therefore, that Mechanism has been stripped of any role it could play to resolve this dispute. There is no doubt that the overwhelming majority of the States Members of the United Nations agree with our rejection of the sanctions, since they are inhuman, selective and run counter to morality, and have destructive consequences for peoples. In addition, the victims are always developing countries, and thus the sanctions increase the poverty and the suffering of their peoples. They also create instability in the countries on which they are imposed. They block the channels of dialogue and communication between States. Therefore, a working group was established to study these sanctions in the light of the experience of the United Nations.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“The imposition of any measures by the Council against the Sudan, whatever their political nature and however limited they may be, will have a far-reaching effect on the stability of the Sudan and on the unity of its territory, and therefore will have a grave effect on the stability of the region as a whole. They will also have grave humanitarian repercussions throughout the region, in particular in the States neighbouring the Sudan. The draft resolution before the Council today ignores completely all the efforts made by the Sudan to comply with resolution 1044 (1996). This is a grave injustice. The present draft resolution has renounced completely any search for a solution to this dispute that would satisfy all parties through the available diplomatic channels or through the conflict resolution Mechanism of the OAU.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“We would like to recall here the contents of the letter contained in document S/1996/271, which proves the good intentions of the Sudanese Government to establish comprehensive peace in the country, to introduce the concept of rights and duties on the basis of citizenship and to promote and protect the human rights of the Sudanese citizens by all means possible. The adoption by the Council of any measures against the Sudan under Chapter VII of the Charter will be an obstacle to these achievements instead of helping the Sudan to continue along that path, as if this were the Council's reward to the Sudan for its great achievements.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“The draft resolution before the Council ignores completely the positive developments that have taken place in the Sudan during the last three months vis-a-vis the first free presidential and parliamentary elections in the history of the Sudan. From many quarters - in particular the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and the League of Arab States - the international community has testified as to the freedom and fairness of these elections and the lack of violence in connection with them. Among these positive developments is also the establishment of the rules of democracy, the establishment of a federal system in the country and the signing of peace treaties with the rebels in the south in order to put an end to bloody internal conflicts and to stop the civil war between the sons of the country.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“Among these is the resort to peaceful means, in accordance with the principles of justice and international law, to resolve disputes and to achieve international cooperation to that end. It is indeed regrettable that these principles are being exploited as a pretext for punishing States and peoples that are not well liked by some members of the Council, while, at the same time, the Council turns a blind eye to the practices of other States that perpetrate great atrocities that would be punishable under Chapter VII of the Charter. All this is done by using double standards and immense selectivity, thus shaking the credibility of the Security Council and belief in its true representation of international opinion. Such behaviour was even accepted by the members of the Council in its meeting to consider the acts of aggression against Lebanon.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“The draft resolution before the Council today is gravely inconsistent with the principles of justice and equality on which this Organization was founded. This draft resolution would be another blemish on the record of this Council, which is replete with injustice, and will lead ultimately to nothing but greater doubt in the credibility of this Organization in its application of the concepts of international peace and security. When the United Nations Charter gave the Security Council the primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security and provided that the Council would represent all the other States in discharging its responsibility, it also stated that the Council should discharge this responsibility in accordance with the principles and objectives of the United Nations.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“Anyone who has followed the development of the events would not be blamed if he or she doubted the credibility of those States, their seriousness and their readiness to cooperate with the Sudan to provide it with information in order to assist it in apprehending the suspects. All this is done in order to incriminate the Sudan and to tarnish its image with the charge of supporting and being involved in terrorism. We believe that such statements are clear proof that the States parties to that dispute are bent on perpetuating it by claiming that they have materials and evidence that many doubt even exist. How could the Security Council bear the historical responsibility of condemning the Sudan and punishing it on the basis of such unclear and flimsy statements?”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“It also says that it will consider the question of providing additional information, if it proves necessary, to expedite the legal steps necessary for extradition and that it has started to try in secret those held in its prisons. The conduct of the Ethiopian authorities in dealing with this important and serious matter to a large extent raises doubts and suspicions regarding its good will and its real intentions and casts more shadows on the whole question. This action would result in putting further obstacles in the way of any efforts carried out by the Sudanese authorities in their search for the suspects.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“All this is aimed at strategic and political objectives that cannot be hidden from anyone. The United States, through some of its representatives, has spoken to the press in a manner that is offensive to the Sudan and that is not usual in the Security Council or in the corridors of the United Nations. For our part, we will continue to act with courtesy and decency. We are a people who show patience in the face of adversity, and if we are offended we also know how to forgive. The third allegation is by the State that has put the complaint before the Council and on whose territory the crime took place. Ethiopia finds it sufficient to say that it is in possession of evidence that cannot be revealed currently for security reasons, but that indicates that the Sudanese Government is aware of the location of the suspects.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“It has denied completely that the Sudan or its representatives have any connection with any terrorist acts, in any State or in any form. The Sudan called on the host country to provide it with evidence proving its claims. Many delegations and Member States know the diplomat who was expelled, on both an official and a personal level. This is testimony enough to his innocence. This action by the host country came at a time when many observers were asking why it had chosen to remain silent ever since 1993, and why it had not levelled any charges against that diplomat? The answer to these questions is very clear: these actions represent a political mobilization to influence negatively the atmosphere of discussions on the draft resolution currently before the Security Council.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“The second allegation employed in order to convince the members of the Security Council to impose coercive measures against the Sudan is the claim by the United States of America that the Sudan was a party to a conspiracy against facilities and persons in its territory in 1993. In escalation of these hostile claims, the United States requested that a Sudanese diplomat of the Permanent Mission of the Sudan to the United Nations leave its territory, in contravention of the provisions of article IV of the Headquarters Agreement of 1947, which governs the presence of the Permanent Missions in New York, and in contravention of the resolutions of the General Assembly in that regard. The Sudan has rejected strongly this conduct by the host country.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“It questioned the editor of that newspaper, who refused to reveal the sources of the information he published, claiming that the laws of the country give journalists immunity from having to reveal the sources of their information. The Government had no choice but to release him. It is obvious that the State is not supposed to respond to sensationalist news in the media, either by confirming it or by denying it. This is true of all States of the world. It is worth noting that journalists in the Sudan are in close contact with the press and journalists in Egypt. Egypt was and continues to be a source of culture in the Sudan.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“Egypt also distributed another document, a photocopy of a local Sudanese newspaper, Heart of the street, which reported last March that the three suspects would be holding a press conference in some State. when they would dispel all the accusations of Sudan's involvement in the attempt on the Egyptian President's life. The intent behind distributing that newspaper was to prove that the Sudan at least knew where the suspects were located. This newspaper is privately owned; it is independent, and has no connection with the Government. Therefore, it does not speak on behalf of the State, and the State should not be questioned about news reports in it. Nevertheless, the Government has responded to that news item with the necessary seriousness.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“Why did it not provide the Sudan with the information contained therein? Although we find this information unfruitful and unproductive as evidence, why was it not given to the Sudan before the adoption of the resolution of the Council, particularly since Egypt is obliged, under the provisions of the 1973 New York Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents, to provide other States parties to that Convention with the information available to it about the suspects, and especially since the Sudan is a party to that Convention, which was mentioned in the third preambular paragraph of resolution 1044 (1996)?”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“Fifthly, as a general State policy of the Sudan, the entry and exit of foreigners, in particular Arabs, without a visa was a very easy matter at the time. The insinuation that the facilities' being made available was proof of Sudan's support for the suspects has no basis in fact, as the document itself reveals, those suspects have received greater facilities from Ethiopia. Why should that not be used as proof of Ethiopia's involvement? The mere claim that there is evidence that one of the suspects, or all of them, entered the Sudan is not in and of itself evidence that they actually did so and with the knowledge of the Sudanese authorities. It is well known that Sudan, with its vast territory, finds its open borders very difficult to monitor or protect. Sixthly, why did Egypt provide this document now?”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“This is of extreme importance in evaluating the value of such documents as evidence. Secondly, the interrogation was based on the assumption that Sudan and its security organs were involved in the matter. That is an assumption that has no connection with what the suspects said. Thirdly, the document goes on to mention names, claiming that they are the names of Sudanese citizens, as proof of Sudan's involvement in the incident. What was given was only the first name of four persons, without referring to their jobs or their connections with the State and its organs. Fourthly, in very general terms, the document claims that the Sudan smuggles arms in order to prove that the Sudan was involved in the incident. The interrogation did not refer to the method or the persons or the organ that carried out this smuggling operation.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“At the same time, the Sudan has called upon all the parties to the current dispute to provide it with all the information and data available to them that would facilitate a quick end to this dispute. The Sudan would like here to repeat that it has not yet received any additional information about the suspects, information that might help the Sudanese authorities to determine their location. On the contrary, the Sudan is daily surprised by the emergence of so-called new information in the corridors here, presented by the States concerned. Let us look at this new information. First, Egypt has distributed two documents, the first of which claims to be a transcript of the interrogation of some of the suspects in the attempt who are currently held in Ethiopia. This document does not reveal who interrogated those mentioned in it.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“One can only wonder how the Secretary-General can justify his claim regarding Sudan's non-compliance with paragraph 4 (b) of resolution 1044 (1996) on the basis of some of the statements his Special Envoy heard in some of the States he visited, while totally ignoring the Sudan's accusations concerning those States that shelter terrorists - for example, Uganda - even if we assume that both types of statement have equal weight as evidence. Sudan has repeatedly declared its full readiness to cooperate with international and regional organizations to solve this dispute since the adoption of resolution 1044 (1996). It has expressed its full commitment to all the resolutions adopted by the OAU and the Security Council.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“The same report states that the Sudan was described to the Special Envoy as a country that is subject to destabilizing activities which are supported and encouraged by its neighbours. Sudanese officials reminded the Special Envoy of letters sent by the Sudan to the President of the Security Council complaining about the active aggression perpetrated against it by some of those States, letters contained in documents S/1995/522, S/1995/6l6 and S/1996/29.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“The claim by the Secretary-General in his report to the Council that the Sudan has not complied with paragraph 4 (b) of resolution 1044 (1996) since all the neighbouring countries visited by his Special Envoy have accused it of supporting terrorist activities within their territories, gives cause for suspicion and distrust and casts much doubt on the organs of the United Nations. The claim that all the neighbours of the Sudan that were visited by the Special Envoy is a misleading generalization. It runs counter to what was contained in the report itself, since one of the four States did not say that the Sudan was attempting to destabilize its territories. Therefore, the use of terms such as "all" is a falsification of the facts and dishonest.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“As a measure of goodwill in implementing the resolution it issued an invitation to the United Nations to send a fact-finding mission to obtain the facts regarding Sudan's alleged support for terrorism or giving shelter to terrorists, and it called on the representative of the Secretary-General to carry out the investigation himself if be deemed it appropriate. But these calls have fallen on deaf ears. The credibility of the intentions of the Sudan cannot be tested without responding to its calls or by putting forward other proposals. But that, too, has not occurred.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“If the Council sincerely wants, for once in its recent history, to arrive at the truth and, in particular, to arrive at the realities of the bizarre question before it, it is high time for it to evaluate the Ethiopian claims and their sources in the light of what the first suspect revealed. Paragraph 4 (b) of resolution 1044 (1996) is even worse. Its demand for the Sudan to desist from supporting terrorism is a condemnation of the innocent by delivering a verdict and punishing the innocent without any convincing proof. This, too, is a contravention of all legal systems. Resolution 1044 (1996) has failed to clarify the nature of these acts and their sources. It has also failed to clarify the measures that the Sudan should have taken in order to comply with that paragraph. As a result, the Sudanese Government is bewildered.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“That newspaper interview contains important information that the Council should not ignore. If it does so it will have denied all the principles of justice and equity. I heard the statements made by all the speakers when the question of Lebanon was discussed in the Council. Most of them - there were only a few exceptions - condemned the conduct of the Security Council, accusing it of double standards and bias. If that is how the Council behaves, will Sudan find redress and justice here? The statement made by the first suspect has much greater value in proving the facts than the claims of the Ethiopians.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“That was confirmed by the weak information that Sudan received from Ethiopia about what it called the third suspect, which arrived without a photograph of that suspect, which was not the case with the other wanted suspects. Whoever examines this matter will find a great many contradictions between Ethiopia's complaint to the Council and the interview of the first suspect. Information relating to the suspects' entry into Ethiopia, their departure from the country, the fact that they received passports and the States that they came from or passed through, all raises serious doubts about the Ethiopian complaints as a whole, especially as Ethiopia insisted on trying its suspects in secret and refused to accept the request of some Egyptian lawyers to defend them. It even refused to give those lawyers a visa to go to Addis Ababa.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“The Egyptian reaction to what the suspect told the newspaper, to the effect that the Sudan continued to be guilty until proved innocent, is a contravention of the established norms of all legal systems. We had thought that the accused was always innocent until proved guilty. The statement that the suspect, Mustafa Hamza, entered the Sudan after the incident took place contradicts the account contained in the Ethiopian account, to the effect that he was in the Sudan for two years planning that fateful operation. The suspect also said that only two, not three, people participated in that operation and managed to leave Addis Ababa.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“It was also reported that Egyptian sources continued to say that the Government of Sudan was still under suspicion and accusation and that it must provide evidence of its innocence. The declaration made by the Sudanese Foreign Minister was actually altered. When speaking in Cairo, he specifically mentioned the source of his information, which was the "Orient" broadcast in Paris. I was standing next to him at the time. He spoke about the source of the news, not the news item itself. He said: "There are some reports about the presence of the person named Mustafa Hamza in Afghanistan", and mentioned the content of the "Orient" broadcast in Paris, which was based on the suspect's telephone and fax contact. Anyone who claims otherwise is trying to distort reality.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“The letter called upon the President of the Council to confirm the information in the newspaper interview through a fact-finding mission conducted on the basis of previous similar practices of the Council. Secondly, Egypt did not deny the fact that this suspect was in Afghanistan. It turned a blind eye to the importance of the confessions of the suspect, Mustafa Hamza, in order to incriminate Sudan without any evidence. We had hoped that for the sake of truth the suspect's statements would be evaluated objectively so as to arrive at a productive resolution of the matter supporting the cooperation called for by the Sudan to combat terrorism in all its manifestations. There are reports that certain diplomatic sources have said that information exists confirming that Mustafa Hamza entered the Sudan after the failed attempt.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“He said that the Sudan did not shelter the suspects, that the Islamic group had carried out the fateful failed attempt, and that they had no connections with any State or organization in carrying out that attempt. How did the parties deal with this information? First, the Sudan referred the contents of the interview to the President of the Security Council, asking that it be distributed as an official document of the Council. It has been circulated in document S/l996/311. The Sudan also addressed a letter to the President of the Council drawing his attention to this new information. It made it clear that if the information is true it fully supports what the Sudan has always said - that the suspects are not in its territory, and that the Sudan has absolutely no connection with that incident.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“The speaker said that he was one of the participants in the attempt, which was carried out by the Egyptian Islamic group with Egyptian planning, and his presence in Kabul is evidence that the suspects in that attempt are not in the Sudan. He denied that his group had any relations with the Government of Sudan. On 21 April 1996, the Arabic newspaper Al Hayat, issued in New York and London, published an interview with a person called Mustafa Hamza in the Afghan province of Konor. He revealed that he was the first suspect in the failed assassination attempt on the Egyptian President in Addis Ababa. He also revealed that he had been in Afghanistan for eight months.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“On 27 February 1996, the Islamic group to which all the participants in the incident at Addis Ababa belong issued a long statement in which it clarified all the circumstances of the incident and declared that Sudan had played no role in the attempt. It also affirmed the fact that none of them was in the Sudan before, during or after the incident. On 14 April 1996, the "Orient" radio station, which broadcasts from Paris in both Arabic and French, stated that a previously unknown person named Abu Hazim, speaking in an Egyptian dialect, had contacted its office in Beshawr and faxed a statement reaffirming that those who had participated in the attempt on the life of President Mubarak in Addis Ababa were outside the Sudan, and that there were only two of them, not three as the Ethiopian authorities claimed.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“The move by some States to persuade the Council to adopt a resolution imposing sanctions against the Sudan under Chapter VII of the Charter, under the pretext that it has not responded to the demands of paragraph 4 (a) of resolution 1044 (1996), will lead to a dead end. The Council's demand that Sudan extradite the suspects to Ethiopia will make resolution 1044 (1996) and all subsequent resolutions a whirlwind from which there is no escape, especially since many States are convinced that there is no evidence that the suspects are in Sudan's territory. There are reports in the international media about their presence in the territory of other States; since the adoption of resolution 1044 (1996) there have been many reports of some of those suspects being outside the Sudan.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“It has given him a full dossier, contained in document S/ 1996/ 197, outlining all the details of the Government's efforts to search for the suspects and apprehend them. It has called upon Egypt and Ethiopia to cooperate and exchange information in order to clarify the situation with regard to the suspects and to discover their whereabouts. Would it be fair to describe all these efforts of the Sudan as constituting non-compliance with resolution 1044 (1996)? None of these efforts is referred to anywhere in the draft resolution before the Council today. When one reads the Secretary-General's report, it is not very difficult to perceive all the signs of injustice it contains. It does not reflect the truth and is biased against the Sudan.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“It should also be noted that the resolution deliberately avoided any reference to the fact that the suspects are Egyptian citizens. Moreover, the international community has followed the circumstances related to the resolution, foremost among which is that the Council failed to consider the substance of these claims and has not decided upon them. It has merely confined itself to urging the Sudan to cooperate with the OAU. As to the extradition of the suspects, the Government has declared its full readiness to apprehend them once it knows their location and subsequently to extradite them to Ethiopia. The Government has informed the Secretary- General's Special Envoy of all the steps it has taken in this regard.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“Paragraph 4 (a) of that resolution calls upon the Government of the Sudan to comply with the requests of the Organization of African Unity by immediately extraditing to Ethiopia for prosecution the three suspects. We wish particularly to stress here that the Council has, in a dubious and suspicious manner, ignored the text of the OAU Mechanism of 12 December 1995, in which it called on all the parties to the dispute to cooperate and to provide all the necessary data and information that could help the Government of the Sudan to search for and locate the suspects and extradite them to the Ethiopian authorities. Instead, it should be noted that the Security Council not only ignored this particular paragraph of the OAU resolution, but asserted in paragraph 4 (a) that the suspects are sheltering in the Sudan.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“His mission was to collect all information that might support such claims from the States neighbours of that country and even from some that are at a great distance from it. During his visit to the Sudan, the Special Envoy discovered the reality of developments in the Sudan, in particular the efforts being made by the Government to comply with the resolutions of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) Mechanism for Conflict Prevention, Management and Resolution and of the Security Council. All this has occurred despite the inadequacy of the information requested. This was a great effort in View of the weak technical support available in the country. The Secretary-General's claim that the Sudan has not complied with paragraph 4 of resolution 1044 (1996) is indeed amazing.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“This is how the Sudan views its relations with its neighbours, which the Secretary-General should not have ignored in his report. Furthermore, observers had hoped that the visit of the Secretary-General's Special Envoy would achieve some positive results as regards narrowing differences and helping the parties to open channels of communication in order to exchange information and to clarify the facts. The Special Envoy did not even meet those accused of the assassination attempt, who are being held by Ethiopia and on whose confessions it is to be assumed that Ethiopia is basing its accusations and claims against the Sudan. It is regrettable that such a meeting did not occur. The Secretary-General's Special Envoy had preconceptions of the Sudan as a State that supports terrorism and does not respect good-neighbourly relations.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“IGADD will hold a ministerial meeting this month in Djibouti to implement the summit's decisions. In response to Malawi's initiative to normalize relations between the Sudan and Uganda, as well as to the invitation of that country's Government, the delegation of the Sudan in the multilateral monitoring group travelled to Malawi in mid-January to attend a meeting aimed at pursuing those efforts, but the Ugandan delegation was unable to attend. At the domestic level, the President of the Republic made an important statement at the inaugural session of the new Parliament in which he said that the Sudan, as an expression of its free will and not of fear, wished to improve relations in all forms with all its neighbours, in particular sisterly Egypt.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“In his statement at that summit, the President of the Sudan reaffirmed the Sudan's commitment to the policies of good-neighbourliness and the development of regional and bilateral cooperation with all its neighbours. He referred to the potential and capacities of the States of the region to set aside their temporary differences and to concentrate on the development of their peoples. The final statement of that summit stresses that the Presidents reaffirmed their full commitment to improving regional and bilateral relations between them and to the peaceful settlement of the current disputes. The statement emphasized their focus on the need for peace as an essential condition for development. It is worth noting that the Sudan supported the Eritrean candidacy for the post of Executive Secretary in order to achieve the necessary consensus.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“Ange-Felix Patasse, sent a letter to the President of the Security Council (S/1996/294) in which he referred to the tripartite summit, aimed at maintaining peace and security, which are essential conditions for lasting development. The letter appealed to the Security Council to search for a peaceful solution precluding punitive measures against the Sudan, which might compromise regional initiatives and set back progress towards cooperation and development. Such measures would be in contravention of the Charter and its lofty principles. As a reaffirmation of its commitment to those principles, the Sudan participated in the summit meetings of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Drought and Development (IGADD) held in Nairobi on 21 March.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“On the very day on which the Council met to adopt resolution 1044 (1996), the President of Sudan was participating in the tripartite summit held in Bangui on 31 January and 1 February and attended by the Presidents of Sudan, the Central African Republic and Chad. In their final communique, the Presidents reaffirmed the need to make the triangle of Sudan, the Central African Republic and Chad a model of regional cooperation and integration on all levels. The meetings demonstrated the Sudan's keen interest in developing good-neighbourly relations with its neighbours and their appreciation of the Sudan's role and potential. Convinced of the Sudan' s earnestness in achieving that cooperation and of its good-neighbourly intentions, the President of the Central African Republic, Mr.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“The claim in the Secretary-General's report that all the neighbours of Sudan visited by his Special Envoy accused it of supporting its terrorist activities within their territories reaffirms the validity of what we have said. I would like to ask the Council to pause with us here to wonder how the Secretary-General came to formulate the mission of his Special Envoy in that way? That is to say, why did he limit the scope of that trip to only those States that were visited? Limiting the Special Envoy's trip to those States meant that he was going only to come back with the same fabrications that were repeated by some States before this Council. Indeed, it was a strange mission. The claim by the Secretary-General and his Special Envoy is a mere fabrication based on no facts and with no connection to reality.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“He prepared a report of bizarre content and form, in which he referred to some of what had been said by the States neighbouring Sudan, two of which are parties to the current dispute - and one of those two did not state that Sudan was trying to create instability - and two of which are antagonistic to Sudan and support separatist rebels along its borders with Sudan. As for the fifth State, many people do not understand why it was covered in the Secretary-General's mission, not being a neighbouring State of Sudan. As is well known, Sudan has 10 neighbouring States. The Secretary-General's selection of only those four neighbouring States displays a premeditated intention to collect accusations and fabrications in order to tarnish Sudan's reputation at any price. Why did the Special Envoy's trip not cover the other six neighbouring States?”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“Furthermore, the Security Council resolution did not take the form of a warning to be followed by sanctions because that was not the main objective of its adoption, especially considering that the Security Council did not consider the substance of the dispute and considered what the OAU had done to be sufficient in that regard. After the adoption of the resolution, both the United Nations and the OAU took a number of steps to find a way out of the current crisis. In implementation of paragraph 7 of the resolution, the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations travelled to the region, covering Ethiopia, Eritrea, Uganda, Sudan, Egypt and Tunisia.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“Has the conflict-settlement Mechanism reached a dead end, making it impossible for it to solve the question, and therefore making it incumbent on the Security Council to discharge its responsibility under the Charter? The draft resolution the Council intends to adopt today falls within the framework of the measures provided for in Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter. We must pause here for a second to recall the following. Security Council resolution 1044 (1996), for the reasons mentioned above, contains no condemnation of Sudan: it only calls on Sudan to comply with the resolutions of the OAU, under Chapter VI of the Charter.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“Despite the fact that the report (S/ 1996/ 179) of the Secretary-General submitted pursuant to Security Council resolution 1044 (1996) expresses the intention of the Secretary-General to remain in close contact with all parties concerned and with the Secretary-General of the OAU with regard to all aspects of the resolution, we find today that the Security Council is meeting in order to adopt coercive measures against the Sudan. Thus, we wonder about the value of Security Council resolution 1044 (1996), which is aimed primarily at giving the OAU the opportunity it needs to do its work. What has the Security Council done to assist that Organization? Has the OAU officially informed the Security Council of the steps it has taken in that regard? What has the OAU said about Sudan's cooperation with it?”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“We would like to recall that the Secretary-General of the OAU, in speaking to the President of the Council for last month, affirmed that the OAU was continuing its efforts to resolve the question. He also reaffirmed Sudan's seriousness and its willingness to cooperate with the Organization in order to arrive at that objective, despite the fact Security Council resolution 1044 (1996) contradicts that of the conflict-settlement Mechanism.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source
“That organization's familiarity with the conditions obtaining in the region makes it more capable of using preventive diplomacy to contain disputes and minimize their negative effects. This is one of the most important reasons that inspired the Council to adopt the aforementioned resolution, thus providing the necessary flexibility for complementarity between the responsibilities of the United Nations and those of the Organization of African Unity. The OAU has spared no effort in its search for a solution to that dispute, and it is continuing its activities in that regard. The matter is expected to be discussed at the summit on the conflict-settlement Mechanism next month.”
1996-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3660 (1996) · source