LEADERS FROM FRAGILE COUNTRIES STRESS NEED FOR DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION

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Date: 25 Sep 2013 21:00:00 -0400
Subject: LEADERS FROM FRAGILE COUNTRIES STRESS NEED FOR DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION
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LEADERS FROM FRAGILE COUNTRIES STRESS NEED FOR DEVELOPMENT
COOPERATIONNew York, Sep 25 2013 9:00PMLeaders from countries working
together to promote a new model of engagement between fragile States
and other international stakeholders addressed the United Nations
General Assembly today, urging broader and more innovative cooperation
mechanisms to ensure the achievement of peace, security and
development goals.

Noting the troubling fact that many countries, particularly fragile
and conflict-affected States, may not meet the 2015 deadline for the
achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Taur Matan
Ruak, President of
<"http://gadebate.un.org/68/timor-leste">Timor-Leste underscored the
inextricable links between peace and development and the attendant
necessity of creating inclusive and responsive institutions.

This was the message of the member States of the co-called g7+, which
Timor-Leste currently chairs. Mr. Ruak said the 18-member voluntary
coalition believed that the international community as a whole must
draw lessons from this as it planned for the future.

Along with Timor-Leste, Chad, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic
Republic of the Congo (DRC) whose leaders addressed the Assembly
separately today on a range of development issues, the g7+ comprises
Afghanistan, Burundi, Central African Republic, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau,
Haiti, Liberia, Papua New Guinea, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Solomon
Islands, South Sudan and Togo.

Specifically on Timor-Leste, Mr. Ruak said that at the regional level,
his country has established friendly relations with neighbouring
countries in South-East Asia and the Pacific, in particular with
Australia and Indonesia, "our closest neighbours, with whom we
maintain intense cooperation."

"The process of reconciliation between Timor-Leste and Indonesia, and
the excellent relations that our two countries have developed
represent a model containing lessons that are useful and relevant
beyond our borders and outside our region," he said.

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In his statement, Idriss Déby, President of
<"http://gadebate.un.org/68/chad">Chad, also weighed in on the theme
of the session – achieving the MDGs and identifying a coherent set of
successor goals. He said the 2015 "will soon be upon us" and, sadly,
it appears that a number of countries, particularly those that were
fragile, will not meet the targets. That was largely due to lagging
commitments in official development assistance (ODA) and other forms
of assistance aimed at eradicating poverty.

As that was the case, he said the African countries planned to adopt
its own strategic development plan to achieve the aims of the MDGs.
He said that Africa is dealing with wars, terrorism and other ills. He
said that his Government hoped to see long awaited reform of the
United Nations, particularly the Security Council. Keeping African
countries outside the Council seemed shocking in this day and age.
Indeed, Africa's indispensible contribution to preventing and ending
conflict meant that the continent can no longer be sidelined.

Speaking later in the day, Ikililou Dhoinune, another member of the
g7+, said that the United Nations had been set up to address the
terrible scourges that were still plaguing the world today, terrorism,
poverty and hunger among them. Yet, 68 years after the adoption of the
UN Charter continued to exist under a state of domination by France, a
permanent member of the UN Security Council. He citied many relevant
resolutions reaffirming the independence of the
<"http://gadebate.un.org/68/comoros">Comoros and expressed frustration
at the ongoing situation.

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<p class="phtocaption2">Ikililou Dhoinine, President of the Union of
the Comoros. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe</p>
</div>

He said that since 6 July 1975 when the country had received its
independence Comoros had continuously called simply for the
application of international law. He said that when he had become
President, he had sought to change the situation and had met with
President Françoise Hollande on the matter and looked forward to those
negotiations going forward.

He requested the Secretary-General to provide his backing to the
bilateral path that Comoros and France were undertaking in dealing
with Mayotte. During the negotiations, Comoros will call on other
international organization to which it is affiliated to provide it
with full support.

These leaders are among a number senior Government officials to speak
at the annual General Assembly session at which heads of State and
Government and other high-level officials will present their views and
comments on issues of individual national and international
relevance.Sep 25 2013 9:00PM
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