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  1. “We honour their memories well, not by breaking the ranks of our international unity and will, but by appropriately ensuring the conditions necessary to enable them to confront the challenges in maintaining international peace and security that we collectively continue to face. That is why we remain these United Nations.”

    2014-06-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7196 (2014) · source

  2. “Innovations that enable effective United Nations peacekeeping operations must be clearly assessed in the light of their tactical and operational value, as well as their political and legal implications. This debate will ultimately require balancing views from across the United Nations membership, for peacekeeping operations have indeed been and must remain based on the collective and individual goodwill of the nations that participate in them. In closing, we pay tribute to the men and women who have laid down their lives in the pursuit of peace under the United Nations flag.”

    2014-06-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7196 (2014) · source

  3. “That is neither acceptable nor sustainable. The Council must ensure that the mandates it sets not only are realistic but that they are commensurate to the resources allocated to the missions. In doing so, the Council will immensely benefit from the experience of troop- and police-contributing countries. Their active participation in all stages ofa mission must therefore be the centre point of the triangular cooperation among the Council, the troop-and police-contributing countries, and the Secretariat. Collectively addressing the question of new technologies in United Nations peacekeeping operations must be a goal of ongoing triangular engagement.”

    2014-06-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7196 (2014) · source

  4. “Indeed, the activities of such rebel forces, which respect no national or international humanitarian law, keeps peacekeepers at great risk of their lives. The current toll of peacekeepers who have lost their lives - 106 in 2013 alone - reminds us of the perils that need to be addressed, including the impunity of those who attack peacekeepers. Fourthly, as peacekeeping continues to move towards more Chapter VII mandates, there is a stark contradiction in the fact that United Nations peacekeeping operations have not been allocated adequate resources to implement them. The debate on the current global economic crunch, while pertinent, must not be one-sided. As cost-cutting, downsizing or right-sizing continues, the alternative narrative is that troop- and police-contributing countries end up bearing the brunt of the burden of peacekeeping.”

    2014-06-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7196 (2014) · source

  5. “Thirdly, when a Government's capacity to exercise authority Within part of its territory is manifestly weak, the commission of atrocities and impunity for such crimes are likely to reign. That reality may become even graver when the intentions of some armed belligerents may be purely criminal or terroristic. They are likely to be uninterested in any semblance of political dialogue, whether through mediation, conciliation or negotiations. At the same time, the danger they pose to the population and to peacekeepers has increased dramatically year after year. When such groups appear to focus solely on the personal aggrandizement and profiteering on the part of the individuals who control them, it is unlikely that there will be any motivation to achieve peace unless the United Nations mission is able to present a viable deterrence posture.”

    2014-06-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7196 (2014) · source

  6. “Today, the focus of most United Nations peacekeeping operations with Chapter VII mandates is to ensure the protection of civilians. Undoubtedly, the overall implementation of that primary responsibility must remain that of the host-country Government, however weak it may appear, so long as it maintains legitimacy with the majority of its population. In that regard, United Nations peacekeeping operations must work closely and in tandem with the host Government. The mission must offer support to the host country in its attempt to achieve the priorities its polity deems necessary to enable it to restore sustainable peace and attain the sociopolitical harmony and economic development its population deserves.”

    2014-06-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7196 (2014) · source

  7. “First, United Nations peacekeeping operations must invariably adhere to the agreed basic principles of peacekeeping, namely, the consent of the parties to the conflict, impartiality, and the non-use of force except in self-defence and in defence of their mandates. Indeed, those are time-tested principles essential to the maintenance of the credibility and legitimacy of the flagship activity of the United Nations that is peacekeeping. Secondly, we need to ensure that we remain clear- eyed about the Challenges faced by contemporary United Nations peacekeeping operations and those whom we deploy to implement the mandates. Almost everywhere an active peacekeeping operation exists, including current deployments, the intra-State nature of most conflicts is a phenomenon that we cannot wish away.”

    2014-06-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7196 (2014) · source

  8. “When the United Nations peacekeeping enterprise began more than 60 years ago, none of its founders, who defined that noble undertaking, could have foreseen that contemporary peacekeeping operations would have to navigate through the waters they must sail through today. The multidimensional reality of United Nations peacekeeping operations means that they must now include ever more complex mandates at the tactical, operational and strategic levels. Such characteristics have developed from necessity. The reality is that the nature of the conflicts that peacekeeping operations must confront today, in particular the settling of intra-State conflicts, neither justifies nor warrants us to lose sight of what those operations are intended to be and must continue to be. In that regard, I will identify but a few salient points.”

    2014-06-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7196 (2014) · source

  9. “The United Republic of Tanzania welcomes this open debate on the theme "United Nations peacekeeping operations: new trends". We especially thank the Russian presidency for organizing the debate and for its incisive concept note on the subject (S/2014/384, annex). We also thank the Secretary-General for his remarkable introductory statement this morning. My delegation aligns itself with the statement to be made by the representative of the Republic of Malawi on behalf of the Southern African Development Community. The fact that United Nations peacekeeping operations have reached an important juncture in the Organization's history may sound like a cliche', but I should like to indulge in it nevertheless.”

    2014-06-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7196 (2014) · source