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Aboulata

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first: 2016-11-07
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“Instead, it lies in establishing a strategic and comprehensive approach to addressing the crisis - an approach that ensures sustained peace. The only way to ensure that United Nations forces are not targeted or exposed to asymmetric attacks is to uphold the neutrality of the United Nations and its peacekeeping operations, while communicating with the parties concerned so as to create common ground that can lead to a peaceful settlement of disputes.”
2016-11-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7802 (2016) · source
“Fourthly, it is important to promote coordination between the various United Nations agencies and departments, especially between the Department of Peacekeeping Operations and the Department of Political Affairs, as well as between peacekeeping operations and United Nations offices around the world, while also respecting the mandates entrusted to each entity. Coordinated efforts must therefore rely on the comparative advantage of each agency, ensuring the effectiveness of the entire Organization. It is therefore imperative to design peacekeeping mandates with a view to contributing to settling the conflict politically and not just managing it in the absence of a long-term political horizon. The added value of peacekeeping operations does not lie in military action or managing the risks of conflicts.”
2016-11-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7802 (2016) · source
“We must reinforce training and security measures in order to address such dangers, as well as prepare and organize refresher training, including simulations, at the headquarters of United Nations missions. Thirdly, confronting armed groups and attacks and enhancing safety and security measures is not a pretext for the use of force in an active or aggressive manner, nor is it a justification for the use of certain controversial methods that do not enjoy consensus among Member States in peacekeeping operations, such as the use of intelligence methods or modern technology to gather information.”
2016-11-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7802 (2016) · source
“They assist in building the necessary framework needed to promote the rule of law so as to counter the extremism that leads to terrorism. In addition, they implement disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programmes, pursuant to the mandate entrusted to the particular mission. Secondly, we must enhance the security procedures of peacekeeping operations and ensure that they are equipped and prepared to protect personnel against any danger that might arise. We should also ensure that United Nations missions have adequate medical capacities, most importantly the ability to conduct medical evacuations. Such preparations must be taken into consideration during the initial stages of establishing a mandate.”
2016-11-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7802 (2016) · source
“On the other hand, operations carried out by terrorist groups or organizations are considered criminal and motivated by ideology, and they mainly target civilians. It is therefore necessary, in addressing such attacks, to use a strategic and comprehensive approach that includes countering extremist and terrorist ideologies. With that in mind, I would like to make the following specific points on peace operations facing asymmetric threats. First, peacekeeping operations are not charged with executing counter-terrorism operations. Their role in that regard is limited to enhancing the capacity of States to regain security control, which they do by supporting reform processes targeted at security and judicial institutions.”
2016-11-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7802 (2016) · source
“We must therefore review the ability of peacekeeping operations to carry out their mandates in the light of such dangers, and we must also review their existing capabilities that would enable them to confront those asymmetric dangers, whose nature and cause we must seek to understand. There are some similarities in the methods that are used by the various armed groups, terrorists and extremist organizations, such as the use of improvised explosive devices. However, the desired objectives of those groups often differ. In most cases, armed groups are parties to a conflict of a political nature; their aggressive attacks target uniformed forces, whether those of the State or those ofthe United Nations.”
2016-11-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7802 (2016) · source
“Mr. Aboulatta (Egypt) (spoke in Arabic): At the outset, I would like to express my gratitude to the Senegalese presidency for holding such an important debate on the role of peacekeeping operations in confronting asymmetric threats. The changing security environment and the changing nature of conflicts in which United Nations missions are deployed compel us to continuously review the peacekeeping operations. Such review would enable the missions to keep up with the security requirements imposed on the international community. The mandates of United Nations missions have evolved from monitoring peace agreements between international parties to dealing with internal conflicts. The parties to such conflicts are made up of armed groups that resort to asymmetric attacks against civilians and peacekeeping operations and forces.”
2016-11-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7802 (2016) · source