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'''The Brazzaville Foundation''' (TBF) is a UK-registered charity devoted to conflict resolution in Africa by fostering peace and stability through dialogue and understanding. TBF's founder is Congolese president Denis Sassou Nguesso, patron is HRH Prince Michael of Kent and two-man board of trustees are [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/margaret-thatcher/11309863/Tim-Bell-my-sort-of-horrible-Christmases-at-Chequers-with-Margaret-Thatcher.html Lord Bell of Belgravia] and French secret agent [[Jean-Yves Ollivier]].<ref>[http://www.brazzavillefoundation.org/en/about-us/ "The Brazzaville Foundation"]</ref>
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'''The Brazzaville Foundation For Peace And Conservation''' (TBF) is a private UK company registered in 2014.<ref>[http://www.endole.co.uk/company/09176062/the-brazzaville-foundation-for-peace-and-conservation "The Brazzaville Foundation For Peace And Conservation"]</ref> [[TBF]]'s founder is [[Jean-Yves Ollivier]], its patron is HRH [[Prince Michael of Kent]] and its original three-man board of trustees were former [[Margaret Thatcher|Thatcher]] adviser [[Tim Bell]] (resigned November 2018), [[Jean-Yves Ollivier]] and [https://www.rawlinson-hunter.co.uk/staff/philip-prettejohn Philip Prettejohn (resigned December 2019).]<ref>[http://www.brazzavillefoundation.org/en/about-us/ "The Brazzaville Foundation"]</ref> [[Institute for Statecraft]] advisor [[Nicholas Chance]] was a director from 2017 to 2021.<ref>https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/09176062/officers</ref>
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==Own words==
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The Brazzaville Foundation believes that only by achieving lasting peace and stability can nations thrive, people prosper and the environment be safeguarded. The Foundation’s work is conducted on a non-profit basis by distinguished individuals of the highest integrity and achievement. The Foundation draws its authority to act on appeals from States afflicted by internal conflict, those with conflicts on their borders, and through regional or multi-national institutions seeking mediation support. TBF’s work will be judged on the ensuing peace dividend, through the fostering of political and social stability, through the creation of jobs, prosperity and empowerment of affected citizens.<ref>[http://www.brazzavillefoundation.org/en/get-in-touch/ "Get in touch"]</ref>
  
 
==Spirit of Brazzaville==
 
==Spirit of Brazzaville==
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A quarter century after the signing of the [[Brazzaville Protocol]], TBF was launched to keep the ‘spirit of Brazzaville’ alive through the combination of bold statesmanship and ‘citizen diplomacy’. The Foundation is the brainchild of Congolese president Denis Sassou Nguesso who, of his own volition, wanted it to be run independently.
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[[File:Bell_Kent_Ollivier.jpg|300px|right|thumb|TBF Patron [[Prince Michael of Kent]] with [[Tim Bell|Lord Bell]] and [[Jean-Yves Ollivier]] ]]
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TBF was launched a quarter century after the [[Brazzaville Protocol]], which ended the Cold War in Africa almost a year before the Berlin Wall crumbled and brought not only peace to Southern Africa but also opened the door for the release of [[Nelson Mandela]], and for a negotiated end of apartheid and the advent of the ‘rainbow nation’. TBF keeps the ‘spirit of Brazzaville’ alive through the combination of bold statesmanship and ‘citizen diplomacy’.
  
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TBF's patron is HRH Prince Michael of Kent, who is seconded by a high-powered Board of Trustees composed of eminent personalities, business as well as political leaders and dignitaries from a wide range of civil society organisations.
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TBF's Patron is HRH [[Prince Michael of Kent]], seconded by a board of trustees composed of eminent personalities, business as well as political leaders and dignitaries from a wide range of civil society organisations. Its chairman, and one of its trustees, is [[Jean-Yves Ollivier]], a French businessman who has been engaged in Africa for more than thirty years. His behind-the-scenes diplomacy was reportedly instrumental to the conclusion of the [[Brazzaville Protocol]].<ref>[http://www.brazzavillefoundation.org/en/what-we-do/ "What We Do"]</ref>
  
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TBF’s Chairman, and one of its trustees, is [[Jean-Yves Ollivier]], a French businessman who has been engaged in conflict resolution in Africa for more than thirty years. His behind-the-scenes diplomacy was instrumental to the conclusion of the [[Brazzaville Protocol]].
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===Bell Pottinger and Lockerbie===
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The PR Firm [[Bell Pottinger]], which has been caught in the midst of a high level lobbying investigation, has been linked to edits on the Wikipedia website which bolstered the credentials of their client, prostate cancer specialist Professor Roger Kirby, and linked his experience to [[Abdelbaset al-Megrahi]]. Bell Pottinger staff had been caught on camera this week boasting of enabling foreign office policy changes on behalf of clients due to their claimed access at the highest levels of Government and monarchy in the UK. Ten accounts linked to Bell Pottinger were subsequently closed by Wikipedia, following the personal intervention of the site’s founder, [[Jimmy Wales]].
  
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The initialling of the [[Brazzaville Protocol]] on the 13th December 1988 was a momentous event in the history of modern Africa. The preliminary agreement was the culmination of years of behind-the-scenes negotiations aimed at bringing about the end of apartheid and white-only rule in [[South Africa]]. The protocol preceded the formal signing of the [[New York Accords]] on 22nd December 1988, which was the cornerstone in the creation of modern [[South Africa]], finalising the process of political emancipation for millions of South Africans. The Brazzaville Foundation draws its inspiration from this iconic event.
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This is not the first time Wikipedia entries in relation to the [[Pan Am 103]] case have been systematically edited. In 2007 Dr [[Ludwig De Braeckeleer]] published an extensive report documenting how the entries relating to the [[Pan Am Flight 103|Lockerbie event]] had been methodically altered by US based intelligence services, whose involvement had extended to positioning [[Frank Duggan|a family liaison operative close to the families]]. Several entries in respect of the atrocity which had referenced news articles and investigations published by ''The Scotsman'' newspaper and ''The Firm'' now no longer appear on the site.<ref>[http://www.firmmagazine.com/bell-pottinger-lobbying-wikipedia-scandal-linked-to-megrahi-cancer-doctor/ "Bell Pottinger lobbying & Wikipedia scandal linked to Megrahi cancer doctor"]</ref>
  
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==Aims==
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==Preliminary agreement==
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The Brazzaville Foundation aims to build upon and repeat the success of the [[Brazzaville Protocol]], bringing peace to other parts of the African continent, and further afield. Though signed in 1988 the [[New York Accords]] were in fact just the start. The need for a non-aligned peace negotiation process conducted by experts and professionals in a discreet manner is needed now more than ever.
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[[File:Brazzaville_Protocol.jpg|400px|right|thumb|[[Brazzaville Protocol|Participants at Namibia's independence negotiations in the Congolese capital Brazzaville]], 13 December 1988]]
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The [[Brazzaville Protocol]] of 13 December 1988 was a momentous event in the history of modern Africa. This preliminary agreement came six months after the [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]]/[[Mikhail Gorbachev|Gorbachev]] summit in Moscow, and was the culmination of years of behind-the-scenes negotiations aimed at bringing about the end of apartheid and white-only rule in [[South Africa]].
  
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Modern Africa is littered with conflict and internal strife. The personal suffering caused to the peoples of Africa cannot be calculated.
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Initialling the protocol preceded the formal signing on 22 December 1988 by representatives of Angola, Cuba and apartheid [[South Africa]] of the [[New York Accords]] at UN headquarters, which would be the cornerstone in the creation of modern [[South Africa]], finalising the process of political emancipation for millions of [[South Africa]]ns.<ref>[http://peacemaker.un.org/angola-protocole-brazzaville88 "Protocol of Brazzaville"]</ref>
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The social and economic cost to the continent is in the hundreds of billions of dollars. The potential of Africa and her people has been stifled and squandered. Only through peace and stability can Africa reach her true potential. The Brazzaville Foundation will therefore aim to foster peace and stability through dialogue and understanding. The Foundation’s work will be conducted in the strictest confidence, through frank and true dialogue and on the basis that nothing is agreed until everything is agreed.
 
  
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==Peace dividend==
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Participants at the [[Brazzaville Protocol|Brazzaville negotiations]] included [[South Africa]]n Defence Minister [[Magnus Malan]], Foreign Minister [[Pik Botha]], Head of Military Intelligence [[General van Tonder]], US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs [[Chester Crocker]], Congolese President [[Denis Sassou Nguesso]], French ''not-so-secret'' agent [[Jean-Yves Ollivier]] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland Finland]'s [[Martti Ahtisaari]].
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The Foundation draws its authority to act on appeals from States afflicted by internal conflict, those with conflicts on their borders, and through regional or multi-national institutions seeking mediation support. TBF’s work will be judged on the ensuing peace dividend, through the fostering of political and social stability, through the creation of jobs, prosperity and empowerment of affected citizens.
 
  
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==Mission statement==
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==Absentee at the signing==
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TBF believes that only by achieving lasting peace and stability can nations thrive, people prosper and the environment be safeguarded.
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[[File:Carlsson_Pan_Am_103.jpg|400px|right|thumb|[[UN Commissioner for Namibia]], [[Bernt Carlsson]], was killed aboard [[Pan Am Flight 103]] on his way to the US to sign the [[New York Accords]], ]]
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The Brazzaville Foundation therefore exists to promote peace and stability by facilitating dispute settlement and encouraging dialogue both high level and grass-roots, for the benefit of all. The Foundation is independent, impartial and discreet. The Foundation’s work is conducted on a non-profit basis by distinguished individuals of the highest integrity and achievement.<ref>[http://www.brazzavillefoundation.org/en/what-we-do/ "What We Do"]</ref>
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The [[New York Accords]], giving effect to the [[Brazzaville Protocol]], were scheduled to be signed the following week at UN headquarters in New York on Thursday 22 December 1988.<ref>[http://www.usip.org/library/pa/angola/angola_cuba_sa_12221988.html "Agreement Among the Peoples Republic of Angola, the Republic of Cuba, and the Republic of South Africa"]</ref> [[United Nations]] Assistant Secretary-General and [[UN Commissioner for Namibia]], [[Bernt Carlsson]], who would have assumed control of the country until [[Namibia]]'s first universal franchise elections had been held, was unable to attend the signing ceremony, being one of 259 passengers and crew killed when [[Pan Am Flight 103]] exploded over Lockerbie on 21 December 1988.<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE4D9143EF931A15751C1A96E948260 "U.N. Officer on Flight 103"] ''The New York Times'' December 22, 1988</ref> Following the UN Commissioner's death at Lockerbie, South African foreign minister [[Pik Botha]] went ahead and signed the [[Tripartite Accord]] on 22 December 1988. However, instead of handing control of [[Namibia]] to the [[United Nations]], [[Pik Botha]] put the apartheid regime's Administrator-General, [[Louis Pienaar]], in charge. No investigation by the Scottish Police, the [[CIA]], the [[FBI]] or the [[United Nations]] has ever been conducted into the evident targeting of [[Bernt Carlsson]] on [[Pan Am Flight 103]], despite the branding of apartheid [[South Africa]] as a "terrorist state" by [[Michael Dukakis#Drafting the platform|Governor Michael Dukakis]], Democratic nominee in the 1988 US presidential election campaign.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/13/us/dukakis-backers-agree-platform-will-call-south-africa-terrorist.html "Dukakis Backers Agree Platform Will Call South Africa 'Terrorist'"]</ref>
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Formation14 August 2014
Type•  private
•  commercial
Interest ofJean-Louis Bruguière
Membership• Prince Michael.jpg Prince Michael of Kent
• Jean-Yves Ollivier.jpeg Jean-Yves Ollivier
•  Charles Carr
•  Martine Chayriguès
•  Kishore K. Sakhrani
•  Olusegun Obasanjo
•  Kgalema Motlanthe
•  Dr Joyce Banda
•  Kabiné Komara
•  Dr Aminata Touré
•  Amama Mbabazi
•  Pär Stenbäck
•  Amara Essy
•  Jan Kohout
•  Cécilia Attias
• Jean-Louis Brugiere.jpg Jean-Louis Bruguière
•  Ilmas Futehally
•  Prince Philipp of Liechtenstein
•  Dr Sundeep Waslekar

The Brazzaville Foundation For Peace And Conservation (TBF) is a private UK company registered in 2014.[1] TBF's founder is Jean-Yves Ollivier, its patron is HRH Prince Michael of Kent and its original three-man board of trustees were former Thatcher adviser Tim Bell (resigned November 2018), Jean-Yves Ollivier and Philip Prettejohn (resigned December 2019).[2] Institute for Statecraft advisor Nicholas Chance was a director from 2017 to 2021.[3]

Own words

The Brazzaville Foundation believes that only by achieving lasting peace and stability can nations thrive, people prosper and the environment be safeguarded. The Foundation’s work is conducted on a non-profit basis by distinguished individuals of the highest integrity and achievement. The Foundation draws its authority to act on appeals from States afflicted by internal conflict, those with conflicts on their borders, and through regional or multi-national institutions seeking mediation support. TBF’s work will be judged on the ensuing peace dividend, through the fostering of political and social stability, through the creation of jobs, prosperity and empowerment of affected citizens.[4]

Spirit of Brazzaville

TBF Patron Prince Michael of Kent with Lord Bell and Jean-Yves Ollivier

TBF was launched a quarter century after the Brazzaville Protocol, which ended the Cold War in Africa almost a year before the Berlin Wall crumbled and brought not only peace to Southern Africa but also opened the door for the release of Nelson Mandela, and for a negotiated end of apartheid and the advent of the ‘rainbow nation’. TBF keeps the ‘spirit of Brazzaville’ alive through the combination of bold statesmanship and ‘citizen diplomacy’.

TBF's Patron is HRH Prince Michael of Kent, seconded by a board of trustees composed of eminent personalities, business as well as political leaders and dignitaries from a wide range of civil society organisations. Its chairman, and one of its trustees, is Jean-Yves Ollivier, a French businessman who has been engaged in Africa for more than thirty years. His behind-the-scenes diplomacy was reportedly instrumental to the conclusion of the Brazzaville Protocol.[5]

Bell Pottinger and Lockerbie

The PR Firm Bell Pottinger, which has been caught in the midst of a high level lobbying investigation, has been linked to edits on the Wikipedia website which bolstered the credentials of their client, prostate cancer specialist Professor Roger Kirby, and linked his experience to Abdelbaset al-Megrahi. Bell Pottinger staff had been caught on camera this week boasting of enabling foreign office policy changes on behalf of clients due to their claimed access at the highest levels of Government and monarchy in the UK. Ten accounts linked to Bell Pottinger were subsequently closed by Wikipedia, following the personal intervention of the site’s founder, Jimmy Wales.

This is not the first time Wikipedia entries in relation to the Pan Am 103 case have been systematically edited. In 2007 Dr Ludwig De Braeckeleer published an extensive report documenting how the entries relating to the Lockerbie event had been methodically altered by US based intelligence services, whose involvement had extended to positioning a family liaison operative close to the families. Several entries in respect of the atrocity which had referenced news articles and investigations published by The Scotsman newspaper and The Firm now no longer appear on the site.[6]

Preliminary agreement

Participants at Namibia's independence negotiations in the Congolese capital Brazzaville, 13 December 1988

The Brazzaville Protocol of 13 December 1988 was a momentous event in the history of modern Africa. This preliminary agreement came six months after the Reagan/Gorbachev summit in Moscow, and was the culmination of years of behind-the-scenes negotiations aimed at bringing about the end of apartheid and white-only rule in South Africa.

Initialling the protocol preceded the formal signing on 22 December 1988 by representatives of Angola, Cuba and apartheid South Africa of the New York Accords at UN headquarters, which would be the cornerstone in the creation of modern South Africa, finalising the process of political emancipation for millions of South Africans.[7]

Participants at the Brazzaville negotiations included South African Defence Minister Magnus Malan, Foreign Minister Pik Botha, Head of Military Intelligence General van Tonder, US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Chester Crocker, Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso, French not-so-secret agent Jean-Yves Ollivier and Finland's Martti Ahtisaari.

Absentee at the signing

UN Commissioner for Namibia, Bernt Carlsson, was killed aboard Pan Am Flight 103 on his way to the US to sign the New York Accords,

The New York Accords, giving effect to the Brazzaville Protocol, were scheduled to be signed the following week at UN headquarters in New York on Thursday 22 December 1988.[8] United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and UN Commissioner for Namibia, Bernt Carlsson, who would have assumed control of the country until Namibia's first universal franchise elections had been held, was unable to attend the signing ceremony, being one of 259 passengers and crew killed when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie on 21 December 1988.[9] Following the UN Commissioner's death at Lockerbie, South African foreign minister Pik Botha went ahead and signed the Tripartite Accord on 22 December 1988. However, instead of handing control of Namibia to the United Nations, Pik Botha put the apartheid regime's Administrator-General, Louis Pienaar, in charge. No investigation by the Scottish Police, the CIA, the FBI or the United Nations has ever been conducted into the evident targeting of Bernt Carlsson on Pan Am Flight 103, despite the branding of apartheid South Africa as a "terrorist state" by Governor Michael Dukakis, Democratic nominee in the 1988 US presidential election campaign.[10]

 

Known members

3 of the 19 of the members already have pages here:

MemberDescription
Joyce Banda
Jean-Louis BruguièreFrench judge specialised in "counterterrorism", who attended the 2003 Bilderberg
Jean-Yves Ollivier
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References

  1. ↑ "The Brazzaville Foundation For Peace And Conservation"
  2. ↑ "The Brazzaville Foundation"
  3. ↑ https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/09176062/officers
  4. ↑ "Get in touch"
  5. ↑ "What We Do"
  6. ↑ "Bell Pottinger lobbying & Wikipedia scandal linked to Megrahi cancer doctor"
  7. ↑ "Protocol of Brazzaville"
  8. ↑ "Agreement Among the Peoples Republic of Angola, the Republic of Cuba, and the Republic of South Africa"
  9. ↑ "U.N. Officer on Flight 103" The New York Times December 22, 1988
  10. ↑ "Dukakis Backers Agree Platform Will Call South Africa 'Terrorist'"
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