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2022-10-20

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2023-06-13

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1. “The Council can count on Jordan’s full engagement at all levels at the Climate Ambition Summit to be held during the high-level week of the General Assembly in September and, two months later, at the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, hosted by our sisterly United Arab Emirates.”

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2. “Coordinated approaches to energy, water and transnational natural resource management offer opportunities for regional peacebuilding in fragile situations. The destabilizing consequences of drier and more frequent drought, decreased rainfall and higher temperatures are acute in Jordan, the second most water-scarce country globally with less than a fifth of the global average of available water per person. Jordan sees the imminent threat to international security posed by climate change and the Council’s narrow window to use cooperation on climate action as a step towards international peace.”

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3. “To that end, the Security Council could strengthen and incorporate, existing initiatives within the United Nations system, such as the Climate Security Mechanism, whose comprehensive risk assessments could act as reference points to help address climate security. The Council can further enhance United Nations climate analysis capabilities by mainstreaming climate security and increasing the presence of climate security experts in the work of field missions. Thirdly, climate change, which demands unparalleled regional cooperation, provides the Council with an entry point for mediation with a new perspective. Establishing the environment as common ground within peace processes helps foster a more enduring peace amid climate change.”

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4. “Extreme flooding and desertification, as well as the threat of extinction facing small island developing States, will trigger migration, exacerbating poverty and hindering development across national borders, two important catalysts of conflict. Secondly, to effectively address the underlying causes of conflict, climate considerations must be fully integrated into the analysis of peacekeeping missions. The Council is familiar with situations in which changes in natural resource access and availability have further strained ongoing hostilities, for instance, by providing armed groups with opportunities to exploit the climate crisis as a means of rallying support. Productive interventions require a focus on the links between climate change and regionally specific security risks.”

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5. “Accelerating land degradation and sea level rise, which disproportionately impact developing countries, will have far-reaching consequences beyond the regions of the world most vulnerable to massive displacement. In Jordan, increasing water scarcity amplifies the unprecedented pressure on water infrastructure placed by an influx of refugees from neighbouring countries — a flow that has increased water needs by 21 per cent throughout Jordan, estimated to grow to 40 per cent by 2045. Refugees, who bear the strongest effects of climate change, also intensify competition for arable land, employment and natural resources, such as water, which demands investments in infrastructure, such as desalination and water treatment facilities, deepening the reliance on existing, more affordable, energy sources.”

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6. “Jordan would like to offer three ways to prioritize building climate-change resilience, especially in the water and agricultural sectors which underpin State stability, with the same dedication the Council devotes to addressing more immediate and visible security challenges. First, coordinating reconstruction and climate adaptation programmes ensures that such approaches account for the present and future impacts of climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has reported that climate change tends to compound existing vulnerabilities, potentially overwhelming States that face an irreversible loss of natural resources and territory.”

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7. “As many of my colleagues have articulated, among the Security Council’s responsibilities in addressing the impact of climate change, designating climate change an international security issue, not only a matter of sustainable development, stands out. Greater attention and action by the Council would reflect the growing recognition that climate change and international peace and security are indirectly, but inseparably, linked. Continuing to host meetings on issues related to climate, peace and security will further increase the visibility of climate change in conflict.”

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8. “At the outset, I would like to congratulate the United Arab Emirates on its assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month and thank it for making the complex link among climate, peace and security a focal point of its term. No challenge facing the world today requires as great a concerted effort from all United Nations bodies as climate change. Climate change undermines the efforts of the Council to achieve and sustain peace. Measures in peacebuilding risk failure by not adequately identifying and addressing the strains imposed by climate change on existing conflict risks. The Security Council must be able to better predict and prevent the impacts of climate change on international peace and security.”

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9. “We also urge the Council and the international community to take effective steps at the international level to provide the Palestinian people with protection and launch genuine efforts to achieve a just and comprehensive peace in the region so as to maintain international peace and security.”

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10. “Jordan calls on all Member States to support the renewal of UNRWA’s mandate during the current session of the General Assembly and to support proposals aimed at increasing its funding from the general budget of United Nations so that it can continue to provide vital services to refugees. In conclusion, Jordan calls on the Security Council to shoulder its responsibility for ensuring that Israel ceases its continuing violations of international law and the Charter, as well as all unilateral provocations in the occupied territories, because the consequences of such acts will be catastrophic for all of us.”

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11. “We stress how important it is that Israel respect the fact that Al-Aqsa Mosque/Al-Haram Al-Sharif, in its entirety of 144,000 square metres, is a place of worship exclusively for Muslims, and that Jordan’s Department of the Jerusalem Awqaf and Al-Aqsa Mosque Affairs is the only entity authorized to manage all affairs related to Al-Aqsa Mosque and regulate access to the site. With regard to the work of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), we emphasize the Agency’s pivotal role in promoting regional stability and as an important stabilizing factor in the region.”

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12. “We also want to warn the world that Israel’s continuation of its steps aimed at changing the legal and historical status quo of Al-Aqsa Mosque/Al-Haram Al-Sharif and imposing a temporal and spatial division of it represent a serious escalation and an unacceptable violation of international law and of Israel’s responsibilities as the occupying Power. Based on the Hashemite custodianship of the Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem, which is held by His Majesty King Abdullah II, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan affirms that it will continue its efforts to protect the holy sites and preserve their historical and legal status quo.”

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13. “We condemn its ongoing incursions into Palestinian cities and repeated attacks on them, most recently in its aggression against the cities of Nablus and Ramallah at dawn on 25 October. Its escalatory military campaign threatens a new spiral of violence for which we will all pay a heavy price. In that regard, we must warn that violence can only generate more violence and that actions that perpetuate the occupation, combined with the total stalemate in the peace process, will lead to a dangerous escalation that threatens security and stability. Israel bears responsibility in that connection, as such actions could undermine any remaining chances of achieving a just peace, as well as the viability of the peace process.”

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14. “For Jordan, the Palestinian question is the primary and central issue, as it will never be possible to achieve a comprehensive and just peace or security and stability in the region and beyond without establishing an independent sovereign Palestinian State based on the 4 June 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, in accordance with international law and the relevant international terms of reference, including the resolutions of the Security Council and the Arab Peace Initiative. Concerted efforts must be made at the international level to find a genuine political horizon that will enable a return to serious and effective negotiations for achieving peace in the region on the basis of a two-State solution. Israel continues its unilateral, provocative and escalatory actions in the occupied Palestinian territories.”

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15. “The large number of crises around the world tends to shift the international community’s attention and effort from one crisis to another, a problem that reinforces the importance of prioritizing and settling issues that have gone unresolved for decades, particularly when that is directly tied to the realization of the rights of peoples in accordance with the principles of the Charter of the United Nations and the provisions of international law. What unites us under the umbrella of the United Nations are our common goals of maintaining international peace and security and promoting constructive relations among nations based on respect for the principles of equal rights and the right to self-determination of all peoples, including the Palestinian people.”

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16. “Mrs. Al-halique (Jordan) (spoke in Arabic): At the outset, Sir, we would like to express our sincere thanks and appreciation for your efforts in presiding over the work of the Security Council this month. We also thank Mr. Wennesland for his briefing. Major regional and international developments continue to affect the present and future of our peoples. Those crises demand that we work together to confront them and mitigate their effects.”

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17. “To demonstrate some of the ways in which women’s resilience can be supported, Jordan believes that national action plans are the best way to translate the women and peace and security agenda into action on the ground, based on each country’s specific circumstances. We also believe that the best way to ensure that the commitments of resolution 1325 (2000) are fulfilled is to provide the necessary funding and to establish a normative framework that includes accountability for the implementation of the agenda in an objective and meaningful manner.”

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18. “The participation of women in peacekeeping missions also increased after Jordanian women were among the first to join United Nations peacekeeping missions in 2007. To date, 146 women have participated in peacekeeping missions in the Congo, Cyprus, South Sudan and Fiji, where they served refugees and participated in training local police forces. The Jordanian armed forces also seek to ensure that women play a more effective role by participating in new areas, such as in international peacekeeping forces and special and humanitarian missions. Female personnel of the Royal Medical Services have participated in several external missions, such as to hospitals in Liberia and the Congo.”

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19. “I would like now to review the best examples of Jordan’s support to women’s leadership in striving for peace, and the most prominent recorded figures related to the first strategic objective of resolution 1325 (2000), namely, the increase in the percentage of women working in the security and military sectors. The percentage of female recruits in the Jordanian army increased from 6.8 per cent in 2017 to 9.6 per cent in 2021. In the general security and police forces, the number of female recruits increased from 4.77 per cent to 6.2 per cent over the same period. Similarly, the percentage of women in leadership positions increased from 0.2 per cent in 2017 to 1.64 per cent in 2021.”

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20. “Jordan is eager to take the resolution’s strategic objectives into consideration when implementing its national plan to address gender issues, including the active participation of women in the security, military and peacebuilding sectors; ensuring the active participation of women in preventing extremism and violence; achieving national and regional peacebuilding; guaranteeing the availability of humanitarian services to respond to gender needs, including psychological, social, legal and medical services; facilitating safe access to such services, especially for Jordanian women and girls, as well as female refugees, who are the most vulnerable to violence and the most in need of protection in host communities and refugee camps in Jordan; and, finally, promoting a culture that acknowledges gender needs, the importance of gender equality and the role of women, including young women, in achieving peace and security.”

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21. “A communication strategy related to the resolution was prepared and launched after consultations with all partners in the national plan to meet the needs of the Jordanian society. Jordan is currently preparing our second national plan to further operationalize resolution 1325 (2000) on women, peace and security.”

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22. “Mrs. Al-halique (Jordan) (spoke in Arabic): I would like at the outset to congratulate Gabon on its assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of October and to thank it for convening this debate on women and peace and security and the topic “Strengthening women’s resilience and leadership as a path to peace in regions plagued by armed groups”. I would also like to thank the briefers for their valuable contributions. Believing in the prominent role played by Jordanian women in the development process in general, and in enhancing means of security, peace and protection in particular, Jordan drafted its national plan 2018-2021 to operationalize resolution 1325 (2000). We began the implementation of the plan through the security sector, Government institutions and civil society organizations.”

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