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1. “I thank Mr. Oshima for his comments and the clarifications that he has provided. There are no speakers remaining on the list, but I would like to take this opportunity, before concluding, to thank all the delegations that have taken the floor in this debate. The ideas and proposals made today are very important. My country, Colombia, has an ongoing interest in the protection of civilians in armed conflicts. We will attentively follow the activities of the Security Council, even after our participation on the Council has ended. We are very grateful for having had this opportunity to preside over today's meeting and the very important discussions that took place. The Security Council has thus concluded the present stage of its consideration of the item on its agenda. The meeting rose at 6.20 pm.”

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2. “I thank the Permanent Observer of Palestine for his kind words addressed to me. I call on Mr. Kenzo Oshima, Under-Secretary- General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, to respond to the comments and questions raised.”

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3. “I thank the representative of Argentina for his kind words addressed to me. The next speaker inscribed on my list is the representative of Burkina Faso. I invite him to take a seat at the Council table and to make his statement.”

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4. “The next speaker inscribed on my list is the representative of Timor-Leste. I invite him to take a seat at the Council table and to make his statement.”

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5. “The next speaker on my list is the representative of Indonesia. I invite him to take a seat at the Council table and to make his statement.”

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6. “I thank the representative of Egypt for the kinds words he addressed to me. I am very pleased indeed to be presiding. The next speaker inscribed on my list is the representative of Israel. I invite him to take a seat at the Council table and to make his statement.”

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7. “The next speaker inscribed on my list is the representative of Egypt. I invite him to take a seat at the Council table and to make his statement.”

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8. “I thank the representative of Cambodia for his kind words addressed to the presidency. The next speaker inscribed on my list is the representative of Austria. I invite him to take a seat at the Council table and to make his statement.”

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9. “There being no objection, it is so decided. I invite the Permanent Observer of Palestine to take the seat reserved for him at the side of the Council Chamber. The next speaker inscribed on my list is the representative of Cambodia. I invite him to take a seat at the Council table and to make his statement.”

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10. “I should like to inform the Council that I have received a letter dated 10 December 2002 from the Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations, which will be issued as document S/2002/1346, and which reads as follows, "I have the honour to request that, in accordance with its previous practice, the Security Council invite the Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations to participate in the meeting of the Security Council being held today, Tuesday, 10 December 2002, on the report of the Secretary-General to the Security Council on the protection of civilians in armed conflict." I propose, with the consent of the Council, to invite the Permanent Observer of Palestine to participate in the current debate, in accordance with the rules of procedure and the previous practice in this regard.”

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11. “I thank the representative of Chile for his kind words. The next speaker inscribed on my list is the representative of Bangladesh. I invite him to take a seat at the Council table and to make his statement.”

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12. “The next speaker is the representative of Chile. I invite him to take a seat at the Council table and to make his statement.”

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13. “The next speaker inscribed on my list is the representative of Canada. I invite him to take a seat at the Council table and to make his statement.”

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14. “I thank the representative of the Republic of Korea for the kind words he addressed to me. The next speaker is the representative of Switzerland. I invite him to take a seat at the Council table and to make his statement.”

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15. “The next speaker on my list is the representative of the Republic of Korea. I invite him to take a seat at the Council table and to make his statement.”

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16. “The next speaker on my list is the representative of Japan. I invite him to take a seat at the Council table and to make his statement.”

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17. “Thus the certainties that crumbled on 11 September will begin to reassert themselves. Barbarity cannot be allowed to impose the cruelty of its methods. Our commitment to combat all forms of barbarity must prevail. Our ideals must prevail also, so that our work is not so much protecting civilians in armed conflict, but rather preventing, in a timely way, intra- State and inter-State armed conflicts. We must work relentlessly in our campaign to eradicate the scourge of terrorism. Colombia agrees with the idea that there is a shared responsibility in the lofty task of protecting human dignity. It is a responsibility that our country assumes with full determination. I now resume my functions as President of the Security Council. The next speaker inscribed on my list is the representative of Denmark.”

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18. “The risks are greater for civilians than for those who are trained to protect them. We the people of the United Nations have a great challenge before us. This noble institution was created, among other reasons, "to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignify and worth of the human person". In this mission, we have made undeniable achievements. Today there is an entire culture of human rights and respect for life, which we must now defend against new forms of violence and terrorism. We will make every sacrifice and spare no effort in continuing to proclaim and safeguard these universal public assets. In this commitment, the global anti-terrorist legal regime, and in particular resolution 1373 (2001), must be swiftly, fully and rigorously complied with.”

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19. “The second activity is the growing kidnapping industry, which seeks large ransoms in money or property and is sometimes used as a weapon of political blackmail - a substitute for the lack of popular support for such violent groups. The third is the criminal alternative to kidnapping: the widespread use of extortion. All of these activities target defenceless civilians. In many cases, they encourage attacks against the vital infrastructure of a country, such as water supply systems, power lines, bridges and even sites such as churches and cultural centres that have traditionally been left alone. Furthermore, they sow destruction, death and anguish and cause damage that is either irreparable or very costly, thus negatively affecting the precarious well-being of millions of civilians.”

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20. “This is particularly true at a time of terrorism, which constitutes a global threat to the community of democratic nations. I should like, therefore, to reflect briefly on one of the important elements that the Secretary-General has reported as having emerged recently in connection with the protection of civilians: the commercial exploitation and illegal financing of both conflicts and terrorism. Colombia believes that three activities form part of this commercial exploitation and illegal financing that we must learn about and combat. The first is the prosperous criminal industry of illegal drugs in all of its stages, which is much more profitable than the trade in blood diamonds and other resources that fuel armed conflicts.”

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21. “Colombians today appear more willing to play their civic role in the re-establishment of national security and to associate themselves with the State in restoring the rule of law. Our objective is to continue demonstrating these results in the conviction that the support of society as a whole is the best way of confronting those isolated groups that have been trying to destabilize our country for decades. The spilling over of certain domestic conflicts, or the internationalization of such conflicts as a result of their association with criminal activities, shows us that a national problem cannot always be overcome or resolved at the strictly national level. It is necessary to approach such conflicts in the context of shared responsibility if we are to deal with related phenomena such as the worldwide problem of illicit drugs.”

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22. “Colombia associates itself with those ideas because they reflect the elements that underlie the democratic security policy advanced by President Alvaro Uribe Velez. It is a comprehensive policy whose strategies are designed to salvage and consolidate the democratic content of the concept of security, to re-establish public order and to promote economic and social development. The policy is also designed to ensure the presence of the State in every part of national territory, to guarantee democratic debate and to provide the security needed by individuals for their own personal development and the full exercise their fundamental rights. The clear determination of the national Government to achieve these objectives has had a truly encouraging effect.”

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23. “Colombia agrees with the comments of the Secretary-General in the section of his report (S/2002/ 1300) entitled "Rule of law, justice and reconciliation", that the restoration of the rule of law is fundamental to a country's capacity to emerge from a period of conflict into a sustainable peace and that, furthermore, it is necessary to strengthen its institutions for security and justice and to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of its people. We also agree with the Secretary-General's comments that there can be no long-term solution to security problems until a State has a national army and a police force that are well trained, well equipped, fairly paid and operating within a framework of a fully functional criminal justice system.”

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24. “Those two terrible tragedies should have been sufficient to remind us once and for all that great humanitarian tragedies can be avoided, or at least made less severe, if we learn from our mistakes and omissions. Indeed, the Security Council has appropriate tools to protect civilians in armed conflict, as provided for in Chapters VI and VII of the Charter, as well as in various resolutions adopted in recent years on, inter alia, conflict prevention, children in armed conflict, the illicit trade in small arms and the fight against terrorism. I would like today to highlight in particular resolution 1325 (2000), in which the Council focused on the protection of women and the role that women play in conflict prevention and peacekeeping.”

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25. “New wars and terrorism make it clear that the problem is no longer that crimes are being committed against civilians during armed conflict, but that - and this is even worse - current armed conflicts deliberately target unarmed civilians, civilian installations and civilian means of transportation. The victims are defenceless civilians. When the first report on this subject was presented to the Council we had not formulated clear ideas about it. But 8 September 1999 was very different from 11 September 2001. In that earlier year, other reports commissioned by the Secretary-General, such as those dealing with the fall of Srebrenica and the chilling genocide in Rwanda, made it abundantly clear that civilians were the victims of terrible atrocity.”

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26. “Today, terrorism has taken that worsening to its maximum - terrorist acts are brutal and unbelievably cruel. We are here at the United Nations to preserve universal public assets: the dignity of each and every human being, the right to life and the right to live without fear. These are public assets that can be preserved only by all of us working together in cooperation. That is the dimension of our shared responsibility. Here we see the relevance of the United Nations and understand the inescapable need to strengthen it so that it is able properly to deal with such new threats.”

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27. “Moreover, my delegation welcomes the participation of delegations from countries that are not Security Council members, whose ideas and recommendations will help to guide the Council's work and will contribute to the formulation of the statement that will be issued later as an outcome of this debate. The nature of wars has changed dramatically in the past century, particularly in the past decade. In the First World War, 5 per cent of victims were civilians; in the Second World War, that figure reached 50 per cent; and in the conflicts of the final decade of the twentieth century, it exceeded 90 per cent. We are living during not only a terrible humanitarian crisis, but a crisis in the global humanitarian legal regime. Armed conflicts have worsened.”

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28. “I shall now make a statement in my capacity as representative of Colombia. I wish to begin by expressing my country's gratitude to Secretary-General Kofi Annan for his inspired words at the beginning of this meeting. I should also like to thank the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mr. Kenzo Oshima, for his presentation of the third report on the protection of civilians in armed conflict (S/2002/1300). In addition, I should like to thank the Director-General of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mr. Angelo Gnaedinger, for his very valuable contribution to this debate.”

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29. “I thank the representative of the Russian Federation for the kind words he addressed to me. In view of the lateness of the hour, and with the consent of Council members, I will now suspend the meeting until 3 pm. The meeting was suspended at 1.05 pm.”

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30. “I thank the representative of Mauritius for his kind words addressed to me and to Ambassador Valdivieso and my delegation.”

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31. “I thank Mr. Oshima for the kind words he addressed to me. The next speaker on my list is Mr. Angelo Gnaedinger, Director-General of the International Committee of the Red Cross, on whom I now call.”

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32. “I thank the Secretary-General for his kind words addressed to me. The first speaker on my list is Mr. Kenzo Oshima, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.”

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33. “Colombia firmly believes that concern for the defence of life, liberty and independence, the preservation of human values against the use of force and the need to preserve international peace and security, which were the origin of the United Nations, remains equally valid today. I wish to take this opportunity to express once again, on behalf of President Alvaro Uribe, our gratitude to the Secretary-General, for his leadership, and to the Organization for the work that they are doing in promoting a better future for our people, who have suffered as no other the violence arising from the worldwide problem of illicit drugs and the crimes connected with them. I welcome the presence of the Secretary-General, Mr. Kofi Annan, and I give him the floor.”

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34. “Colombia's activities in the United Nations, and especially on the six occasions when we have been a member of the Council, have been undertaken in the context of the most profound respect for the purposes and principles expressly established in the Charter, as well as for the precepts and rules of international law. My country has defended multilateralism as a fundamental tool with which the international community can achieve a more balanced and just international order. In this context, Colombia upholds the principal of shared responsibility in the discussion of global issues such as the worldwide problems of illicit drugs, terrorism and illegal trafficking in arms, munitions and explosives.”

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35. “Gnaedinger to take a seat at the Council table. The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. The Security Council is meeting in accordance with the understanding reached in its prior consultations. Members of the Council have before them document S/2002/l300, which contains the report of the Secretary-General on the protection of civilians in armed conflict. For my country, Colombia, and for me personally it is a great honour to preside over the Security Council on this International Human Rights Day.”

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36. “The President (spoke in Spanish): In accordance with the understanding reached in the Council's prior consultations, and in the absence of objection, I shall take it that the Security Council agrees to extend an invitation under rule 39 of its provisional rules of procedure to Mr. Kenzo Oshima, Under-Secretary- General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. It is so decided. I invite Mr. Oshima to take a seat at the Council table. In accordance with the understanding reached in the Council's prior consultations, and in the absence of objection, I shall take it that the Security Council agrees to extend an invitation under rule 39 of its provisional rules of procedure to Mr. Angelo Gnaedinger, Director-General of the International Committee of the Red Cross. It is so decided. I invite Mr.”

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37. “In conformity with the usual practice, I propose, with the consent of the Council, to invite those representatives to participate in the discussion without the right to vote, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Charter and rule 37 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure. There being no objection, it is so decided. At the invitation of the President, Mr. Cappagli (Argentina), Mr. Pfanzelter (Austria), Mr. Chowdhury (Bangladesh), Mr. Kafando (Burkina Faso), Mr. Ouch (Cambodia), Mr. Heinbecker (Canada), Mr. Valde's (Chile), Ms. Laj (Denmark), Mr. Aboul Gheit (Egypt), Mr. Hidayat (Indonesia), Mr. Jacob (Israel), Mr. Yamamoto (Japan), Mr. Sun (Republic of Korea), Mr. Staehelin (Switzerland), Mr. Guterres (Timor-Leste) and Mr. Kuchinsky (Ukraine) took the seats reserved for them at the side of the Council Chamber.”

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38. “At the outset of the meeting, I should like to acknowledge the presence at the Council table of the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Norway, His Excellency Mr. Vidar Helgesen. On behalf of the Council, I extend a warm welcome to him. Adoption of the agenda The agenda was adopted. Protection of civilians in armed conflict Report the Secretary-General on the protection of civilians in armed conflict (S/2002/ 1300) The President (spoke in Spanish): I should like to inform the Council that I have received letters from the representatives of Argentina, Austria, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Egypt, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Switzerland, Timor-Leste and Ukraine, in which they request to be invited to participate in the discussion of the item on the Council's agenda.”

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