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Bila

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2015-05-13
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2018-03-22
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  1. “Thirdly, in view of the projection of continuing global warming within conflict-affected regions, climate-security risk assessment and reporting from the local, national and regional levels should be aggregated and presented to the Security Council to serve as early warning for conflict-prevention advice to United Nations Members and for integrating climate adaptation, cooperation in water governance, conflict prevention and management, enhancing livelihood resilience and the global security of the planet.”

    2018-03-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8212 (2018) · source

  2. “Global-level early warning could be issued by the Security Council as the need arises to serve as a basis for measures integrating climate adaptation, cooperation in water governance, conflict prevention and management, enhancing livelihood resilience and global security. I have three recommendations for the Security Council. First, a participatory system of local water governance should be introduced into the Lake Chad basin as a priority. Secondly, climate-security risk assessment and reporting from the conflict affected zones of the Sahel and the Lake Chad basin should be included in the regular briefings given by UNOWAS and UNOCA to the Security Council.”

    2018-03-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8212 (2018) · source

  3. “Such community- based organizations could be created around each polder or resource user group and provided with the requisite training and equipment to monitor and report the water level to supplement the lack of information at the national and regional levels. National and local-level information and assessment could be aggregated annually by the United Nations country teams and then integrated in the reporting of the regular briefings delivered by the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) and the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA).”

    2018-03-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8212 (2018) · source

  4. “Over the past two weeks, the Lake Chad Basin Commission has participated in an integrated joint mission with the United Nations, non-governmental organizations, researchers and development partners coordinated by the United Nations Development Programme to the Lac region of the Republic of Chad. During the mission, we were informed that in the Lac region, there are 120 polders that could be developed for year-round agriculture. We saw how women's community-based organizations are using the polders for vegetable gardens, and we heard the young people's request for dams to be built as a management mechanism to exploit more of those polders.”

    2018-03-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8212 (2018) · source

  5. “The Sahel is increasingly facing extreme variability of climate resulting in frequent droughts, short-duration, high-intensity rainfall, desertification, water scarcity, land degradation and ultimately, food insecurity. Consequently, addressing the climatic root causes of local challenges through risk assessment and management will require a similar solution at the Sahel regional level. Future threats linked to climate risks will continue to exist in the Lake Chad basin and other regions of the world currently facing fragility related to climate risks. The Security Council is unique in its position not only to stop current conflicts, but also to prevent future conflict through climate diplomacy, based on early warning and risk assessment reports by other United Nations agencies in the field.”

    2018-03-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8212 (2018) · source

  6. “An obvious solution to the poor water management that has led to the loss of livelihoods and the rising tensions is to restructure the water governance mechanism to operate in a participatory manner at the local level, with input from resource user groups. User- group capacities should include resource monitoring and reporting as a concurrent activity associated with resource exploitation. At the regional level, the solution must acknowledge the link between local environmental degradation and the recurrent Sahel drought. The environmental challenges facing the Lake Chad basin are connected to the challenges of climate change faced by the Sahel region of Africa.”

    2018-03-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8212 (2018) · source

  7. “While the Niger-Nigerian mixed commission has established a mechanism for consultations on the development of new water abstraction at the national level to prevent a further build-up of social tension, similar cross-border cooperation in local water governance could help with conflict management and the reduction of social tension among young people. Those examples are two of the possibly many incidences that occur across the Lake Chad basin region that are not noticed on the national level because our national water-governance mechanism is not structured to capture such information or respond to it. Equally, at the regional and global levels, climate variability and its impact on the loss oflivelihood were not noticed due to deficiencies at the lower levels of water governance.”

    2018-03-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8212 (2018) · source

  8. “Malam Fatori and Kaniram, in Nigeria, and Bosso and Mamouri, in the Niger, are riparian settlements of the Komadugu-Yobe river, which forms the border between the Niger and Nigeria. Prior to the Sahel droughts, all four settlements were located on the Lake Chad shoreline, but the shrinking of Lake Chad has reduced the communities to competing for the seasonal flow of the Komadugu-Yobe river for dry-season agriculture. The competition for the river has led to claims and counterclaims of river diversion by the communities on both sides of the border, and the loss of livelihoods may have led to the build-up of social tension among young people prior to the outbreak of the insurgency in 2012.”

    2018-03-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8212 (2018) · source

  9. “In July 2010, when I was on a mission, the traditional chief reported that for the previous three years, the usual recession moisture farming could not take place because the Komadugu-Yobe river did not bring water to the farmlands around Kaukiri. There was no evidence that those three years of failure in agriculture and loss of livelihood for all island villages around Kaukiri were noticed or supported by local authorities or local community-based organizations. As of today, no authority can detect if a similar disaster is occurring because there is only one water- level measurement station in the whole 25,000 square kilometres of Lake Chad's old shoreline, located in Bol, Chad. In general, the environmental monitoring network in the Lake Chad basin is inadequate, sparse and poorly funded and operated.”

    2018-03-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8212 (2018) · source

  10. “In 1985, there were 25,000 people living in 49 villages along the western portion of Lake Chad in Nigeria. In 2010, the population in the central part of the north basin was estimated to be 56,421, living in 387 villages on the lake floor. Lake-floor cultivation of crops using the residual soil moisture, which began around 1985 or 1986, is one of the methods of adaptation to drought and deprivation for the communities around Lake Chad. One of the villages located near the border tripoint marker between the Niger, Nigeria and Chad is Kaukiri. In 2010, there was an estimated population of 1,425 of largely lake-floor farmers of beans and maize in the village. The local produce market brings together farmers, livestock herders and traders from all three countries.”

    2018-03-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8212 (2018) · source

  11. “To help in understanding the situation, I will share my experience from a community that survives on cultivating the lake floor and then on four communities that used to depend on the shoreline of the Lake Chad but are now 10 kilometres away from the lake and depend on sharing the river Komadugu-Yobe for their livelihood. The years 1983 and 1984 proved to be the driest in Borno in recent history. The minor tributaries of Lake Chad - the rivers Yobe, Yedseram and the El Beid - were dry and the level of Lake Chad fell three metres below the critical level for the pumping station at Kirinowa. Consequently, the South Chad Irrigation Project (SCIP) could not irrigate any land from 1984 to 1986. The lake floor became a refuge and offered an opportunity to farm workers from the South Chad Irrigation Project to cultivate beans and maize.”

    2018-03-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8212 (2018) · source

  12. “Mr. Bila: My name is Mohammed Bila. I am a remote sensing expert in the Lake Chad Basin Commission, in N'Djamena. I have been working in the Komadugu-Yobe basin in Nigeria since 1990 as a hydrologist at the Federal Ministry of Water Resources in Abuja. I have been in the service of the Lake Chad Basin Commission since April 2002. My briefing today is going to focus on climate variability and its impact on the vulnerability of the Lake Chad basin, and on what the United Nations can do to reduce the general vulnerability of the region.”

    2018-03-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8212 (2018) · source

  13. “I would like to reply to underscore the fact that Ukraine has fully complied with the Minsk agreements, which is absolutely not the case with the Russian Federation and the forces it supports. However, that is not the issue we are dealing with in this forum, where we are discussing small arms and light weapons and their illegal transfer, including to the territory of Ukraine. If anybody needs evidence of this, the Ukrainian delegation is willing to provide all the necessary photo evidence of the weapons that were transferred to Ukraine from the stockpiles of the Russian Federation. This is evidence of the Russian Federation's influence and constant participation in the conflict.”

    2015-05-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7442 (2015) · source

  14. “In the wider context, after the brutal occupation of Crimea by Russian military forces with the use, or threat of use, of conventional weapons, including SALW, we heard statements by Russian officials about their right to deploy nuclear weapons on the Crimean Peninsula. Such acts would constitute a direct security threat, both at the regional and global level. We should keep an eye on every such action.”

    2015-05-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7442 (2015) · source

  15. “A week ago, during the neutralization of a subversive group in the Donetsk region, a model 34 under-barrel grenade launcher (UBGL-34), which is in the inventory of Russian army, was confiscated. It is easy to verify that the UBGL-34 model is not in the inventory of the Ukrainian armed forces. We have many similar examples with relevant documentation and photos. The UBGL-34 and other SALW have a strong destabilizing effect in the heart of Europe, killing hundreds of peaceful Ukrainians. The conclusion is the following: we have no right to be blind with regard to the illicit supplies of conventional weapons, including SALW, from the Russian Federation to Ukraine.”

    2015-05-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7442 (2015) · source

  16. “The continuous flows of sophisticated weapons and ammunition from the Russian Federation to Crimea and the eastern part of Ukraine have had a disastrous and destabilizing effect. The most cynical thing in that regard is that large amounts of SALW are moved to the Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine from Russian territory under the guise of the so-called humanitarian convoys. These problems have been regularly reported to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine. Numerous items of documentary evidence have been presented to the members of the Mission. Without delving into the technical details, I would like to draw the Council's attention to one example of the evidence of weaponry supplies through the Ukrainian-Russian border segment.”

    2015-05-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7442 (2015) · source

  17. “Long before the occupation started, the Russian Federation made numerous supplies of arms, including SALW, into the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. It is clear that those weapons showed up during the so-called referendum in Crimea in 2014. As a result, since then this part of Ukraine is occupied by the Russian Federation. During 2014 and 2015, the illegal pro-Russian armed groups - the so-called Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic - in close coordination with Russian troops, have gained and continue to control those respective segments of the Russian-Ukrainian border. In that way, a deadly route for the illicit transfers of SALW to the territory Ukraine has been opened.”

    2015-05-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7442 (2015) · source

  18. “The harmonization of its provisions with the national legislation of signatory countries would be an important step in reaching the ATT objectives, particularly in preventing and eradicating the illicit trade in conventional arms and preventing their diversion. However, until the key arms-exporting States become signatories to the Treaty, we can not speak about the comprehensive nature of the ATT. We therefore call upon all the States to become a part of this important process. The human cost of illicit SALW proliferation is extremely perturbing. It is not a secret that in my country SALW-related challenges emerged mostly after the Russian aggression against Ukraine undertaken in 2014 and 2015. But the first steps in that regard were made earlier.”

    2015-05-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7442 (2015) · source

  19. “In particular, the instability caused by the proliferation of SALW and their use could serve as a real precondition to a nuclear conflict. Therefore, today we must tackle the issue of the illicit transfer, stockpiling and misuse of SALW with the utmost responsibility. In that respect, we welcome the entry into force of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), in December 2014, which includes SALW in its scope, contains provisions on the stockpiling of ammunition and further raises the level of attention and scrutiny given to controls of SALW. Ukraine was among the sponsors of the General Assembly resolutions on the ATT and signed the document in 2014.”

    2015-05-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7442 (2015) · source

  20. “At the outset, I would like to thank you, Madam President, for convening this important and timely open debate, which we believe will make a valuable contribution in addressing the issue of the illicit transfer, destabilizing accumulation and misuse of small arms and light weapons (SALW). Ukraine aligns itself with the statement made by the observer of the European Union earlier today. However, we would like to make some additional comments in our national capacity. While Ukraine recognizes that weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and their proliferation is a real threat to humankind as a whole in 2015, we must admit that the possibility of the use of WMDs depends on a number of factors. In that regard, SALW also have a powerful virulent effect.”

    2015-05-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7442 (2015) · source