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Gaspar Martins

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first: 2002-04-23
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“The meeting focuses on the report of the Secretary- General on the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNIOGBIS) (S/201l/655), which has been presented by our friend and Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Joseph Mutaboba. I wish to highlight the issues related to security sector reform. Guinea-Bissau faces challenges in several areas, such as the need to subordinate military power to the civil authorities, the demobilization and reintegration of members of the armed forces and the struggle against impunity and drug trafficking. We should recognize the progress made in those areas in recent months and encourage the Government of Guinea-Bissau to intensify its efforts towards stability and development.”
2011-11-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6648 (2011) · source
“Mr. Gaspar Martins (Angola) (spoke in Portuguese; interpretation provided by the delegation): I address the Security Council on behalf of the member countries of the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries (CPLP): Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, Sao Tome and Principe, Timor- Leste and my country, Angola, which is the current President of the Community. I would like to pay tribute to Her Excellency Helena Embalo, Minister of Economy, Planning and Regional Integration of Guinea-Bissau. It is with great satisfaction that we participate in this important meeting of the Security Council, which has Brazil and Portugal as non-permanent members.”
2011-11-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6648 (2011) · source
“The international community as a whole has an obligation to women the world over, to ensure that their rights are protected and that their place in all aspects of the peace process is assured. It is their equal participation and their full involvement that will contribute to the effective maintenance and promotion of sustainable peace and security. While progress has been registered in the implementation of the resolution, greater coordinated efforts are required to achieve the goal of its full implementation. In that connection, SADC welcomes the Council's adoption this morning of the presidential statement (S/PRST/2011/20).”
2011-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6642 (2011) · source
“I would like to take this opportunity to stress that SADC attaches great importance to the creation of the new United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, UN-Women. We express our complete availability to work towards the success of that new entity. SADC believes that UN-Women can play a vital role in helping developing countries acquire the skills required to enhance meaningful participation in decision-making and peacebuilding processes. Support of women's education in that respect will be an important prerequisite to achieving that objective. In conclusion, I would like to reiterate SADC's solid commitment to the full and effective implementation of Security Council resolution 1325 (2000).”
2011-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6642 (2011) · source
“We are now witnessing positive results, especially in the creation of new business opportunities, expanded markets, new business connections and capacity- building for business women. SADC remains committed to efforts to promote the empowerment and advancement of women. However, despite some great steps towards that goal, women remain largely underrepresented in key decision-making structures and in peacemaking and peacebuilding processes. The region believes that, when given the opportunity, women will become active agents of change and play a critical role in the recovery and reintegration of families after conflict. Women are also instrumental in bringing about reconciliation and democracy in post-conflict societies. The recent award of the Nobel Peace Prize is a good example of that.”
2011-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6642 (2011) · source
“It is our collective view that all parties to armed conflict should respect the regional mechanisms and international laws applicable to the rights and protection of women and children. SADC has developed a strategy to address sexual violence against women and girls, particularly in conflict and post-conflict situations, as well as a framework for mainstreaming gender within the SADC peace and security architecture. SADC member States have made progress in mainstreaming gender initiatives, especially with regard to the training of trainers on gender-mainstreaming. In addition to that, SADC has initiated an advocacy strategy on informal cross-border trade, which provides a clear policy on areas of legislative action necessary for creating a favourable and enabling environment for women in trade, especially informal cross-border trade.”
2011-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6642 (2011) · source
“It is also necessary that we all make concerted efforts to fully realize the objectives of resolution 1325 (2000). Achieving gender equality and empowering women are two of the key principles that propelled the founding of SADC, as reflected in the SADC Treaty. The SADC Protocol on Gender and Development of 2008 put measures in place to ensure that women obtain equal representation and participation in all key decision-making positions by 2015. SADC is concerned about the widespread and systematic sexual violence to which women and girls continue to be subjected in conflict situations, and it condemns the use of sexual and gender-based violence against women and children.”
2011-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6642 (2011) · source
“Bachelet; the representative of the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security; the representative of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations; and Ambassador Kapambwe, President of the Economic and Social Council, for their briefings to the Council this morning. We also take this opportunity to thank the Secretary-General for his report (S/2011/598*). SADC is encouraged by the progress achieved so far in the implementation of resolution 1325 (2000). We feel that important groundwork has been laid for a long-term effort by the United Nations system towards the full implementation of that resolution. We welcome the increased political commitment to gender equality and women's empowerment in peace processes. It is important that we maintain the momentum to sustain the gains made to date.”
2011-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6642 (2011) · source
“I have the honour to address the Security Council on behalf of the States members of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), namely, Botswana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, the United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe and my own country, Angola. Allow me at the outset to commend you, Madam President, for including this very important topic in your agenda and highlighting it through this debate. We thank the Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), Ms.”
2011-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6642 (2011) · source
“We are clearly interested in seeing more progress in ensuring the protection of civilians in armed conflict. This open debate today seriously represents an important contribution towards this objective.”
2007-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5781Resumption1 (2007) · source
“The interest of the African continent in the issue vindicates the active role played by the African Group during the consultations on the issue with interested delegations. The Constitutive Act establishing the African Union stresses the responsibility of Member States to protect their citizens, while reserving to the African Union the right to intervene, including through multilateral military force, in respect of such grave circumstances as war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity, or situations that pose a serious threat to legitimate order to restore peace and security in a member State. Furthermore, the African Union recognizes military intervention as the last resort, stressing non-military measures such as dialogue for the peaceful resolution of conflicts as a means to the best solution of conflicts.”
2007-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5781Resumption1 (2007) · source
“Regarding sexual violence, Africa long ago took the lead in the condemnation of that dreadful practice by adopting, in Maputo in July 2003, a Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, in which African States committed themselves to "undertake to protect asylum seeking women, refugees, returnees and internally displaced persons, against all forms of violence, rape and other forms of sexual exploitation, and to ensure 07-60635 that such acts are considered war crimes, genocide and/or crimes against humanity and that their perpetrators are brought to justice before a competent criminal jurisdiction". We therefore welcome the important step taken by our Organization by the recent adoption of draft resolution A/C.3/62/L.16/Rev.2 on the elimination of rape and other forms of sexual violence.”
2007-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5781Resumption1 (2007) · source
“Concerning refugees, the African Group is of the opinion that more concrete proposals are needed regarding actions aimed at enhancing assistance to host countries and communities. The deaths of millions of civilians, whenever they occur, attacks against peacekeepers, sexual violence and other harmful conflict-related practices should be condemned. The African Group is fully supportive of ending impunity for those involved in atrocities against civilians.”
2007-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5781Resumption1 (2007) · source
“We welcome the recent report of the Secretary-General of 28 October, contained in document S/2007/643, which is more than eloquent on the current situation, including the nature of contemporary armed conflicts and the diversity of the actors involved. The report clarifies the increasing role played by peacekeeping operations and regional organizations in the protection of civilians, as well as the progress made in the fields of a normative framework and the fight against impunity through international justice. It is also our View that the Security Council should continue to consider the humanitarian impact of sanctions. In that regard, the recent report of the Secretary-General is unfortunately rather silent.”
2007-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5781Resumption1 (2007) · source
“The challenge remains the strengthening and coordination necessary to facilitate the implementation of the decisions taken in order to effectively protect civilians in accordance with the principle of the neutrality and impartiality of humanitarian assistance. We therefore welcome the efforts of the Secretary-General aimed at reinforcing the normative and operational framework for the protection of civilians. In that connection, we reiterate the importance of strengthening the role of the General Assembly as the organ which has the primary responsibility for providing policy guidance for United Nations humanitarian operations.”
2007-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5781Resumption1 (2007) · source
“It is our hope that the views of the Governments of the countries concerned will be taken into account in the search for feasible solutions, since the protection of their citizens is a prerogative of national Governments. Such traditional actors as the International Committee of the Red Cross and other non- governmental organizations, humanitarian agencies, and organizations such as the International Migration Organization have also made a valuable contribution to relief field activities. Important steps have thus been taken in the identification of the problems and the instruments to address them.”
2007-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5781Resumption1 (2007) · source
“The 2005 World Summit dedicated special importance to the protection of civilians, while the Security Council has adopted several presidential statements and resolutions, in particular resolutions 1674 (2006), 1265 (1999), 1296 (2000) and 1631 (2005). The process of United Nations reform has also produced bodies - the Peacebuilding Commission and the Human Rights Council - whose activities will also impact the lives of civilians in armed conflicts and post-conflict situations. The African Group also takes note of the concrete actions proposed by the Secretary-General, while awaiting the reaction of the Security Council to those concrete proposals.”
2007-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5781Resumption1 (2007) · source
“In fact, the humanitarian architecture of the United Nations has sufficiently improved through, inter alia, the role played by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and through the appointment by the Secretary-General of a Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, a Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities, and a Special Adviser on matters relating to the prevention and resolution of conflict. The Secretary-General has also issued specific reports on children in armed conflicts containing concrete proposals.”
2007-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5781Resumption1 (2007) · source
“On behalf of the African Group, I wish to start by commending you, Sir, for convening this important meeting dedicated to a 3 topic that constitutes one of the most challenging tasks of our time: the preservation of the life and dignity of millions of civilians affected by armed conflicts. Eight years after the issuance of the first report of the Secretary-General on the issue, our Organization has developed a deep understanding of the question, ranging from the identification of different features of temporary conflicts and the relevant international legal instruments to the necessary measures for the effective protection of civilians in armed conflicts.”
2007-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5781Resumption1 (2007) · source
“Before I conclude, let me reiterate the view that clearly there is added value in strengthened and coordinated action between the Security Council and the regional and subregional organizations. The maintenance of peace and security is clearly better served if this coordination becomes more real and action-oriented. This debate today represents an important contribution towards reaching this urgent goal.”
2007-11-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5776Resumption1 (2007) · source
“The United Nations peacebuilding architecture should also take into account the efforts of the African Union in the establishment of a peacebuilding regional mechanism. By creating the Organization of the African Unity - which later became the African Union - and by establishing subregional bodies, the African continent recognized very early the importance of those institutions and has spared no effort to preserve them. Those bodies are therefore pivotal partners for the United Nations. This partnership requires, inter alia, adequate structures in the United Nations Secretariat, a fluid communication channel and the enhancement of the role of the mechanisms established by the Security Council, including the Security 07-58467 Council's Ad Hoc Working Group on Conflict Prevention and Resolution in Africa.”
2007-11-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5776Resumption1 (2007) · source
“Important lessons should also be drawn with regard to the need for reducing the time between decision and implementation. Those two experiences will be decisive concerning the use of the model in future circumstances. Peacebuilding is also a question of great importance for the African continent, in view of the increasing number of countries in post-conflict situations. The experiences under way in Burundi and Sierra Leone point to the direction and to the need for strengthening the Peacebuilding Commission and the Peacebuilding Fund. One of the lessons drawn from the peacebuilding work in these countries and the presence of peacekeeping operations is the need to improve the United Nations peacebuilding architecture.”
2007-11-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5776Resumption1 (2007) · source
“While addressing the Fourth Committee, Under-Secretary-General Jean-Marie Guehenno of the DPKO recalled the work being developed by his Department in establishing the initial operating capabilities of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur. In this connection, the multidimensional presence in Chad and the Central African Republic - the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad - to be deployed by end of this year in close concert with the European Union would constitute a welcome development. It is our hope that those experiences will serve as catalysts for strategic partnerships with regional organizations in order to maximize their impact and increase the likelihood of successful peace and security outcomes.”
2007-11-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5776Resumption1 (2007) · source
“Africa has been the ground for useful experiences in peacekeeping, peacemaking and peacebuilding, including the deployment of United Nations peacekeeping operations, the deployment of multinational forces and the bluehelmeting of African regional and subregional forces such as in Burundi and C6te d'Ivoire. All those experiences have had an impact on the action of the United Nations, the reform of its bodies such as the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO), and the philosophy of the Organization in shaping a new vision of global security. 07-58467 The concept paper you have distributed, Mr. President, calls our attention to the important question of the innovative initiative consisting of a hybrid model being tested in Africa.”
2007-11-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5776Resumption1 (2007) · source
“We therefore welcome the steps taken towards the implementation of the 2005 World Summit Outcome decision on the 10-year process of sustained capacity- building support within the African Union strategic framework, as well as the reflection underway in the Department of Political Affairs on how to better liaise with the different regions, including by enhancing the presence of the United Nations on the ground through regional offices. Cooperation with local bodies, particularly in the field of police training for peacekeeping operations, should be stressed. In this connection, we reiterate our call to the donor community to assist the efforts under way on the continent. The initiative recently launched by Cameroon, the Ecole internationale des forces de securite to train police from African countries, is a good example.”
2007-11-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5776Resumption1 (2007) · source
“Both the Security Council and the African Union recognize the importance of having an effective system of coordination between the United Nations, the African Union and subregional organizations, such as the Economic Community of West African States, Economic Community of Central African States, the Southern African Development Community, Intergovernmental Authority on Development, the Central African Economic and Monetary Community, the East African Community, the Arab Maghreb Union and others.”
2007-11-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5776Resumption1 (2007) · source
“We fully share this vision of the situation, which now calls for concrete action in order to match the consensual recognition of the central role of regional and subregional organizations as instrumental mechanisms in the collective security system. Regarding the African continent, the Security Council has held special meetings and has adopted several presidential statements and resolutions, including recently holding a summit meeting dedicated to the African continent. The problems and possible solutions are therefore fully identified.”
2007-11-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5776Resumption1 (2007) · source
“I would like to congratulate the Indonesian presidency for convening this important meeting and welcome with appreciation the insightful concept paper (8/2007/640, annex) circulated prior to this meeting. Thank you, Mr. Minister, for coming all the way from Jakarta to chair this important meeting today. Your presence honours us and enhances the value of the deliberations of the Council on the role of regional organizations in the maintenance of international peace and security. As rightly mentioned in the concept paper, "Over the years, there has been a plethora of efforts in promotion of such an objective, including through the adoption of Security Council resolution 1631 (2005)" (ibid., para. 2).”
2007-11-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5776Resumption1 (2007) · source
“I trust that the Peacebuilding Commission will be a forum serving as a framework for this discussion, thus enriching the debate and the search for solutions to post-conflict situations. I wish to conclude with a word of thanks to the Slovak presidency for having included this theme on the Council's agenda this month. I trust that today's deliberations will not only help to highlight the importance of the topic of security sector reform for the international community, but also, and in particular, contribute to the search for solutions and to sustained engagement by the international community.”
2007-02-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5632 (2007) · source
“Recent experience in Haiti, Timor Leste, Guinea-Bissau and other countries has clearly demonstrated that, unless there is a sustainable and long-term engagement by the international community, there can be total disruption of fragile peace arrangements, representing a serious setback to international peace, which keeps the countries concerned on the agenda of this Council. All of these lessons should contribute to our discussion today. The experience accumulated by regional organizations on their own and through cooperation between these organizations and the United Nations on security sector reform in post- conflict situations clearly points to the need for strengthening relations between regional organizations and the United Nations system.”
2007-02-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5632 (2007) · source
“With regard to strengthening of the rule of law and the security sector in Burundi, Peacebuilding Commission members have agreed on the centrality of national efforts to strengthen the rule of law in consolidating peace, as well as the importance of completing disarmament, demobilization and reintegration, with particular emphasis on effective reintegration programmes and reform of the security sector. We are, therefore, faced with a challenging task. However, implementing security sector reform in post- conflict situations is only possible provided there is adequate support from the international community accompanied by responsible national ownership. This is a worthwhile investment by the international community.”
2007-02-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5632 (2007) · source
“Recognizing that effective peacebuilding requires meticulous reform of the security sector, the Peacebuilding Commission, in coordination with the Governments concerned, has spared no effort to address this question pertaining to the countries on its agenda - namely, Burundi and Sierra Leone - taking into account the specificities of each case. In Sierra Leone, Peacebuilding Commission members agreed on the need to continue the ongoing national efforts in the fields of justice and security sector reform, to strengthen the justice system and the fair administration of justice and to promote further sustained reform of the security sector, including the police and army.”
2007-02-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5632 (2007) · source
“I particularly salute the role played by the Security Council, as well as the visibility given to this important issue, particularly as concerns post-conflict situations. It is, therefore, my conviction that this Council will take advantage of the work done by other United Nations bodies on this question. Success in security sector reform is the key to success in any post- conflict situation. The work of the working group on security sector reform could, therefore, constitute one of the examples upon which we could build in our reflection today. On the other hand, the United Nations approach in the field of security sector reform should fully take into account the reform of the Organization currently under way, including the establishment of the Peacebuilding Commission, which constitutes an important framework for the same purpose.”
2007-02-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5632 (2007) · source
“It was also recognition of this fact that led former Secretary-General Kofl Arman to decide in 2006 on the establishment of a Security Sector Reform Working Group, incorporating the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations, the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The task assigned to the Working Group was to produce a policy outlining options for United Nations engagement in security sector reform within the context of peacebuilding efforts. The Working Group's composition is a clear recognition of the fact that no body of the United Nations can deal on its own with this question.”
2007-02-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5632 (2007) · source
“United Nations agencies, programmes and departments have also been involved in concrete actions on the ground or have developed important knowledge based on different aspects of the security sector. I am equally pleased at the attention devoted to this question by Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon at the very start of his mandate by calling on the Congolese authorities to focus on security sector reform in his recent visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. His presence here this morning is testimony to his concern.”
2007-02-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5632 (2007) · source
“Although it is generally admitted that reform of the security sector is a field in which the United Nations still needs to develop capacities and coordination, it is also important to note that this Organization has accumulated valuable experience through its Department of Peacekeeping Operations and that the Security Council has dedicated particular attention to this question. The debate in the General Assembly on the report of the United Nations Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations and the experience of the Economic and Social Council Ad Hoc Working Groups on countries emerging from conflicts have also produced valuable ideas on this issue.”
2007-02-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5632 (2007) · source
“The security sector includes all those organizations that have the authority to use, or to order the use of, force or the threat of force to protect the State and its citizens, as well as those civil structures that are responsible for their management and oversight. Given the complexity of the security sector, a comprehensive and coordinate approach is required in dealing with its problems, especially its reform. The Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Jean-Marie Guehenno stated, while addressing the Fourth Committee in October of last year, that sustainable security sector reform required many international actors, that United Nations peacekeepers were only one of the elements in the picture and that Member States, multilateral actors and international financial institutions were equally crucial.”
2007-02-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5632 (2007) · source
“It is my hope that the proposals to be made today, and those made by different forums outside and within the United Nations on the subject, will enable the Security Council to reach its objective regarding the development of a comprehensive, coherent and coordinated United Nations approach to security sector reform. As I have just stated, the security sector is complex in terms of its composition as well as its nature. It is complex in its composition, in that it comprises a broad group of security actors, including the armed forces, police, intelligence and security services, security management and oversight bodies, justice and law enforcement institutions and non- statutory security forces, such as liberation armies, guerrillas and militias. That group is extremely broad.”
2007-02-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5632 (2007) · source
“Mr. President, I would like to start by thanking you personally and the Slovak presidency for inviting me, in my capacity as Chairman of the Peacebuilding Commission, to address the Council on this complex but very vital subject concerning security sector reform. Considering that security sector reform constitutes one of the key ingredients of the post-conflict peacebuilding agenda, this debate is obviously timely and of particular importance to the Peacebuilding Commission, as it is taking place at a moment when the newly established body has embarked on concrete action-oriented efforts in the field.”
2007-02-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5632 (2007) · source
“No amount of international engagement can substitute for domestic political leaders shouldering their responsibilities and leading their people towards peace and development" (A/6l/l, para. 76). 07-22632 Finally, I want to acknowledge the fact that the new body has a number of issues to address in order to improve its effectiveness and enhance its impact. While we have to acknowledge that the Peacebuilding Commission is still in the early phase of its existence, we also need to be decisive in tackling some of the critical challenges in relation to its working methods and strategic vision. That requires a collective commitment, and I hope that, as we move forward, all members of the Commission and of the United Nations will contribute to that effort.”
2007-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5627 (2007) · source
“In order to meet the objectives expected from it on the ground, the Commission must be a real bridge for all stakeholders to marshal resources and to advise on and propose integrated strategies for post-conflict peacebuilding and recovery, in conformity with the decision made by the heads of State at the September Summit. I would like to seize this opportunity to commend the Governments of Burundi and Sierra Leone for providing a legal and political framework by establishing national bodies and a suitable environment to facilitate the work of the Commission on the ground. That is their primary responsibility and the role of national ownership. As stated by former Secretary- General Kofi Annan, "[w]here peacebuilding succeeds it is always the leadership of domestic actors that is the essential ingredient of success.”
2007-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5627 (2007) · source
“The Office should continue to be given the necessary attention and resources, as it constitutes a vital instrument for the functioning of the Commission. I am pleased by the contributions recently made to the Peacebuilding Fund. That is an encouraging trend, though the amount available is still insufficient when compared to the needs of the two countries and the urgency of meeting those needs. The Peacebuilding Commission is a body to which the Council has dedicated much valuable time to establishing. It is the Council's body, and it will perform only in accordance with the means that the Council and the international community put at its disposal in order to meet the high expectations of the populations of countries emerging from conflict.”
2007-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5627 (2007) · source
“The fact that allocations were made from the Peacebuilding Fund for both Burundi and Sierra Leone is an important first step in underlining international commitment and attention. That will certainly have a catalyzing effect, but we do need a long-term commitment from donors to remain engaged with the countries throughout the peacebuilding effort. Equally, 07-22632 the two countries need to make greater efforts to lay the foundations for sustainable peace. I am particularly pleased that we are about to decide on country-specific plans of action and a programme of action for the Organizational Committee, which I believe will allow the Commission to review and monitor the implementation of its decisions on a more regular basis. The recent staffing of the Peacebuilding Support Office is also a welcome development.”
2007-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5627 (2007) · source
“The Peacebuilding Commission will be relevant and succeed only if it paves the way for an engaged partnership and practical actions by its members, as well as by the donor community, regional organizations, multilateral financial institutions and the Governments, civil society and private sectors of countries under consideration by the Peacebuilding Commission. It is that active partnership that will produce the incremental and tangible results we are seeking. Our common efforts are and should be aimed at reinforcing confidence in post-conflict communities, ensuring that countries do not relapse into conflict and that they move swiftly on the path to stability, recovery and development.”
2007-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5627 (2007) · source
“That is a legitimate concern and it speaks to the high expectations that the international community, in particular the Member States, have for that new organ of the United Nations. Yet, we should recognize that peacebuilding is by nature a complex and long-term process which requires persistent and long-term commitment by all. This debate today will, I hope, contribute to mobilizing the commitment needed so that we can move faster, providing more clarity in the discussion of some outstanding procedural issues in the workings of the Commission. Let us all agree that our theoretical differences in New York are meaningless to those who are directly suffering from the consequences of conflict on the ground. What matters for them are concrete actions and not just eloquent statements.”
2007-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5627 (2007) · source
“Mr. Gaspar Martins: Mr. President, I am pleased and wish to thank you and the Russian presidency for the opportunity to participate in this meeting on the work of the Peacebuilding Commission in my capacity as Chairman of that Commission. This is indeed an important occasion to reflect on the work of the Peacebuilding Commission with one of the principal bodies that created it, through its resolution 1645 (2005). I am equally pleased that the General Assembly has scheduled for 6 February a similar debate, which I hope will provide an opportunity for the wider participation of the membership of our Organization - a fact which we in the Peacebuilding Commission welcome. Although the Peacebuilding Commission has been in existence for less than a year, questions are already being asked about the results it has achieved during that period.”
2007-01-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5627 (2007) · source
“As a final recommendation, it would be useful for Working Groups to present mid- term reports on their activities, which, together with the assessment of the members of the Council, could help to identify areas for improvement in the work of the Working Groups. Finally, I would like to thank all members of the Council for the spirit of cooperation they demonstrated during our mandate and thank the Secretariat for their invaluable support. I thank you, Mr. President, and wish you success in your future endeavours, and I wish all a happy New Year.”
2004-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5106 (2004) · source
“Three years after its establishment, the Ad Hoc Working Group should reflect on how it can better implement its mandate effectively. In that connection, the Group should continue to develop partnerships with other institutions by involving non-Council members and by making relevant recommendations to the Council based on those partnerships. There is need for reflection on the future status of the Ad Hoc Working Group within the Security Council in order to respond to new trends in the search for solutions to African conflicts, including cooperation with the Peace and Security Council of the African Union. As a general observation, the Council's current practice of assessing the work of the Working Groups when their Chairmanships leave the Security Council deserves reassessment.”
2004-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5106 (2004) · source
“I take this opportunity to underline the active participation in the Group's meetings of the representatives of the Chairmanship of the African Union, the office of the Permanent Observer of the African Union in New York and the Department of Political Affairs, mainly from its divisions dealing with Africa. I express appreciation to those countries and institutions that attended the Group's meetings and stress once more the role played in the establishment of the Group by the delegation of Mauritius when it was a member of the Council. As Angola ends its mandate on the Security Council, it is our hope, as Chairman of the Group, that the Group will continue to monitor implementation of recommendations and resolutions concerning conflict prevention and resolution in Africa, in conformity with its mandate.”
2004-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5106 (2004) · source
“At its historic meeting in Nairobi last month, the Security Council adopted a presidential statement on its institutional relationship with the African Union. In the statement, the Council invited the Secretary- General to explore, in close cooperation with the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, new means of cooperation between the United Nations and the African Union, especially taking into consideration the expanded mandate and the new organs of the African Union. To that end, the Group can play a pivotal role in enhancing cooperation between the Security Council and the newly established Peace and Security Council of the African Union, bearing in mind that conflict prevention, management and resolution in Africa must be a truly complementary effort by Africans and their international partners.”
2004-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5106 (2004) · source