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“While we do not expect the task to be easy, if we sustain our efforts from now until the United Nations review conference takes place in 2006, we believe that the initiative stands a real chance of success. We welcome the recent decision to expand the scope of the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms as a global transparency and confidence-building measure. We welcome the Secretary-General's recommendation that the Council call for the strict enforcement of embargoes to countries or regions threatened by, engaged in or emerging from armed conflict. We welcome the Security Council focus on practical measures, including further consideration of financing and improving disarmament, demobilization and reintegration and incorporating the process into the mandate of peacekeeping operations.”
2004-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4896 (2004) · source
“The second was the armed violence and poverty initiative, which aims to document the impact of arms on poverty and to encourage donors, the international financial institutions and developing countries to design development programmes which take account of and seek to address the root causes of armed violence. But much more needs to be done if these initiatives are to have a lasting impact. On the transfer control initiative, the United Kingdom will use the next year as an opportunity to build consensus with, we hope, others in Central and South America, South-East Asia and East, West and Southern Africa. Next year, we and our partners will try to build consensus within the European Union, the United Nations and possibly also the Group of Eight.”
2004-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4896 (2004) · source
“Looking ahead, we attach great importance to the biennial meeting of 2005 which will be a crucial step towards the preparation of the 2006 review conference- an evaluation of the programme of action. Leading up to the 2006 meeting, the United Kingdom aims to work with others to promote progressive policies on small arms internationally. Last year, the United Kingdom launched two very relevant initiatives. The first was the transfer control initiative, which seeks to raise awareness and build consensus subregionally, regionally and internationally on the need to develop harmonized guidelines on small arms transfers, with a view to developing international agreement by the United Nations small arms review conference in 2006.”
2004-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4896 (2004) · source
“We fully support the development of an international instrument to enable States to identify and trace, in a timely and reliable manner, illicit small arms and light weapons and believe the establishment of an open-ended working group is an important step towards that goal. Export controls are an essential tool in helping to curtail illicit trafficking in small arms and light weapons. One measure to improve such controls would be to enhance the effectiveness and verification of end- user certificates. The United Kingdom strongly believes some evaluation of the environment in which an end-user certificate is issued should also be taken into consideration, for example, taking account of whether the end-user is a realistic destination for the type and quantity of goods listed.”
2004-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4896 (2004) · source
“Mr. King: We welcome the Secretary-General's report and today's meeting. The United Kingdom recognizes the influential and significant role to be played by the Security Council in supporting the General Assembly and the United Nations Programme of Action in the fight against the proliferation and the misuse of small arms and light weapons. The United Kingdom is committed to the full implementation of the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects. Indeed, we have contributed some Â£20 million to the programme over recent years.”
2004-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4896 (2004) · source
“We have established these contacts with those in other organizations who set the standards, but we hope that the CTC's experts will explore What more could be done to get regional organizations to address terrorism themselves. There was much interest expressed at the 6 March special meeting and we should be prepared to help those organizations for which this is a new agenda item to develop the expertise to take discussion forward. So we look forward to the October meeting.”
2003-07-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4792 (2003) · source
“My second point - and it is quite closely related - relates to States that are falling behind on implementation or on cooperation with the CTC, as requested in resolution 1456 (2003). There is a range of reasons for this, but we see a need for sharper analysis of these reasons and think that the experts must be prepared to advise the CTC and the Council where there are concerns. In our turn, we, the Council, need to be prepared to respond to these points from experts. My last point is about the need to continue to deepen contacts with other organizations - a point that several others speakers have already touched on.”
2003-07-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4792 (2003) · source
“First, the CTC needs to build on its work on assistance. We think that we need to strengthen the expert team in this area. The experts are increasingly identifying areas in which States can benefit from or be able to access help. The CTC and its experts need to be proactive in discussing their conclusions With States concerned, including through direct contact with capitals, Whether that is by telephone or by actual visits. They will help States to access the increasingly wide-ranging assistance programmes which are available. A priority in moving forward in this area is sorting out legislation, which needs to be in place before States can move on to other areas.”
2003-07-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4792 (2003) · source
“But, and this is the end of my first point, across the board we think that the CTC is going to have to redouble its efforts to maintain momentum. The United Kingdom is ready to offer whatever support it can. My second general point is the key challenge of keeping the CTC's work operational. It can be a success if, and only if, it makes a real difference on the ground. It is, of course, in all our interests that the CTC remain effective, because that will reduce the scope for atrocities. We all have a responsibility to ensure that the CTC can be effective by supporting it and fully cooperating with it as it pursues increasingly substantive work. I have three suggestions about the substantive work for the next period. In making these, I should like to echo others in praising the assistance that the independent experts have provided.”
2003-07-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4792 (2003) · source
“On the one hand the work is getting more technical and more complex, and, on the other, although the shock remains, the memories of 11 September are inevitably fading. Progress has been made, of course, since we adopted resolution 1373 (2001), but there is no doubt that the threat posed by terrorism remains. We must hope that we never confront another event similar to that of 11 September, but we cannot yet say that that possibility is excluded. Terrorist access to weapons of mass destruction remains a key concern, and we welcome the fact that the CTC has met agencies involved in addressing weapons of mass destruction and that agreement was reached to include this as an issue in the outgoing letters from the CTC.”
2003-07-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4792 (2003) · source
“I should like to begin by complimenting you, Sir, on the early months of your chairmanship of the Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC). We are grateful for what you have done. We endorse the work programme that you have set out for the next 90 days and the principles that guide this. I will associate myself with the statement to be made later this morning by the Italian presidency of the European Union and would like to underline the very considerable efforts that the European Union is making in this field. I will therefore confine myselfjust to two general points and three more specific ones on the work of the Counter-Terrorism Committee. The first general point is that, in many ways, the challenge that the CTC faces is getting increasingly difficult.”
2003-07-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4792 (2003) · source
“Above all, all the Congolese parties need to listen to the people they seek to represent and respect their rights, needs and wishes. We would be grateful for any further comments from Mr. Guehenno and Mr. Ramcharan on how they see the monitoring of human rights being further strengthened - for example, involving civil society, especially at the local level. More generally, how can we promote civil society involvement in the transition process? Also, as we have heard, some good efforts have been made to tackle gender-related issues, but is there more we can do, including through MONUC, to ensure that women play a full part in all these areas of the transition, as well as playing a wider role in government and development?”
2003-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4784 (2003) · source
“We need to see the development in the Democratic Republic of the Congo of a culture of dignity and respect for all, and it has to start at the top. The establishment of law and order, respect for human rights and justice must be top priorities for the transitional Government. The power-sharing arrangements of the new transitional Government need to work in the interest of all the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We need to avoid a situation in which those arrangements become a new forum for conflict among the political elite. Looking further ahead, the transition will need to lead to free and fair elections. The transitional Government needs from the start to create a culture of political freedom, freedom of expression and freedom of the media.”
2003-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4784 (2003) · source
“We are grateful for the reports before the Council and for today's briefing. We share the revulsion of others at the abuses we have heard described and at the lack of respect for human life that they represent. We have heard about rape and mutilation being used as weapons of war, and about pillage being used by armed groups as a means of sustaining their operations - in other words, as a means of continuing the conflict. That disregard for the ordinary people of the Congo seems to be common to all the parties to the conflict. It needs to stop. As other speakers have underlined, we need to see an end to the culture of impunity. But human rights also carry a positive obligation, especially on those in authority.”
2003-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4784 (2003) · source
“Steiner, to displaced residents of Kosovo, calling on those who have not yet returned to do so and to join the effort to make Kosovo safer and better for all. This, after all, is the goal that we all share.”
2003-07-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4782 (2003) · source
“The United Kingdom firmly supports that policy and continues to believe that making the benchmarks operational is an important task that needs to be taken forward. There is still work to do, as we have heard. The task ahead for the international community is to ensure that Kosovo's citizens and the authorities in both Pristina and Belgrade work together to build a future that really works - a future that reflects the democratic principles of tolerance and security for all. The international community will do all it can in support, but the onus is also on those in the region to show the seriousness of their efforts to achieve those goals. In that respect, the United Kingdom particularly welcomes the open letter, quoted earlier by Mr.”
2003-07-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4782 (2003) · source
“The United Kingdom associates itself with the European Union statement to be given shortly by the Italian Ambassador. We welcome this opportunity to reiterate our support for Council resolution 1244 (1999) as the basis for the international community's policy on Kosovo. Kosovo has come a long way since that resolution was passed in 1999. For the work that he has done in the past 18 months, Mr. Steiner deserves much credit and our thanks for putting down the strong foundations necessary to build a successful future for Kosovo. We have heard about the developments and achievements this morning. But in particular we would like to draw attention to Mr. Steiner's policy initiative of "standards before status", which has underpinned the international community's recent efforts.”
2003-07-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4782 (2003) · source
“We are also very grateful to Ambassador Aguilar Zinser for sharing the leadership of the West African mission. The mission must send a tough message. The international community stands ready to help Guinea- Bissau in many areas, but needs the Government of Guinea-Bissau to show genuine commitment to free and fair elections and to sound financial management. This is what was agreed in the compact proposed by the Economic and Social Council mission last November. The Government of Guinea-Bissau must start seriously to deliver. In conclusion, we commend all those who are working to improve the situation in Guinea-Bissau and, in particular, David Stephen and the staff of the United Nations Peace-building Support Office in Guinea- Bissau.”
2003-06-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4776 (2003) · source
“We are particularly alarmed by the deterioration in the human rights situation, including lack of press freedom and the undermining of the independence of the judiciary. The primary responsibility for improving the situation lies with the President and the Government of Guinea-Bissau. We are making this clear in the proposed presidential statement and we agree with the points which previous speakers have made in this respect. The European Union's declaration on Guinea- Bissau complements these messages. The Security Council mission to West Africa later this month will start in Guinea-Bissau. It is indeed timely, as David Stephen and a number of other speakers have noted, and we are pleased to be working with the Economic and Social Council again on this subject.”
2003-06-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4776 (2003) · source
“We are grateful to the Secretary-General for his report and to David Stephen and Ambassador Kumalo for their very helpful introductory remarks today. The situation in Guinea-Bissau is very worrying. The political process appears to be stuck. We are disappointed at the lack of progress on the promulgation of the constitution, at the lack of continuity in the Administration caused by frequent ministerial changes, and at the increasing likelihood that legislative elections will again be postponed. We are also concerned about the continuing tensions in the military. We hope that Guinea-Bissau's African partners are making it clear that unconstitutional methods of proceeding will not be tolerated.”
2003-06-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4776 (2003) · source
“Annabi raised the question of tackling parallel structures. I would be grateful for anything more that he might want to add on where we stand, in particular on UNMIK's progress in that regard in Mitrovica. Thirdly, as our Fifth Committee colleagues recently discussed, UNMIK will see a reduction in staff numbers in the period ahead. We would welcome anything more that Mr. Annabi could say about how, in practice, UNMIK will proceed in shifting its activities from an executive role to a monitoring advisory role.”
2003-06-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4770 (2003) · source
“We are grateful for today's briefing. The United Kingdom fully associates itself with the statement that will be made later by the representative of Greece on behalf of the European Union and its acceding and associated countries. If I may, I just want to take this opportunity to take up three points in particular. First, in the context of the agreed "standards before status" policy, I would just like to underline that the United Kingdom fully supports the efforts to make the benchmarks operational. We are grateful for the comments and practical suggestions that have been made today regarding taking that important work forward, especially those made by the representatives of the Secretariat and the United States. As others have already said, we need to maintain our efforts in that regard. Secondly, Mr.”
2003-06-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4770 (2003) · source
“In conclusion, let me just reassure all here that the United Kingdom humanitarian community, both within Government and outside, will continue to place the highest priority on Iraq and will contribute strongly to the upcoming appeals and other calls for assistance.”
2003-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4762Resumption1 (2003) · source
“Following the adoption of this morning's resolution, we would welcome the opportunity today, and subsequently, to discuss plans for the protection of civilians, as we go forward. Finally, just briefly to touch on media reports of the discovery of further mass graves, the security of evidence that may be linked to war crimes or crimes against humanity is a priority for the commanders on the ground, although I think that we have to recognize that it is one among a number of priorities. We have a team of nine forensic experts from the United Kingdom who departed for Baghdad yesterday. They will be there to investigate the mass graves and will make recommendations for further United Kingdom assistance on this subject.”
2003-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4762Resumption1 (2003) · source
“The United Kingdom contribution to all of this will need to fit in with the international framework that is going to be agreed upon with and by the Iraqi people. If I may just pick up one issue of key concern to the United Kingdom and others - the participation of women in the new Iraq - we welcome what we have heard from the agencies about what they are doing to promote the inclusion of women in and through their work. We believe that the right decisions in this area can only accelerate Iraq's acquisition of the capacity to manage its own affairs successfully. We recall lessons that have been learned from other situations, which show the continuing importance of the protection of civilians in the post-conflict reconstruction phase.”
2003-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4762Resumption1 (2003) · source
“Looking beyond the immediate humanitarian need, the United Kingdom will work to help Iraq reach its full potential to secure a stable future where the needs of the whole population are met equitably and sustainably. Over the next six months, we believe that means focusing on a number of points: first, reducing dependence on emergency assistance; secondly, creating transparent economic governance and legislative structures; thirdly, ensuring the full participation of the Iraqi people, including - and this point has come up a number of times in our discussions today - women, in defining their own governance structures; fourthly, ensuring the delivery of essential public services; and, finally, addressing the wider regional implications of the recent conflict.”
2003-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4762Resumption1 (2003) · source
“We are starting to build that presence up in Basra, but we also have staff working with the agencies in Baghdad. Coordination is obviously vital and, if anything, will get more important as more donors and actors arrive on the scene. Much of the assistance is being coordinated in Kuwait at the Humanitarian Operations Centre, but that is continuing only until July. It is a United Nations lead, and we welcome the opportunity to continue our discussions, here and subsequently, on how the Humanitarian Coordinator, and indeed the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, will help us and tackle the issues of coordination involved. We hope and expect that we will need to factor in the NGOs, as well as agencies.”
2003-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4762Resumption1 (2003) · source
“We note and welcome the World Food Programme reports, which have reaffirmed today, that there is no food crisis, and we welcome this opportunity for an exchange on the implications of developments on the ground for the work planned under the flash appeal. Security concerns have not stopped our efforts to meet Iraq's humanitarian needs, working in many cases with and through the United Nations agencies and non- governmental organizations (NGOs) in areas where the United Kingdom has experience and, we hope, something to bring. Our overall objective is to provide support where there is greatest need. To take that agenda forward, we are establishing a presence on the ground of staff with humanitarian and development expertise as quickly as possible.”
2003-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4762Resumption1 (2003) · source
“We have established committees throughout our area of operation to engage with the local population on the restoration of public services. And the situation on basic services has improved significantly. Eighty per cent of Basra now has access to running water. Seventy-five per cent is covered by the sewage system. The An Nasiriyah electricity generation plant is running at full capacity for the first time since 1991. All hospitals have been provided with power, fuel and water supplies. We stress that this is only a start. We recognize that there is more to do. It is useful to us to have a detailed assessment from the agencies about where the impact of security concerns is being felt most keenly.”
2003-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4762Resumption1 (2003) · source
“Our assessment is that incidents continue, but on a sporadic basis. They remain localized and, for the most part, at a low level. We have been taking all possible steps to improve security and law and order in the short term. We are beginning to plan for the medium to longer term, and in particular, to look at how best to transfer responsibilities to the Iraqis themselves, including in this area. There are plans under discussion for the establishment of a trained police force and, indeed, as a concrete gauge of that, there are already 1,000 Iraqi police carrying out joint patrols with United Kingdom personnel. Let me just say a brief word about the situation in the United Kingdom area of operation. We are working to involve Iraqis in the civil administration structures.”
2003-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4762Resumption1 (2003) · source
“We welcome this opportunity to discuss the humanitarian situation in Iraq. I would like to start by saluting the efforts of the agencies that are represented here, and in particular the United Nations national staff who, as we have heard, continued to work, and the outstanding work that has been done by the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC). The United Kingdom looks forward to continuing to work extremely closely with all the teams involved on the ground to meet the challenges ahead. We believe that the humanitarian situation in Iraq is getting better. But, in saying that, we do not underestimate the challenges that lie ahead. As, I think, has emerged clearly from the discussion we are having here today, a major concern - perhaps, the major concern - continues to be security. This remains at the top of the coalition agenda.”
2003-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4762Resumption1 (2003) · source
“They concluded that these were obviously prostitutes. That was the end of the lesson, but in fact there was a weapons build-up that led to conflict. The second area that I would really like to bring to your attention - and we have had some wonderful inclinations or premonitions from members of this Council that this would be the case - is that we have heard from Cameroon that there is a full intention in October to deal with gender issues. We have heard also from Colombia that in December gender issues will be looked at. We would like each and every one, Mr. President, of the members of this Council to follow your good example, and others before you who have seen fit to deal with gender issues in the months under your review.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589Resumption1 (2002) · source
“I would just like to close by asking you to look at two areas. One is, how do you get the good intentions and the wonderful things that have been said here today to operate at ground level? And I want to bring to your attention a case in Liberia of gender perspectives on early warning. Some women saw some very unusual night activity going on in a particular part of Liberia. Because their men folk were away, they went to look to see what was going on. They witnessed the stockpiling of weapons. They immediately reported this to the Minister for Women's Affairs, who happened to be a woman. She brought the incident to the attention of the Cabinet. She was immediately silenced and told that it was none of her concern. In fact, they asked to know what were those women doing at that time of night.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589Resumption1 (2002) · source
“So it is interesting for the Council to also look at those missions where we are witnessing the beginning of critical masses of women at the top, to see if that makes a difference ultimately. Mr. President, I want to say that I thank you very much, along with the Members of this Council, for the very interesting and rich debate we have had and for the suggestions. I wish also to thank you on behalf of the Inter-agency Task Force for rounding out and refining many of the recommendations that have been put to you, and for giving us clear guidance on where you wish us to go. I would also like to thank the representative of China, who mentioned the inter-agency action plan for the follow-up of resolution 1325 (2000), and we certainly hope that by October we will be getting back to you on how that inter-agency action plan has been implemented.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589Resumption1 (2002) · source
“We are, moreover, particularly looking at the missions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and in Georgia, because there we feel that there is a critical mass of women. In Georgia, not only is the SRSG a woman, as Mr. Guehenno said, but so is her deputy. And in the Democratic Republic of the Congo there is a deputy who is a woman, there is a general advisor at the senior level, there is also going to be shortly a woman as the head of the humanitarian pillar. The latter is a very gender-sensitive woman, and not all women are gender-sensitive. There is also a Junior Professional Officer (JPO), who is coming out of the office of the focal point for women in New York.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589Resumption1 (2002) · source
“There are also workshops on building national machinery for women, which have been very useful, and on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), legal literacy, and the rights of women under peacekeeping operations. We also celebrated the International Women's Day, which was devoted for the very first time this year to the women of Afghanistan. The representative of Mexico raised the issue of the Special Representatives of the Secretary-General (SRSG), and I just want to point out that whereas there has been considerable progress since the passage of resolution 1325 (2000), we still have only one female SRSG out of about 46, and three female deputy SRSG's out of about 12. The figures may be not exact, but that is roughly the estimate. So we have quite a long way to go.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Furthermore, she is putting together an integrated framework plan for the implementation of gender-sensitive policies in Afghanistan. She also works together with the inter-agency network within the Ministry of Women's Affairs and with government officials. There are other ways, including workshops on conflict prevention, which have been held in several regions, Morocco, Ghana, Addis Ababa, and elsewhere. This is just relating to my office. But there are several other conflict-resolution and capacity-building mechanisms working throughout the system. The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and others have had similar workshops.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589Resumption1 (2002) · source
“There were a couple of questions from France about how my office and the Division for the Advancement of Women could help women in Afghanistan and in other areas. Following the Council's great interest in restructuring and revitalizing peace operations - and I particularly refer to the Brahimi Report - there was a gender specialist on the first integrated management task force from my office. Strangely enough, as it turned out, the same individual is now the gender advisor in the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), working directly with the Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG). She works very closely also with the agency gender specialist, including the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and all the others.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589Resumption1 (2002) · source
“That is also being updated, as are some of the policies on sexual harassment. We are currently working with DPKO to make it more user-friendly.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589 (2002) · source
“I know that several members of the inter-Agency group- UNHCR, UNIFEM, UNDP and others - have put together small compilations of such case studies. I believe that out of this debate perhaps a call could come for an official, comprehensive compilation that could be printed and distributed at some point. I know that Mr. Guehenno has already addressed the question of senior advisors, but I wanted to assure the Security Council that the registry or roster of eminent persons is now in place, under the guidance of the Deputy Secretary-General. The senior appointments group is meeting on a regular basis on this subject. I hope that more women will be appointed Special Representatives of the Secretary-General. Other issues were brought up, such as a code of conduct for peacekeeping.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589 (2002) · source
“There are also - again, in the briefing note on gender perspectives, disarmament and development - two case studies. One is from Albania, showing that in programmes for exchanging weapons for development, women were extremely active. Close to 6,000 weapons and 137 tons of ammunition were collected. Women were particularly active in public information and awareness campaigns in the communities, including through rallies and training programmes. In another example, in Cambodia, at a recent burning-of-weapons ceremony in a disarmament for development programme in Bakan district, around 90 per cent of the participants were women and children. So, hidden in a lot of the available literature are some of these very successful and convincing stories.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589 (2002) · source
“I think that many of the success stories and the convincing aspects that we are dealing with could be used in a kit like that, where methodologies could be presented. Much of this work is already being done. In fact, the representative of Denmark invited DPKO to include a chapter on gender mainstreaming in the standard operating procedures, and we are currently working very closely with DPKO on exactly that, with the help of some of the gender advisers from the field, particularly from East Timor, one of whom is with us today and is now part of DPKO. The representative of Jamaica wondered just what was being done in the area of disarmament. There are a number of initiatives. UNICEF, for example, is doing its best to separate girl soldiers from adults and to involve them in retraining.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589 (2002) · source
“Ms. King: I will return to the question of success stories and scepticism and elephants. I would like to mention that one of the goals on which the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) and my office are working is to produce gender perspectives in disarmament and peacekeeping. We are working on a series of briefing notes, using methodology from my office but very much incorporating the on-the-ground and headquarters experiences of various offices. This is being done with the very strong support of the head of the Department for Disarmament Affairs and his team. The representative of Colombia said that in December he is hoping to base discussions on gender and small arms. There is already a briefing note on gender perspectives and small arms in that kit on which, I believe, he and the Security Council could build.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589 (2002) · source
“I think members are well aware of and very au fait with the question of the Mano River Peace Women's Network and how those women brought together the two presidents of Guinea and Sierra Leone. In the case of Liberia and Sierra Leone, women were also very successful in actually going out into the fields, mountains and places were there were no roads to persuade young child soldiers to lay down arms and to be part of the disarmament process. What one of the studies in South Africa showed was that women tend to be less hierarchical. They also tend to link up with local women's organizations. They set role models for local women. The local women also tend to be better conveyers of the message of peace than some of the men. There are many others, but I am sure that Noleen has some others. These are just some of them.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589 (2002) · source
“Ms. King: Indeed, it is very important to have live examples. Because we were somewhat limited, I think we were a little reluctant to go into them, but the study for the Secretary-General is replete with examples. I would just mention the instance of the women in Burundi who got together and drew up a list of demands, and eventually - thanks to some United Nations agencies, including UNDP and UNIFEM. and the leader, who was Mr. Mandela - most of those recommendations were included in the final agreement. I would also mention the Somali women who constituted themselves into a sixth clan because they could not get into the main factions. They were very successful in bringing together the warring clan leaders at the peace table. Some of that has fallen apart, but these are very significant issues.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589 (2002) · source
“Many other recommendations on protection issues, humanitarian law, girl-child soldiers, disarmament, demobilization, resettlement and rebuilding are included in the study. Thank you for the opportunity of addressing the Council. I look forward to your views and guidance.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589 (2002) · source
“The necessary financial resources for gender-related programmes must be part of the mission's approved budget. The Secretariat should maintain a database of civil society organizations, to serve as a resource for consultations by the United Nations. Greater efforts should be made to increase the percentage of women overall in policy and decision- making positions, such as SRSGs in peace operations. Existing inter-agency mechanisms should promote a principled approach to gender equality, including the sharing of effective guidelines, codes of conduct and policies, to ensure that those violators under the United Nations flag are brought promptly to justice. The Security Council should review the implementation of resolution 1325 (2000) by Member States, the United Nations system and civil society annually.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589 (2002) · source
“The Security Council and the Secretary-General should ensure that all peace agreements and even informal understandings include the issue of the protection of women and children and establish efficient mechanisms for holding parties accountable. States in conflict, mediating States and United Nations negotiating teams should ensure the participation of women at all stages and at all levels of peace processes. All missions should have gender advisers visibly supported by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, adequately supported and backstopped by Headquarters in the person of a senior gender adviser in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO). As we have heard, where these exist the mission has a far greater chance of being successful.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589 (2002) · source
“The challenges shown by the study are the lack of political will to recognize women as equal partners and insufficient understanding of how to translate gender equality into our policies or adapt best practices. It is surprising, on one hand, to learn how much United Nations entities have done to develop gender sensitive guidelines and policies, some of which you have just heard from Mr. Guehenno. On the other hand, it is disappointing to learn how little monitoring and self-evaluation is carried out, even when dealing with training, which is usually extensive but lacks follow- up. Among the many recommendations of the study are that the incorporation of a gender perspective in peace and humanitarian operations must, at all times, have the full support of the Security Council in Council mandates and reporting.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589 (2002) · source
“It unequivocally demonstrates that women do make a difference. The findings of two wider issues are, first, that a mere cessation of hostilities does not bring an end to today's intra-state conflict. Women are beginning to transform societies by changing social institutions, traditional gender roles, and influencing warring parties. Secondly, lasting peace must be home-grown and based on indigenous processes. Local women who hold communities together during conflict bring these experiences into peace processes and into rebuilding their societies. The study shows that women and girls can also be combatants and perpetrators and, where that occurs, they must equally be brought into the process of disarmament, demobilization, resettlement and capacity-building after conflict.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589 (2002) · source