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  1. “We are at a critical and dangerous juncture. The civilian population is paying an intolerable price for this conflict. We must do everything we can to avoid further escalation of human suffering. Today is United Nations Day. Allow me therefore, in conclusion, to pay my respects to the UNRWA personnel who have lost their lives in Gaza and to express our gratitude to the many United Nations personnel who continue to carry out their important work in the most difficult and dangerous of circumstances.”

    2023-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9451Resumption1 (2023) · source

  2. “The consequences of a further escalation of violence in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, as well as in the broader Middle East region, would be devastating. When we move out of the rubble of this terrible crisis, we need to go back to the table to establish a political horizon for solving the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Despite the challenges, a sovereign, independent and contiguous Palestinian State, living side by side with Israel, with borders based on the 1967 lines, remains the best and most sustainable path to a peace that would benefit both peoples. We must look beyond this war and beyond the logic of weapons. In the long run, only a negotiated two-State solution would provide a framework for a wealth of new opportunities for increased cooperation, security, stability and integration in the Middle East.”

    2023-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9451Resumption1 (2023) · source

  3. “As Chair of the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee for the Coordination of the International Assistance to Palestinians donor group, we are continuously assessing how we can bring the donor community together to discuss the significant needs faced by the Palestinians, both inside and outside of Gaza. Since the start of this crisis, we have increased our support to Palestine with an additional 130 million Norwegian kroner, including to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) for its indispensable work. Norway encourages all donors to continue and increase their support. This is not the time to cease the support to the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian people. Norway is deeply concerned about the spread of the conflict.”

    2023-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9451Resumption1 (2023) · source

  4. “Humanitarian access must be dramatically improved and sustained. Norway has joined the call for a humanitarian pause in the fighting to facilitate that. Most urgently, water and electricity supply must be turned back on and fuel allowed in. International humanitarian law applies to all parties of the conflict. To quote the Secretary-General: “Even war has rules.” The taking of hostages, as well as any use of civilians as human shields is absolutely prohibited. The denial of access to food, water and health care for the civilian population cannot be used as a war strategy.”

    2023-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9451Resumption1 (2023) · source

  5. “These are extremely challenging times for Palestinians, Israelis and the entire Middle East. Norway has strongly condemned Hamas’s heinous terrorist attacks, killing more than 1,000 Israeli civilians and taking more than 200 hostages. All hostages in Gaza must be released immediately and unconditionally. Israel has the right to self-defence, but such measures must be necessary and proportionate. All military operations must be in line with international humanitarian law. That includes taking all feasible measures to prevent civilian casualties and reduce damage. The news we are receiving about the humanitarian conditions inside Gaza is horrifying. This cannot go on. Water, electricity, food and medicine have practically been cut off. We welcome that the first trucks with humanitarian aid have entered Gaza, but far more is needed.”

    2023-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9451Resumption1 (2023) · source

  6. “We appreciate this opportunity to engage with the Council today and will continue to do so. We welcome that under your leadership, President, the Informal Working Group continues to work on new presidential notes. We hope the recommendations made today by the broader United Nations membership will be taken into account in that work, but we also underscore the importance of continuous efforts by all members of the Council to implement what has already been agreed. As the Council faces ever-increasing pressures on its work, it is vital to ensure that it has the trust and confidence of the broader membership, and of course of the billions of people on whose behalf it acts. Nothing could be a better signal than the faithful implementation of its own commitments.”

    2023-09-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9410 (2023) · source

  7. “Furthermore, we welcome efforts undertaken through women and peace and security commitments to ensure a greater number and diversity of female civil society briefers, particularly their safe participation and greater attention to the deeply concerning issue of reprisals. Just briefly on the annual distribution of Council subsidiary body chairs, we cannot help but point to the deterioration of the Council meeting its own deadlines for that process. The Council must do better. Late distribution is to the significant detriment of incoming elected members, affecting their ability to be fully included and active in shaping the work of the Council. In conclusion, please be assured that the ACT group remains a steadfast supporter of a transparent, effective, efficient and inclusive Security Council.”

    2023-09-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9410 (2023) · source

  8. “We also echo recommendations made by the Secretary-General on elevating the work of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC), not only integrating the PBC more in the work of the Council, including perhaps in missions to the field, but for the Council to ask for and use its advice better. To further improve inclusion in the Council’s work, we also urge a more consistent and broader approach to the acceptance of rule 37 requests in all applicable meeting formats and encourage a standardized approach to prioritizing and encouraging group statements in open debates, which we believe will improve efficiency.”

    2023-09-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9410 (2023) · source

  9. “We could not agree more with his three recommendations for the Council to ensure first, more burden-sharing or penholdership among all Council members, where ACT would like to see co-penholdership become the norm on all files; secondly, systematic consultations with affected countries, such as host countries or troop-contributing countries and police-contributing countries, and, thirdly, promoting greater accountability of permanent members for the use of the veto. Here, ACT would also add the consistent implementation of Article 27, paragraph 3, in line with the objectives and purpose of the Charter of the United Nations.”

    2023-09-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9410 (2023) · source

  10. “We believe that those important and concrete improvements will bring greater transparency to, and trust in, the Security Council’s work. Thirdly, on the issue of inclusion among members of the Council with the broader membership and briefers to the Council, we wish to point to the important recommendations made by the Secretary-General to the Security Council in his New Agenda for Peace, particularly on the need to democratize its procedures.”

    2023-09-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9410 (2023) · source

  11. “Furthermore, we underscore that the early distribution of concept notes for open debates helps to promote better understanding and engagement in Council discussions. We commend the recent publication of the Interactive Handbook of the Working Methods of the Council. The ACT group also supports a return to the former agreed practice, which has fallen out of implementation, whereby all draft resolutions of the Security Council are shared with the wider membership as soon as they are placed in blue and before adoption. We emphasize that the Council should commit to returning to the once usual practice, lost during the coronavirus disease pandemic, of agreeing press elements from closed consultations. That is the bare minimum of transparency we expect from closed meetings of the Council.”

    2023-09-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9410 (2023) · source

  12. “While those issues may seem somewhat administrative or technical in nature, they are important elements of the Council’s accountability to the broader United Nations membership and the public and we ask for their consistent implementation. Secondly, the ACT group supports a range of improvements to ensure greater transparency by the Council. We support the early and broad circulation of live lists of speakers, no later than on the day before open debates and, similarly, we welcome the use by presidencies of digital programmes of work and the public distribution of monthly working methods commitments. We would also like to see more detail included on the Council’s programme of work, including all foreseen meetings, wrap-up sessions, Arria Formula meetings and informal interactive dialogues.”

    2023-09-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9410 (2023) · source

  13. “We also welcome the steps taken by the current President of the General Assembly to transmit summaries of General Assembly discussions on the Council’s annual report and veto initiative meetings, a practice we hope will continue and would be strengthened should the Council give due consideration to those summaries and take action on their recommendations. Finally, on reporting, the ACT group supports verbal reporting and dialogue with the broader membership, including through monthly wrap-up sessions. We support a consistent practice of Council Presidents issuing formal invitations and publishing meeting announcements in The Journal of the United Nations and on the Council’s programme of work.”

    2023-09-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9410 (2023) · source

  14. “As that is undertaken in a national capacity, assessments can be more analytical and do not require unanimity among Council members. We welcome that the introduction of the annual report of the Council draws from monthly assessments. We encourage a more analytical report and the full implementation by the Council of its agreed presidential notes, including holding interactive informal exchanges of views with the wider United Nations membership during drafting. We also recall the group’s position on the addition of a dedicated chapter on the veto in the annual report (see S/2022/1032), where special reports could be prominently featured. We encourage that addition in the 2023 report. We welcome the Council’s consistent production of special reports, in line with General Assembly resolution 76/262, and expect that to continue.”

    2023-09-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9410 (2023) · source

  15. “We commend Albania for convening today’s important debate and also for its work as Chair of the Informal Working Group on Documentation and Other Procedural Questions. I am pleased to deliver this statement on behalf of the 27 members of the Accountability, Coherence and Transparency (ACT) group. The ACT group promotes a more transparent, effective and inclusive Security Council and we would like to set out a few concrete suggestions relating to three themes — the Security Council’s reporting, its efforts to promote transparency and its commitment to inclusion. First, on reporting, the ACT group believes the Council should ensure the timely completion of monthly assessments by all Security Council presidencies.”

    2023-09-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9410 (2023) · source