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Elshandawily

lines on the record: 24
first: 2023-03-07
most recent: 2023-11-20
sittings or episodes: 4
sources: un-security-council

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“Seventh and lastly, it is important to consider the recommendations issued by the Secretary-General in the New Agenda for Peace, which call for establishing a new prevention system to combat all forms of violence, focus on mediation, promote social cohesion and strengthen the link between sustainable development and peace, while respecting all human rights, including civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. That would be accompanied with the establishment of a comprehensive vision for sustaining peace by identifying the reasons for wars and addressing them.”
2023-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9482 (2023) · source
“Fifth, we must address the challenges facing the African continent through a comprehensive approach that helps to meet the aspirations of the peoples in Africa, foremost among which is combating terrorism, eradicating its sources and cutting off its funding while confronting extremist ideologies. Sixth, we must pay greater attention to peacebuilding. We must provide the necessary funding for that as a prerequisite to ensure that our common efforts are successful. That would provide the minimum for establishing resilience in countries hosting peacekeeping operations.”
2023-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9482 (2023) · source
“That means that international institutions must help developing countries to confront crises and build their resilience in the face of international crises. We must also create innovative and effective financing tools, in addition to enhancing the effectiveness of current financing tools. Fourth, conflict, insecurity, weak institutions, limited access to justice — those factors all threaten sustainable developments. Therefore, we must support countries’ efforts to build their institutions and national capacities and strengthen the rules of good governance so that we can prevent conflicts and help to address their root causes. We must enable national authorities to identify, plan and implement their own national priorities in order to ensure security, stability and sustainable development.”
2023-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9482 (2023) · source
“What we are witnessing today, in particular in Africa, means that we must look at those countries in a different way that would allow for them to make development gains by strengthening investments in infrastructure and eradicating poverty. Genuine development and advancing people’s livelihoods are the best ways to eradicate conflicts in the region. Third, we need collective action to reform the global financial system and increase financing for development. That would meet the aspirations of a large number of developing countries to eradicate poverty, alleviate the burden of debt and reduce inequality based on the principles of common responsibility and burden-sharing. The best way to prevent conflicts is through comprehensive and sustainable development.”
2023-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9482 (2023) · source
“First, we must address the concept of development and achieving peace and security in a comprehensive manner as two sides of the same coin, particularly as a number of African countries continue to suffer from the scourge of terrorism and instability, in addition to other challenges linked to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Intensifying efforts towards sustaining peace could accelerate national reconciliation and achieve prosperity and welfare for peoples in a sustainable manner. Second, we must mobilize resources to create the conditions conducive to economic development, foreign investments and new job opportunities based on the principle of national ownership. National stakeholders must identify, plan and implement their priorities.”
2023-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9482 (2023) · source
“Consequently, we all must shoulder our responsibility to find practical solutions to establish permanent peace as the only way to overcome those complex and overlapping situations of unrest for different reasons, with their varying long-term consequences. The only way to prevent conflicts is by faithfully implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its objectives. A safe environment can contribute to achieving economic development and reducing social gaps. I would like to highlight the following points, which could represent a general framework for strengthening the mechanisms of sustainable peace through common development.”
2023-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9482 (2023) · source
“Mr. Elshandawily (Egypt) (spoke in Arabic): At the outset, I would like to congratulate China on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I also thank you, Mr. President, for holding this pivotal discussion on the promotion of sustaining peace through common development. Our world today is entering a new era of upheavals as we face various interlinked threats, challenges and risks. We are witnessing an increase in conflicts threatening international peace and development at the international level, resulting in food shortages, a rise in the price of energy and an increase in the poverty level as a result of the successive economic crises.”
2023-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9482 (2023) · source
“In that regard, I would like to recall the Egyptian initiative to utilize Egypt’s geographic location to establish a logistics centre for grains to address the challenges facing global food supply chains, especially in developing countries. In conclusion, we would like to stress the urgency of addressing the challenges posed by food security and its linkages to conflict through a comprehensive approach that, at its core, is aimed at achieving sustainable development for developing countries while ensuring their stability and prosperity.”
2023-08-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9392 (2023) · source
“Those figures provide clear proof of the negative impacts of water scarcity on peace and security, sustainable development and human rights. In that context, we urge the international community to address the needs of the most vulnerable water-scarce countries and to promote transboundary cooperation, in accordance with the applicable international law. Fourthly, food security and conflict must be addressed via a holistic and comprehensive approach that takes into consideration humanitarian and development factors. Immediate action must be taken to alleviate hunger while also implementing plans to assist developing countries, especially net food- importing developing countries, in achieving food security through sustainable agriculture.”
2023-08-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9392 (2023) · source
“Secondly, Egypt reaffirms that sustainable solutions to current global conflicts hinge on promoting the peaceful settlement of disputes; ensuring that all such efforts take into account the need to preserve the sovereignty and territorial integrity of States; and addressing the root causes of armed conflict, which includes promoting sustainable development. Thirdly, I would like to highlight that Egypt is the most densely populated water-scarce country in the world. Currently, water scarcity affects 2.5 billion people around the globe, and it is expected that climate change will place half of the world’s population under severe water stress by 2050. Moreover, water scarcity could displace 700 million people by 2030.”
2023-08-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9392 (2023) · source
“In view of the foregoing, we would like to highlight the following points. First, we underscore the importance of addressing the challenges facing countries affected by and emerging from conflict. Special attention must be paid to food security and to the provision of health care to the civilian population, based on the principles of international humanitarian law and in keeping with national sovereignty. Also, it is important to ensure that civilians in conflict areas have access to food aid and to protect them from the risk of famine, including, in that connection, by providing food to forcibly displaced persons.”
2023-08-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9392 (2023) · source
“The world is currently witnessing an unprecedented food insecurity crisis that is a result of our failure to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 2 to end hunger, exacerbated by the repercussions of the coronavirus disease pandemic and by conflicts. Failure to achieve food security and end hunger will pose a threat to the security and stability of countries and will further fuel ongoing conflicts. The challenges of achieving food security are further compounded by other factors, such as the ongoing impacts of climate, which, in turn, exacerbate risks related to energy production, food security, the availability of water and economic development. Water scarcity in several regions in the world, especially in Africa, has severe manifestations in agricultural activity and efforts to achieve food security.”
2023-08-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9392 (2023) · source
“Allow me at the outset to congratulate the United States of America on its assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of August 2023. I would also like to express our appreciation to the initiative of the United States to convene today’s high-level open debate. Egypt is fully cognizant of the severe impacts that hunger and the failure to achieve food security have on human livelihood, in addition to contributing to an increased risk of conflict, especially in economically vulnerable countries. We therefore stress the strong and deep links between food security, hunger and conflict.”
2023-08-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9392 (2023) · source
“In conclusion, Egypt reiterates its firm support for the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, especially their right to self-determination and to establish an independent State along the 4 June 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, in line with the resolutions of international legitimacy, international law and the Arab Peace Initiative.”
2023-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9387Resumption1 (2023) · source
“I want to note that Egypt welcomes the decision of our sister nation of Jordan to convene a ministerial conference on 21 September, on the sidelines of the General Assembly at its seventy-eighth session, to garner the political and financial support needed for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, given the unprecedented deficit that the Agency is facing this year, with a view to ensuring that its operational activities can continue and to strengthening regional security and stability.”
2023-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9387Resumption1 (2023) · source
“How much longer will the Security Council remain unable to provide international protection for the Palestinian people, despite the fact that we are seeing civilians targeted on a daily basis by the occupying forces and the settlers? Any discussion on meaningful reform of the Council should include the issue that is the most obvious of all, that is, ensuring respect for the Council’s resolutions, which represent the will of the international community. Egypt has made it clear that the Palestinian question is the core issue for the Arab nation and that achieving peace and security in the Middle East will remain impossible if the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people and the liberation of the occupied Arab land in the Syrian Golan and southern Lebanon are not achieved.”
2023-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9387Resumption1 (2023) · source
“Israel’s attempts to seize land with a view to installing wind turbines to generate electricity are in violation of the relevant United Nations resolutions and international law requiring the occupying forces to refrain from changing the situation on the ground. Through its adoption of resolution 77/23, the General Assembly recently commemorated the 1948 Nakba, which remains the crux of the continuing legitimate question as to how much longer the Palestinian people must continue to suffer. How much longer must the non-compliance with United Nations and Security Council resolutions on the Palestinian question and the Arab territory that has been occupied since 1967 in the Syrian Golan and in southern Lebanon continue?”
2023-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9387Resumption1 (2023) · source
“The violence against civilians has been condemned by members at a number of Council meetings in the past few weeks, echoing the position of Egypt and other countries and emphasizing the dangerous consequences of Israel’s continued violations through its settlement expansion, demolition of Palestinian homes and facilities, incursions into Palestinian cities and killing of unarmed civilians by Israeli occupation forces and settlers, including children, as well as its violation of the status quo at the holy sites in East Jerusalem under Jordan’s custodianship. As for the occupied Syrian Golan, the situation there is no better.”
2023-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9387Resumption1 (2023) · source
“There can be no question that every member of the Security Council is fully aware of the regrettable developments in the occupied Palestinian territories over the past few weeks, particularly the Israeli occupation forces’ incursion into the city and refugee camp of Jenin, which resulted in the martyrdom of some Palestinians and injuries to scores of others, despite the efforts that Egypt and many other regional and international actors have been making to contain the escalating violence in the occupied Palestinian territory. Egypt has repeatedly warned that Israel’s ongoing unilateral measures would undermine those efforts to improve the conditions on the ground, based on the progress that was made at the Al-Aqaba and Sharm El-Sheikh meetings held in February and March, in which both Palestinian and Israeli representatives participated.”
2023-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9387Resumption1 (2023) · source
“Mr. Elshandawily (Egypt) (spoke in Arabic): At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on the United Kingdom’s assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I would also like to thank Mr. Khiari for his briefing. Egypt aligns itself with the statement made by the representative of Bangladesh, on behalf of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and the statements to be made by the representatives of Yemen, on behalf of the Group of Arab States, and Azerbaijan, on behalf of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries.”
2023-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9387Resumption1 (2023) · source
“Let me conclude by stressing that investing in women’s capabilities, resilience and leadership is the only way we can preserve a healthy and coherent society working to achieve sustainable peace.”
2023-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9276Resumption1 (2023) · source
“The President of the Arab Republic of Egypt was one of the first leaders to join the Circle of Leadership initiative to prevent sexual exploitation and abuse in United Nations operations. Raising awareness against sexual exploitation and abuse is an integral part of the comprehensive training that Egyptian forces receive prior to their deployment in peacekeeping operations. Respect for national ownership and a full consideration of the cultural and societal specificities of different countries in armed conflict or emerging from it are keys to the success of our collective efforts to advance the implementation of the women and peace and security agenda.”
2023-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9276Resumption1 (2023) · source
“Egypt will always stress the importance of advancing the women and peace and security agenda from a holistic approach that aligns efforts across the peace continuum so as to enhance their effectiveness and impact. That is very relevant to our peacemaking, peacekeeping and peacebuilding efforts. In that regard, Egypt takes great pride in its championing of the General Assembly’s resolutions on United Nations action on sexual exploitation and abuse adopted since the Assembly’s seventy-first session, the latest of which is resolution 76/303, adopted in September. The resolution promotes a system-wide approach to implementing the zero-tolerance policy aimed at eliminating such heinous acts.”
2023-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9276Resumption1 (2023) · source
“At the outset, I would like to thank Mozambique for organizing today’s open debate ahead of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the adoption of the landmark resolution 1325 (2000), on women and peace and security. I would also like to thank all the briefers who spoke this morning. We are proud that this open debate is being organized under an African presidency. It is always worth recalling the African role in bringing the women and peace and security agenda to the attention of the Security Council. Egypt commends every African effort aimed at fully implementing the women and peace and security agenda in Africa. Women’s participation in decision-making at all levels will always remain at the core of our discussions in our quest to achieve sustainable peace.”
2023-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9276Resumption1 (2023) · source