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  1. “I now give the floor to His Excellency Mr. Joao Pedro Vale de Almeida, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations.”

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  2. “I now give the floor to Her Excellency Ms. Fatima Kyari Mohammed, Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations.”

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  3. “The men and women we send into harm's way need to know that they are always serving alongside other peacekeepers who can be counted on to do their duty and not abuse their power. The people of the United States support the United Nations when it lives up to the ideals of its founding because we share those ideals. We ask Council members to help us show that such support is not misplaced and join us in the effort to ensure that the men and women who represent the United Nations to the world have the training, professionalism and character to match their high mission. Many vulnerable people in the world depend on us. They give us their trust. We owe them our protection. I now resume my functions as President of the Council. I shall now give the floor to Council members who wish to make statements.”

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  4. “This draft resolution puts the force of the Security Council behind that too. And thirdly, our draft resolution recognizes the role of data in improving troop performance by matching the right troops and police to the right roles. Training and operational readiness, not politics, should be our criteria for deploying troop and police units. In the days ahead, I urge my colleagues to work with us on the draft resolution. They should bring their best ideas of how to incentivize better performance and hold all peacekeepers, in particular those in the positions of leadership, to the highest possible standards. Of course, we owe it to the victims of abuse and neglect, but we also owe it to the peacekeepers themselves. Their safety and security is directly linked to their performance.”

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  5. “First, it mandates a timely and transparent process for reporting performance failures to the Security Council and to the Member States concerned. We cannot fix what we do not know. Better information will help the Council, the Secretariat, troop- and police-contributing countries and donors work together to recruit, field and retain the most qualified and capable peacekeepers. Secondly, we create accountability measures for failures of performance and concrete incentives for stronger performance. Accountability is not a dirty word. We must ensure that our peacekeepers are capable, professional and willing to carry out the critical mandates with which they have been tasked. At the same time, we need to do a betterjob ofrecognizing, rewarding and replicating good performance.”

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  6. “The United States shares the Secretary-General's commitment to peacekeeping performance across the board. The ongoing struggle to make progress in solving the problem has shown the need for clear, objective standards of performance and accountability. We need to create a culture of performance in United Nations peacekeeping. People such as the mother of seven I quoted earlier deserve to know that when the Blue Helmets arrive, they are not a threat but there to perform their duties in service of peace and security. The United States has introduced a new draft resolution to empower the Secretariat and accelerate progress on improving peacekeeping performance. Our draft advances three simple but critical peacekeeper performance priorities.”

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  7. “The United Nations own public reporting shows that several peacekeeping units have faced repeated allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse, but those same allegations have remained pending for years. The perpetrators have gone unpunished and, unbelievably, some accused troops remain in United Nations missions, able to continue the abuse and to wield the power that they have - the power that we have given them. What message does that give to other peacekeepers? The United States acknowledges and appreciates the step that the Secretary-General has taken to address this crisis, and Member States have responded to the Secretary-General's leadership by supporting United Nations initiatives to prevent and report sexual exploitation and abuse.”

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  8. “It makes me sick". It has been two years since the Security Council was briefed on horrific allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse by peacekeepers in the Central African Republic. The Security Council recognized the need to take action in response to these violations and adopted resolution 2272 (2016), the first resolution to address the need to hold peacekeepers accountable for sexual exploitation and abuse. But two years later, we are still waiting for justice for the victims in Dekoa. We supported the Secretary- General in the repatriation of troops and police who display a pattern of abusive behaviour. Some critical steps have been taken and we applaud them, but we have an obligation to ensure that more is done.”

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  9. “Even worse than failures to protect are instances in which civilians have been attacked, abused and exploited by the peacekeepers who were supposed to protect them. We have all heard the stories, some of which Sarah has just described in haunting detail. The Council has just heard about young girls and boys grabbed off the streets; young girls forced to have sex with soldiers for as little as an egg to eat; sexual assaults so common that they are not reported; and young girls and women left alone to care for their so-called peacekeeping babies, after the rapists who fathered them have left the country. A farmer and mother of seven in the Central African Republic said it better than I could when she told a reporter: "We were told that the peacekeepers had come to protect us. Instead, we see that it is the peacekeepers who cause the rapes.”

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  10. “These convictions are a measure of accountability for the men who committed those crimes, if not for the officers who led them. But what about the peacekeepers who failed to intervene? Where is the accountability for them? Peacekeeping is based on trust between the protected and the protectors. The United Nations puts peacekeepers in this position of trust. We, the Security Council, give them this power. We are responsible for what they do with it, not just for the sake of the victims, but for the sake of the mission, the United Nations and peacekeeping itself. Once that critical trust is gone, no matter how many resources a mission has or how strong its leadership, the mission will fail.”

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  11. “In some cases, they are even destructive to our ideals. In instances when even a minority ofpeacekeepers abuse and exploit the citizens they are supposed to protect, that harm can overshadow the good. We hear far too many stories of vulnerable civilians who put their trust in peacekeepers, and our peacekeepers fail to protect them. Just last week we were reminded of the horrific events at the Terrain housing compound in Juba in 2016. A South Sudanese courtjust convicted soldiers loyal to President Kiir for raping aid workers and killing a journalist. An American was among the women raped. The attack lasted for hours, and during that time the victims reportedly called the United Nations peacekeepers' station just a mile away. They begged for help, but no help came.”

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  12. “In the Congo, peacekeepers from the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are enabling a response to the Ebola outbreak and standing ready to provide logistical support to elections in December. And in South Sudan, thousands of civilians are alive today because of protection-of-civilians sites created and maintained by United Nations peacekeepers. UnitedNationsMissioninSouthSudanpeacekeepers recently partnered with humanitarian organizations to relocate 3,500 internally displaced persons, mostly women and children, from a protection-of-civilians site in Juba to a site in the community where they could reunite with their families. But those success stories are sadly overshadowed by other instances in which peacekeepers fail to live up to the ideals of their mission.”

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  13. “We ask them to be brave and impartial and, above all, to protect some of the most vulnerable people in the world. We ask this all in the name of peace. But in the end, our peacekeepers are just men and women. They are human beings, and, although our ideals are perfect and eternal, human beings are imperfect and fallen. Our peacekeepers do much that is good. United Nations peacekeepers were instrumental in Cote d'Ivoire's transition from civil war to peace. Now Cote d'Ivoire is paying it forward as an important new peacekeeping force for others. In Sierra Leone, our peacekeepers helped secure peace after a civil war of unspeakable violence.”

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  14. “I thank Ms. Blakemore for her briefing. I shall now make a statement in my capacity as the representative of the United States. I wish to thank Under-Secretary-General Lacroix and Ms. Blakemore for their briefings and for their commitment to United Nations peacekeeping reform. In a speech to the General Assembly in 2003, President George W. Bush pointed out something important that the founding ideas of the United Nations and the United States have in common. He said: "Both recognize a moral law that stands above men and nations, but which must be defended and enforced by men and nations." (A/58/PV7, p. 12) Of all the activities in which the United Nations engages, peacekeeping best embodies this founding ideal. We ask our peacekeepers to go into dangerous situations and put themselves in between warring parties.”

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  15. “Joao Vale de Almeida, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations. The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. I give the floor to Mr. Lacroix.”

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  16. “In accordance with rule 37 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite the representatives of Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Fiji, Indonesia, Lebanon, Pakistan, Romania, Rwanda, Senegal and Uruguay to participate in this meeting. In accordance with rule 39 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite the following briefers to participate in this meeting: Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations; and Ms. Sarah Blakemore, of Keeping Children Safe. In accordance with rule 39 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite the following briefers to participate in this meeting: Her Excellency Ms. Fatima Kyari Mohammed, Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations; and His Excellency Mr.”

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