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Krahenbiihl

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2019-05-22
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  1. “Yesterday I congratulated Jameela and told her that we are very proud that her message of peace will be on display in the gardens of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park in Atlanta, Georgia, for one year. That is what members of the Council and of the General Assembly have allowed us to achieve and preserve. For that, members deserve the highest recognition. From here in Gaza, I call on them to protect this vital effort and sustain their collective mobilization, in support of dignity, stability and robust multilateralism.”

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  2. “We do not believe that the future of Palestine refugees should be framed by another 10, 20, 30 or 40 years of UNRWA. They need and deserve a just and lasting political solution. Until then, however, we are determined to live up to the mandate that the General Assembly bestowed upon us. When meeting with young students here in Gaza, I was again reminded that our efforts - with the Council's support - are worth it every single day. In another remarkable example of talent and dedication, 15-year-old UNRWA student Jameela Abu Jom'a was declared the winner of the 2019 Inspirational Messages of Peace Contest by the United States National Park Service and International World Peace Rose Gardens. The competition celebrates messages of peace written by young people throughout the world.”

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  3. “The upcoming pledging conference, to be held in New York on 25 June, will be an important opportunity to that effect. For its part, UNRWA will continue to manage its operations with strong financial discipline and a determination to achieve further efficiencies. Wars, armed conflicts and violence persist in the absence of effective political action to resolve them. It is political inaction - not the action of humanitarian organizations i that perpetuates conflicts. Nothing today would be more important than a renewed, genuine and inclusive effort to resolve the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. I say that not because UNRWA was mandated to deal with the politics of the region - we were not - but rather because every single day, we deal with the increasingly severe humanitarian and human consequences of this enduring conflict.”

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  4. “I must in particular draw the attention of the Council to the growing pressure UNRWA itself has faced in East Jerusalem, with threats to interfere with our operations. The current developments in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, will further unsettle not only Palestine refugees, but also their hope and aspirations with regard to a two-State solution and their rights under international law. In addition to strong political backing, in 2019 we require $1.2 billion for all of our operations throughout the Near East. That is the exact amount we mobilized last year. In other words, if every donor should manage to maintain its level of funding in 2019, we should be able to cover our budget. I therefore humbly call on all of our partners to repeat their generous support and preserve the successful dynamic created in 2018.”

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  5. “In the light of all the discussions on leaving no one behind, on safeguarding refugee education and preserving regional stability, we need to work together to keep UNRWA schools open and safe. UNRWA faces important needs in the West Bank as well, including in East Jerusalem. Palestine refugees in the West Bank are confronted with multiple consequences of the ongoing occupation, such as home demolitions and evictions, with numbers significantly on the rise since early 2019, as well as movement restrictions and settler violence. There are also frequent military incursions in which live ammunition is fired, resulting at times in fatalities, but often in injuries and property damage in densely populated areas like Palestine refugee camps, where entire communities can be impacted by the live fire and the use of tear gas.”

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  6. “It is absolutely crucial to avoid a breakdown of our food pipeline, and I call on all our partners to actively mobilize in support of our efforts to secure the needed funding. It is similarly essential that UNRWA be able to open the next school year on time in August and September. We are currently rehabilitating a large number of schools, but we need the funding to ensure that the education itself can be provided. Nothing sustains hope and opportunities more effectively than the education provided in our classrooms. I am deeply impressed by the courage shown by our students in overcoming the adversity they face and pursuing their studies. We need to match that courage with our ability to mobilize the necessary financial support. In Gaza alone, 280,000 girls and boys study in our schools.”

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  7. “Every family in Gaza has been impacted, and people speak of a level of despair that surpasses anything previously known to them, in particular in terms of what our health teams call an epidemic deterioration of mental-health conditions. After hearing many concrete examples during my visit today, it seems particularly important that UNRWA and other relevant actors ne enabled to strengthen critically needed mental-health capacities. Poverty levels among Palestine refugees continue to rise, and they rely on UNRWA in particular to meet essential food needs. For their sake and the stability of Gaza, we must ensure that our food distributions for 1 million people here in the Gaza Strip do not face any interruption. As we speak, UNRWA has only enough money to run its operations until mid-June; then we will hit negative figures and a funding gap.”

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  8. “UNRWA is working alongside our United Nations and civil society partners to address that humanitarian crisis. I think here of issues such as the lack of freedom of movement or employment opportunities, as well as the deep trauma created by the many casualties and persons injured from repeated wars and from what became known as the Great March of Return. Thousands of young people have been wounded, and hundreds killed, since March 2018, including 14 boys and girls, ages 11 to 16, who were students in UNRWA schools. As I have done in the past, I reiterate here my call for respect for international humanitarian law and my condemnation of the targeting of civilians. That includes rocket firing from Gaza that has led to civilian loss of life and injuries in Israel.”

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  9. “The generous support of donors also preserved primary health-care services for 3 million patients through our network of 140 health centres and, despite severe pressures, also preserved our emergency services for 1.5 million refugees, mainly in Gaza, the West Bank and Syria. At a time when Palestine refugees face a near complete absence of a political horizon, I am strongly convinced that preserving UNRWA's services is a crucial contribution in terms of human dignity and regional stability. Speaking from Gaza, I must draw the urgent and renewed attention of the Council to the increasingly desperate situation faced by the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip, of whom at least 1.3 million are Palestine refugees. My current visit has once again exposed me to the extreme hardship created by successive armed confrontations, blockade and violence.”

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  10. “I also wish to pay special tribute to Germany, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, Sweden, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Japan, Norway and many others, including permanent and non-permanent members of the Security Council, for their very generous contributions last year. Those actions were vital to keeping open the 715 schools that UNRWA runs for more than half a million female and male students in the West Bank, as well as in East Jerusalem, Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. More than 2 million students have graduated from UNRWA schools since 1950, where gender parity has long been achieved and we have included a human rights, conflict resolution and tolerance programme that is unique in the region.”

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  11. “Never was the support of Member States more remarkable than in 2018, when our Agency was confronted with its most severe funding crisis ever - a truly existential crisis. Forty-two different countries and institutions from all corners of the world, including Indonesia, Madam President, increased their contributions to UNRWA last year. On our side, we took a number of difficult internal measures and reduced expenditures by $92 million. Through those combined efforts, last year we successfully overcame an unprecedented deficit of $446 million. We are particularly indebted to the leadership of Secretary- General Antonio Guterres and the wider United Nations family, who resolutely stood with UNRWA every step of the way during those most challenging times. The European Union became the Agency's single-largest contributor in 2018.”

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  12. “Mr. Krahenbiihl: First of all, allow me to thank you, Madam President, for the invitation to address the Security Council. It is a particular honour to do so from Gaza. I wish to emphasize and express heartfelt appreciation to the States Members of the United Nations - both countries hosting Palestine refugees and donors - for their extraordinary trust in and support to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) since its operations began, in 1950. Together, we have significantly advanced several key Sustainable Development Goals for Palestine refugees, notably in education, health and beyond, pending ajust and lasting solution to their plight.”

    2019-05-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8532 (2019) · source