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Barry

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2016-06-10
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2019-11-20
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  1. “First, in any conflict, it is important for the parties to the conflict, whether States or not, to fulfil their responsibilities vis-a-vis international law and international humanitarian law. The four Geneva Conventions and the two Additional Protocols provide us with a solid basis both for preventing massive human rights Violations and for holding parties to the conflict accountable for war crimes and similar crimes. For us, fulfilling those obligations is the best way to support peacekeeping operations in theatres where a decision to deploy them has been made. On the ground, peacekeeping operations can indeed be very useful in the protection of civilians, although it should be remembered that the responsibility for that lies first with host States.”

    2016-06-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7711 (2016) · source

  2. “As a formerjournalist, I have witnessed in person the despair of civilian populations dealing with war in Cote d'Ivoire and Mali, and I have witnessed people seeking shelter, care and food; people fleeing and crossing borders in search of peace and tranquillity. I have also witnessed gestures of hope, soldiers releasing people from oppression and reassuring them that they would protect and help them - in short, doing what peacekeepers do. Therefore, we must welcome the role of the United Nations and all other organizations, including the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States. The responsibilities for better protecting civilians in peacekeeping operations are shared and spread across various levels.”

    2016-06-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7711 (2016) · source

  3. “We have a battalion in Darfur and two battalions in Mali within the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali. We also have police units, one of which is deployed in the Economic Community of West African States Mission in Guinea-Bissau, where it is participating in the efforts aimed at political stabilization in Guinea-Bissau, which is very difficult. Burkina Faso hosts on its soil 34,000 refugees from Mali, and every time there is an upheaval in northern Mali, civilians flee into our country, which shares over 1,000 kilometres of border with that neighbouring State.”

    2016-06-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7711 (2016) · source

  4. “Mr. Barry (Burkina Faso) (spoke in French): At the outset, I would like to congratulate your country, France, for its accession to the presidency ofthe Security Council for the month of June and to thank you, Sir, for the invitation to take part in this open debate. The theme of this high-level discussion, namely, the protection of civilians in peacekeeping operations, is of great importance for us, as it is for the entire international community. Indeed, with nearly 3,000 - 2,901 to be exact - soldiers and police currently deployed in various theatres of operation, Burkina Faso ranks sixteenth in the world as a troop- and police-contributing country and is the fourth largest contributor from the African continent.”

    2016-06-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7711 (2016) · source