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  1. “This is what we decided, the four women leading, respectively, OIF, the Ibero-American General Secretariat, the Commonwealth and the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries, which comprise 167 States and Governments, or 61 per cent of the world's population. This strategic alliance also exists to serve the women and peace and security agenda, because nothing without women is or ever will be possible.”

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  2. “I am thinking about what happened to women in the neighbouring countries of Rwanda and Burundi. I am thinking of the thousands of refugee women in the Niger, on the border with Nigeria, 70 per cent of whom have fallen prey to Boko Haram and been subject to the most horrendous attacks. Lest we think that it is merely a question of Africa, I would say that it is not. Barbarism and inhumanity know no borders, And when there are reports of sexual abuse by United Nations personnel, the facts are equally damning. The men in this Chamber today are commended for not looking the other way and for resolutely supporting us. Today's meeting provides us with an opportunity to affirm a real desire to act together, to continue to act and to do more. Let us take up the challenge of ever-increasing consultation and synergy of efforts.”

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  3. “Year after year, resolution after resolution, we agree to put into words the horrors that are inflicted on women by men, even more cruelly and more systematically in times of hostilities, conflicts and war. It is primarily women who are targeted when men decide to annihilate a people or a nation. The abduction and rape of women, girls and little girls have become weapons of mass destruction and their bellies have become battlefields. I cannot forget the tears of the seven year-old girl, her mother and all the women tortured by militiamen in the Goma region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where I visited in 2010. And what is happening these days? We see massacres in Kasai province and hear stories of mutilated women, some of whom them pregnant, who are found disemboweled. It is unbearable.”

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  4. “What is the point of pleading our case if the sums granted to fragile States to address issues of equality between women and men still represent only 6 per cent of the total aid package and only 2 per cent of aid reserved for peace and security, not to mention the funding rate for local women's organizations, including women's rights organizations, which could be described as miniscule? We must do more to guarantee the full recognition of all forms of discrimination and crimes against women, which are crimes against humanity. We must do more to end impunity. How can one imagine genuinely recognizing the role ofwomen as vectors ofpeace while leaving unpunished those who trample their bodies and dehumanize them?”

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  5. “I do not want to see us forget the rule of law dimension, because the banalization of excessive State violence against citizens, the climate of impunity and the persistence of areas of lawlessness also affect the women and peace and security agenda. It is clear that we need to do more. We must do more for women's economic and social integration, because peace, stability and security also depend on shared and inclusive economic development. That is the message that I will bring in five days to Bucharest, where the World Forum of Francophone Women will be held under the the theme, "Creation, innovation, entrepreneurship, growth and development: Women make their mark!" We also must do more to fund women and peace and security.”

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  6. “Our organization, which has been involved for more than 15 years in strengthening the French-speaking contribution to United Nations peacekeeping operations, is also mobilizing on the ground in order to encourage the participation of female staff in missions and to train security forces in women's rights. I will insist in a few days on all of these points at the Peacekeeping Defence Ministerial in Vancouver, Canada. OIF will once again sensitize its members to that problem at the meeting that we are organizing in the framework of the Boutros-Ghali Observatory in late November in Paris, in partnership with the United Nations.”

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  7. “Our countries, our networks are full of remarkable women. Let us mobilize them. What are we waiting for to put an end to the derisory and unacceptable figure of 3 per cent of women participating as military personnel of United Nations missions? What are we afraid of? Being more productive? It has been shown that the presence of women in those sectors contributes to improving security forces and increasing the credibility of missions, especially in their dealings with the population. Women inspire confidence. The Organisation internationale de la F rancophonie (OIF) holds fast to the commitment, undertaken at the Francophonie Summit in Dakar of 2014, to investing in women and young people, who are the vectors of peace and development actors.”

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  8. “It has been shown that women's participation increases by 20 per cent the probability of reaching a peace agreement that will last at least two years, and by 35 per cent the chances of reaching a peace agreement that will last 15 years. We - international organizations, States and Governments, together with civil society-must commit ourselves resolutely to identifying and mobilizing women in a more systematic and coordinated way to sit at all negotiating tables and lead or take part in dialogues and national processes. That is also one of the central recommendations of the Abidjan seminar on the promotion of women's participation in peace processes in Francophone Africa, which we organized almost a year ago, in partnership with UN-Women and the Francophone Network for Gender Equality.”

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  9. “Those are just a few examples among many that speak to the real capacity of women and all the forceful actions they take every day that contribute to peace and security and that are wrongly overlooked. And that is without counting the achievements of women engaged in peacekeeping operations. I remember listening with the greatest admiration to cohorts of women trained in Ghana and Mali at the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre, whose closure in 2013 I bitterly deplore. How many resolutions, studies, meetings of independent high-level groups and groups of experts must there be before we do away with that abyssmal and unacceptable figure of 9 per cent of women participating in some 30 major negotiations over the past 25 years? I ask myself: What are we afraid of? Being more effective?”

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  10. “Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was one of those women who stood up to the warlords and mediated between the warring parties. We saw it in Bosnia. Within communities, women are always the first to seek reconciliation and return. We saw it in Rwanda. Women who had been physically harmed took the lead in reconciliation and reconstruction efforts at the local and national levels. In Mali, as everywhere else, when women get to the bargaining table, their influence is real and they achieve noteworthy results. I am also thinking of the Ouagadougou Preliminary Agreement of April 2012, which was written by four women who had initially not been invited to speak. However, faced with their insistance and the value and content of their proposals, they ended up being admitted to the negotiating table - yes, admitted without having been officially invited.”

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  11. “At the outset, I should like to commend France for its initiative to convene today's high-level open debate. I am particularly grateful to you, Sir, for inviting me here to reiterate, for the second time, the crucial importance of the implementation of the provisions of resolution 1325 (2000), of 31 October 2000, as well as resolutions that have complemented it year after year. Seventeen years ago, we agreed to turn obvious truths into words. Seventeen years ago, we agreed to recognize the importance of women's participation, on an equal footing with men, in the areas of crisis prevention, mediation and the maintenance and strengthening of peace and security. Let us start by recognizing that women did not wait for the adoption of resolution 1325 (2000) to translate these truths into action. We saw it in Liberia. Ms.”

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  12. “All the crises, conflicts and new threats that we have to face, wherever they are, concern all of us without exception, and call for a concerted and coordinated approach on our part for which we pool our capacities, experience, resources and means, whether that is in the context of our cooperation with the United Nations, our bilateral, multilateral, regional or subregional cooperation, or our cooperation with institutional stakeholders and civil society. The Council should rest assured that the OIF will continue to promote that essential integrated approach with all its partners, including the United Nations, and that it can and should count on us.”

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  13. “That is the goal of the assistance we provide to our member States to help them build their capacity to fight terrorism, as Mr. Jean-Paul Laborde well knows, given that the IOF is cooperating with the Counter-Terrorism Committee to promote the ratification by national Governments of universal, regional and subregional instruments to counter terrorism and crime. We are also strengthening the capacities of specialized francophone judges and prosecutors.”

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  14. “Experience has shown also that in certain Member States it is vital to better train and prepare deployed personnel and Blue Helmets so as to enable them to more effectively address the new threats facing them. That is why we regularly support francophone training centres for peacekeeping operations. That is also why, as my dear colleague Herve' Ladsous is well aware, we have a network of French-speaking military, police and civilian capacities through our Francophone Expertise and Training Network for Peace Operations, which acts as the umbrella organization for francophone training centres and provides information, in French, on peacekeeping, mobilizing for that purpose a sizeable community of experts. Experience has shown that it is vital to increase security in the environments in which peacekeeping operations are deployed.”

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  15. “We therefore call for greater participation by the States members of the IOF and for the greater recruitment of French-speaking personnel in peacekeeping operations. We also support a greater expansion of United Nations recruitment activities to French-speaking populations. Here I would pay tribute to Mr. Atul Khare and Mr. Herve Ladsous for the very close cooperation that the IOF has been enjoying with the Department of Field Support and the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, which has allowed us to achieve encouraging results. For example, 99 per cent of MINUSCA police are French-speaking. A great deal needs to be done. That is why we have developed a French teaching method for non-French- speaking defence and security forces, in cooperation with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.”

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  16. “They must also have a solid grasp of the historical, political, socioeconomic and cultural realities. The operations' security and ability to perform are at stake, in particular as concerns the civilian dimension. This is particularly important at a time when terrorist strategies are based on the capacity of these criminal groups to infiltrate and melt into local populations. Also at stake is dialogue and the climate of confidence that must be established. Let us not underestimate this dimension. I reiterate here the call I made at the Paris ministerial conference on peacekeeping operations in French- speaking environments a few days ago: that every effort must be made to strengthen the use of French within the Secretariat and in theatres of operation in French-speaking countries.”

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  17. “Jean-Paul Laborde made a valuable contribution, I wish also to underscore the need to strengthen cooperation in terms of intelligence-gathering, because it is clear that while peacekeeping operations cannot be anti-terrorist actors as they currently stand, they can and must be provided the resources to better face the new threats they face and contribute, at various levels, to minimizing them. To that end, Blue Helmets must be better equipped, better prepared and better trained, and the IOF is contributing to that endeavour. Our experience in the French-speaking world has shown us that it is vital that personnel deployed on the ground be able to gather information, hear witness statements and communicate in French with the local authorities and population.”

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  18. “I have just been informed by the highest authorities of Radio France Internationale of the jamming of its FM. signal as well as that of Radio Okapi, the United Nations radio station in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This is just one example. Such incidents are worrisome and must be avoided so as to preserve freedom of the press and of speech. The IOF's approach to its work in all the areas I have just mentioned involves shared responsibility. Turning to the security dimension, we support unreservedly the Council's desire to make peacekeeping operations safer and more robust and increase their level of performance. On the basis of the conclusions of the June IOF conference, to which my dear friend Mr.”

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  19. “As I said at the international conference convened by the IOF in June on countering terrorism and the prevention of violent extremism, we must also respond to the determined attacks against us with our own determination to strike back, using all of our weapons of mass construction: education, training for all, job creation and investment in economic initiatives for women and for youth, so as to bring about sustainable, equitable development. We also have to create a deep-rooted culture of democracy and peace and strengthen rule-of-law institutions as well as respect for rights and freedoms. Ensuring such freedoms is ajoint endeavour. I wish to stress also the importance of respecting freedom of speech and freedom of the press, which are key to a climate of peace.”

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  20. “Given our presence on the ground at all stages of the continuum of peace, our widely acknowledged experience and expertise in fragile political, security and socioeconomic contexts, we welcome the high priority given to crisis prevention and peacebuilding in the framework of the global peacekeeping reform undertaken by the United Nations in 2015. It is in that same spirit that we call for the continuation, and even the strengthening, of the civilian dimension of peacekeeping operations, which represents a pivotal element of stabilization in countries emerging from crisis and in transition situations. This is part and parcel of the preventive approaches promoted by the Secretary-General's Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism. I believe that we are all on the same page. A security approach is necessary but not sufficient.”

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  21. “All of these difficulties and shortcomings, and sometimes even dysfunctions, of which we are fully aware, are a source of serious concern for the IOF, because for 20 years we have been actively and concretely cooperating with our international partners, primarily the United Nations, in crisis prevention and conflict prevention and resolution, and supporting countries as they seek to consolidate peace and democracy. The French-speaking space has become a kind oflaboratory for peacekeeping operations.”

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  22. “Here I am thinking in particular of the more modern, sophisticated equipment provided to the troops; the priority given to intelligence-gathering; and the strengthening in recent months of the mandate of certain operations, including MINUSMA, the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic, so that they can better protect civilians and withstand the attacks of armed groups. But we see also how difficult it has been to implement resolution 2295 (2016).”

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  23. “I have repeatedly conveyed to the international community, and to the Security Council in particular, the pressing appeals ofthe countries in the Lake Chad Basin region for additional resources, in the form of technical and logistical support, for the Multinational Joint Task Force in the fight to put an end to the deadly attacks by Boko Haram against isolated, extremely vulnerable communities. Yes, efforts have been made, and I wish to commend them.”

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  24. “We often find ourselves helpless in the face of the deadly attacks perpetrated by these criminal groups, which use every cruel and cowardly means to destabilize already weak countries. To defeat these criminal groups, whose goal is to control routes and passages so as to facilitate trafficking in drugs, arms and human beings, we must foil their plans and counter their actions by means of more collective and thus more effective efforts. We can do this only if we work together in the context of a joint effort that involves the international community together with the States concerned and those of the subregion. We need also to strengthen the capacity of said States to act and fully participate in defending their territory and protecting their peoples.”

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  25. “The President of the Niger, still in shock when I called him, did not fail to tell me what the subregion wanted, that is, that in carrying out its mandate, the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) act more tactically and robustly and in a more concerted and coordinated manner with the affected countries in order to use force in the spirit of Article I of the Charter, which I mentioned earlier, so as to prevent and remove threats to the peace and to suppress all acts of aggression. As La Francophonie is always quick to recall, this is about our absolute responsibility to protect, by all means, populations exposed to danger.”

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  26. “We in the IOF can see those threats every day: in Mali, Lebanon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic, and even in the end- of-mandate operations in Cote d'Ivoire. The threats are permanent. They have an impact both on peacekeepers and the mandate of peacekeeping operations as well as when it comes to protecting civilians and securing territory, boundaries and personnel. We are shocked by recurrent attacks against peacekeepers in Mali, which we condemn in the strongest terms. And, as we know, bordering countries are not spared. We saw recently how the army of the Niger fell Victim to an attack by criminal militias on 6 October, when 22 soldiers who were providing security at a site for Malian refugees in the Tahoua region, which borders Mali, were killed in broad daylight.”

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  27. “President, to thank Senegal for the trust it places in the International Organization of La Francophonie (IOF), as reflected in its invitation for me to participate here today. This is a historic moment for us. I am here today as the Secretary-General of La Francophonie, an international organization made up of 80 States and Governments from five continents. The francophone world today accounts for half of all United Nations peacekeeping operations throughout the world. Fifty-five member States and observers of our organization are engaged in peacekeeping operations today - indicating that we too have recognized the urgent need to adapt peacekeeping operations in terms of their mandates and resources in the face of the new threats confronting them.”

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  28. “Through those words, the Security Council's road map - our road map- can be more clearly traced. Iwouldliketo commendyou, Mr. President-Foreign Minister Mankeur Ndiaye - and your country, Senegal, which currently holds the presidency of the Security Council as well as the chairmanship of the Summit of La Francophonie, for taking the initiative to convene this high-level debate, which is so crucial for the conduct of peacekeeping operations in the face of what have been called unprecedented asymmetrical threats. This initiative also reflects Senegal's very active role at the helm of the Council's Working Group on Peacekeeping Operations, and more generally its major, and appreciated, commitment to peacekeeping operations, including those deployed in francophone countries. I would also like, through you, Mr.”

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  29. “We were cruelly confronted by the news of the two attacks that took place in quick succession yesterday and the day before in Mali, which claimed the life of a French soldier in a mine explosion and that of a Togolese peacekeeper in an ambush that also injured seven other persons, three of them critically. We are gathered here aware of the ultimate sacrifice made by men and women deployed in the field in the service of peace. We here are driven by the same determination and urgency and the same ideal enshrined in Article 1 of the Charter of the United Nations Charter in 1945, namely, "to maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace".”

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