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2020-05-27

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2021-05-19

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1. “We continue to witness, on a regular basis, attacks on civilian objects such as schools, religious sites, immigration facilities, markets and towns, as well as widespread and persistent humanitarian access constraints and the perpetration of conflict-related sexual violence. According to the Secretary-General’s report, more than 20,000 civilians were killed or injured in 2019 as a result of attacks in 10 countries only: Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, Iraq, Libya, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, the Syrian Arab Republic, Ukraine and Yemen. Those numbers are appalling. We continue to believe that those gaps can be addressed, first and foremost through prevention, which remains the most important tool that we have at our disposal for the protection of civilians.”

   2020-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/465 (2020) · source

2. “Since then, the Council has adopted multiple resolutions on this topic, enacted a legal framework for strengthening it and mandated peacekeepers to integrate the protection of civilians into their missions. Those developments offered glimpses of hope for an improvement in the safety and security of the millions of people affected by war and violence. However, in spite of this robust normative framework, implementation gaps remain. The latest report of the Secretary-General on the protection of civilians in armed conflict (S/2020/366) describes 2019 as a year of suffering.”

   2020-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/465 (2020) · source

3. “This year’s debate on the protection of civilians is taking place in a particularly challenging context, namely, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, which is a stress test for the United Nations system as a whole and which poses a particular challenge as regards the protection-of-civilians mandate. The current crisis has the potential to place at higher risk the already vulnerable populations that are suffering in conflict-affected areas: the elderly, people with disabilities, migrants and refugees, as well as women and children. In 2019, we celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the Security Council’s adoption of resolution 1265 (1999), on the protection of civilians in armed conflict, which formally recognized the protection of civilians as a matter of international peace and security.”

   2020-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/465 (2020) · source

4. “I would like to commend the Estonian presidency for having convened this meeting on the protection of civilians, a topic that lies at the heart of the Security Council’s mandate. Allow me also to express my deep appreciation for the informative briefings given by Secretary-General António Guterres; the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mr. Peter Maurer; and by Ms. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Romania aligns itself with the statement delivered on behalf of the European Union. I will now make a few remarks in my national capacity.”

   2020-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/465 (2020) · source