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2014-01-29

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1. “I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this important debate and for the useful concept note you have provided (S/2014/238/annex). We appreciate the leading role of Nigeria in shaping and promoting a deeper understanding of the critical issue of security sector reform (SSR). The draft resolution introduced today is a key element of this process and I am pleased to say that Italy has co-sponsored it. I should also like to thank the Secretary-General for his briefing and for his precious engagement in this matter, which has produced the report before us today (S/2013/480). This document gives us a very clear picture of the state of the art, clearly defines the challenges we face and suggests priority avenues of action for the future.”

   2014-04-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7161Resumption1 (2014) · source

2. “To strengthen the protection of civilians, we must make sure the perpetrators of crimes realize that the Council is serious about enforcing individual responsibility for crimes under international law. Allow me to conclude with a word about the safety of journalists. It is commendable that the Security Council took up the question in an open debate in July (see S/PV.7003). Thanks to journalists, we know when the world's worst brutalities are taking place. We must remain vigilant on the issues. Protecting a free press means protecting free speech, and a free press is what most threatens the perpetrators of crimes against defenceless civilians.”

   2014-02-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7109 (2014) · source

3. “Without ignoring the precautions those tools require, we strongly encourage the Department of Peacekeeping Operations to continue on this path and to explore the possibilities offered by modern technology for the protection of civilians. Even in the most inaccessible and remote areas, new instruments can help us to identify at-risk groups of civilians, to deliver aid and to prevent attacks against them. Thirdly, it is essential that the Council strengthen coherence in seeking recourse to the International Criminal Court and helping the Court to fulfil its mandate, including by ensuring appropriate follow-up to Security Council referrals. The effective protection of civilians depends on a culture of accountability in all conflict scenarios.”

   2014-02-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7109 (2014) · source

4. “First and foremost, it requires the unity of peoples and nations on the action needed, at least at the humanitarian level. When humanitarian aid is necessary and humanitarian access is requested, we need to think solely about those who are suffering and join forces to provide them with relief. Secondly, Italy welcomes the most recent developments in peacekeeping operations, notably the introduction of modern technology. The unmanned aerial systems currently used by the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo already seem to have significantly improved the situation on the ground and have enabled the Mission to deliver on its mandate to protect civilians. They have also strengthened the security of the peacekeepers themselves.”

   2014-02-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7109 (2014) · source

5. “Take, for example, the fact that some 75,000 civilians, mostly women and children, are being sheltered in the United Nations Mission in South Sudan camp in Juba. I wonder whether that information is taken into account by the people who so easily criticize this Organization and dismiss its work to mitigate the troubles of the world. But the protection of civilians in armed conflicts is a relatively new task for the United Nations and its peacekeeping missions. It is a mandate that Italy supports, in the firm beliefthat, as a world organization, we have a duty to oppose the folly that too often invades the behaviour of human beings. But it is a mandate that requires appropriate tools and fresh thinking about the relationship between peacekeeping and humanitarian actions.”

   2014-02-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7109 (2014) · source

6. “Our first duty is therefore to state loudly and clearly that there can be no justification for those acts and that those responsible, whether individuals or Governments, can be held accountable. The condemnation of the international community and of the United Nations must be unanimous and unequivocal. The responsibility to protect belongs primarily to States. That is a consolidated principle of international law from which we cannot waver. But there are, unfortunately, far too many situations in the real world where that principle simply does not work because States are too weak or somehow unable to deliver. That is where the United Nations needs to grab hold of the reins, which it can do only if its Members allow it to.”

   2014-02-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7109 (2014) · source

7. “The Council will not be surprised that Italy aligns itself with the statement made by the observer of the European Union and with that by the representative of Switzerland on behalf of the Group of Friends on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict. Nevertheless, we wish to add a few remarks in our national capacity. The stakes of today's debate could not be higher. The news we hear from several conflict areas is appalling. The involvement of defenceless civilians in armed conflicts seems to have become the rule rather than the exception. Civilians are victims of senseless violence. Neither children nor other vulnerable groups are spared in, for instance, Syria, South Sudan and the Central African Republic from massacres that have ethnic, religious or political motivations.”

   2014-02-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7109 (2014) · source

8. “It should not just be preserved; it must also grow, becoming a safeguard for human rights, economic development, stability of life, democratic institutions, security and the rule of law. Today as in the past, there is a need to seek out that which unites.”

   2014-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7105 (2014) · source

9. “That is why Italy supports the long-needed reform of the Security Council, the organ with the primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security. To be effective, this reform needs to conform to a set of binding principles, namely, inclusiveness, representation and accountability. The reform must increase the Council's flexibility and its interaction with the general membership, which should perceive it as a reliable, not an exclusive, club. Ultimately, what the United Nations is about is a world without war. This goal is reflected in every aspect of our work, and it must be our guideline and our ambition, in every decision we take. Finally, allow me to come back to our experience in Mozambique. The lesson that we learned, which is even more relevant today, is that peace is a dynamic process.”

   2014-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7105 (2014) · source

10. “The widening gap between those who have too much and those who have too little is a source of destabilization in our world. We need to bear this in mind and be ambitious in our quest for permanent peace and on the path to the new agenda for international development. The United Nations does a remarkable, difficult and often misunderstood job, through the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, a job that Italy fully supports. Our Organization is too often blamed for conflicts in the world, but no club is greater than the sum of its members. The United Nations can only try to deal with the troubles its Members create. That will be especially difficult if the Organization lacks the necessary tools and structure.”

    2014-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7105 (2014) · source

11. “Once an agreement has been signed and a ceasefire reached, some conditions have to be met for peace to last. Respect for human rights is paramount, as is setting the conditions for social and economic development. All of those matters are an essential part of the Organization's job today. Last week, the Permanent Mission of Italy had the privilege of co-hosting here at Headquarters an event to commemorate Martin Luther King Day. At that event, dedicated to the threat of growing inequalities, Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz warned us of the perils of economic inequalities, a ticking time-bomb. That issue must form a crucial part of our reflection on how to achieve permanent peace and a fundamental element of our inter-State cooperation.”

    2014-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7105 (2014) · source

12. “It cannot be imposed; it can arise only from a mutual understanding of the parties involved and from their recognition of that which unites. This is just the starting point - the precondition to a lasting peace. This is what we learned from the Mozambican experience. A successful and still-lasting peace agreement for Mozambique was signed in Rome in October 1992. The Secretary- General ofthe United Nations at that time, Mr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, called this peace the "Italian formula": a patient exercise of reconciliation between the parties to a conflict, engineered by a coalition of actors that included the Italian Government, the Italian opposition, an Italian non-governmental organization, the Catholic Church and, of course, all of the Mozambican actors in that crisis.”

    2014-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7105 (2014) · source

13. “Allow me, Mr. President, to thank you and your delegation for having convened this very important meeting on this crucial topic. I should like also to stress that Italy aligns itself with the statement made by the observer of the European Union. One of last century's most influential advocates of world peace, His Holiness Pope John XXIII, used to say, "Let us strive to find that which unites rather than that which divides". That concise but powerful sentence offers us guidance in our quest for permanent peace and security, the core business of the United Nations. Through seven decades of efforts in pursuit ofthis goal, through trials and failures, we have come to understand that it is difficult, but not impossible, to achieve. It requires solid foundations that must be carefully laid. Peace is not only a matter of signing a treaty.”

    2014-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7105 (2014) · source