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Helena Yánez Loza

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2020-08-06
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2020-08-12
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  1. “Advancing the sustainable peace agenda did not anticipate a global crisis such as that resulting from COVID-19. However, it now requires cross-cutting and coordinated measures to combat COVID-19 and capacity-building so as to better address pandemics in the future, including through more robust and resilient peace and security frameworks.”

    2020-08-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/799 (2020) · source

  2. “Once the formal part of the review begins, we will need to take into account the outcome of this debate and acknowledge that pandemics exacerbate crisis conditions on the ground and undermine security and stability, thereby threatening peace. We need to promote efforts to improve the security conditions surrounding health systems and infrastructure. We also need to make progress on a coordinated international response. Moreover, we should redouble our efforts to ensure that this and future pandemics do not affect the Organization’s new approach to preventive diplomacy. For example, we must therefore support the border areas of countries suffering from conflicts, as well as their neighbours, as Ecuador has been proposing in the consultations on implementing resolutions 2282 (2016) and 2413 (2018).”

    2020-08-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/799 (2020) · source

  3. “It is particularly important to implement the global ceasefire in order to facilitate humanitarian access and as a first step towards sustainable peace, as proposed by the Secretary-General and endorsed by 172 countries through the ceasefire statement co-sponsored by Ecuador. Ecuador advocates that it be complied with now and that the call for a humanitarian pause be renewed for another 90 days, by 1 October. It would also be useful for the Security Council and the Secretariat to be regularly informed where the resolution is being implemented and in which areas greater support is needed to ensure its effective implementation. The COVID-19 pandemic has already marked a turning point in peacekeeping and peacebuilding efforts, and it is occurring in the very year of the peacebuilding architecture review.”

    2020-08-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/799 (2020) · source

  4. “By adopting resolution 2532 (2020), on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), on 1 July, the Security Council decisively joined the global efforts to combat the pandemic and those to mitigate and overcome the challenges that it is posing to peace and security. It is now crucial that the Security Council and all States Members of the Organization promote the effective implementation of the resolution, which calls for an immediate and comprehensive cessation of hostilities in all situations and calls on all parties to armed conflicts to engage immediately in a humanitarian pause for at least 90 days.”

    2020-08-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/799 (2020) · source

  5. “Let me begin by congratulating Indonesia on having accepted the request from several countries, including Ecuador, for the ongoing consideration of the risks to international peace and security posed by the pandemic. This dialogue should in fact be included in the formal agenda of the Security Council throughout the year so that we can assess the evolving situation. I would also like to highlight the briefings by Secretary-General António Guterres (annex 1), former Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon (annex 2) and Ms. Sarah Cliffe, Director of the Center on International Cooperation at New York University (annex 3).”

    2020-08-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/799 (2020) · source

  6. “For that reason, Ecuador condemns acts of corruption committed by networks that seriously threaten the stability of States and entire regions, and it stresses the importance of achieving fluid cooperation through confidential information- exchange agreements, particularly in the financial area, to carry out effective investigations into the financing of terrorism and money-laundering. The United Nations is the global platform that is called on to lead the fight against terrorism and organized transnational crime. We therefore reiterate our commitment to work to strengthen the international fight against those scourges, which threaten peace and security worldwide.”

    2020-08-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/791 (2020) · source

  7. “As an immediate response, the Government of Ecuador created the National Committee for Comprehensive Border Security as the entity responsible for the coordination and harmonization of policies, guidelines, procedures and actions in the field of comprehensive border security, and it implemented the Defence Security Plan for the Northern Border, which provides guidelines for strategic planning and comprehensive defence, security and development policies in order to address the complex transnational threat of terrorism in all its dimensions. It is also important to note the connection between terrorism and corruption.”

    2020-08-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/791 (2020) · source

  8. “In the area of public policy, an inter-institutional committee is being formed among State bodies to address the problem in the banking, aeronautical, immigration, police and security spheres. In early 2018, acts of violence were committed on Ecuador’s northern border as a result of the actions of irregular armed groups linked to transnational organized crime, which led to a dozen terrorist attacks; wounded, killed or displaced people; and affected State infrastructure.”

    2020-08-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/791 (2020) · source

  9. “The Ecuadorian Comprehensive Criminal Code, adopted in 2014, expressly classifies terrorism and its financing, recognizing the direct relationship between the crime of money-laundering and the financing of terrorism, and underlining the advances made in the control of money-laundering and the financing of terrorism. The Law on the Prevention, Detection and Eradication of the Crime of Money- Laundering and the Financing of Crimes aims to prevent, detect in a timely manner, punish and eradicate money-laundering and the financing of crimes in its various modalities. The Continuous Action Plan for the Prevention of Money Laundering and against the Financing of Terrorism, with the same objective, was also approved.”

    2020-08-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/791 (2020) · source

  10. “It is vital, therefore, to determine and eliminate the causes and factors that can promote acts of terrorism, including its financing; political, ethnic, religious and racial intolerance; and the social and economic gap among nations, the latter exacerbated by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and the accompanying health, economic and social crisis. In that respect, in Ecuador measures are being drawn up and implemented for the progressive application of resolution 1373 (2001) by classifying as a crime the financing of terrorism and the associated money-laundering, and through preventive measures and international judicial cooperation. I shall mention a few examples.”

    2020-08-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/791 (2020) · source

  11. “We therefore strongly and unequivocally condemn all acts of terrorism, in all its forms and manifestations, regardless of their motivation, whenever and by whomsoever committed. We equally strongly condemn organized crime and reiterate that its links to terrorism must continue to be debated and countered. As no State is immune from terrorism, Ecuador is convinced that strengthening the international fight against terrorism is a task that must be undertaken cooperatively with the application of joint and concerted measures and actions in order to counter terrorism and its effects. The prevention of terrorism is as important as its repression.”

    2020-08-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/791 (2020) · source

  12. “I would like at the outset to congratulate Indonesia on having assumed the presidency of the Security Council for the month of August and on having organized this debate of pivotal importance. I am also grateful for the briefings by the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism, Vladimir Voronkov, and the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Ghada Fathi Waly. Terrorism poses a serious threat to international peace and security, human rights, democratic stability and the economic and social development of States and of the international community as a whole. The same is true of organized crime and organized transnational crime.”

    2020-08-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/791 (2020) · source