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2014-08-21
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  1. “However, that should also prompt us to look ahead and convince us of the need to make every effort not to repeat past mistakes. Today we have available means that were inconceivable a century ago. It is up to the Council to use those tools by focusing on action, not only on reaction. Maintaining international peace and security also involves the more important aspect of conflict prevention.”

    2014-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7247 (2014) · source

  2. “Conflict prevention that is worthy of that name cannot ignore the cyclical nature of conflicts related to the root causes that trigger and maintain tensions - poverty, discrimination, a lack ofthe rule of law, and impunity, to name but a few. The Peacebuilding Commission, established nearly 10 years ago under the auspices of the Security Council and the General Assembly, has an important role to play in preventing a relapse into a situation of conflict and in supporting countries emerging from conflict towards sustainable peace. It is another significant tool in the prevention architecture. In this year of commemoration of the centenary of the Great War, it is natural that we consider the causes of past conflicts.”

    2014-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7247 (2014) · source

  3. “The Special Advisers on the Prevention of Genocide and on the Responsibility to Protect fulfil that role for the Secretary-General, but also for the Security Council and the international community as a whole. The Council would benefit from inviting them more often to report on their work. By Virtue of the provisions of the Charter, the Secretary-General likewise can contribute to conflict prevention, in particular by drawing the Council's attention to any matter that could jeopardize international peace and security. That prerogative, which is granted him by Article 99 of the Charter, allows him particularly to broaden the horizon of the Council. We strongly encourage the Secretary-General to continue to employ that important tool.”

    2014-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7247 (2014) · source

  4. “We welcome it not only because it places the question of human rights at the heart of the activities of the United Nations system, but also because its goal is to better inform Member States about populations that are suffering serious human rights violations or violations of international humanitarian law, or are at risk for that, and thus to contribute actively to the conflict-prevention effort. The Secretary-General's Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide and the Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect also have a crucial role to play in that context. The very notion of the responsibility to protect, as defined in the 2005 World Summit Outcome (General Assembly resolution 60/1), is inseparable from the setting up of an early-warning mechanism.”

    2014-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7247 (2014) · source

  5. “We welcome the fact that, with today's resolution, the Council has committed itself to making better use of them. But we must also look beyond current conflicts, beyond those already on the Security Council's agenda, to recognize the signs that alert us to emerging ones, keeping in mind that prevention is easier than cure. We know that most conflicts are preceded by a significant degradation of the human rights situation. The Secretary-General's Rights Up Front initiative belongs in that context, and we welcome it.”

    2014-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7247 (2014) · source

  6. “Training ourselves to recognize them, analyse them and understand them in order to take the most appropriate and effective measures to prevent a situation from degenerating into open conflict - that, in a few words, is the essence of conflict prevention. In reality, such an undertaking is complex and requires the coordinated implementation of many tools and multiple actors. Chapter VI of the Charter of the United Nations enumerates the tools that States and the Security Council can use to bring about the peaceful resolution of disputes. Those tools are well known and include, inter alia, negotiation, investigation, mediation, conciliation and arbitration. Those instruments have not always been fully utilized in the context of conflict prevention.”

    2014-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7247 (2014) · source

  7. “Yes, successive generations have been spared the scourge of worldwide war, but not the numerous conflicts that in many areas of the world continue to destroy the lives of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of men, women and children. With that in mind, it becomes all the more pressing to ask whether everything has really been put in place to prevent such conflicts. Today's open debate and resolution 2171 (2014), which we have just adopted, are therefore timely, and I would like to congratulate the United Kingdom for having taken this initiative. Even if we are sometimes caught off guard by the emergence of a crisis situation, no conflict arrives without warning signs.”

    2014-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7247 (2014) · source

  8. “Mr. Flies (Luxembourg) (spoke in French): I thank the Secretary-General for his presentation. Allow me also to take this opportunity to warmly thank the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Navi Pillay, for what is doubtless her last appearance before the Security Council. My delegation aligns itself with the statement to be made later by the observer of the European Union. Over the past few months we have witnessed one conflict after another, some more deadly than the others. Faced with the annihilation of so many human lives and such misery and suffering, there is reason to ask ourselves whether the solemn promise that accompanied the founding of the United Nations has been kept.”

    2014-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7247 (2014) · source