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  1. “After an intervention involving armed force, the tools that might have prevented the conflict will still be needed, although they might have to be supplemented by others, and the task will be more difficult. Just as speed is essential at the start of a peace operation, it is of no less importance at the end in order to avoid a gap between the peacekeeping operation - with its accompanying emergency, short-term humanitarian activities - and long-term reconstruction and development programmes. Peacekeepers and peace-builders are inseparable partners. There is rarely an exit for peacekeepers without the peace-builders' work. We urge the Security Council to continue to recognize, and elaborate on, this multidimensional and holistic approach to conflict solution in playing its role as the primary guardian of international peace and security.”

    2000-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4223Resumption1 (2000) · source

  2. “One way of ensuring coherence between peacekeeping, peace consolidation and reconstruction efforts could be for the Council to strengthen consultations with the Secretariat as well as with the humanitarian and developmental agencies of the United Nations family when formulating closure mandates. Furthermore, a mandate must not inappropriately limit the Secretary-General's ability to shape and adjust the operation or mission to take account of evolving circumstances. To sum up, conflict prevention is essential, and poverty reduction and economic growth - together with respect for, and the achievement of, human rights - are irreplaceable elements of conflict prevention. When prevention fails, rapid but measured and targeted action is called for.”

    2000-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4223Resumption1 (2000) · source

  3. “Landmines are a serious obstacle to post-conflict development, and the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) should play an important and integrated role in the planning of missions, where relevant. Another important task for missions to areas where armed conflict has taken place is to ensure that the small arms and light weapons used by the warring parties are collected and destroyed. Let me now conclude by returning to the essence of our discussion today: what should the Security Council do when preparing a decision on mission closure or mission transition in order to ensure a long- term perspective?”

    2000-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4223Resumption1 (2000) · source

  4. “Police, and also judicial experts, are indispensable in order to rebuild civil society and the economy, and their work must be part of a solid peace-building strategy. Allow me to draw attention to the European Union's initiative to make a police force of 5,000 officers available to the international community by 2003, a commitment spurred by the foreign ministers of Denmark and the Netherlands. Another very important point is coordination with the humanitarian and developmental agencies that are already operating in the area. The leadership of a peacekeeping mission should work closely with these agencies. At the Headquarters level, the establishment, as proposed, of integrated mission task forces could prove to be an essential tool in bringing developmental and humanitarian expertise into the planning and execution of missions.”

    2000-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4223Resumption1 (2000) · source

  5. “I should like to outline a number of elements that Denmark considers to be essential in order to build a solid bridge between peacekeeping and the long-term consolidation of peace. The withdrawal of peacekeeping troops from a former conflict area should take place in a gradual manner, as the situation becomes sufficiently stable. The phasing out of a military presence will very often be followed by an enhanced civilian presence, with a view to accelerating the post-conflict peace-building process. In this regard, Denmark fully supports the recommendations of the Brahimi report on United Nations peace operations, and we welcome the proposed shift towards the use of civilian police to promote and safeguard the rule of law.”

    2000-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4223Resumption1 (2000) · source

  6. “The nexus between peacekeeping and peace-building is often crucial, and the achievement of a self-supporting post-conflict situation will very much depend on the groundwork laid out during the peacekeeping mission. The process of moving from peacekeeping to the consolidation of peace should be seen as a continuum, one that reaches from pre-conflict preventive action, through the conflict and peace operation phase, into the post- conflict peace-building stage - that is, from peace to peace. We agree that an exit strategy should not refer only to the withdrawal of the military component of a United Nations operation, but rather to what the discussion paper describes as "a long-term plan designed to lead to a self- sustaining peace in the conflict area" (S/2000/1072, annex, para. 3). But what should such a long-term plan take into account?”

    2000-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4223Resumption1 (2000) · source

  7. “That, in turn, might improve the chances of returning to a situation where the intensity of the operation could again be reduced. Any exit strategy should be based on the notion of "local ownership" of the peace-building process; responsibilities should be gradually handed over to local authorities. Building local capacities should therefore be an integral part of any exit strategy. Peace operations, as we all know, are no longer merely a question of keeping warring parties apart or of monitoring ceasefires. Today's operations are comprehensive and complex undertakings that may involve the disarmament, demobilization and social reintegration of combatants, the supervision of elections, the monitoring of human rights, the training of local police forces, and so on.”

    2000-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4223Resumption1 (2000) · source

  8. “Denmark has been strongly and actively engaged in United Nations peacekeeping since 1948. Today, we remain among the largest per capita providers of peacekeepers to United Nations-mandated and United Nations-operated missions. In her important report to the Council last week, the outgoing High Commissioner for Refugees spoke of the need to look at different options - not only fully-fledged peacekeeping, but also, and especially, measures intended to support local law-enforcement capacity - working together, as opposed to straightforward intervention. If we apply this concept, which could perhaps be called a concept of subsidiarity, at the start of an operation, then we might induce local parties to maintain a greater part of responsibility themselves.”

    2000-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4223Resumption1 (2000) · source

  9. “Denmark has increasingly placed its efforts for the prevention of violent conflict in the context of our comprehensive engagement in development cooperation and assistance. As the Secretary-General stated so eloquently in his millennium report: "every step taken towards reducing poverty and achieving broad-based economic growth is a step towards conflict prevention." (A/54/2000, para. 202) Several of our development cooperation programmes and activities include specific measures for conflict prevention and resolution and post-conflict reconstruction and peace-building. We address conflicts between countries as well as within countries. But, unfortunately, prevention often fails, conflict erupts, and a need for peacekeeping and peace-building presents itself.”

    2000-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4223Resumption1 (2000) · source

  10. “1 should like first to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your very timely and important discussion paper prepared for today's meeting of the Council. The paper addresses a momentous and indeed crucial issue. How do we move successfully from one phase of a peace operation, which is peacekeeping, to the next, which is post- conflict peace-building, thereby ensuring a long-term perspective? Taking as my point of departure the discussion paper, I shall, first, discuss the criteria for successfully bridging peacekeeping and the consolidation of peace, and, secondly, comment more specifically on the decision-making of the Security Council with regard to mission closure or mission transition.”

    2000-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4223Resumption1 (2000) · source