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1. “Collectively, we can make peace operations more effective and reflective of the communities they serve. (spoke in French) On behalf of my country, allow me to make a few additional remarks about women's participation in peace operations. I underscore the excellent briefings by the Secretary-General, Major General Lund and Ms. Merekaje. As we heard today, the meaningful participation of women in peace operations is not merely desirable but is, in all honesty, imperative. That assessment is neither new nor the subject of dispute. It has been reiterated by many Member States, the Secretary-General, the Under-Secretaries-General, civil-society representatives and the Force Commanders on the ground. It is a point of consensus, which Canada welcomes. That consensus must, however, be translated into operational change.”

   2019-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8508 (2019) · source

2. “We encourage the adoption and revision of such plans to enhance women's recruitment, retention and deployment in security services supporting peace operations. Finally, the Group notes that increasing the number of women in peace operations must be accompanied by a relentless effort to meet United Nations commitments to mainstream gender considerations in such operations. Success depends upon peace operations being equipped with appropriate gender analysis and expertise at all levels and all stages of a mission. The role of gender advisers and women protection advisers in achieving that cannot be understated, and we emphasize the importance of ensuring that they have the access to the resources and training needed to fulfil their critical tasks.”

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3. “All troop- and police-contributing countries should comprehensively review their criteria and procedures for deployment to United Nations peace operations, including by addressing persistent barriers facing women, such as those related to recruitment, training and promotion initiatives, restrictions on occupations, access to deployment opportunities, institutional challenges related to the structure of respective security services and additional attitudinal constraints. We simply cannot achieve success in United Nations peace operations without getting our own houses in order. To that end, national action plans and strategies on women and peace and security can serve as important tools to catalyse commitments on women in peace operations.”

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4. “Less than 5 per cent ofmilitary contingents and less than 8 per cent of formed police units are women, and only 22 per cent of civilians in peace operations are women. The situation is even more dire when examining the participation of uniformed women in the higher ranks of peace operations. We must do better. While a number of efforts have been undertaken by the United Nations, it is ultimately up to the troop- and police-contributing countries to recruit, train, support, equip and deploy women peacekeepers.”

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5. “Women must be able to participate fully and meaningfully in peace operations at all levels and in all positions - whether serving in civilian, police or military roles and whether in leadership or as part of integrated mission teams. In addition, efforts to reduce barriers to women's participation and develop institutional standards to promote their safety, such as training on sexual harassment and on abuse prevention and response, are critical. We also welcome recent progress in achieving the gender targets under the strategy, including increasing the deployment of mixed-gender police and military units and the appointment of women to command positions in missions. Yet despite that progress we are still failing to ensure the full inclusion of women in peace operations.”

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6. “That enhances the safety and security of peacekeepers and the communities they serve, as well as the operational effectiveness of missions. Despite facing persistent barriers, women have repeatedly demonstrated their ability to perform the same tasks, to the same standards and under the same difficult conditions, as their male counterparts. The Group of Friends applauds the efforts undertaken by the Secretariat, in particular the uniformed gender parity strategy of the Department of Peace Operations, to increase the number of uniformed women personnel. We are committed to helping achieve its targets. However, we stress that this is not a numbers game.”

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7. “Troop and police contributors have echoed those calls, including through the Action for Peacekeeping initiative of the Secretary-General. Overall, increasing the participation of women in peace operations contributes to the effective implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustaining Development, including Sustainable Development Goal 5, on gender equality, and Goal 16, on peace, justice and strong institutions. Evidence and experience demonstrate that women's participation leads to outcomes that make peace operations more effective. Women bring valuable perspectives, improve situational awareness, increase the protection-reach of missions, enhance the access of populations to critical services and help build trust with local communities.”

   2019-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8508 (2019) · source

8. “I am pleased to speak on behalf of the Group of Friends of Women, Peace and Security - an informal network of 57 interested Member States, chaired by Canada, representing all five regional groups at the United Nations. Including women in United Nations peace operations is both the right and the smart thing to do. Resolution 1325 (2000) recognizes the importance of women's equal participation and full involvement in all efforts for the maintenance and promotion of peace and security. The Security Council has been resolute in affirming the indispensable role of women in peacekeeping and continues to highlight the imperative of increasing the number of civilian and uniformed women in peace operations, including in resolutions 2242 (2015), 2378 (2017), 2382 (2017) and 2436 (2018).”

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9. “(spoke in English) Canada was very pleased to co-sponsor resolution 2457 (2019), adopted earlier today. We will remain committed to the long-term success of the Silencing the Guns initiative. We share the principles underpinning the African Union approach - working together, including with multilateral organizations and regional groups, to sustain peace and protect our rules-based international order. This is an approach we hope to bring to the Security Council if we are elected to a non-permanent seat in 2021-2022. We are confident that, by working together, we can create a more prosperous, secure and inclusive world. We can silence the guns. (spoke in Spanish) Together, we can silence the guns.”

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10. “For example, with Sierra Leone, Canada is co-chairing the International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and State-Building. This is a partnership of the Governments of 20 countries affected by conflict and fragility, international development partners and civil society. In Mali, Canada has supported the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue to broker a ceasefire agreement that has helped to facilitate a disarmament process for local militias, in coordination with the Government of Mali. In South Sudan, Canada is supporting women's participation in the implementation of the revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict. With Ethiopia, Canada recently co-hosted a Peacekeeping Ministerial preparatory meeting on women, peace and security to increase women's meaningful participation in peacekeeping operations.”

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11. “(spoke in French) In seeking to silence the guns, we need to understand the disproportionate effect of conflict on women and the important role that women can play in the prevention and resolution of conflicts. In this regard, as the Permanent Representatives of Ghana and Ireland have also underlined, we welcome the establishment of the FemWise-Africa network to strengthen the role of women in conflict prevention and mediation. It is also important to take the steps needed to address the financing issues related to peace operations led by African States. We should consider the use of United Nations-assessed contributions to address these issues. Canada is actively engaged at the regional and national level in working towards the ultimate goal of silencing the guns in Africa.”

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12. “In practice, this means strengthening our cooperation in conflict prevention, management and resolution, and joining forces to fully implement the Joint United Nations-African Union Framework for an Enhanced Partnership in Peace and Security. As many delegations have already attested to today, this is an approach that enjoys full consensus. Moreover, we have seen that this is the kind of approach that deliver results. The recent signing of the Political Agreement for Peace and Reconciliation in the Central African Republic very concretely demonstrated how close collaboration between the United Nations, the African Union and subregional organizations, working in partnership with local actors, can advance peace.”

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13. “Canada continues to support this multilateral approach, but we have also learned that we need to look at the regional challenges of small arms and light weapons. They need a tailored and context- specific response. The Silencing the Guns initiative is such a response, offering African solutions to problems faced by African countries. But we know that many of the challenges facing Africa did not start in Africa and have effects that go well beyond Africa. We therefore support local ownership of this initiative and recognize that all Member States have a stake in its success. Indeed, it is essential that all of us - Member States, the United Nations system as a whole, regional and subregional organizations - work together to realize this vision.”

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14. “Mr. Arbeiter (Canada) (spoke in Spanish): I would like to thank Equatorial Guinea for having organized today's open debate on the African Union's Silencing the Guns initiative. (spoke in English) Guns are the weapon of choice in most conflicts around the world. For many communities across Africa, they are the true weapons of mass destruction. While firearms can be found almost everywhere, the specific reasons they pose problems in a given place are often tied to regional or national circumstances. It could be terrorism, organized crime, armed conflict or a combination of these or other factors. In the past, we as an international community typically approached the firearms problem the same way we approached other weapons, such as nuclear or biological weapons, through broad international agreements.”

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15. “We believe that those kinds of partnerships enable each of us to put our strengths and experiences forward in order to build a safer and more peaceful world. Partnership, working in concert with multilateral institutions and in defence of our rules-based international order, is at the heart of Canada's approach to international peace and security. It is the approach that we take to peacekeeping in Africa and one that we hope to bring to the Security Council should we be elected to a non-permanent seat for the term from 2021 to 2022. Together we can develop a more secure, inclusive and prosperous world.”

    2018-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8407 (2018) · source

16. “We have partnered with UNICEF and the Romeo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative to strengthen mission capacities to end the use of child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia and the Sudan, including working in collaboration with the African Union Mission in Somalia and the African Union. We have partnered with Mali to support the implementation of the Agreement for Peace and Reconciliation in Mali and related stabilization efforts. Ahead of the next United Nations ministerial meeting on peacekeeping, we are partnering with Ethiopia to organize a preparatory meeting on women, peace and security and peacekeeping on 28 and 29 January 2019. Together with our co-host, we welcome the participation of all Member States in that important exercise.”

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17. “Together we will test innovative approaches for reducing barriers to uniformed women's meaningful participation in United Nations peace operations. In that regard, we would like to congratulate Superintendent Phyllis Osei of Ghana, who yesterday received the United Nations Female Police Officer of the Year Award for her work in Somalia. We have partnered with Senegal and Ghana to deliver the United Nations senior mission leaders course. We have partnered with the Ecole de maintien de la paix Alioune Blondin Beye in Bamako to deliver essential training to peacekeepers.”

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18. “We have also deployed police to MINUSMA, leveraging the long experience of Canadian police in United Nations peace operations. Those contributions build on our long- standing and ongoing engagements in Africa, including in MONUSCO and the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, and we are working with the United Nations to provide additional critical enablers, including the deployment of a tactical airlift detachment to the Regional Service Centre in Uganda in 2019 to provide critical logistical support to missions across Africa. Recognizing the vast experience of African troop- and police-contributing countries, we are building new partnerships and sharing our experiences and capabilities, and also learning from those of others. For example, we are partnering with Ghana and Zambia under the Elsie Initiative on Women in Peace Operations.”

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19. “In that regard, we commend AU member States for the leadership that they have shown in mobilizing African-sourced funding under the auspices of the African Union Peace Fund. We also look forward to the Security Council's forthcoming discussion and debate on the subject and hope to see concrete progress on developing such mechanisms. (spoke in English) If we are to get results, all Member States have to pull their weight. That is why Canada has committed new resources to United Nations peacekeeping, including the provision of a helicopter task force to the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA). The task force has been used during essential medical evacuations of injured peacekeepers and civilians doing critical work in very dangerous and isolated environments.”

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20. “Enabling African States to act collectively through the United Nations, the African Union and other African regional organizations is a practical step. That is why Canada supports the full implementation of the Joint United Nations-African Union Framework for an Enhanced Partnership in Peace and Security. In addition to the annual joint consultative meeting on peace and security between the African Union Peace and Security Council and the Security Council, we believe firmly that there are other opportunities to strengthen cooperation and collaboration between the two Councils, including through joint field visits. Together we can accomplish more. We therefore encourage efforts to find more predictable, flexible and sustainable funding mechanisms for African-led peace operations.”

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21. “Another reality, however, is sometimes forgotten. African States play a leading role in international efforts to manage and resolve conflicts and crises, and we particularly have in mind United Nations successes in countries such as Cote d'Ivoire and Liberia. It is important to emphasize the determination and perseverance of the African Union (AU), its member States and African subregional organizations, which have resulted in so many lessons learned and so much strategic patience and cooperation. Needless to say, the partnerships that have been established attest to what we can achieve together. The strengthening of peacekeeping operations in Africa is not merely a question of resources, resolve or means but rather of our ability to join forces in order to innovate and maximize our impact.”

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22. “Mr. Arbeiter (Canada) (spoke in French): I would first like to thank China for organizing today's open debate on strengthening peacekeeping operations in Africa. On behalf of Canada, I also express my sincere condolences to the families of the Malawian and Tanzanian Blue Helmets and Congolese soldiers recently killed in an operation of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) against the Allied Democratic Forces in the Beni area. The Council has often been called on to address complex and enduring conflicts in Africa, including in Somalia, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali and South Sudan. These conflicts continue to cause enormous loss of life, population displacement and economic hardship.”

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23. “As Afghanistan approaches the half-way mark of its transformation decade, the Secretary-General is right to point to the urgent need for political leaders to demonstrate unity of purpose in guiding Afghanistan towards greater stability and self-reliance. We look to the Afghan Government to lead, as no doubt do Afghanistan's young people. Canada will continue to work with the Afghan Government, our United Nations and international partners and with civil society in this effort - because we know that, by working together, we can help young people like Mr. Bakhtiar build a peaceful, inclusive and resilient Afghanistan, which he embodies so vividly for us all.”

    2018-09-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8354 (2018) · source

24. “I also want to cite the tremendous efforts of civil society actors like the Transparent Election Foundation of Afghanistan and the Afghan Women's Education Center for promoting the rights of women and girls and of ethnic and religious minorities. We likewise welcome the work of the United Nations and other partners to distribute ballots in rural areas ahead of the elections. We encourage the Afghan national authorities to continue to actively address irregularities and to promote and protect the rights of those in rural communities, especially women candidates and voters, to participate in civic affairs and political life. Their inclusion is essential to the integrity of the elections.”

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25. “I met many incredible volunteers, officials and politicians from across Afghanistan and was struck then, as now, by the depth of their commitment to their country and the remarkable diversity of their perspective and experience. (spoke in English) Canada remains fully committed to supporting Afghanistan as it seeks to leverage that diversity, including by advancing the full participation of women and marginalized communities in the upconubg elections. As is the case everywhere, women's full and equal participation in decision-making processes strengthens both the processes and the decisions themselves, leading to better, more sustainable results. In that regard, I commend the Independent Election Commission for its gender policy and for its concrete efforts to enhance women's political participation.”

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26. “We hope to learn more about the implementation of its policies to strengthen budget transparency and increase Government accountability, especially in the security sector. And we eagerly await an update on its efforts to enhance Government capacity to deliver services and ensure good governance. All of those areas will be critical for the success of the transformation decade. The forthcoming parliamentary elections are another important milestone. It was my personal privilege to be in Afghanistan ahead of the historic presidential elections in 2004 and to help organize training for staff of the new Afghan Parliament in 2006.”

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27. “Their enormous untapped potential prompted the Afghan Ministry of Education to work with Canada and other donors to develop a community-based policy that increases access to education in rural and remote locations. Leading that policy, Canada is proud to have helped establish more than 9,200 community-based schools serving 273,000 students, over 80 per cent of whom are girls. (spoke in French) Canada looks forward to participating in the forthcoming Geneva Ministerial Conference on Afghanistan, to be held in November, and will be paying keen attention to the Afghan Government's own assessment of progress made to date and its planned approach to address remaining obstacles. We hope to hear more about how they intend to continue increasing the participation of women in public affairs and reducing gender-based violence.”

    2018-09-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8354 (2018) · source

28. “As many other have noted, in a country where over 60 per cent of the population is under the age of 25, involving young people and including their views in identifying solutions is more important than ever. If Canada is elected to serve on the Security Council for the period 2021-2022, we can be counted upon to support a continued and expanded effort to regularly include youth voices in such debates. In Afghanistan, it is clear that equitable access to social services, including education, remains an essential component of supporting youth. That is especially important for girls and young people from ethnic and religious minorities. The progress made since 2001 in terms of child enrolment in schools is nothing short of remarkable. Nevertheless, approximately 4 million children, most of them girls, remain outside of school today.”

    2018-09-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8354 (2018) · source

29. “I would first like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Tadamichi Yamamoto, for his informative briefing on the situation in Afghanistan. I also express my sincere appreciation to Mr. Ramiz Bakhtiar for his briefing. I now follow him on Twitter, and so I know that today was both exciting and nerve-wracking for him, but I must tell him that I hope we live up to his expectations and, by extension, to the aspirations of all Afghan youth. I will cover three points today: the situation of youth, the Geneva Ministerial Conference and the upcoming parliamentary elections. With regard to youth, Canada commends the Security Council for having focused this quarterly debate on this topic.”

    2018-09-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8354 (2018) · source