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Karel van Oosterom

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2020-07-02
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2020-08-12
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  1. “The Netherlands looks forward to continuing to make its contribution to bringing this issue forth in the formal phase of the 2020 review of the United Nations peacebuilding architecture, and to work together with many of the participants in today’s debate.”

    2020-08-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/799 (2020) · source

  2. “Local and national Government institutions, including those working on health, grievance management, transitional justice, dialogue and reconciliation, play a central role in this effort. From the two consultations on the integration of MHPSS in peacebuilding we have organized for the review of the United Nations peacebuilding architecture — one with experts and one with representatives of States Members of the United Nations — it became clear that many participants would like to see an enhanced inclusion of MHPSS in peacebuilding efforts. MHPSS needs to be structurally and explicitly taken into account, in peacebuilding analyses, programming, monitoring, evaluation and learning.”

    2020-08-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/799 (2020) · source

  3. “Based on the imminent report of the Secretary-General, coming later in 2020, we look forward to joining hands with other Member States to find new and innovative ways to ensure more structural and predictable funding for peacebuilding, including good peacebuilding donorship. Lastly, with respect to MHPSS, the pandemic has laid bare the need for more attention to be paid to mental health and psychosocial support, as outlined by the Secretary-General’s policy brief on MHPSS. MHPSS in peacebuilding settings is absolutely critical for creating conditions for sustaining peace. To avoid the cycle of conflict and to counter social disintegration in fragile societies, it is key that we integrate MHPSS in peacebuilding from the outset.”

    2020-08-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/799 (2020) · source

  4. “Secondly, with regard to financing for peacebuilding, peacebuilding efforts remain greatly underfinanced, unfortunately, even if needs continue to rise as a result of this pandemic. The Netherlands hopes to continue its substantial funding of different multilateral peacebuilding instruments, but times are uncertain and concerted action by States Members of the United Nations is needed in this regard. We must therefore use the review of the United Nations peacebuilding architecture to discuss in earnest ways to significantly increase means available for peacebuilding. We expect the Peacebuilding Commission to play a role in this regard. The financial proposals set forth in Secretary-General’s 2018 report on peacebuilding and sustaining peace (S/2018/43) are still largely unimplemented.”

    2020-08-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/799 (2020) · source

  5. “Achieving sustainable peace requires parallel progress on development, security and human rights. Therefore, more than ever, United Nations actors on the ground must pursue cooperation and partnership with the guidance of a resident coordinator. The fact that the Peacebuilding Fund proves so effective at bringing United Nations actors together at the country level is one of the reasons why we are one of its biggest donors. Similarly, we have decided to immediately support the United Nations COVID-19 Response and Recovery Multi-Partner Trust Fund, as it is the centralized United Nations response to the socioeconomic consequences of this crisis, which is a key dimension of sustaining peace.”

    2020-08-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/799 (2020) · source

  6. “That means first and foremost that we need a strong and effective United Nations, especially in the area of peacebuilding and sustaining peace. Accordingly, we wish to draw the Security Council’s attention to three elements that are essential for the United Nations to be able to deliver: first, United Nations reforms; secondly, financing for peacebuilding; and thirdly, mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS). With regard to United Nations reforms, in many ways, the COVID-19 pandemic provides a test case for such reforms. The challenges posed are so multifaceted that they can be addressed comprehensively only by involving a variety of relevant United Nations actors, all which would contribute in distinct ways to the aim of sustaining peace.”

    2020-08-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/799 (2020) · source

  7. “Let me first congratulate Indonesia on assuming the presidency for the month of August. We thank the Indonesian presidency for convening today’s timely and important debate. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has acted as a contrast agent that has brought already visible geopolitical differences into sharper focus. On the ground, the pandemic has been seen to exacerbate existing tensions in fragile regions, fuelling popular discontent and putting peacebuilding gains at risk of reversal. In societies where human rights were already under pressure, we see a reflex to further curb civic space. The pandemic and its direct and indirect effects are by definition an issue of global concern, which means that we must come together as an international community to address it urgently and comprehensively.”

    2020-08-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/799 (2020) · source

  8. “The broadest possible support of the Fund in further funding rounds is essential if we are to enable the United Nations, including the Security Council, to play its role in protecting those most vulnerable. It is also critical to leverage what is already being done, and to move from crisis mitigation to truly building back better together. Only thus can we ensure that the current crisis does not set us back, but instead makes us look towards a better future, with a more balanced global economy and measures to combat climate change.”

    2020-07-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/663 (2020) · source

  9. “That is why we found it necessary to support to the Secretary-General’s COVID-19 Response and Recovery Multi-Partner Trust Fund as the centralized United Nations response to the socioeconomic consequences of the crisis. This pooled fund is providing an immediate, context-specific response with the ultimate goal of building back better towards the Sustainable Development Goals with a strong Resident Coordinator and United Nations country team within the spirit of the reform of the United Nations development system. To that end, the Kingdom of the Netherlands has quickly provided €15 million. In conclusion, we have only begun to understand the devastating effects of the crisis on people everywhere.”

    2020-07-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/663 (2020) · source

  10. “Thirdly, the socioeconomic consequences of COVID-19 and the lockdown measures taken in response are increasingly visible, and are so severe that they have resulted in nearly universal setbacks in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In our response to the crisis, we must focus on the needs of those most vulnerable if we are to leave no one behind. Their exact composition varies by context, but we know that women and girls are among the hardest hit. We must also remember that the most affected need to be involved in overcoming the crisis. Their voices need to be heard. This crisis has laid bare the deep inequalities that exist within and among countries, and those inequalities inherently carry the risk of conflict.”

    2020-07-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/663 (2020) · source

  11. “We must also be aware that peacekeeping operations are more than ever targets of disinformation campaigns. False rumours about missions spreading the virus need to be countered immediately so that missions do not lose popular support. In addition, the funding of peacekeeping is still in dire straits. We call on all countries to pay their contributions promptly and in full, especially in these difficult times. We are glad that we have adopted a timely resolution on peacekeeping budgets that also allows for the requested flexibility to absorb the financial implications of the pandemic. As champions of both performance and the protection of civilians in the Action for Peacekeeping agenda, an initiative we have supported since its launch in 2018, we underline the need for missions to be able to properly carry out their mandates.”

    2020-07-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/663 (2020) · source

  12. “With 2010 still in our minds, when the cholera outbreak in Haiti was linked to United Nations peacekeepers, we must take the utmost care to prevent a spread of the virus in already vulnerable areas. In addition, mandates have to be discharged and troops must continue engaging with the target populations. That demands a great deal from our Blue Helmets. Mediation efforts and interaction with the local population, essential to the implementation of the mandates, have become challenging at best. We are also mindful of the risk of potential implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on the incidence of sexual exploitation and abuse. We support the Secretary-General’s efforts to prevent an increase of such cases in the context of humanitarian and peacekeeping settings during the pandemic.”

    2020-07-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/663 (2020) · source

  13. “We ask the Council to look past its differences, to enshrine the multilateral response to the pandemic as outlined by the Secretary General and — especially — to keep echoing his call for a global ceasefire, which my country has wholeheartedly supported on several occasions. Secondly, over the past decades, peacekeeping operations have provided an invaluable contribution to peace and security in the world’s most difficult places. This Tuesday, we remembered the 77 persons who paid the ultimate price in the service of peace over the past year — many in United Nations peacekeeping operations — and we pay tribute to their sacrifice. Apart from the risks that are always inherent to peacekeeping operations, the pandemic has added an extra level of complexity. The first is the significant challenge of rotating troops in and out of missions.”

    2020-07-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/663 (2020) · source

  14. “It is therefore hard to understand why the Council could not come earlier to a similar conclusion on the far-wider-reaching coronavirus. In addition, in 2018, when we were a member of the Council, the Council united behind the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to work closely with WHO to provide safety to health workers in eastern Congo and help eradicate the Ebola virus there. Last week the region was declared Ebola-free. That proves once again that the Council can and must also make an impact on the ground when it comes to pandemics.”

    2020-07-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/663 (2020) · source

  15. “In its 75 years of existence, the Council has contributed to unparalleled growth in prosperity and peace worldwide. That is why it is so disheartening to see that well-known and regrettable stalemates in the Council over the last few years have in recent months also extended to the fight against COVID-19. Although we are glad that resolution 2532 (2020), on COVID-19, was adopted yesterday, the failure of the Council to agree on a resolution on the pandemic at an earlier stage remains a disappointment. In the case of Ebola, resolution 2177 (2014) determined that the outbreak constituted a threat to international peace and security by undermining the stability of the most affected countries and possibly leading to further instances of civil unrest, social tensions and the deterioration of the political and security climate.”

    2020-07-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/663 (2020) · source

  16. “At the same time, 75 years after the signing of the Charter of the United Nations, we see many around the world coming together in search of a global response and international cooperation. As an example, I need only point to the Global Goal: Unite for Our Future event last weekend, which brought together an incredible roster of celebrities and politicians expressing their desire to emerge from this crisis stronger, more united and safer. COVID-19 is already having a profound impact on the daily lives of the world’s most vulnerable, with adverse effects on their employment, equality and security. I would now like to focus on three points, namely, the role of the Security Council, peacekeeping operations and building back better. First, when it comes to issues of peace and security, the world looks to the Security Council for leadership.”

    2020-07-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/663 (2020) · source

  17. “We need only to look back at the Secretary-General’s January speech (see A/74/PV.54), where he outlined the four horsemen in our midst: geopolitical tensions on the rise, global mistrust on the rise, the climate crisis and the dark side of technology. So far, the coronavirus has acted as a contrast fluid, putting geopolitical differences that were already visible into sharper focus. It has also exacerbated global mistrust and put into play the dark side of technology. The World Health Organization (WHO) must now fight not only the pandemic but also an infodemic fuelled by cyberattacks and disinformation. Societies where human rights were already under pressure are now pushed to curb civic space further. Many important international meetings to agree on common action against climate change are being put on hold.”

    2020-07-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/663 (2020) · source

  18. “Please allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for the month of July — the third and last consecutive presidency in the European spring. Without question, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) will remain at the top of everyone’s agenda throughout the summer. I therefore applaud the fact that you start your presidency by organizing this debate on pandemics and security. It shows the commitment and energy infused to the Council by elected members, and I congratulate all the newly elected members that will join the Council in 2021. Even without the extraordinary changes brought about by COVID-19, 2020 was already going to be a challenging year in many respects.”

    2020-07-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/663 (2020) · source