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2000-07-26
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2000-07-26
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  1. “As members are no doubt aware, the question of protection for and attention to children who are the victims of armed conflict will receive special attention when the Government of Jamaica hosts the Ministerial Meeting for the Americas later this year, in advance of the special session of the General Assembly on the achievement of the goals of the World Summit for Children, to be held in September 2001. Barbados will continue to play its part by participating fully in all efforts of the United Nations to promote respect for and adherence to international humanitarian law and human rights, and the recognition of the need to protect children and to respect their rights and freedoms.”

    2000-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4176Resumption1 (2000) · source

  2. “My delegation takes this opportunity to reiterate our support for the efforts of the United Nations Children's Fund, the Offices of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and civil society - including such organizations as the International Committee of the Red Cross - to promote conflict prevention, to alleviate the suffering of societies at war and to promote the reintegration and rehabilitation of children involved in armed conflict.”

    2000-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4176Resumption1 (2000) · source

  3. “Thanks to his efforts, the Ministerial Negotiating Conference of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Countries (ACP) incorporated his proposals for protection of children into the European Union-ACP Partnership Agreement, which was recently signed in Benin. Barbados also wishes to express its commitment to the resolution adopted by the General Assembly of the Organization of American States last month on children and armed conflict. That resolution calls on all parties to armed conflict to respect international humanitarian law relevant to children and urges member States to support efforts to demobilize, reintegrate and rehabilitate children affected by armed conflict.”

    2000-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4176Resumption1 (2000) · source

  4. “As a contributing country to United Nations peacekeeping missions, Barbados pledges its support for the measures established by the United Nations to enforce standards which will instil respect of and adherence to international humanitarian law, in particular the decision to investigate thoroughly and prosecute any violations by its personnel, in violation of international humanitarian and human rights law while in the service of the United Nations. My delegation also wishes to associate itself with the proposals made by the Secretary-General for integrating the protection of children into United Nations peacekeeping operations. Barbados wishes to recognize the efforts of the Secretary-General's Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Mr. Olara Otunnu.”

    2000-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4176Resumption1 (2000) · source

  5. “Barbados wishes to place on record its satisfaction at the fact that the General Assembly was finally able to adopt, on 25 May of this year, the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict. Similarly, we strenuously support the call made by the Secretary-General in his report for the international community to speak with one voice in insisting that 18 be the minimum age for participation in conflict whether in armed forces or armed groups.”

    2000-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4176Resumption1 (2000) · source

  6. “Although the Caribbean area is free from landmines, it is no comfort to us that landmines kill or mutilate approximately 10,000 children yearly. Barbados, as a signatory to and major actor in the elaboration of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, feels compelled to assist in halting these tragic circumstances and the suffering and loss they engender. My delegation notes with some sadness the findings of the report of the April 2000 World Education Forum that the number and extent of conflicts in the last decade have constituted major obstacles to the goal of providing education for all by the year 2000.”

    2000-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4176Resumption1 (2000) · source

  7. “We are cognizant of the special vulnerability of children in times of conflict and of the need for special measures taking their peculiar concerns into consideration. It is the firm belief of the Government of Barbados that the United Nations should fulfil its role to prevent conflicts and not only to seek to mitigate them after they emerge. It is of grave concern to us that increasingly resources must be diverted from economic, social and infrastructural development to deal with conflicts and other crises of a humanitarian nature. Out of respect for these very principles, the Government of Barbados signed the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction in December 1997.”

    2000-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4176Resumption1 (2000) · source

  8. “It speaks to the irreparable damage to the psyche of these children, to the point that they may also, in later life, repeat the atrocities to which they have been subjected. My delegation is determined that children around the world, like the children of Barbados, should enjoy the simplicity of childhood without the terror so many have sadly come to know. For this very reason, the Government of Barbados supported the establishment of the International Criminal Court as a mechanism through which children can be protected from armed conflict. As a small island developing State with few natural resources other than its human resources, Barbados is dependent on its reputation for political stability, prudent economic management and social integrity, and gives priority to questions of human rights and social justice.”

    2000-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4176Resumption1 (2000) · source

  9. “Barbados has managed successfully to escape the ravages of war and civil strife that have afflicted and continue to destroy the societies of many of the States Members of the United Nations. Barbadian children have had the advantage of growing up in an environment of peace, political stability and relative prosperity. Our children have not had to endure the horror of being forced into warfare, the physical atrocities inflicted by landmines or the social and psychological disaffection routinely experienced by children in war-torn countries. The question of children and armed conflict extends beyond guaranteeing the physical safety and human rights of the future citizens of the world.”

    2000-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4176Resumption1 (2000) · source

  10. “My delegation welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the debate on children and armed conflict within the context of efforts to promote a new international humanitarian order. We are particularly gratified at this opportunity to speak in this forum, and we look forward to more debates on other issues of mutual concern within the framework of the Security Council. It is an honour for my delegation to address the Security Council under the chairmanship of Jamaica, a sister country of the Caribbean Community. This is not the first time that Jamaica has carried the baton so capably for the Caribbean and Latin American region, and indeed the countries of the South, and it will certainly not be the last.”

    2000-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4176Resumption1 (2000) · source