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Gonzalez Parra

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  1. “Our goal is to strengthen training and increase the number of Colombian police and military personnel in peacekeeping operations. My country believes that participation in that process is an unavoidable responsibility as a Member of the United Nations and as a nation committed to peace.”

    2018-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8218 (2018) · source

  2. “For there is no magic formula that can be applied to every situation. Colombia has not only participated as a police-contributing country in the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti since 2006, in which we have lent support to areas such as technical advice in intelligence, the judicial police, anti-narcotics efforts and community policing, as well as training their own forces - an undertaking to which we will continue to contribute together with the United Nations Mission for Justice Support in this new phase - but we have also begun - thanks to the commitment of President Juan Manuel Santos Calderon - the process of contributing personnel to other places, including our presence today in the Central African Republic, Lebanon and Guinea Bissau.”

    2018-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8218 (2018) · source

  3. “We are also encouraged by the draft report ofthe Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations for this year, as it calls for avoiding fragmentation and emphasizes an aspect that we consider crucial both for the effective deployment and successful completion of a mission. First of all, it allows us confront the long-standing absence of women in peacekeeping operations. Women represent only 4.7 per cent of military experts in the field and 3.2 per cent of troops. The level of representation of women within the United Nations police is also low - only 16.9 per cent of its members are female. Secondly, it is essential to provide added value to individual experiences on the ground in terms of what does and does not work and how to achieve better outcomes when we consider the specific conditions of every particular situation.”

    2018-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8218 (2018) · source

  4. “The groundwork has already been laid with important contributions, among which I would like to highlight the report of the Advisory Group of Experts on the Review of the Peacebuilding Architecture (see S/2015/490), which rightly calls for overcoming fragmentation in the implementation of mandates. Moreover, the report of the High-level Independent Panel on Peace Operations (see S/2015/446) reminds us that peacekeeping operations must maintain their focus on people. Those assessments, together with ideas on how to move forward, are judiciously reflected in the report (S/2018/43) of the Secretary-General on peacebuilding and sustaining peace, which has provided us with proposals to make the United Nations effective in one of its fundamental mandates set out in the Charter of the United Nations.”

    2018-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8218 (2018) · source

  5. “My delegation agrees with the concept note's View concerning the need for those actors to conceive of their contributions in terms of precise and strategic goals and a concrete perception of the outcomes to be achieved on a case-by-case basis. Such collaborative work cannot be limited to situational challenges, but must constantly strive to satisfying the greatest of aspirations - achieving peace - including through strengthening national capacity and fostering the conditions that enable countries to confront their challenges independently, as well as to foster the development and well-being of their people. The Secretary-General raised the issue with the greatest clarity when he stated earlier today, "Put simply, peace operations cannot succeed if they are deployed instead of a political solution rather than in support of one".”

    2018-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8218 (2018) · source

  6. “In that regard, I would like to take this opportunity to reiterate our support for the concept of sustaining peace advocated for by the Secretary General. We understand the reference to "collective action" in the concept note (S/2018/184, annex) for this debate as a call for findings synergies in the implementation of that important concept. We believe that reconfiguring the peace and security pillar constitutes a crucial step in the transition from words to actions. As the concept note aptly points out, that concept is a shared responsibility of all stakeholders: host nations, regional organizations, States Members, including troop- and police-contributing countries, and, of course, the Secretariat and the Security Council.”

    2018-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8218 (2018) · source

  7. “Mr. Gonzalez Parra (Colombia) (spoke in Spanish): First of all, I thank you, Sir, and the Kingdom of the Netherlands for convening this open debate of the Security Council on the topic of collective action to improve United Nations peacekeeping operations. My delegation aligns itself with the statement delivered by the representative of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela on behalf of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries. As the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia, Ms. Maria Angela Holguin Cue'llar, stated during a debate on the reform of peace operations in September 2017, we in Colombia believe that the time has come to ensure that United Nations peacekeeping operations effectively respond to the pressing challenges that they face in a world of changing threats.”

    2018-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8218 (2018) · source