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1. “Finally, the international community needs to take a more outspoken stance in calling on all parties to conflicts to respect international humanitarian law, condemning violations and finding political and practical solutions to protect objects that are vital to civilian populations, as well as conducting fact-finding investigations and ensuring accountability for violations. The Security Council plays a critical role in steering that forward and ensuring accountability. We count on the Security Council and the international community to support those efforts.”

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2. “There is a need for donors and civil society to engage more coherently with the United Nations Common Country Analysis and Cooperation Frameworks in order to design collective outcomes ensuring that all stakeholders can enhance the delivery of durable solutions, which would enhance resilience. To respond to challenges and to build back better, we need a common understanding of the needs in each context based on joint analysis and joined-up planning and monitoring, including data and evidence-based information. It is through joint efforts that we can ensure the protection of civilian populations and the enhanced delivery of adequate gender-sensitive services.”

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3. “The EU urges all parties to armed conflicts, State and non-State alike, to fully respect their obligations under international humanitarian law, including the prohibition of the use of starvation of the civilian population as a method of warfare, and to allow and facilitate safe and unhindered humanitarian access. In that respect, we recall that in 2019, the Assembly of State Parties to the Rome Statute of the ICC voted unanimously to extend the war crime of starvation to non-international armed conflict. Fifthly, strengthening the humanitarian, development and peace nexus with a needs-based, as well as a human rights-based, approach would enhance a holistic approach to delivering on the Sustainable Development Goals.”

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4. “We also need to continue to uphold the protection of schools and education infrastructure in situations of conflict, and we welcome the efforts of States Members of the United Nations that have endorsed the Safe Schools Declaration. Fourthly, the Global Report on Food Crises 2020 shows that conflict was to blame for 6 out of the 10 worst food crises in the world and for nearly 60 per cent of humanitarian needs. The destruction of objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population, including water resources and infrastructure, may in many contexts contribute to conflict-related hunger.”

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5. “In that respect, we recognize the challenges associated with the use of explosive weapons in densely populated areas and their impact on civilians, and we call on all parties to armed conflict to fully comply with international humanitarian law. Thirdly, five years after the adoption of resolution 2286 (2016), drafted and negotiated by Spain, together with Egypt, Japan, New Zealand and Uruguay, we need to double our efforts to ensure the implementation of the resolution and that medical facilities, and more broadly humanitarian and medical workers, are not subject to attacks in violation of international law. In that respect, I would like to recall that the EU, together with France, Germany, Mexico, Norway, the Niger and Switzerland, is organizing a discussion series on the protection of humanitarian and medical workers in armed conflict.”

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6. “We reiterate our call on the Security Council to have the situation in Syria referred to the ICC. Secondly, the unlawful use of certain types of weapons in specific situations may have a disproportionate and devastating effect on the natural environment, causing the degradation of agricultural land and devastating health impacts. We recall that all means and methods of warfare are to fully comply with international law, in particular international humanitarian law and international human rights law, and that those who employ such weapons are accountable and responsible for their use. Ensuring compliance with international humanitarian law is crucial, particularly when armed conflicts are increasingly fought in urban areas, exposing civilians and civilian infrastructure to substantial risks.”

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7. “Faced with that reality, the international community has both a moral and a legal duty to take action. First, the EU recalls that all parties to armed conflicts are to respect international humanitarian law and bear the primary responsibility for ensuring the protection of civilian populations and objects under their control. In that respect, the EU will continue to put international humanitarian law at the heart of its external action. The EU is committed to continuing its efforts to promote international humanitarian law comprehensively, including through training and exercises, in particular for military and security forces. The EU also works to fight impunity and to ensure accountability for violations of international humanitarian law. In that regard, we highlight the important role of the International Criminal Court (ICC).”

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8. “In fact, Syria is facing possibly the highest level of weapon contamination the world has seen since the Second World War, with swathes of the country turned into minefields. This means that it will take decades to make the land and cities safe again. It is important to ensure that life-saving and life-sustaining humanitarian actions are not disrupted or targeted and that safe, full, unhindered and sustained access to the most vulnerable people in Syria is guaranteed by all routes available, including cross-border. The extension of the decision by the Security Council on the authorization for cross-border assistance in July is vital. Otherwise, humanitarian assistance to more than 3 million people will be in danger and the response to the needs of the population could be jeopardized.”

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9. “Full respect for the rights of all individuals in accordance with international humanitarian law, human rights and refugee law must be observed, which includes the protection of civilians, including humanitarian and medical workers, and the protection of such civilian infrastructure as schools and hospitals. More than 13 million Syrians inside Syria — half of whom are children — are in need of humanitarian assistance. While the need for health services remains high, as of 2021, 50 per cent of Syria’s health facilities are not functioning or are only partially functioning. Further, it is estimated that 11.5 million people in Syria are being exposed to risks posed by the widespread presence of mines and explosive remnants of war.”

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10. “These acts are accelerating the forced displacements taking place and aggravate civilian vulnerability in crisis-affected areas. In north-eastern Nigeria, 2.2 million people have been uprooted from their homes, and in the north-west, there is a growing pattern of attacks on education establishments, including with mass abductions of pupils. In the north-eastern states of the country, regular attacks on schools, universities and students are taking place as a result of the ongoing Boko Haram insurgency. The crisis in Syria is also a protection crisis. The EU strongly condemns the deliberate targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructures by the Syrian regime and its allies, which has been documented by the Syria Board of Inquiry.”

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11. “Between January 2020 and March 2021 alone, 59 episodes of violence or threats against health services were reported, including the damaging of 11 health-care facilities. Attacks on aid workers are widespread. Civilians face a high risk of seeing their human rights violated and of other violations of international humanitarian law. They are also seeing the deliberate destruction of economic assets that guarantee the population’s livelihood, namely, crops and cattle, including in north-central Nigeria, in the context of the conflict between pastoralists and farmers. In April 2021, during a series of attacks on the town of Damasak in Borno state, in north-eastern Nigeria, non-State armed groups looted and burned down private homes, warehouses belonging to humanitarian agencies, a clinic and a United Nations protection facility.”

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12. “Restrictions imposed by parties to the conflict on humanitarian supplies and access increase the risk of famine. The current restrictions on airports, seaports and across the land, together with the continuous fighting, further impede the delivery of humanitarian aid and affect the ability of Yemeni civilians to gain access to the food, medicine and fuel essential to the survival of the civilian population. Some 16.2 million Yemenis — over half of the total population — are projected to be highly food insecure in Yemen by June 2021. Nigeria is the country with the highest number of attacks against health facilities in West and Central Africa. It is also where more than 500 incidents affecting schools and students were recorded between 2015 and 2019.”

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13. “The situation in Yemen is marked by widespread violations of international humanitarian law by all parties to the conflict, the scale and nature of which is shocking. Accountability for these violations is vital. Persistently indiscriminate attacks are killing and wounding civilians and damaging such critical infrastructure as health facilities, schools, markets and farms. As a result of the conflict, the economy has collapsed, and the humanitarian situation is alarming: there are over 4 million internally displaced persons; 80 per cent of the population lives below the poverty line; fewer than 50 per cent of health clinics are functioning; some 8 million children are out of school; water and electricity services are erratic and unaffordable for the large majority of population; and food security systems are under severe strain.”

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14. “It is also concerned about the impact of the widespread and deliberate destruction or damage caused to such civilian objects as schools and hospitals in today’s armed conflicts via attacks conducted in clear violation of international humanitarian law. The direct and indirect effects of this reality are one of the most critical challenges for the protection of civilians and a major driver of long-term social and economic instability and displacement. Attacks on health infrastructure have a critical impact on the survival and well-being of civilians and are currently also seriously undermining efforts to fight the coronavirus disease pandemic. We are unfortunately witnessing this phenomenon in a number of crises today.”

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15. “I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union (EU) and its member States. The candidate countries the Republic of North Macedonia and Montenegro, the country of the Stabilization and Association Process and potential candidate Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as the Republic of Moldova, align themselves with this statement. I welcome this open debate on the protection of objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population, which is of utmost relevance in today’s crises, as well as the adoption of resolution 2573 (2021). The EU is deeply concerned at continued gross violations of international humanitarian law and of humanitarian principles, by the shrinking of the humanitarian space and by continued attacks on humanitarian and health-care workers.”

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