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United Nations S/PV.5110 Security Council Provisional Sixtieth year 5110th meeting Wednesday, 12 January 2005, 10 a.m. New York President: Mr. Bielsa ....................................... (Argentina) Members: Algeria ......................................... Mr. Baali Benin .......................................... Mr. Adechi Brazil .......................................... Mr. Amorim China .......................................... Mr. Wang Guangya Denmark ........................................ Ms. Løj France .......................................... Mr. Muselier Greece ......................................... Mr. Vassilakis Japan ........................................... Mr. Oshima Philippines ...................................... Mr. Baja Romania ........................................ Mr. Motoc Russian Federation ................................ Mr. Denisov United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ..... Sir Emyr Jones Parry United Republic of Tanzania ......................... Mr. Mahiga United States of America ........................... Mr. Noriega Agenda The question of Haiti This record contains the text of speeches delivered in English and of the interpretation of speeches delivered in the other languages. The final text will be printed in the Official Records of the Security Council. Corrections should be submitted to the original languages only. They should be incorporated in a copy of the record and sent under the signature of a member of the delegation concerned to the Chief of the Verbatim Reporting Service, room C-154A. 05-20573 (E) *0520573* S/PV.5110 The meeting was called to order at 10.25 a.m. procedure to Mr. Juan Gabriel Valdés, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Representation and welcome to Ministers the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti. The President (spoke in Spanish): At the outset, There being no objection, it is so decided. I should like to acknowledge and welcome the I invite Mr. Valdés to take a seat at the Council presence in the Council Chamber of Her Excellency table. The Honourable Dame Billie Miller, Senior Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of In accordance with the usual practice, and in the Barbados; His Excellency Mr. Celso Luiz Nunes absence of objection, I shall take it that the Security Amorim, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Brazil; His Council agrees to extend an invitation under rule 39 of Excellency Mr. Ignacio Walker, Minister for Foreign its provisional rules of procedure to Mr. Luigi R. Affairs of Chile; His Excellency Mr. Carlos Morales Einaudi, Acting Secretary General of the Organization Troncoso, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the of American States. Dominican Republic; His Excellency Mr. Renaud There being no objection, it is so decided. Muselier, State Secretary for Foreign Affairs of France; His Excellency Mr. Yvon Siméon, Minister for Foreign I invite Mr. Einaudi to take the seat reserved for Affairs of Haiti; and His Excellency Mr. Roger him at the side of the Council Chamber. Noriega, Assistant Secretary of State for Western The Security Council will now begin its Hemisphere Affairs of the United States. consideration of the item on its agenda. The Council is meeting in accordance with the understanding reached Adoption of the agenda in its prior consultations. The agenda was adopted. At this meeting, the Security Council will hear a briefing by Mr. Juan Gabriel Valdés, Special The question of Haiti Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of The President (spoke in Spanish): I should like the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti. I to inform the Council that I have received letters from now give him the floor. the representatives of Barbados, Bolivia, Canada, Chile, Mr. Valdés (spoke in Spanish): I should like at Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, the outset, Sir, to express my satisfaction at seeing you Haiti, Honduras, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, preside over the Council and to congratulate the Norway, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay, in which they Argentine Republic on the excellent manner in which it request to be invited to participate in the discussion of has been conducting the work of the Council during the item on the Council’s agenda. In conformity with this first month of the year. I am also extremely the usual practice, I propose, with the consent of the grateful to you for having convened this open debate of Council, to invite those representatives to participate in the Security Council at the ministerial level to consider the discussion without the right to vote, in accordance the situation in Haiti. This meeting is a reflection of the with the relevant provisions of the Charter and rule 37 interest of the countries that are friends of Haiti and of of the Council’s provisional rules of procedure. the members of the international community in general There being no objection, it is so decided. in the efforts being made by the Government and the people of Haiti to overcome their difficulties. I also At the invitation of the President, Mr. Siméon warmly welcome the presence here today of the Acting (Haiti) took a seat at the Council table; the Secretary General of the Organization of American representatives of the other aforementioned States, Mr. Luigi Einaudi. countries took the seats reserved for them at the side of the Council Chamber. This meeting also provides a show of political support for the United Nations Stabilization Mission in The President (spoke in Spanish): In accordance Haiti (MINUSTAH) and represents a vote of confidence with the usual practice, and in the absence of objection, for the role that the United Nations can play in assisting I shall take it that the Security Council agrees to extend in the recovery of societies in which a combination of an invitation under rule 39 of its provisional rules of poverty and weak governance lead to internal violence. 2 S/PV.5110 I should like to reiterate here my conviction that, Mission includes, on the one hand, the legitimate use if we provide Haiti with continuing international of force when necessary or indispensable, and, on the political support, that country will emerge from its other, a focus on the most urgent problems which affect present crisis and become reintegrated into the more vulnerable people of Haiti. We have thus international society, in a framework characterized by embarked on a new phase of the Mission, which I will internal political stability and democratic freedoms. expand upon. I should like also to thank the Transitional MINUSTAH has taken clear-cut steps towards Government of Haiti for the warm welcome it accorded stabilizing the security situation. Groups of former the Mission and for the relationship based on mutual soldiers who dared to defy the authority of the State trust that we have built since the inception of the and of the Mission had to quickly back down, while Mission. The Transitional Government of President other illegal armed groups, which include some who Boniface Alexandre and Prime Minister Gérard claim to support former President Aristide, are losing Latortue have courageously shouldered a very difficult ground. task — one that is not always understood by their Threats and challenges in the area of security compatriots. In a climate of profound national division, remain serious, but we are gradually beginning to see a they have had to revitalize institutions that were on the greater degree of stability. On 14 December 2004, verge of collapse, and to deal with forces seeking MINUSTAH launched a major political and military chaos and destabilization while maintaining sufficient operation jointly with elements of the Haitian National openness to enable the country, with the participation Police in the district of Cité Soleil, in the city of Port- of all, to set out once again on the path towards au-Prince — an area that is well known for harbouring democratic legitimacy — and that in the framework of criminal armed groups, many of which have different a formal commitment to renounce any position of and conflicting political loyalties. The objectives of the power following the upcoming elections. operation were to restore order and security in the area Since my last appearance before the Council, on through the presence and the firm and ongoing control 22 November last, Haiti has embarked on a different of MINUSTAH, which will facilitate the gradual phase. Indeed, although security challenges remain restoration of the autonomous functioning of the police complex and factors leading to insecurity and in the area, as well as create conditions for the instability have not yet been dealt with, the attempts normalization of activities ranging from the proper made last November by armed groups deliberately to functioning of the public administration to the destabilize the country were foiled. We have also seen reactivation of trade and the relaunching of various a reduced level of violence and insecurity, and the types of humanitarian operations at the local and launching by the Transitional Government of political international levels. initiatives has made room for participation by all those Aside from isolated and sporadic gunfire, who reject violence and made it easier to carry out the Operation Liberty, as it was called, did not encounter electoral process planned for the end of this year in strong armed resistance and was successful, with no conditions of peace and freedom. deaths recorded within MINUSTAH or the Haitian MINUSTAH has