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  1. “Similarly, we are developing our thinking with regard to supporting the United Nations with rapidly deployable civilian instruments. In conclusion, the Council may ask: will these arrangements come at the expense of traditional contributions by European Union member States to United Nations-led operations? Let me recall the long- standing and distinguished record of European service under United Nations command and the firm intention to continue that tradition. But, with continuing low and stagnant defence budgets, the number of deployable, usable military forces and police ready for crisis- management duties is still too limited given the steadily increasing demand. That is a problem that all of us - the United Nations and organizations supporting the United Nations in crisis management - are grappling with.”

    2004-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5007 (2004) · source

  2. “Building on the Joint Declaration on United Nations-EU cooperation In Crisis Management, of 24 September 2003, four priority areas have been identified: planning, lessons learned, training and exercises, and communication. The conceptual thinking behind our cooperation with the United Nations is also evolving. The European Council recently endorsed proposals for broadening EU support for the United Nations in conducting crisis management operations. Arrangements - which have been the subject of consultation with DPKO - include the availability of rapid-response battle group units and concepts such as the EU establishing a clearing house mechanism to assist force generation or bridging operations in support of United Nations operations.”

    2004-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5007 (2004) · source

  3. “For example, work is in hand with a view to developing a coherent and comprehensive EU response to peace-building in Africa and support for the development of African capabilities in order to better allow the African Union and subregional organizations to deal with conflict on the continent. Central to that is the principle of African ownership. In that context, I should mention the support that the EU, together with the United States, provides to the African Union-led ceasefire monitoring mission in Darfur. I should now like to say a few words on our cooperation with the United Nations. Cooperation with the United Nations is essential, and we are developing a structured dialogue based on the direct exchange of information and frequent contacts at the political and working levels.”

    2004-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5007 (2004) · source

  4. “We need the political will and the flexible mechanisms to reach decisions quickly; we need to be prepared to use diplomatic instruments in support of military action; we should use the Community Rapid Reaction Mechanism for immediate relief of the population and for rehabilitation; and we must use civilian crisis-management instruments to help train and equip the local police. But, above all, we saw the need to further develop our arrangements for early warning and cooperation in peacekeeping with the United Nations, including the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO). But we also concluded that the Union is not to intervene in every potential crisis area.”

    2004-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5007 (2004) · source

  5. “I should now like to refer briefly to the current operational engagement of the European Union in stabilization processes. We are currently running three operations - all of them civilian - in the Balkans and in Georgia, and we are now well advanced in preparing to take over responsibilities for implementing the Dayton provisions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as recently recognized by the Council in resolution 1551 (2004). Last year, at the request of the Secretary-General, we conducted an autonomous military operation called Operation Artemis, intervening in a timely manner in the area of Bunia in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The lessons we drew from that operation are the following.”

    2004-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5007 (2004) · source

  6. “The Strategy also reflects a clear European consensus that military power is to be seen as one means among others, to be used on the international scene: neither the only one nor the first. As the document says, "none of the new threats is purely military; nor can any be tackled by purely military means". Accordingly, the Union is uniquely encompassing a complete set of instruments for international crisis management. The political solution of regional crises, development aid and support for democratic forces in all crises form part of the wide range of instruments that, together with the means for applying coercion by force, are available. And civil instruments such as police and expertise in the rule of law, civil administration and civil protection are key elements in the post-conflict stabilization phase.”

    2004-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5007 (2004) · source

  7. “The European Union is strongly committed to enhancing dialogue with all actors involved in conflict prevention through more structured dialogue and closer joint work in addressing security challenges. The second pillar on which our security strategy rests is effective multilateralism. Europe's security will depend more - not less - on an effective multilateral system, on a rule-based international order and on well-functioning international institutions. Those are the refuge not of the weak, but of the wise. Acting collectively before crises erupt, supporting the central role of the Security Council and defending and developing international law are principles that from the outset have underpinned the Union's external actions and that are now more formally laid down in the European Security Strategy.”

    2004-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5007 (2004) · source

  8. “That requires a strategic culture that fosters early, rapid and, when necessary, robust intervention. It is to be hoped that we have learned lessons from the past, when inaction bred further violence. The EU wants to become more active and more effective in conflict prevention. That is why Javier Solana is now in the Middle East to provide a European contribution, to facilitate and to help contain the violence and tensions that have once again unfolded as part of the Palestinian conflict. Permit me to recall the efforts of your own country, Mr. President, as Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in the person of Foreign Minister Geoana, in preventive engagement, together with NATO and the European Union, in the Balkans in 2001.”

    2004-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5007 (2004) · source

  9. “Mr. Feith: Let me first mention the overall context in which the European Union wishes to operate in the stabilization processes: the European security strategy. That strategy was born when Europeans acknowledged that we are more capable and more effective when we have a common perception of the threats and risks and of how to deal with them. That is true not only for Europe, but also for the international community as a whole. Threats and risks are never more dangerous than when the international community is divided. Europe's security strategy rests mainly on two pillars: preventive engagement and effective multilateralism. Let me start with preventive engagement, which is at the heart of our approach. Today's threats are dynamic: left alone, they will grow. We need to be able to act at the first signs of trouble.”

    2004-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5007 (2004) · source