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  1. “I now give the floor to Mrs. Louise Sharene Bailey, Charge d'Affaires of the Permanent Observer Mission of the African Union to the United Nations.”

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  2. “I now give the floor to Mr. Paul Bekkers, Director of the Office of the Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.”

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  3. “Ensuring equal opportunities and the economic, social and political empowerment of women is an imperative, if women and girls are to assume, with all the tools they need, the desired transcendental and transformative role in their communities during and following conflicts. The President (spoke in Russian): I now give the floor to the representative of Ireland.”

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  4. “We consider such acts of violence to constitute crimes against humanity, and we maintain a position of zero tolerance when it comes to cases of sexual violence and abuse. The fundamental point remains to get women into leadership positions, where they can be involved in decisions and provide a gender perspective at all levels of participation and in all activities related to the peace and security agenda. That should also be linked with efforts to protect human rights and development. We must not forget that resolution 1325 (2000) was conceived as a human rights mandate.”

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  5. “Let us welcome also the systematic inclusion of women-protection advisers in the strategic planning processes for political missions and peacekeeping operations, the training of teams of experts on the rule of law and sexual violence in conflict, as well as working with associations supported by UN-Women, such as Justice Rapid Response, which has facilitated the recruitment and inclusion of female gender advisers in commissions of inquiry on cases relating to sexual violence and abuse crimes. The incidence and widespread use of sexual violence as a tactic of terror and a weapon of war are heartbreaking. We urge that such acts be sanctioned with firm penalties and that impunity be completely eliminated, including, when necessary, through referral of cases to the International Criminal Court.”

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  6. “It is noteworthy that, in response to the recommendations outlined in resolution 2242 (2015), several initiatives have been launched, for example, the Informal Expert Group on Women and Peace and Security. They have not ignored the need to fight terrorism in order thereby to improve the implementation of the women and peace and security agenda in every context. Similarly, we consider it valuable to have gender perspectives in various areas of action within peace and security processes, such as in commissions of inquiry, mediation processes and mechanisms of transitional justice. Building partnerships with such organizations as UN-Women, so as to benefit from their experience and views on those various efforts, is another way to integrate a gender perspective into all aspects of the peace and security agenda.”

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  7. “Only 22 per cent of the Under- Secretaries-General today are women. It is clear therefore that previous commitments to gender parity have failed the compliance test. We therefore call on the permanent and elected members of the Security Council to support without restrictions the commitment made by the Secretary-General-elect to achieve gender parity at all levels of appointment at the United Nations, for which he will present and implement a road map with clear benchmarks and deadlines, starting with the selection of senior staff. Integrating the women and peace and security agenda throughout the work of the Security Council should be a priority.”

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  8. “We welcome the briefing by the Executive Director of UN-Women and the Secretary-General's statement. Although the positive effect that women generate in negotiations in peace, conflict resolution, post-conflict and humanitarian assistance processes has been recognized, there is still resistance to the adequate and meaningful integration of women in those processes. That resistance lies partly in the high cost of political will and partly in structural obstacles, as evidenced in the large gap that persists in the presence of women in leadership positions in entities dedicated to peace and security activities. For example, during 2015, fewer than 10 per cent of the management positions in peace and security activities at the United Nations were held by women. Gender balance in senior-level management is desirable and necessary.”

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  9. “I now give the floor to the representative of Costa Rica. Mr. Mendoza-Garcia (Costa Rica) (spoke in Spanish) Costa Rica congratulates the Council presidency for convening today's debate to analyse the progress in the implementation of the women and peace and security agenda a year after the fifteenth anniversary of the adoption of resolution 1325 (2000). That resolution represented a major change in the inclusion of women in the context of peace and security, promoting their direct involvement and their active and meaningful participation in addressing the disproportionate impact of conflict and violence on women. In that way, they are recognized not as victims but as agents of change, where empowered women, on an equal footing with their male counterparts, are the basis of peaceful and inclusive societies.”

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  10. “Given that Sweden will become a non-permanent member of the Security Council beginning in January, the statement just delivered by its representative is very promising. I now give the floor to the representative of Kenya.”

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  11. “I should like to inform participants that, given the long list of speakers, we will continue with this meeting through the lunch hour, and perhaps into the evening. Speakers who wish to make a second intervention will be able to do so once all those on the list of speakers has been exhausted. I now give the floor to the representative of Sweden.”

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  12. “She returned to Russia, where she stated that Kyiv should apologize to the inhabitants of Donetsk and Luhansk. It is a pity that the Government has neither the humanity nor the political will to do so. I now resume my functions as President of the Council. I wish to remind all speakers to limit their statements to no more than four 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. 1 would like to appeal to speakers to deliver their statements at a normal speed so that interpretation can be provided accurately.”

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  13. “They threatened to rape her daughter if she refused to confess. In another case, in June 2015, 10 armed men in masks and black uniforms arrested another woman. They put her in the basement of an unfinished building where they beat her head and body with their fists and a metal tube while threatening to rape and kill her. As of August, the woman was still in detention. Those are just two of the many examples that members can read about in the report. I would like to add that the conflict in eastern Ukraine would have been resolved long ago had the Kyiv authorities not time and again tried to rewrite or tinker with the Minsk agreement reached a year and a half ago. There was a reference to Nadiya Savchenko in the statement by the representative of Ukraine.”

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  14. “That would not exist were it not for the fact that Kyiv took the route of armed suppression of the mood of protest that emerged in the country after the Government was overthrown with direct support from external forces. Ukrainian forces have been shelling residential areas of Donetsk and Luhansk for two years now, killing peaceful civilians, including women and children. As far as the attitude of the Ukrainian authorities to women is concerned, I will simply cite a few facts from a recent report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. On 19 January 2015, some men in masks and camouflage arrested a woman in her home. For more than a week, they kept her in a basement in a Ukrainian Security Service building, where they beat and tortured her with electric shocks and burning plastic.”

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  15. “Needless to say, that does not diminish the urgent task of combating threats women's lives and security caused by the barbarities of terrorist groups. I would like to once again affirm our belief in the importance of ensuring that the international community gives proper attention to the situation of women in armed conflict and their participation in peacemaking. At the same time, of course, we should remember that there is no more reliable way to protect humankind, including women and children, from the horrors ofwar than resolving crisis situations as quickly as possible. In conclusion, I am compelled to make one more observation. Not for the first time, today the representative of Ukraine strayed a long way beyond the confines of our discussion to touch on the general topic of the conflict in eastern Ukraine.”

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  16. “The programmes and projects produced by the Secretariat's experts should be submitted for intergovernmental discussion and follow-up approval. It is after all the States that play the lead role in implementing the women and peace and security agenda. No less important is ensuring that the Security Council's work is focused on issues related to its mandate. Artificially connecting the entire gamut of gender issues to Council activity will lead to an imbalance from the point of view of system- wide coordination and create obstacles to effective implementation of resolution 1325 (2000). The Council should focus its attention primarily on the situation of women in extremely serious, large-scale armed conflicts. That goal corresponds to the inclusion of a gender component in the Secretary-General's reports on specific country situations.”

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  17. “We should point out that in our country women occupy a number of leading Government posts - the President of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly, Deputy Prime Minister, President of the Central Bank, the Ministers of Health and Education and a number of other responsible positions. Women also play a very significant part in the work of the State Duma. They make up 17 per cent - six of 36 officers - of Russian police contingents abroad. We agree with the Secretary-General's recommendation on the need to strengthen the coordination of United Nations entities in order to accommodate gender mainstreaming in the context of armed conflict. However, it is important to ensure that they avoid duplication and contradictory action and that their efforts are based on reliable sources of information.”

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  18. “That fully applies to developing national action plans, which can be an effective tool for concerned States when they become involved in an armed conflict. Where my country is concerned, we are not about to start preparing this type of national plan. Instead, work is under way in Russia on a document of a different kind - the Russian Federation's national strategy for action for women 2017 -2022. Its key areas of focus include increasing women's participation in political life and the decision-making process; improving their economic situation, including promoting entrepreneurship for women; creating conditions conducive to better women's health; preventing violence and protecting women from it; and overcoming stereotypes about men's and women's social roles.”

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  19. “In the years since the adoption of resolution 1325 (2000), much has been done to turn its provisions into concrete action aimed at improving the protection of women in armed conflicts and ensuring their full and effective participation in efforts to prevent and resolve conflicts. The women and peace and security agenda has had increasing attention both from the Security Council and the United Nations system in general, as the Secretary-General's latest report (S/2016/822) testifies. While it is vital to ensure that the work begun continues, it is important to ensure that in developing complex approaches we do not end up neglecting the specifics of a given situation, and that the inclusion of gender perspectives in that work does not become an end in itself. The best results come when we avoid grandstanding and focus on specific returns.”

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  20. “Sixteen years ago, our delegation wholeheartedly supported the Security Council's consideration of this agenda item. As Mr. Sergey Lavrov, the then Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations, noted at the Council's first meeting on the subject, women "are an enormous strength and can provide invaluable assistance in reconciling belligerents and tending the wounds of war" (S/PV4208, p. 21). The annual debate in the Council always evokes great interest among delegations and presents a good opportunity for analysing progress in achieving the goals that have been set and how to increase the effectiveness of our efforts.”

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  21. “I shall now make a statement in my national capacity. Next year my country - and, we believe, others far from its borders - will mark the centenary of an event that has left a deep imprint on world history, the October Revolution. As we look back on it today, our assessments of its impact may be mixed, but one is indisputable - it enshrined the full equality for women in our country that has become firmly established on the global socioeconomic and political agenda. In a certain sense, the work the Security Council has been doing in the past 16 years is a continuation of that process, begun a century ago. Since 2000, the Security Council has traditionally held an open debate on women and peace and security in the month of October.”

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  22. “I wish to also draw the attention of Council members to document S/2016/87l, which contains the text of a letter dated 14 October 2016 from the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary- General, transmitting a concept paper on the item under consideration. I wish to warmly welcome His Excellency Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, to whom I now give the floor.”

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  23. “Paul Bekkers, Director of the Office of the Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe; and Mrs. Louise Sharene Bailey, Charge' d'Affaires of the Permanent Observer Mission of the African Union to the United Nations. I propose that the Council invite the Permanent Observer of the Observer State of the Holy See to the United Nations to participate in the meeting, in accordance with the provisional rules of procedure and the previous practice in this regard. There being no objection, it is so decided. The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. I wish to draw the attention of Council members to document 8/2016/822, which contains the report of the Secretary-General on women and peace and security.”

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  24. “In accordance with rule 39 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite the following briefers to participate in this meeting: Ms. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of the United NationsEntityforGenderEqualityandtheEmpowerment of Women; and Ms. Rita Lopidia, Executive Director and co-founder of the EVE Organization for Women Development, South Sudan, on behalf of the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security. In accordance with rule 39 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I also invite the following to participate in this meeting: Ms. Mara Marinaki, Principal Adviser on Gender of the European External Action Service of the European Union; Ms. Marriet Schuurman, NATO Secretary General's Special Representative for Women, Peace and Security; Mr.”

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  25. “In accordance with rule 37 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite the representatives Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belgium, Botswana, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, the Czech Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Estonia, Ethiopia, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Guatemala, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iraq, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Mexico, Morocco, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, the Republic of Korea, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uganda, the United Arab Emirates and Viet Nam to participate in this meeting.”

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