In the coming weeks and months, the Commission will do everything to improve the performance of AMIS and enhance its effectiveness on the basis of the recommendations made by the Assessment Mission and other missions.

It is a matter of exerting the greatest possible pressure on the Sudanese parties to bring them to honor the commitment made and to negotiate with the necessary flexibility the lasting resolution of the conflict. In this regard it is important for the PSC to reaffirm clearly its determination to request the UN Security Council to impose the appropriate sanctions on any party impeding the search for peace.

It's not security measures, it's not prisons in Madrid and walls in Africa that will solve the problem.

on the candidates to accept the results of the polls as a clear expression of the will of the people of Liberia.

One can't build prisons and walls in Africa, on our territory. One won't regulate it that way.

Without an African internal market, it is an illusion to believe that we can strive towards overseas markets.