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Guinea-Bissau: Security Council Presidential Statement

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Channel: United Nations · 2009 · News & Politics

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United Nations, 3 March 2009 - The Security Council this morning heard during closed consultations a briefing on the killings of the President and Chief of General Staff in Guinea-Bissau by Sam Ibok, Deputy Director of the Africa II division of the Department for Political Affairs. The Security Council then met in a formal meeting to adopt a Presidential Statement. Strongly condemning the assassinations of the President of Guinea-Bissau, Joao Bernardo Vieira, and the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, Tagme Na Waie, on 1 and 2 March, the Security Council today called on the Government of Guinea-Bissau to bring to justice those responsible. In a statement read out by its President, Ibrahim O. A. Dabbashi, the Council also called on the Government, the political leaders, the Armed Forces and the people of Guinea-Bissau to remain calm, exercise restraint, maintain stability and constitutional order, and respect the rule of law and the democratic process. It also urged all parties to resolve their disputes through political and peaceful means within the framework of its democratic institutions and opposed any attempt to change the Government through unconstitutional means. It called on the international community to assist in preserving Guinea-Bissau's constitutional order and to continue to support peacebuilding efforts there.

Full text of the presidential statement:
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2009/sc9605.doc.htm

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