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  1. “Finally, my delegation would like to reaffirm our support for international efforts at post-conflict peacebuilding. We also reiterate our emphasis on the central role of the Peacebuilding Commission in providing the United Nations with policy guidance and strategies in its post-conflict peacebuilding activities.”

    2008-05-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5895 (2008) · source

  2. “Equally essential is the synergy between the Peacebuilding Commission, the General Assembly - including the Fifth Committee and the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations - and the Economic and Social Council. It is particularly important to bridge the issues of peacebuilding, political stability, socio-economic recovery and humanitarian concerns, which could lay the foundations for longer-term development activities. As stated by the Secretary-General in his remarks today, his Special Representatives play important roles in peace processes. They can play a coordinating role working with all relevant players in the overall efforts of the United Nations in a given country. They can also become focal points, both from a negotiation and mediation standpoint as well as from the administrative, financial and logistical ones.”

    2008-05-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5895 (2008) · source

  3. “It has been able to create linkages between political/security and financial/ development actors and has maintained medium-term political attention on countries emerging from conflict. Again, as has been eloquently explained by previous speakers, given the existence of so many competing institutions and resources, coordination is a major issue to be dealt with. We recognize the role that the Security Council can play in enhancing adequate coordination and division of labour at the level of United Nations organs. In our View, the Council can ensure the operational relevance of the advice of the Peacebuilding Commission, which remains essential for countries on the agenda of both bodies and for resolving the security-related aspects of peacebuilding.”

    2008-05-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5895 (2008) · source

  4. “All funding avenues must be explored and utilized. As helpful as they are, multi-donor trust funds cannot be the foundation for normal socio- economic activity, which requires self-sustaining avenues. The trap of debt and overly tight fiscal policies imposed by international institutions should also be avoided. Therefore, more efforts can and should be made to engage non-governmental resources and the private sector to fill the gaps. We would like to underscore the central role of the Peacebuilding Commission with regard to post- conflict peacebuilding within the United Nations system. Now in its third year, the Peacebuilding Commission is beginning to find its niche and demonstrate its added value.”

    2008-05-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5895 (2008) · source

  5. “The United Nations has deployed various peacekeeping operations with large numbers of troops in different countries with some degree of success. As indicated by the Secretary-General in his remarks, that has to be supported by civilian experts, including development specialists, judges, administrators and other relevant professionals. As the United Nations is currently over-stretched in terms of personnel available for peacekeeping and peacebuilding missions, enhancing and broadening the scope of international cooperation becomes critical. However, the challenge to international collaboration is how to provide a sizeable, swift and coordinated response to the demands of post-conflict peacebuilding. That brings me to the issue of funding, which is another critical element for successful post-conflict peacebuilding.”

    2008-05-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5895 (2008) · source

  6. “They must actively be involved in every step of the post-conflict peacebuilding process. Since post-conflict peacebuilding is a multifaceted process, we believe that it needs to be guided by a hierarchy of priorities established in response to the specific needs and political dynamics in the given recipient countries. Post-conflict peacebuilding plays a critical role in guiding countries in the fragile post-conflict phase out of an environment of conflict and into a more stable state. While its significance cannot be questioned, much remains to be done in order to improve its effectiveness. Rapid deployment is as important with regard to post-conflict peacebuilding as it is in peacekeeping operations.”

    2008-05-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5895 (2008) · source

  7. “That is an important phase not only for the country concerned but also for the Council, so that it can focus its work on more pressing issues, such as solving conflict and building peace in the Middle East, where violence long ago became a daily occurrence. It is indeed a tragedy that indiscriminate killings continue unabated in that part of the world. While we underline the importance of post- conflict peacebuilding, we are nevertheless of the view that such an effort cannot be perpetual. It must have its exit and it must eventually strengthen the independence and self-reliance of countries where post-conflict peacebuilding missions are deployed. With regard to the role of countries that are recipients of post-conflict peacebuilding efforts, my delegation attaches primary importance to national leadership and ownership of endeavours.”

    2008-05-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5895 (2008) · source

  8. “It is now an integral part of the efforts by the international community to bring durable peace to countries emerging from conflict. In a world where wars, famine and destruction are acutely prevalent, post-conflict peacebuilding is a commendable effort that deserves our utmost support. Many countries that are on the agenda of the Security Council have benefited from such efforts. Post-conflict peacebuilding has been instrumental in ensuring that peace becomes sustainable in those countries. Moreover, with the increasing significance of post-conflict peacebuilding efforts, there are currently high expectations to facilitate the expeditious graduation of current United Nations peacekeeping operations towards the post-conflict peacebuilding phase.”

    2008-05-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5895 (2008) · source

  9. “At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, for convening this thematic debate. Let me assure you of our utmost support for your stewardship in ensuring a productive outcome to this debate. I should also like to extend to you the personal greetings of Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda. I very much enjoyed your conversation with him on Myanmar a few days ago. As did the Minster of Defence of South Africa, my delegation would also like to associate itself with the statement to be made later by the representative of Jamaica, who will speak on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement. Since its introduction, in 1992, the concept of post-conflict peacebuilding has evolved and entered into the mainstream of various peace initiatives.”

    2008-05-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5895 (2008) · source

  10. “We are hopeful that that partnership can develop viable joint actions, not only to put an end to armed conflicts, which undermine the continent's peace, prosperity and security, but also to promote the sustainable development of its States.”

    2007-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5649 (2007) · source

  11. “Cooperation between the United Nations and regional organizations - particularly between the United Nations and the African Union - is a significant multilateral engagement that we must all continue to encourage and contribute to. We believe that regional organizations could play a bigger role in contributing to the maintenance of international peace and security in the pursuit of more acceptable and comprehensive solutions to conflicts in various regions. Indonesia wishes to reaffirm its support for the enhancement of cooperation between the United Nations and regional organizations, particularly the African Union, in whose region most of the conflicts have occurred.”

    2007-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5649 (2007) · source

  12. “We welcome the discussions between the African Union Peace Support Operations Division and the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO), which were held twice last year to identify specific areas in which the United Nations could respond to the capacity-building requirements of operationalizing the African Standby Force, for which a planned date of 2010 has been set. We believe that both of those discussions were of paramount importance in ensuring effective joint responses to security challenges in the continent, as well as in clarifying lingering issues as to how best cooperation can be organized and effected in both general and specific areas.”

    2007-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5649 (2007) · source

  13. “At the 2005 World Summit, Member States recognized the special needs of Africa and agreed to the development of a 10-year plan for capacity- building with the African Union. We are encouraged by the fact that, in November of last year, the Secretary- General of the United Nations and the Chairperson of the African Union signed a declaration entitled "Enhancing United Nations-African Union Cooperation: Framework for the Ten-Year Capacity- Building Programme for the African Union". My delegation would also like to express its pleasure at the joint African Union/United Nations action plan for United Nations assistance for African Union peacekeeping capacity-building.”

    2007-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5649 (2007) · source

  14. “It is the primary responsibility of the United Nations, as stipulated in its Charter, to maintain international peace and security. The United Nations must remain the centre for harmonizing the actions of nations in the attainment of peace and security, as you, Madam President, rightly stated during your opening remarks. In order to ensure close collaboration between the United Nations and regional organizations, it is important to ensure not only that there is a legal foundation for such cooperation - such as memorandums of understanding - but also that pertinent, mutually reinforcing structures exist within the two entities to maintain contacts. As regards cooperation between the United Nations and the African Union, my delegation is gratified that extensive work has already been done in this area.”

    2007-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5649 (2007) · source

  15. “A good example of that scenario is the takeover of the United Nations International Police Task Force by the EU Police Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Another scenario could be a subcontracting arrangement, by which the United Nations tasks a regional organization to do all or part of its work. That option is particularly relevant when the use of a regional organization to address threats to peace is considered more effective than direct involvement by the United Nations. Cooperation between the United Nations and regional organizations will be viable when it develops on the basis of equal partnership. Nevertheless, my delegation believes that regional arrangements should not, in any way or shape, substitute for the United Nations role in the maintenance of peace and security.”

    2007-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5649 (2007) · source

  16. “The EU has broadened its reach beyond Europe. It collaborated with ASEAN in deploying a monitoring mission in Aceh, Indonesia. That has become the first model for interregional cooperation in the South-East Asian region. There are three scenarios as to how the United Nations and regional organizations may be able to nurture their relationship with regard to conflict resolution. First, both entities may develop a joint mission deployed in different parts of the globe. Such a concerted venture requires complementarity of resources. Secondly, the United Nations could resume a mission previously under the auspices of a regional organization. That is what has been under discussion in the case of Somalia. Thirdly, regional organizations can take responsibility for the continuation of a United Nations-initiated peace mission.”

    2007-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5649 (2007) · source

  17. “As also stipulated in the Charter, regional organizations are encouraged to develop and play their role in the maintenance of international peace and security. Today, their vision is relevant, and its realization is visible. The contributions of regional organizations to the maintenance of peace and security and the promotion of economic and socio-political progress both within and outside their milieu are increasing. The EU's assumption of responsibility in the stabilization efforts in Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina has enabled the United Nations to use more of its resources to address threats to international peace and security in other regions. The African Union and some subregional arrangements have begun to play a similar role in response to various security challenges in the African continent.”

    2007-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5649 (2007) · source

  18. “Lastly, we are also currently becoming aware of the growing urgency of collaboration within the framework of multilateralism; regionalism. This manifests itself in particular in the relationship between the United Nations and various regional arrangements, a subject on which my delegation would like to dwell further. The drafters of the Charter were visionary about the regionalism that was yet to come and the importance of its relationship with the United Nations when they included Chapter VIII in the Charter. In our view, that Chapter reflects the sense of the authors' pragmatism concerning situations in which the United Nations would not always be able to achieve its objectives alone.”

    2007-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5649 (2007) · source

  19. “The ASEAN community ideal is developed on the basis of benchmarks embedded within its three pillars, namely, the ASEAN Security Community, the ASEAN Economic Community and the ASEAN Socio- cultural Community. Thirdly, there have been tremendous efforts recently to optimize mutual benefits through interregional partnerships. Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, for example, has facilitated cooperation between Asian nations and the Americas. We have the Asia-Europe Meeting - a bridge between Asians and Europeans. Between Asia and Africa, the long- established bridge of cooperation between the two continents has also been reinvigorated by the launch of the New Asian-African Strategic Partnership through an initiative co-sponsored by Indonesia and South Africa - your beloved country, Madam President.”

    2007-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5649 (2007) · source

  20. “The United Nations is central to contemporary multilateralism; since its inception, it has been working steadily and in a concerted manner to maintain international peace and security and to achieve international cooperation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural or humanitarian character. The second process is regionalism, which has been steadily proliferating, emerging as a force that reinvigorates the world's dynamics. In Europe, the European Union integrates Europeans into a deep sense of "we-ness". The transformation of the Organization of African Unity into the African Union marked a new departure towards a more integrated Africa. In our region, the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) is moving from a mere association towards a community with a deep sense of interdependence and unity.”

    2007-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5649 (2007) · source

  21. “Madam President, at the outset, on behalf of my delegation, I would like to express our appreciation to you for organizing this debate on the relationship between the United Nations and regional organizations, in particular the African Union (AU), in the maintenance of international peace and security. Coming so soon after the recent African Union summit meeting in Addis Ababa, this thematic debate, under the auspices of the delegation of a key member of the African Union, is a pertinent opportunity for us to re-examine this important subject. Present-day relations among nations feature four important processes that affect, in one way or another, the internal and external dynamics of every nation. The first is multilateralism.”

    2007-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5649 (2007) · source