UN General Assembly
2004

and we will do this on a basis of mutual confidence and respect for national sovereignty and our common obligations. In Guinea-Bissau, notable progress enables us to have hope. We are gratified at the resumption of cooperation with the Bretton Woods institutions which will make it easier to mobilize the required resources to build a strong peace. In Côte d’Ivoire, the preservation of unity, territorial integrity and the full sovereignty of the country must serve as the core of the peace process that is under way. We appeal to all parties to rely on dialogue in order to overcome the difficulties that lie ahead on the way to peace. Guinea is very preoccupied by the persistence of interdependent transborder problems that characterize socio-economic conflicts and crises. Among those problems are the proliferation of and illicit traffic in small arms and light weapons, the movements of mercenaries, the recruitment and the use of child soldiers and the pillaging of natural resources. The initiative for transforming the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)