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Enrique Manalo

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2020-08-06
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2020-11-03
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  1. “Perhaps it is time to render operationally coherent, given the twin challenges of COVID-19 and the climate crisis. In the light of the multidimensional risks to sustaining peace, global leadership and cooperation are needed more than ever to combat the biggest test that the world has faced since the Second World War.”

    2020-11-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1090 (2020) · source

  2. “On 14 May 2018, a Security Council presidential statement (S/PRST/2018/10) stressed that political solutions should guide the design and deployment of United Nations peacekeeping operations, which are the cornerstone of mandate implementation and remain key to reaching sustainable peace and security. In the fifth paragraph of that statement, the Council recognized “the need to weigh the full range of responses, when addressing a situation, which may endanger international peace and security, and to deploy United Nations peacekeeping missions and pursue peacebuilding efforts only as an accompaniment, not as an alternative, to a political strategy that addresses, among other elements, the root causes of conflict.” Despite overall support for that concept, Council members have struggled to make it operationally coherent.”

    2020-11-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1090 (2020) · source

  3. “The Department has proposed a major initiative — the Plant, Plant, Plant Program — aimed at ensuring food security, raising the productivity of our farmers and fisherfolk and pushing for higher growth and incomes in the agriculture sector. To bridge the gap between today’s crises and the future we want, we must address the vulnerabilities that COVID-19 and the climate crisis, inter alia, have exposed, by forming sound strategies with a clear political vision and integrated into a culture of accountability. What does that mean for the work of the Security Council?”

    2020-11-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1090 (2020) · source

  4. “Even in certain peaceful situations, food security has deteriorated as a result of economic slowdowns, threatening access to food for the poor. The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, altered environmental conditions and the associated spread of pests and diseases over the past 15 years are factors that contribute to vicious circles of poverty and hunger, particularly when exacerbated by fragile institutions, conflicts, violence and the widespread displacement of populations. In response, the Philippines Department of Agriculture has adopted a survive, reboot and grow approach, and is earnestly focused on enhancing food availability, accessibility, affordability, price stability and self-sufficiency.”

    2020-11-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1090 (2020) · source

  5. “Regarding the climate crisis and food security, the annual report of United Nations agencies The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World in 2017 and 2018 showed that conflict and climate variability and extremes undermine efforts to end hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition. In 2019, the report showed that economic slowdowns and downturns also undercut these efforts. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic and the unprecedented desert locust outbreaks in East Africa S/2020/1090 are obscuring economic prospects in ways no one could have anticipated. The situation may only get worse if we do not act urgently and take unprecedented action. Much recent food insecurity can be attributed to the greater number of conflicts, often exacerbated by climate-related shocks.”

    2020-11-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1090 (2020) · source

  6. “The ceasefire demonstrated the Philippine Government’s commitment to the swift and unimpeded provision of public health assistance, especially the safe movement of health-care workers, to stricken communities in dire need of immediate medical care. The impacts of COVID-19 are also disproportionately felt by vulnerable groups in conflict situations, especially women and migrant workers. Institutions accountable for protecting the human rights of women and girls before, during and after conflict situations and for preventing incidents of violence against women must therefore remain fully operational to ensure that gender-responsive, culture- and conflict-sensitive and peace-promoting approaches continue to be observed.”

    2020-11-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1090 (2020) · source

  7. “Recognizing the potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the work to achieve peace, President Rodrigo Roa Duterte declared a unilateral ceasefire with the Communist Party of the Philippines and its affiliates from 19 March to 15 April, days before the Secretary-General issued his appeal for a global ceasefire on 23 March. Recognizing that initiative, the Secretary-General said that “upholding these commitments will be crucial to enabling an effective response to, and recovery from, the COVID-19 crisis”, while encouraging “both sides to build on this momentum and translate these expressions of goodwill into a lasting political solution”.”

    2020-11-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1090 (2020) · source

  8. “Yet the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and the climate crisis, two of the main drivers of contemporary conflict and insecurities, are considered to be “developments in reverse,” undermining outcomes under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. These so-called drivers are context-specific and multidimensional, with direct, indirect and legacy effects on a broad range of important peace and development outcomes. Given the current realities, the Philippines submits the following views for today’s discourse. With regard to COVID-19, the pandemic has unleashed an unprecedented crisis that has exposed the fragility of societies, and in particular threatened the gains already achieved in finding just and lasting peace in conflict-affected areas.”

    2020-11-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1090 (2020) · source

  9. “The Philippines congratulates Saint Vincent and the Grenadines on its assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of November and welcomes today’s open debate on contemporary drivers of conflict and insecurity under the agenda item on peacebuilding and sustaining peace. According to pundits on international relations, since the end of the Cold War overall levels of conflict have been declining in view of countries’ increasing commitments to international norms for dispute settlement and economic interdependence, as well as declining trends in conflict triggers such as social exclusion and ethnic polarization.”

    2020-11-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1090 (2020) · source

  10. “Finally, the Philippines calls for global solidarity and partnerships that aim to build capacity-building, including in financial intelligence, to prevent and counter trafficking in persons, drug trafficking and trafficking of artefacts and cultural property.”

    2020-08-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/791 (2020) · source

  11. “Our Bangsamoro Organic Law, which gives autonomy to Muslim Mindanao, is intended to end the decades-long conflict that has been used by Abu Sayyaf and local terrorist groups as a freedom struggle. Equally important is focusing on the means that enable terrorist acts. Since money is the main driver of these linkages, identifying and curtailing sources of finance and tracking the flow are essential. Break the money flow and you break the terror-crime nexus. Our financial intelligence units therefore work with law enforcement and prosecution agencies and local government units. Addressing the role of information and communications technology and social media is another crucial aspect, as these facilitate the organization of operations and money flows.”

    2020-08-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/791 (2020) · source

  12. “In April 2020, we joined Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and INTERPOL in Operation Maharlika III, a series of simultaneous law enforcement and border control actions along known terrorist transit routes in South-East Asia that resulted in the arrests of both criminals and terrorists. The Comprehensive Plan of Action on Counter Terrorism of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations provides for the establishment of shared databases on terror-crime organizations to enable a joint risk and threat assessment. We are also participating in the United Nations Countering Terrorist Travel Programme, and have stressed the need for the Programme to focus as well on maritime border security. Beyond these, a comprehensive approach that strengthens community resilience is required.”

    2020-08-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/791 (2020) · source

  13. “In response to the recommendations of the Office of Counter-Terrorism and the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate, we have also strengthened our legal and criminal justice framework with the enactment of the 2020 Anti- Terrorism Act. This is in addition to already existing legislation that help address the linkages between terrorism and organized crime, particularly Republic Act No. 9160 or the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2001, as amended, and Republic Act No. 10168, or the Terrorism Financing Prevention and Suppression Act of 2012. Enhanced maritime cooperation and focus on border management and security to combat transnational crimes at sea is also needed. At the subregional level, we conduct joint maritime patrols with Malaysia and Indonesia.”

    2020-08-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/791 (2020) · source

  14. “Therefore, our anti-drug operations target the trade. Intelligence plays a crucial role in the campaign against drugs and promoting good governance. Hence, President Rodrigo Roa Duterte ordered the expansion of the National Intelligence Committee through Administrative Order 7 (2017) to include the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, the Office of Transport Security and the Philippine Coast Guard as members to ensure coverage of intelligence concerns. In addition, the Dangerous Drugs Board also crafted the National Anti-Drug Plan of Action on illegal drugs, which also helps to address the crime-terror nexus.”

    2020-08-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/791 (2020) · source

  15. “Narco-politicians supported the local terrorist groups with personnel, funds and firearms, which helped to sustain the siege that followed the Government’s counteroffensive. Intensive military and law enforcement operations allowed us to recapture Marawi in six months. The financing of terrorism through illicit drugs has been a persistent problem, particularly with the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army, collectively known as the Communist Terrorist Group. Drug trafficking offers a profitable illicit revenue stream. The drug trade weakens social resistance and corrupts a political response. Local terrorist group members are both narcotics distributors or dealers and consumers. Shabu is frequently used for recruitment and the shabu trade is primarily run by organized crime groups, including Hong Kong triads.”

    2020-08-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/791 (2020) · source

  16. “The coronavirus disease pandemic has not deterred or slowed down the activities of both terrorist and organized crime groups, and so we continue to be vigilant. As a country with over 36,000 kilometres of coastline, maritime security is of paramount importance to the Philippines. Its location makes it vulnerable to activities of international crime syndicates, including piracy, drug trafficking and human trafficking, activities whose profits have been known to finance terrorism. The Marawi siege of 2017 illustrated the symbiotic relationship between terrorism and the illegal drug trade. With drug money, terrorists gathered a motley assortment of well-armed extremists, criminals, mercenaries and foreign terrorist fighters to take control of Marawi.”

    2020-08-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/791 (2020) · source

  17. “The terror-crime nexus is well established in the Philippines. The Abu Sayyaf Group, the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, the Maute Group and Ansar Al-Khalifa — which have all declared allegiance to the Islamic State — fund their operations through criminal activities, mostly drug trafficking, kidnapping for ransom, extortion, arms smuggling, and assassinations. They initially cooperated with criminal organizations, but have since developed their own criminal networks which operate under the false rubric of freedom struggles. Organized criminal groups operate a robust shadow economy in the Philippines and launder criminal proceeds from drug and human trafficking, tax crimes and cybercrime. Groups affiliated with Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant also rely on that economy.”

    2020-08-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/791 (2020) · source