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2007-11-20
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  1. “The region's zero-tolerance policy for military interventions in politics and the efforts to solidify its emergent democratic structures also need support as safeguards against conflicts. Although the primary responsibility for protecting civilians lies with national Governments, the police, army, civil society and the private sector have roles to play. Additionally, the international community must continue to intensify its peacebuilding efforts and to assist regional organizations to overcome such protection concerns as insufficient resources, weak capacity of national institutions, dysfunctional social services and insecurity, which can affect the process. Finally, my delegation fully associates itself with the statement made by the representative of Angola on behalf of the Group of African States.”

    2007-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5781Resumption1 (2007) · source

  2. “That calls for a more results-oriented strengthening of legal frameworks and mechanisms for monitoring and reporting attacks against civilians by both States and non-State actors. My delegation wishes to reiterate its belief that conflict prevention is the surest way to protect civilians. Practice has shown that it costs less to prevent than to control conflicts. Within the West African subregion, for instance, Nigeria has been steadily coordinating initiatives with other Member States of the Economic Community of West African States to bring about a peaceful resolution to conflicts within and among its member States and other States contiguous to Nigeria. It is in that respect that we call for the strengthening of the region's evolving security architecture.”

    2007-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5781Resumption1 (2007) · source

  3. “My delegation believes that the expansion of the scope and definition of war crimes and crimes against humanity to include rape, enforced prostitution, trafficking, enslavement and torture has resulted in an increase in the number of persons brought before international tribunals for acts committed against civilians in the course of armed conflicts. In order to strengthen the laudable initiatives to which I have referred and which have already been embarked upon by the international community to bring relief to hapless non-combatant victims of war, my delegation to urge States that have not done so to adopt, ratify and/or codify in their national laws the various conventions and protocols on the law of armed conflicts and to ensure the implementation of their provisions.”

    2007-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5781Resumption1 (2007) · source

  4. “We appreciate the renewed United Nations- African Union partnership aimed at identifying specific cases in which the United Nations could assist the African Union response to capacity-building requirements, including the capacity for monitoring the conduct of parties to conflicts. Condemnations by United Nations Member States of rape and sexual assaults on women, as well as the anguish often expressed by human rights advocates at the enlistment of child soldiers for combat, are authentic and beneficial means of protecting civilians in situations of conflict.”

    2007-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5781Resumption1 (2007) · source

  5. “My delegation therefore believes that the time has come for the international community to re-examine when it is its responsibility to protect, without prejudice to the sovereignty of Member States. Genocide, ethnic cleansing and crimes committed against unarmed civilians in situations of conflict are grim reminders that the time is right for the international community to determine when to exercise its responsibility to protect. It is in that regard that Nigeria welcomes the increased capacity of the African Union to forestall and resolve armed conflicts and to protect civilians in war situations through its Peace and Security Council. We equally welcome the valuable extension of logistical support from the United States of America and the European Union for the African Union's peacekeeping operations in the Darfur region of the Sudan.”

    2007-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5781Resumption1 (2007) · source

  6. “Today, civilians are not just casualties caught in the crossfire of Vicious battles, they are specifically targeted, with an unprecedented number of them being women and children. The increasing number of non-combatants, including journalists and humanitarian aid workers, are now the victims of abduction, dubious military strategies, suicide attacks and sexual violence. That situation worsens the general milieu of fear arising from the social, economic and cultural dislocations created by conflicts. It is inhuman, to state the obvious, that among the heavy tolls that conflicts impose on civilians is the denial of access to medical care for the infirm, the aged and people with disabilities. More than ever, the challenges of protecting civilians in armed conflicts have expanded and become more daunting.”

    2007-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5781Resumption1 (2007) · source

  7. “My delegation would like to begin by expressing its gratitude to you, Mr. President, for convening this important debate on the protection of civilians in armed conflict. The Council discussed this subject only five months ago. My delegation is therefore receptive of this debate and the opportunity it affords to refocus attention on the enduring plight of civilians in situations of armed conflict. I should also like to thank the Secretary-General for his latest report (S/2007/643), which succinctly examined the subject in its evolving ramifications. Likewise, I thank Under-Secretary-General John Holmes for his informative briefing. My delegation is concerned that, despite the decline in the number and intensity of conflicts globally, and on the African continent in particular, the ambit of threats to civilians keeps expanding.”

    2007-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5781Resumption1 (2007) · source