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Kamau

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first: 2011-02-11
most recent: 2021-10-19
sittings or episodes: 21
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“We agree with the Secretary-General that the world urgently needs a "surge in diplomacy for peace". Kenya stands ready to play its role in that surge. I also thank the previous speakers for their insightful statements. We believe that, in order to succeed in our goal of sustaining peace, we need to reframe and reprioritize our responses. Sustaining peace must run through all our collective efforts, ranging from conflict prevention, peacekeeping, peacemaking, reconstruction to development. And we agree with the Secretary-General that the primary responsibility for conflict prevention lies with Member States. The renewed approach to sustaining peace that the Secretary-General laid out today presents a solid opportunity for the United Nations to adapt better to today's global realities.”
2017-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7857 (2017) · source
“At the outset, I wish to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of January. I commend you, Sir, for the manner in which you have conducted the affairs of the Council so far. I thank you for organizing this timely debate on conflict prevention and sustaining peace and for providing us with a concept note (S/2017/6/annex) to frame it. I thank the Secretary-General for his comprehensive briefing on how we can prevent conflicts so as to achieve sustainable peace, as guided by the Charter of the United Nations. We believe that the priorities that he set out in his briefing, particularly on conflict prevention and sustaining peace, will re-energize and refocus our collective commitment towards achieving the objectives of the Charter.”
2017-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7857 (2017) · source
“We therefore hope that the Security Council will give its concurrence and support on all the foregoing matters that I have mentioned.”
2016-06-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7723 (2016) · source
“It is my intention to dedicate the second half of the tenth session to convening discussions in the Organizational Committee on revising the provisional rules of the procedure of the PBC and exploring options to diversify its working methods. We need to consider going beyond the rigid mechanisms of country configurations and be ready to respond in a flexible way to any request of interested countries, in accordance with the relevant provisions, while maintaining national ownership and leadership in peacebuilding. We also need to be able to consider cross-cutting and thematic issues. Most importantly, we need to work towards a peacebuilding whose members are engaged and ready to bring forward the work of the Commission.”
2016-06-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7723 (2016) · source
“I therefore look forward to the informal interactive dialogue that the President of the Security Council has organized for this morning, as well as to the joint event of the Economic and Social Council and the PBC scheduled for this coming Friday. This is truly a Peacebuilding Week for what we hope, in fact, will be a historic peacebuilding year. Fourthly, and finally, with regard to working methods, 10 years after the creation ofthe PBC, Member States are calling for a more effective and efficient Commission. If it is to be able to fulfil its advisory role to the General Assembly and Security Council, and ultimately assist countries affected by conflict, the PBC needs to consider diversifying its working methods to enhance its efficiency and flexibility.”
2016-06-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7723 (2016) · source
“I wish to invite all Council members to actively participate in the discussion, particularly in view of the relevance of the topic for the Council's deliberations during the formation, review and drawdown of peacekeeping operations and special political operation mandates. In that connection, I wish to thank the President of the Security Council for his decision to attend the closing session. As stated earlier, it is my intention to further strengthen the relations between the Commission and the African Union, as the Union is one of the PBC's key strategic partners, and I plan to visit, as I said, its headquarters in the second part of the year. Partnerships also include cooperation between the PBC, General Assembly, Security Council and the Economic and Social Commission.”
2016-06-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7723 (2016) · source
“We think that this should be kept in place for the next 12 to 24 months in order to totally complete Ebola recovery efforts. Thirdly, on the issue of partnerships, a key value of the Commission rests in its ability to engage not only with such key partners as regional and subregional organizations, but also with international financial institutions and civil society organizations. We have witnessed the important value to transition that partnerships can give to all our peacebuilding efforts. Tomorrow, the Commission will convene its third annual session to discuss the topic of transition. That meeting represents an important opportunity for the Commission to strengthen its relations with key partners.”
2016-06-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7723 (2016) · source
“But I also came away from West Africa with another impression - one of Governments and people determined to not only completely eradicate Ebola from their midst, but to also turn around their countries by building their economies, integrating their societies and nurturing sustainable peace. The gratitude expressed for the support received from the international community was everywhere we visited, and in that regard, as I said earlier, I must commend the Security Council for its swift and determined response, which drew the attention of the world to the onset of the crisis two years ago and the resultant and extensive support extended to the affected regions. We came away from the mission to West Africa convinced that the countries were on a strong path to recovery, but that the sustained support of the international community was needed.”
2016-06-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7723 (2016) · source
“As a follow-up, therefore, to the important work done by the Commission during the Ebola crisis, I recently undertook a visit to West Africa, where, together with a delegation composed of Chairs and Ambassadors of countries that are on the agenda, I assessed and witnessed first hand the road to recovery from the Ebola emergency in three ofthe most affected countries. What we witnessed was resolute determination and success in beating back a plague that was billed to be, at the onset, one of biblical proportions. Besides the tragic loss of life of thousands of people and the horrible suffering of many more, what Ebola has done is to expose the fragility of the affected countries and compounded and set back what were already difficulty economic and peacebuilding challenges.”
2016-06-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7723 (2016) · source
“Furthermore, on the margins of the meetings of the Security Council and the Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union earlier this year, I had informal conversations with members of the Peace and Security Council, and agreed that we should pursue deeper conversations with the African Union with a possibility of undertaking a visit to Addis Ababa and, even possibly, a retreat between the PBC and the PSC. Secondly, with regard to the role of peacebuilding in post-Ebola recovery, humanitarian crises around the world have shown themselves to be great disruptors of peace and security. They disrupt and destroy communities, sometimes causing great loss of life and at other times uprooting entire communities, resulting in the displacement of people, with the consequence of triggering migration and refugees outflows.”
2016-06-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7723 (2016) · source
“Commission members, as well as additional countries from West Africa, heard presentations by the Department of Political Affairs, the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, the United Nations Development Programme and the Peacebuilding Support Office on the most recent developments affecting peacebuilding in that region, and discussed thematic and cross-border initiatives. Both meetings were welcomed by Member States, as they represented important opportunities to make use of the convening role of the Commission as an inclusive platform for policy discussions on matters of peace. It is my intention to use the mandate of the Commission, updated recently with new functions, to expand this approach to other regions, starting with Central Africa and East Africa in the second half of the year.”
2016-06-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7723 (2016) · source
“I just want to commend the Council for that. In view of the reaffirmed support of the General Assembly and the Security Council for the PBC, we have a unique opportunity to move forward the peacebuilding agenda. Allow me to outline key initiatives that the Commission has undertaken and our plans for the remainder of the current session. First, with regard to the regional approach to address peacebuilding challenges and opportunities, the Commission convened two important meetings, in January and in April this year, to discuss trends and challenges to peacebuilding at the regional and subregional levels.”
2016-06-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7723 (2016) · source
“The resolutions also emphasize that sustaining peace requires a comprehensive approach that looks at all stages of conflict, with a particular focus on prevention and the need to address the root causes of conflict. They call upon the Peacebuilding Commission to fulfil a number of important functions in the areas of advocacy, coordination and partnership. During the recently completed PBC West Africa tour of Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Senegal, the value of the important messages contained in these resolutions was reinforced by everything that we heard from all the stakeholders in all the countries that we visited. In my capacity as Chair, I would also like to echo Ambassador Skoog's statement that the support of the Security Council was mentioned and its contribution and commitment were recognized everywhere we went.”
2016-06-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7723 (2016) · source
“Two months ago, on 27 April the General Assembly and the Security Council adopted two substantially identical resolutions - resolutions 70/262 and 2282 (2016), respectively - which, building on the excellent work done in 2015 by Ambassador Rosenthal and the Advisory Group of Experts on the peacebuilding review, recognize that sustaining peace is a shared task to be fulfilled by Governments and national stakeholders, but that it also needs sustained international attention and assistance to countries affected by or at risk of conflict. Those resolutions emphasize, inter alia, that sustaining peace requires more coherence among the security, development, humanitarian and human rights actors of the United Nations system, as well as more coordination among General Assembly, Security Council and the Economic and Social Council.”
2016-06-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7723 (2016) · source
“Mr. Kamau: Let me begin by thanking the French presidency of the Security Council for inviting the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) to this briefing. The PBC takes these opportunities seriously. I also commend you, Sir, for the manner in which you have conducted the affairs of the Council. At the outset, I wish to thank my Vice-Chairs - the Permanent Representative of Sweden, Ambassador Skoog, who is also the former Chair, and Ambassador Hahn Choonghee of the Republic of Korea - for their continued support as Vice-Chairs of the PBC. I would also like to recognize the continuing sterling work and commitment of all the configuration Chairs and the support that the PBC gets from its membership and the Peacebuilding Support Office.”
2016-06-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7723 (2016) · source
“Importantly, we also intend to work very closely with Mr. Donald Kaberuka in the context of the African Peace Fund. We also look forward to working with him and to achieving greater success in raising additional funds for both the African Peace Fund and the broader Peacebuilding Fund of the Peacebuilding Commission. In conclusion, we must link ourjoint peacebuilding efforts to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (General Assembly 5 70/1) and the African Union's Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want. The opportunities contained in these mutually reinforcing and coherent frameworks must be supported to achieve inclusive growth, sustained development and peace and security for Africa.”
2016-05-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7694 (2016) · source
“As we work together to strengthen our partnership, we also intend to leave no one behind. We must focus on the inclusive participation of young people in our peacebuilding efforts. It is evident that investing in young people guarantees peace and security, as well as development. It is our responsibility to provide young people with the opportunity to play their rightful role in peacebuilding and development. Similarly, we must also acknowledge the importance of women's leadership and participation in conflict prevention, resolution and peacebuilding. We must particularly include gender-related issues in all discussions pertinent to sustaining peace, and promote the gender dimensions of peacebuilding, including through the strengthening of women's meaningful participation in peacebuilding.”
2016-05-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7694 (2016) · source
“The Peacebuilding Commission intends to use the momentum generated from these new resolutions, and the commitment of the Security Council and the General Assembly, to further enhance and institutionalize cooperation with the African Union. We will aim to arrive at an agreed framework for further consultations, exchange of information and analysis, and opportunities forjoint initiatives aimed at sustaining peace in Africa. I am planning to lead a delegation of the Peacebuilding Commission to West Africa in mid-June, including Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Senegal, to draw attention to the peacebuilding priorities and needs within the context of post-Ebola recovery. Our visit to Senegal, the current chair of ECOWAS, will provide an opportunity to discuss the regional peacebuilding challenges and priorities.”
2016-05-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7694 (2016) · source
“The discussions also centred on strategies to address the challenges that arise when working with the countries in the region, as well as when working within and in concert with the African Union, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the African Development Bank and other international and regional actors. We are looking forward to further strengthening and deepening this partnership in view of the new road map for the African Peace and Security Architecture. We are aware that this road map would provide a framework for practical measures to reorient the African Union Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development Framework.”
2016-05-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7694 (2016) · source
“For instance, we have been able to work closely and, speaking in one voice, to complement our joint efforts to sustain peace in Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, the Central African Republic and Burundi. Similarly, over the past year the Commission has increased its focus on thematic, cross-cutting and regional peacebuilding challenges. The Commission held regional discussions on peacebuilding in West Africa in January and April this year. Those discussions provided a unique opportunity to look at the growing cross-border challenges beyond the confines of specific countries.”
2016-05-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7694 (2016) · source
“In our commitment, we will continue to strengthen national ownership and leadership in our engagement, because we are convinced that the responsibility for sustaining peace is shared between the Government and all national stakeholders, including youth, women and civil society. The new resolutions on the United Nations peacebuilding architecture also stress the importance of the partnerships and cooperation between the United Nations and the regional and subregional organizations, in particular the African Union. The Peacebuilding Commission has been working closely with the African Union and the regional economic communities in Africa to increase synergies, enhance coherence and complementarity of our joint peacebuilding efforts.”
2016-05-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7694 (2016) · source
“Rather than wait until a crisis breaks out and then make a default or template recourse in the form of a response, we need to integrate sustaining peace in our security, development and human-rights agenda. We feel that we cannot emphasize that point enough. The twin resolutions I just mentioned foresee a Peacebuilding Commission that is proactively focused on assisting countries to prevent conflict and sustain peace. The PBC is expected to become a more efficient and flexible convening platform for policy dialogue and for availing all countries that seek the support of the United Nations for achieving sustainable peace an opportunity to work through that platform. We are fully committed to making that a reality.”
2016-05-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7694 (2016) · source
“That is the essence of our collective efforts for sustaining peace. The peace and security challenges that we face are too extremely complex and interlinked for any single organization to address them alone. They call for collective action. To succeed in our goal of sustaining peace, we need to reframe and reprioritize our responses. We must never forget that peace is at the core of that for which the Charter stands for. It must run through all our collective efforts, ranging from conflict prevention to peacebuilding, peacekeeping, reconstruction and, indeed, sustainable development. That renewed approach to sustainable peace would allow us to best adapt to today's global realities.”
2016-05-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7694 (2016) · source
“Current global realities include an increasing number of violent conflicts, exacerbated by the deepening refugee crisis, rising terrorist threats and violent extremism. There is clearly a need to focus on conflict prevention and addressing the root causes of conflict. The primacy of politics should guide our collective work in peace operations. We must not let situations deteriorate into violent conflicts for us in order to react with security or military measures. We need to change our mindset away from military engagements and towards the prevention of conflicts. We can achieve that through horizon-scanning, shared joint analysis, dialogue, mediation and accompaniment in situations of crisis. We must re-focus our work on conflict resolution rather than on conflict management.”
2016-05-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7694 (2016) · source
“Our cooperation in the area of peace and security has been critical to our collective progress and achievements. Today's debate provides us an opportunity to review the status of the strategic partnership between the United Nations and the African Union. On 27 April, the Security Council and the General Assembly adopted identical resolutions - namely, General Assembly resolution 70/262 and resolution 2282 (2016) respectively - on the review of United Nations peacebuilding architecture. Those resolutions are comprehensive and far-reaching documents. They have introduced the notion of sustaining peace and the importance of national, regional and international efforts aimed at preventing the outbreak, escalation, continuation and recurrence of conflict. Those resolutions have further strengthened the foundation of our cooperation.”
2016-05-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7694 (2016) · source
“Mr. Kamau: I would like to begin by commending you, Sir, for having organized this important and timely open debate on the cooperation between the United Nations and the African Union. We appreciate the detailed concept note (S/2016/428, annex) to guide this debate. I also thank you, Sir, for having invited me to brief this meeting in my capacity as Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC). I would also like recognize the presence of the members of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union at today's meeting, and I too extend my welcome to them to New York. Over the past decade, the strategic partnership between the United Nations and the African Union and other subregional organizations in Africa has grown significantly, in line with Chapter VIII of the Charter of the United Nations.”
2016-05-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7694 (2016) · source
“In conclusion, I wish to reiterate the importance of preventing conflicts, the separation of religion from politics, the proper coordination and sharing of information, and the role of amnesty in fostering counter-narratives against the ideologies of violent extremism. The Kenyan delegation looks forward to the continued debate during the forthcoming review of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, and to receiving the Security Council in Nairobi later this week, where we hope to take this conversation even further.”
2016-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7690 (2016) · source
“There is need to reach out to and involve all sectors of society - including through community policing, religious leaders, private sector and civil society - because it is only through those partnerships that we can hope to attain success. Thirdly, investments in deradicalization, rehabilitation and reintegration are key to winning the war of ideas with violent extremist groups. Fourthly, Governments should formulate inclusive policies to address the various socioeconomic and political drivers behind the violent extremist narratives. Fifthly, adequate resourcing and capacity-building are critical at all levels, as are investments in educational programes and early warning systems to ensure timely corrective interventions.”
2016-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7690 (2016) · source
“Allow me to share some of the lessons leant from our experiences that we believe to be crucial to the success of any strategy, be it local, national or international, in countering extremist ideology and the terrorism that it drives. First, there is a need to prevent conflicts and to expeditiously resolve the existing ones. No narrative to counter any ideology can succeed if communities are still engaged in open hostilities. The primacy of politics - which we take extremely seriously - in the resolution of conflicts is key to attaining sustainable solutions. Secondly, we need to improve coordination, both nationally and regionally, through the timely sharing of information and best practices.”
2016-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7690 (2016) · source
“That is our experience in Kenya, which has driven our Government, after 25 years of hosting over 500,000 refugees, to finally decide to shut down those camps. Similarly, the use of cyberspace, particularly the social media on the Internet, is posing new challenges in the war against terrorism and extremism. Kenya's strategy to counter narratives and ideologies of violent extremism seeks to facilitate an inclusive and total rejection of extremist ideologies hostile to the Kenya's nationhood and way of life as a secular State. It seeks to promote narratives that minimize sympathy for terrorism as a means to change society or politics.”
2016-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7690 (2016) · source
“Just this morning in a room next door, we listened to Asha Mansour from Tunisia, who challenged us to in that high-level meeting by asking us why it is that today, in a country like Tunisia, where the Arab Spring was born, so many young people have turned to recruitment by ISIS. Failure to address frustration and hopelessness, mainly caused by economic injustices, endemic conflicts, human right violations and social inequalities seems to have left many young people throughout the world vulnerable to extremist ideologies. Migrants and refugees are also targets of violent extremist ideology due to their vulnerability. Refugee camps have been used as recruitment and staging grounds by violent extremists.”
2016-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7690 (2016) · source
“They use claims of global and local victimization of Muslims to assemble militant recruits willing to carry out suicide and mass casualty attacks against civilians and infrastructure in our country and neighbouring countries. The group retains an ambition to establish an East African caliphate to replace the current secular States and other religious traditions. We believe that the international community's counter-narratives in response to the challenge of violent extremism are manifestly weak. It has failed to adequately address frustrations and hopelessness, particularly among the youth.”
2016-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7690 (2016) · source
“Nearly all the international conflicts on the agenda of the Security Council have violent extremist groups as main protagonists. We have witnessed the emergence of groups such the Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham (ISIS) (Da'esh), Boko Haram, Al-Shabaab, Al-Qaida and numerous affiliates and other non-State actors in violent conflict hotspots across the world. Those groups have exploited the conflicts, the attendant State collapse, socioeconomic grievances and geopolitical disorder, especially in the Middle East, to survive and to thrive. Violent extremist movements hide behind religion to pursue political ends. In Kenya, the Somali-based Al-Shabaab, an Al-Qaida affiliate, utilizes a Salafi- jihadi ideology through selective reading of Islamic religious texts and histories in order to justify its own hideous acts.”
2016-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7690 (2016) · source
“Let me begin by congratulating you, Mr. President, on behalf of the Kenyan delegation, on assuming the presidency of the Council for the month of May. I commend you for the manner in which you have conducted its affairs. I also thank you for hosting this important debate at a time when the United Nations is preparing to review its Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy to align it with current realities and developments. We too welcome the Secretary-General's Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism (A/70/674). Let me express our sincere condolences and sympathies to our Arab brothers in Iraq, who today have once again suffered an outrageous attack by terrorists. Iraq has suffered for way too long under the terror of events in the country. What was impossible to imagine a generation ago has come to pass.”
2016-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7690 (2016) · source
“That will help all of us address alienation and exclusion, intolerance and violence, as those are the challenges that are driving and enablisng terrorism and violent extremism to advance everywhere throughout the world.”
2016-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7670Resumption1 (2016) · source
“In conclusion, I wish to reiterate my delegation's commitment to international solidarity in the war against terrorism, and we look forward to the review of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Strategy in June 2016, subsequent to which we expect that we shall be able to adopt a more progressive strategy that is able to address current and emerging challenges and realities to help us achieve our collective aspirations of ending terrorism and violent extremism. The 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development (General Assembly resolution 70/1), provides us, as we all know, with a collective standard and a transformative framework to address economic inequalities within and among nations.”
2016-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7670Resumption1 (2016) · source
“That is why the Government is fully committed to the devolution of budgetary resources to the county level for development initiatives, because we have come to realize that this helps to create jobs, deliver services and delegitimize the narratives of marginalization by extremist groups. The Kenyan Government is also heavily invested in youth and women. Development funds to enhance and facilitate financial inclusion have been set up and help to ensure that all segments of society are engaged in productive economic activities.”
2016-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7670Resumption1 (2016) · source
“A financial reporting centre is now also fully operational, The centre enhances the capacity of the banking and financial services sector to prevent, detect and counter terrorism financing through Kenya's economy. Capacity-building to build the resilience of communities, including initiatives to assist them in preventing and addressing threats and in rehabilitating and reintegrating their members who have been radicalized or are reformed terrorists, is the third strategy. This helps these communities to reject violent extremist narratives and to recover from acts of violent extremism.”
2016-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7670Resumption1 (2016) · source
“Curative and rehabilitative measures to deal with those already radicalized and the affected communities are a second, important measure. The Government plans to set up a prison and rehabilitation centre dedicated to the rehabilitation of terrorists to help them transit and be reintegrated into the community as reformed and productive members of our society. Training and continuing education for both the investigative and the prosecution arms of law enforcement on best practices investigations and evidence collection, the protection and promotion of the rule of law, and training in other other criminaljustice aspects to enhance and consolidate the war against terrorism are another strategy.”
2016-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7670Resumption1 (2016) · source
“Through increased public engagement at all levels, the war against terrorism is being prosecuted and executed by both the law enforcement agencies and the citizenry and local communities, as it is now seen as a call to defend their national values, democracy, freedom and, of course, Kenya's way of life. Kenya's efforts to counter violent extremism take a threefold approach. First, prevention measures target individuals and communities at risk and exposure to recruiters into violent extremism. These prevention measures focus on investments, for example, in education to counter terrorism and violent extremism ideologies. We also focus on smart immigration and border-control systems, effective puinc service delivery, the protection of liberties and freedoms, and the enhancement of democracy in our country.”
2016-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7670Resumption1 (2016) · source
“The Kenya delegation is of the view that the United Nations, in particular the Security Council, has an important role to play in order to positively advance the war against terror. Yet, it has not fully brought its immense convening power to bear on this matter. The United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy alone, without a binding legal instrument against terrorism, cannot yield the dividends that we all aspire to. At the national level, Kenya has established the National Counter-Terrorism Centre, an inter-agency organization that coordinates the implementation of the national counter-terrorism strategy and action plans. With the enhanced coordination of national efforts, we have realized a reduction in the number and intensity of terrorists acts in our country.”
2016-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7670Resumption1 (2016) · source
“We are aligning our counter- terrorism strategy and national action plans with the Plan of Action in order to enable us enhance preventive actions, particularly through early warning systems at the local and grassroots levels, as that is one of the most effective ways to snuff out the terrorist supply chain of new recruits. Prevention will also delegitimize the radicalization and violent extremist narrative online and offline before it gains ground anywhere. The Plan of Action focuses on and calls upon Member States and the entire United Nations system to cooperate, collaborate and work together to conclusively address this problem. The international community must fully unite in order to succeed.”
2016-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7670Resumption1 (2016) · source
“It is a global challenge requiring concerted international efforts to eradicate. Terrorists have become more sophisticated, globalized, cruel and brutal as they continue to proliferate. The Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham/Da'esh, Al-Qaida, Boko Haram, Al-Shabaab and other groups are emerging in various parts of the world and continue to pose a real, daily threat. Kenya welcomes the Secretary-General's Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism as a basis for each Member State to put its political will into concrete action against terrorism.”
2016-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7670Resumption1 (2016) · source
“The delegation of Kenya congratulates you, Sir, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for the month of April and commends you for your skilful conduct of the affairs of the Council. I thank the Secretary-General for his briefing and illuminating remarks. My delegation also appreciates all the reports that have been shared with us, including the concept note for this meeting (S/2016/306, annex). Please allow me reiterate the solidarity of our Government and delegation with the Governments and peoples of countries who have suffered and continue to suffer unnecessary loss of life perpetrated through cowardly, backward and evil terrorist attacks by retrogressive forces in various parts of the world. The threat posed by international terrorism is the greatest challenge to sustaining peace and sustainable development.”
2016-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7670Resumption1 (2016) · source
“That is equally true within, and among, nations. That is why we are having this debate here today in the Security Council. But words without actions are shameful and futile. Global peace and harmony are intrinsically tied up with the promotion and protection of the human rights of women and girls everywhere. We must act accordingly. Let there be no doubt about that.”
2016-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7658 (2016) · source
“Women in Kenya, even today, 50 years after independence, remain firmly at the bottom on the rungs of social progress and empowerment. I cannot emphasize enough how conscious I am of the fact that gender is a central factor in the delivery of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (General Assembly resolution 70/1) and the better future that we all want. Realizing the ambition of a better more inclusive future and a sustainable world that achieves sustainable development - with sustainable peace and security for all at its core - will require that we respond forcefully and with determination to the issue and condition of women and girls in our societies. The centrality of gender issues within families and communities, especially with regard to the protection and promotion of girls and women, cannot be gainsaid.”
2016-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7658 (2016) · source
“In conclusion, let me reiterate that the Peacebuilding Commission is committed to advocating on behalf of women and young people and to using its intergovernmental approach and its convening power and leverage to engage national partners, to open up space for their participation and to help ensure that they receive the acknowledgment and dedicated support that they deserve. The Peacebuilding Commission gender strategy is an important step in the process of operationalizing a transformative women and peace and security agenda. IfI may, Madam President, I would like to add a special personal emphasis on the issue of gender. I have just come from Kenya, and I have witnessed again the ruin that 100 years of colonial and post-colonial policies have caused to the place of women in our culture and in our society.”
2016-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7658 (2016) · source
“Clearly, the inclusion of women is essential for achieving lasting peace in Burundi, and the experiences of the women mediators could be instructive for all stakeholders involved in ongoing dialogue processes. Peace will be sustainable only with the participation of all the relevant national stakeholders, including civil society. The recent adoption by the Security Council of resolution 2250 (2015), on youth, peace and security, was an important step towards greater inclusivity in peacebuilding. The role of young women and men in conflict prevention and resolution and in peacebuilding is finally getting the recognition that it deserves. The Peacebuilding Commission also firmly believes that young women are central actors, not just for the future of their countries but also for the present - starting right now.”
2016-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7658 (2016) · source
“In Burundi, as stated by the Executive Diretor of UN-Women this morning, the same combination of leadership, strategic funding from the Peacebuilding Fund and in-country expertise allowed UN-Women to support a network of 534 women mediators working across all municipalities. By their count, women mediators addressed over 5,000 conflicts at the local level in 2015 alone. They have been tackling familial, social and land-related conflicts at the community level, which can easily become politicized and risk destabilizing communities. The mediators promote non-violence and dialogue, and work to counter rumours and exaggerated fears with verifiable information.”
2016-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7658 (2016) · source
“Julia Duncan- Cassel, Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection of Liberia, reminded us just last week, in her address to the Commission on the Status of Women, that Liberia has been able to make great strides towards sustaining peace and empowering women economically thanks to the commitment of the national authorities, the in-country expertise from the UN-Women country office and catalytic funding from the Peacebuilding Fund. We should also not forget that Liberia is a country governed by a woman, and it was that woman who led the country out of a very difficult transition from war to peace, and the same woman who steered the country through another transition, a very difficult one, from a horrific epidemic to normalcy.”
2016-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7658 (2016) · source