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  1. “I thank the representative of Liechtenstein for the kind words he addressed to me and to my country, Benin. I now call on the representative of India.”

    2005-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5129Resumption1 (2005) · source

  2. “I thank the representative of Canada for the kind words he addressed to me and to my country, Benin. The next speaker is the representative of Liechtenstein, to whom I give the floor.”

    2005-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5129Resumption1 (2005) · source

  3. “I thank the representative of Iceland for the kind words he addressed to me and to my country. The next speaker is the representative of Canada, on whom I now call.”

    2005-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5129Resumption1 (2005) · source

  4. “I thank the representative of Myanmar for the kind words he addressed to me and to my country, Benin. The next speaker on my list is the representative of Iceland, to whom I give the floor.”

    2005-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5129Resumption1 (2005) · source

  5. “I thank the representative of Nigeria for the kind words he addressed to me and to my country, Benin. The next speaker on my list is the representative of Myanmar, to whom I give the floor.”

    2005-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5129Resumption1 (2005) · source

  6. “I thank the representative of Luxembourg for his kind words addressed to me and to my country, Benin. I now call on the representative of Nigeria.”

    2005-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5129Resumption1 (2005) · source

  7. “The President (spoke in French): I should like to remind all speakers of what I stated during this morning's meeting, namely, that they should limit their statements to no more than five minutes, in order to enable the Council to carry out its work expeditiously. Delegations with lengthy statements are kindly requested to circulate their texts in writing and to deliver a condensed version when speaking in the Chamber. I will also not individually invite speakers to take seats at the Council table or invite them to resume their seats at the side of the Council Chamber. When a speaker takes the floor the Conference Officer will seat the next speaker on my list at the table. I thank participants for their understanding and cooperation. The next speaker inscribed on my list is the representative of Luxembourg, on whom I now call.”

    2005-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5129Resumption1 (2005) · source

  8. “I should like to inform the members of the Council that I have received letters from the representatives of Indonesia, Mali and Niger, in which they request to be invited to participate in the discussion of the item on the Council's agenda. 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 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, the representatives of the aforementioned countries took the seats reservedfor them at the side of the Council Chamber.”

    2005-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5129Resumption1 (2005) · source

  9. “with the concurrence of members of the Council. to suspend the meeting until 3.15 p.m. The meeting was suspended at 1.40 p.m.”

    2005-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5129 (2005) · source

  10. “For us, today's debate is a point of departure for a new impetus in mobilizing the international community to ensure better protection for children in armed conflict and to make significant progress in combating the atrocities of which they are victims. To accomplish that, we must adopt a draft resolution as soon as possible to operationalize the monitoring and reporting mechanism. To that end, we have before us a plan of action to establish the mechanism, and We must institute it in order to give ourselves the appropriate tools to enable us to effectively undertake the implementation phase described in the Secretary- Genernl's report. I new resume my functions as President of the Security Council. As there are still a number of speakers inscribed on my list. and in View of the lateness of the hour. I propose.”

    2005-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5129 (2005) · source

  11. “My country, Benin, faithful to its political choice to resolutely combat the phenomenon of child soldiers, will host in Cotonou, during the week of 13 to 17 June 2005, a conference of Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to assess the role played by national Governments and ECOWAS in protecting war-affected children. We chose that week because 17 June each year is dedicated to the African child. In that context, we would like to appeal to members of the Council, the United Nations system, our bilateral and multilateral partners and non-governmental organizations to support us in our efforts to organize, hold, follow up and implement the outcome of the conference, which will be along the lines of this public debate.”

    2005-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5129 (2005) · source

  12. “Therefore, we recommend holding regional and subregional seminars to address the following issues: the link between the phenomenon of child soldiers and the continent's socio-economic problems, such as poverty and unemployment; the adaptation of bilateral and multilateral assistance programmes to the specific needs of child soldiers; the specific needs of girl soldiers, who are often given very little attention in the context of official disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programmes; the establishment by the countries concerned of national focal points for child soldiers and other conflict-affected children to better coordinate financing at the subregional and interregional levels; and, finally, the elaboration and implementation of specialized educational and training programmes, with international assistance, for children affected by conflict situations.”

    2005-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5129 (2005) · source

  13. “These child victims of armed conflict, who lack education or professional training and know only the language of weapons, will be a potential breeding ground for mercenaries, criminals and outlaws if the international community - particularly the Security Council - does not adopt strong measures to save this young generation, which our societies are in the process of losing.”

    2005-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5129 (2005) · source

  14. “International actors must support efforts undertaken at the local level and must support local grass-roots communities in order to strengthen traditional child protection norms. The establishment of child protection advisers at the local level must be expanded to all countries affected by this phenomenon. The third direction that action should take would be to articulate at the regional level - particularly in the African region - a resolute policy that includes practical measures and specific programmes to solve the serious development problems that the phenomenon of child soldiers poses for the societies concerned, particularly African societies. In fact, if nothing is done today, child soldiers will be destabilizing elements for our States and for our young democracies.”

    2005-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5129 (2005) · source

  15. “To do that, we need to carry out a census of the children concerned, including those older than 18, and an assessment of institutional capacities at the international and domestic levels, of the legislative and regulatory framework at the national level and of the potential of civil society, including the private sector. The monitoring and reporting mechanism to be created could be used by the United Nations to begin a survey aimed at identifying shelter facilities and assessing how well their capacities meet new specific needs in protecting war-affected children so that we can properly identify what resources should be mobilized to ensure the recovery, rehabilitation and reintegration or reinsertion of such children.”

    2005-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5129 (2005) · source

  16. “Benin has ratified the Convention and its Optional Protocols, including the Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict, adopted by the General Assembly on 25 May 2000, and in addition made a binding statement setting the minimum age for recruitment into the armed forces at 18. The second direction for action would be to develop a comprehensive and integrated transboundary strategy aimed at the recovery, rehabilitation, reinsertion and reintegration of child victims of violations and abuses related to war situations.”

    2005-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5129 (2005) · source

  17. “In addition, it is disturbing and revolting to note that the grim statistics on the victims of armed conflicts do not reflect the tens of thousands of children - soldiers or non-soldiers - who die annually in situations of armed conflict. Those innocent victims - our hopes for tomorrow - die anonymously and through the guilty indifference of all. That is why we ask the international community as a whole to work to make the standards of international law greater deterrents in order to defuse this time bomb that the abuses and violations perpetrated against children affected by situations of armed conflict represent for our societies. Benin, my country, adheres fully to international instruments that protect human rights. We invite the States that have not yet done so to accede to the Convention on the Rights of the Child.”

    2005-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5129 (2005) · source

  18. “Clearly, this means undertaking a negotiation process that would be aimed at achieving a consensus on the need to reclassify this phenomenon - currently considered as a war crime - as a crime against humanity in view of its disturbing recent evolution and the seriousness of the abuses seen in recent years, which you all have mentioned in your statements and which give this phenomenon some of the basic characteristics of a crime against humanity. To be sure, we have increasingly seen this in a context in which the parties involved pursue a targeted policy of widespread recruitment of children with the clear intent to dehumanize them and make them into war machines and true cannon fodder.”

    2005-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5129 (2005) · source

  19. “First, we need to identify weaknesses in international law in the area of the protection of children affected by war and to address those weaknesses. To that end, my country, Benin, proposes establishing an open-ended working group under the auspices of the General Assembly to study the issue of reclassifying the crime of recruiting and using child soldiers, with a view to treating it as a more serious crime.”

    2005-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5129 (2005) · source

  20. “We reiterate here the need to scrupulously implement the plan of action proposed by the Secretary-General in accordance with paragraph 2 of resolution 1539 (2004) to establish a monitoring and reporting mechanism, which is needed by the Council in order to ensure effective action to promote compliance with international standards. Beyond establishing such a mechanism, which we believe is a top priority, and setting up ways to ensure appropriate use of the information gathered, we need to give specific attention to a number of key considerations that have to do with coordinated and effective action to promote the protection of children in situations of armed conflict. From this standpoint, the following three pillars of action deserve particular attention.”

    2005-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5129 (2005) · source

  21. “The aim here is to mobilize the international community towards resolute action in order to bring about an end to the practices we have condemned and to put an end to the impunity enjoyed to date by those who violate international standards in force in the area of protection of children in situations of armed conflict. This also has to do with preventing violations and abuses and promoting the reintegration of war-affected children. In that respect, we fully endorse the recommendations of the Secretary-General aimed at implementing the relevant Council resolutions.”

    2005-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5129 (2005) · source

  22. “We have seen a striking dichotomy between the strict international standards and the ongoing atrocities victimizing children affected by armed conflict, compounded by the impunity enjoyed by perpetrators of those violations of international law and humanitarian international law. Beyond the intolerable practice of recruitment and use of children as soldiers, this report highlights a range of other serious abuses and major violations of children's rights, which pose a true challenge to the Security Council. That is why my country, Benin, has proposed forward-looking brainstorming on this subject.”

    2005-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5129 (2005) · source

  23. “Genuine progress has been made to improve and strengthen the legal arsenal for protecting children - not only through the unwavering commitment of the Secretary-General and his Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, but also through the role played by United Nations missions and the United Nations Children's Fund, along with the invaluable contributions of other United Nations institutions, such as the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the United Nations Population Fund, as well as national and international non-governmental organizations. We pay a well-deserved tribute to all of them here. However, as seen in the latest, highly instructive report of the Secretary-General, which is before the Council today, this problem persists.”

    2005-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5129 (2005) · source

  24. “The insertion of the situation of children affected by armed conflict on the Security Council's agenda in 1998 demonstrated the determination of the international community to put children and their security at the centre of action aimed at maintaining international peace and security.”

    2005-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5129 (2005) · source

  25. “I thank the representative of Algeria for his kind words to me and to my country, Benin. I should now like to make a statement in my capacity as the Minister for Foreign Affairs and African Integration of Benin. I thank the Council members for their kind words addressed to my country. My gratitude goes particularly to my colleagues, the Ministers for Foreign Affairs, as well as others, who have come to New York to take active part in our thematic debate today, engaging in forward-looking brainstorming with respect to the situation of child soldiers, particularly in Africa, within the framework of the report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict.”

    2005-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5129 (2005) · source

  26. “I thank the representative of Argentina for his kind words addressed to me and to my country, Benin. I give the floor to the representative of Algeria.”

    2005-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5129 (2005) · source

  27. “I thank the representative of the United Kingdom for the kind words he addressed to me and to my country, Benin. On behalf of the Security Council, I warmly welcome to the Council His Excellency Mr. Itsunori Onodera, Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs of Japan.”

    2005-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5129 (2005) · source

  28. “I thank Ms. Migiro for the kind words she addressed to me and to my country. On behalf the members of the Council, I should like warmly to welcome Mr. Pierre-Andre Wiltzer, High Representative for Security and Prevention of Conflicts.”

    2005-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5129 (2005) · source

  29. “In accordance with the understanding reached among Council members, I wish to remind all speakers to limit their statements to no more than five minutes in order to enable the Council to carry out its work expeditiously. Delegations with lengthy statements are kindly requested to circulate the texts in writing and to deliver a condensed version when speaking in the Chamber. On behalf of the Security Council, I extend a warm welcome to the Honourable Asha-Rose Migiro, Minister for Community Development, Gender and Children of the United Republic of Tanzania.”

    2005-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5129 (2005) · source

  30. “I now call on Mr. Ibrahima Diouf, Special Adviser on Child Protection to the Executive Secretary of the Economic Community of West African States.”

    2005-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5129 (2005) · source

  31. “In accordance with the understanding reached in the Council's prior consultations, I shall take it that the Security Council agrees to extend an invitation under rule 39 of its provisional rules of procedure to Mr. Ibrahima Diouf, Special Adviser on Child Protection to the Executive Secretary of the Economic Community of West African States. It is so decided. I invite Mr. Diouf 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 the report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict, document S/2005/72. I now give the floor to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Mr.”

    2005-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5129 (2005) · source

  32. “The President (spoke in French): In accordance with the understanding reached in the Council's prior consultations, I shall take it that the Security Council agrees to extend an invitation under rule 39 of its provisional rules of procedure to Mr. Olara Otunnu, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict. There being no objection it is so decided. I invite Mr. Otunnu to take a seat at the Council table. In accordance with the understanding reached in the Council's prior consultations, I shall take it that the Security Council agrees to extend an invitation under rule 39 of its provisional rules of procedure to Ms. Rima Salah, Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund. There being no objection, it is so decided. I invite Ms. Salah to take a seat at the Council table.”

    2005-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5129 (2005) · source

  33. “I should like to inform the Council that I have received letters from the representatives of Canada, Gabon, Guinea, Iceland, India, Iraq, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Myanmar, Nigeria, Norway, Senegal, Sri Lanka and Uganda, in which they request to be invited to participate in the discussion of the item on the Council's agenda. 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 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, the representatives of the aforementioned countries took the seats reservedfor them at the side of the Council Chamber.”

    2005-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5129 (2005) · source