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2004-10-19
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2005-10-27
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  1. “The return of peace, following recent conflicts in Bougainville and the Solomon Islands, owes much to the role of women in the affected areas. We acknowledge the efforts of those incredible women today, and we urge the Security Council to respect them by taking further action on this issue in the United Nations.”

    2005-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5294Resumption1 (2005) · source

  2. “We wish to see greater participation by women in peacekeeping missions and increased accountability for the implementation of gender mainstreaming in the United Nations as a whole. The Pacific Islands Forum leaders welcomed the agreement reached at the world summit to establish a Peacebuilding Commission. It is a matter of highest priority to us that this new body should support and promote the protection and promotion of the rights of women and build on international work relating to women, peace and security. We urge Security Council members to ensure that a gender perspective is mainstreamed throughout the operations of the Commission. The experience of Pacific Islands Forum countries in peacebuilding efforts in our own region makes this an issue of particular resonance for us.”

    2005-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5294Resumption1 (2005) · source

  3. “We hope to see more women appointed to senior positions in peace operations in the future, and to see Security Council support for such progress. Secondly, the Security Council must act to protect the most vulnerable. Special attention must be paid to the specific protection needs of women and girls to prevent gender-based violence, particularly rape and other forms of sexual abuse, in situations of armed conflict. Thirdly, the Security Council must call for the prosecution of those who commit crimes against humanity, genocide and war crimes, including crimes involving sexual and other violence against women and girls. There can be no impunity for such crimes. Lastly, United Nations peace operations must lead by example.”

    2005-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5294Resumption1 (2005) · source

  4. “Today, we would like to express our full and continuing support for the implementation of Security Council resolution 1325 (2000), which remains the most important and comprehensive framework for action at the international level. We welcome the report of the Secretary-General on women and peace and security. We urge the Security Council to continue to intensify its efforts to mainstream issues on women, peace and security into its work. We wish briefly to highlight the most important steps that now need to be taken on the basis of the Secretary-General's report. First, there is a clear need for increased representation of women at all levels of decision- making in conflict prevention, management and resolution.”

    2005-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5294Resumption1 (2005) · source

  5. “I am honoured to address the Security Council on the question of women, peace and security. In doing so, I speak on behalf of the Pacific Islands Forum member States with Permanent Missions in New York - namely, Australia, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Nauru, New Zealand, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and my own country, Samoa. This year marks the fifth anniversary of Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) on women and peace and security. It is now a matter of international consensus that the role of women is fundamental to the maintenance of international peace and security. At the 2005 world summit, our leaders reaffirmed this understanding.”

    2005-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5294Resumption1 (2005) · source

  6. “In that regard, the work of all three Committees is critically important, and we look forward to deepening our relationship with the Security Council on these issues over the coming months.”

    2005-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5293 (2005) · source

  7. “While we understand the importance of dialogue between the Security Council and individual Member States, we would urge the Council to be constructive in its approach and to establish a two-way dialogue with us to work out a practical and sustainable solution to this challenge. Countries of our region are doing what we can to meet reporting requirements. For example, a number of Forum member countries have accepted New Zealand's offer to work with individual Pacific island Governments to assist them in preparing outstanding Security Council reports. In closing, I would like to take this opportunity to underscore once again that the Pacific Islands Forum group remains fully committed to the collective fight against international terrorism.”

    2005-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5293 (2005) · source

  8. “We also hope that experts from the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate and the 1267 and 1540 Committee expert groups could attend. We strongly encourage the CTC Chair to give positive consideration to this invitation. On the specific challenge of reporting obligations under the three resolutions, I would like to note that, in the past, we have suggested that a collective Pacific regional report to each Committee, submitted by the Pacific Islands Forum secretariat, would alleviate some of the pressures faced by member countries in meeting the reporting requirements.”

    2005-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5293 (2005) · source

  9. “To this end, the Pacific Islands Forum member countries have extended an invitation to the Chair of the Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) to attend next year's meeting of our Working Group on Counter- Terrorism. This Working Group represents the one occasion annually that senior officials from all Pacific Islands Forum member and observer countries, as well as the relevant regional organizations, come together specifically to discuss international counter-terrorism issues. As such, acceptance of the invitation to next year's Working Group Meeting would provide an excellent and timely opportunity for Pacific Island officials to engage directly with the CTC Chair to discuss the region's security challenges and its role in international counter-terrorism efforts, including meeting the obligations of Security Council resolution 1373 (2001).”

    2005-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5293 (2005) · source

  10. “To be frank, this is a source of frustration for many Pacific Island Forum countries. Our Governments are strongly of the View that it is important that Pacific Island Forum member countries should be able to engage at the senior level on international counter-terrorism standards and the standard-setting process with the bodies that set and administer those standards. This message was clearly conveyed once again at a Pacific Forum-wide Working Group on Counter-Terrorism held this past June. In particular, the obligations established by Security Council resolution 1373 (2001) are proving to be a considerable challenge to our region.”

    2005-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5293 (2005) · source

  11. “Fulfilling counter-terrorism commitments results in the diversion of scarce financial and other resources that would otherwise be used for development and challenges, such as poverty eradication efforts and the fight against HIV/AIDS, among other things. A further challenge has been the sheer volume of new international counter-terrorism and non- proliferation standards introduced since 9/11. Keeping informed of new standards is difficult enough. It is even more difficult for many of us to meet often onerous reporting requirements. More often than not, new standards are introduced with very little consultation or opportunities for us to provide input. As a result, they seldom reflect, or make allowances for, the challenges many of us face in implementing them.”

    2005-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5293 (2005) · source

  12. “Our members are working together with regional organizations and donors on a range of initiatives to enhance our individual and joint counter-terrorism capabilities and to strengthen our trade, transport and border security infrastructures against possible attack or exploitation by terrorist groups. We have made some encouraging progress. That said, it is important that we remind Council members of some of the challenges the Pacific region faces in complying with the multitude of new requirements that have been introduced by the Security Council, particularly since 11 September 2001. First, I would like to emphasize that the majority of Pacific Islands Forum group members are small island developing States with limited resources and many pressing priorities.”

    2005-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5293 (2005) · source

  13. “The Bali bombings present a further stark reminder that international terrorism remains a fundamental threat to the safety and stability of the international community, a threat that must be overcome by a collective international response. I would like to take the opportunity to thank the Ambassadors of Argentina, Denmark and you, Mr. President, for the briefings today. We welcome the fact that the Committees have chosen to coordinate their briefings and hope this trend will continue. Pacific leaders made a commitment to meet international counter-terrorism obligations in their Nasonini Declaration of 2002, and our region remains fully committed to the international campaign against terrorism.”

    2005-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5293 (2005) · source

  14. “I have the honour to address the Security Council on behalf of the Pacific Islands Forum member States with Permanent Missions in New York - namely, Australia, the Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Palau, New Zealand, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu and my own country, Samoa. I would like, at the outset, to express our unequivocal condemnation of the recent terrorist bombings in Bali and convey our condolences and sincere sympathy to the Government of Indonesia and the families and friends of all those killed or injured in the attacks.”

    2005-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5293 (2005) · source

  15. “For example, we would encourage the CTC to consider whether a Pacific regional report, submitted by the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat on behalf of and in close cooperation with its member countries, might provide a possible option to assist those small island countries to meet their reporting obligations to the CTC. We live in a time when terrorism is a threat to us all. As we strive to meet that threat and as we work to implement the letter and spirit of resolution 1373 (2001), the Security Council and the Counter-Terrorism Committee can be assured of the continuing support of the members of the Pacific Islands Forum.”

    2004-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5059Resumption1 (2004) · source

  16. “As a result, such standards may not adequately reflect or make allowances for the challenges that many of us face in implementing them. Compliance with the raft of international counter-terrorism standards - particularly those introduced since 9/11 - has been challenging; meeting reporting requirements, including to the CTC, is equally so. It is not a lack of will, but more often a lack of resources and technical expertise, that prevents us from fulfilling our commitments. Thus we welcome and encourage consultation between Member States and the CTC that aims to extend assistance to small and developing States and that are focused on devising practical solutions to those challenges - solutions that help reduce the burden on smaller developing States but that will also ensure that the important CTC reporting requirements can be met.”

    2004-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5059Resumption1 (2004) · source

  17. “Those regional efforts underscore the willingness of Pacific Forum States to play a responsible and meaningful role in the global fight against terrorism. But for those initiatives, including the PTCCC, to be fully operationalized, financial and technical support will be required from the international community to complement the region's own resources. While Pacific Islands Forum members remain firmly committed to the international campaign against terrorism, I would like to emphasize that the Pacific Islands Forum group consists primarily of developing States, many of them small island States. We note that small developing countries do not always have opportunities to provide input into the process of developing international counter-terrorism standards.”

    2004-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5059Resumption1 (2004) · source

  18. “At the Pacific Islands Forum meeting in Samoa this year, leaders called for enhanced cooperation on counter-terrorism and endorsed a number of practical initiatives proposed by round-table participants. Those included establishment of a network of central contact points, a counter-terrorism working group in advance of the 2005 meeting of the Forum Regional Security Committee, further work on extradition and mutual legal assistance and coordination of views on the possibility of holding a regional counter-terrorism contingency planning exercise. Leaders also welcomed the establishment of the Pacific Transnational Crime Coordination Centre (PTCCC) in Suva, Fiji, which will harness and enhance the law enforcement intelligence generated by national transnational crime units.”

    2004-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5059Resumption1 (2004) · source

  19. “For Pacific Islands Forum members, the focus to date has been on cooperation to improve our capacity to meet international counter- terrorism obligations. Pacific Islands Forum members are continuing to cooperate bilaterally and regionally, in both political and technical spheres, to implement resolution 1373 (2001). Progress is being made. In May 2004, New Zealand hosted a Pacific round table on counter- terrorism. It brought officials from around the Forum region together to take stock of the range of current and imminent counter-terrorism obligations, canvass impediments to implementation by Pacific island countries and to review current and future capacity- building programmes.”

    2004-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5059Resumption1 (2004) · source

  20. “In our most recent statement on this issue in March 2004, we welcomed the report of the CTC on its revitalization and the establishment of the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), aimed at improving the ability of the CTC to monitor the implementation of resolution 1373 (2001). We look forward to cooperating closely with the CTED in identifying and providing the capacity-building needed most by small developing countries. Security Council resolution 1373 (2001) introduced important new multilateral counter- terrorism obligations. It set out clear requirements and called on States to implement specific measures to meet them and then to report back to the CTC on their actions taken in that regard.”

    2004-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5059Resumption1 (2004) · source

  21. “In the 2002 Nasonini Declaration on Regional Security, Pacific Forum leaders "underlined their commitment to the importance of global efforts to combat terrorism and to implement internationally agreed anti-terrorism measures, such as United Nations Security Council resolution 1373 (2001) and the Financial Action Task Force Special Recommendations". Subsequent communiques by Forum leaders have reiterated Forum members' commitment to combating terrorism. The Pacific Islands Forum continues to support the work of the Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) established under Security Council resolution 1373 (2001). We also welcome the recent adoption of resolution 1566 (2004), which further endorses the work of the United Nations committees responding to terrorism and establishes a working group to consider further measures which could be taken.”

    2004-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5059Resumption1 (2004) · source

  22. “Those attacks underline the fact that while terrorism may transcend national borders, its indiscriminate nature means that no people or country will ever be immune to the threat of terrorist violence. Terrorism is now more than ever a threat that must be confronted by a collective international response. It is clear that if we are to effectively eliminate this global threat, we must take action at the national, regional and international levels. Pacific Islands Forum members are committed, individually and collectively, to the international campaign against terrorism.”

    2004-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5059Resumption1 (2004) · source

  23. “It is my honour to address the Council on behalf of the members of the Pacific Islands Forum group of countries that maintain permanent missions in New York, namely Australia, the Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Palau, New Zealand, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu and my own country, Samoa. The countries of the Pacific Islands Forum group reaffirm our unequivocal condemnation of terrorism in all its forms and our continuing determination to fight it by all means possible, consistent with human rights and the rule of law. Recently we have witnessed once again the horror of terrorist atrocities - in Beslan, in Jakarta and elsewhere.”

    2004-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5059Resumption1 (2004) · source