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Leffler

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2015-11-17
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2018-04-23
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  1. “As the progress study underlines, young people's work is a connector across peace and security, human rights, sustainable development and humanitarian affairs. In the same vein, the European Union's work for and with young people connects all actors, policies and instruments of the EU and represents a key aspect of the coherence of our action within and outside the Union. Many people, across all ages and generations, are ready to make a difference to build peace. Mobilizing the potential of young people as peacebuilders is one of the big challenges and opportunities of our time. The youth, peace and security agenda charts the way forward for all of us working together.”

    2018-04-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8241 (2018) · source

  2. “Thirdly, the EU fully shares the call of the progress study to maximize youth ownership and agency on peace and security. One illustration of how we empower young people's leadership is the Africa-EU partnership. At the fifth African Union-European Union Summit, which took place in Abidjan last November, young people provided political recommendations on priority topics for the African Union (AU) and the EU. Moreover, a number of the young people present spent five weeks working intensely with AU and EU structures to develop those recommendations into a youth agenda with concrete initiatives and proposals. That agenda was presented to African and European Heads of State at the Summit, and we are currently working on a follow-up mechanism to ensure the continuous inclusion of young people in the Africa-EU partnership.”

    2018-04-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8241 (2018) · source

  3. “The conference will further reinforce the momentum behind the European Union's focus on the youth and peace and security agenda and our cooperation with the United Nations on youth in peacebuilding. Secondly, the EU's investment in youth is currently the focus of multiple programmes on four continents. As an example, we have recently launched a project with UNICEF to strengthen the resilience and civic engagement of adolescents and youth in conflict- affected areas in eastern Ukraine. A global project with UNESCO works to strengthen education sector planning capacities for conflict prevention and crisis preparedness. Another EU project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo reinforces youth involvement in conflict prevention in areas affected by the Lord's Resistance Army.”

    2018-04-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8241 (2018) · source

  4. “We continue to accelerate the implementation of the youth and peace and security agenda and the women and peace and security agenda, which are closely interlinked and mutually reinforcing. For the EU, youth inclusion starts with two-way dialogue with young people. We want to understand their vision for peacebuilding and find opportunities to support and scale up their initiatives. Exactly a month from now, the EU will host an innovative and inclusive conference on youth, peace and security in Brussels, in partnership with the United Nations and civil society organizations. We hope that the conference will create a new area and a new framework for young peacebuilders from within and outside the EU to engage in an interactive dialogue with leaders and stakeholders from the EU and with multilateral and non-governmental partners.”

    2018-04-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8241 (2018) · source

  5. “The progress study and this open debate provide an excellent opportunity to shift this narrative. In this context, the EU fully shares the view that preventing violence and sustaining peace is best served by addressing young people's experiences of exclusion and marginalization. The EU also heeds the call of young people, amplified by the progress study, to prioritize and invest in youth-based and youth-led peacebuilding activities. I would like to offer three messages regarding inclusion, resilience and leadership. First, the EU has always striven to promote broad- based, people-centred peacebuilding coalitions, which meaningfully include youth, women, civil society organizations and other partners.”

    2018-04-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8241 (2018) · source

  6. “The youth, peace and security agenda reminds us that young people want to be heard; they want to take action and they want to lead. Recognizing and empowering those aspirations is the promise of the youth and peace and security agenda. Allow me to lay out the perspective of the EU on this topic. To begin with, we need to challenge the generalizations which identify young people with the risk of radicalization and violent action. That mistakes young men for potential perpetrators and young women for potential victims. On the contrary, we know that the overwhelming majority of young people - like all of us - seek a peaceful future for themselves, for their neighbours and for the broader national and international community. We see that too little is done to harness their potential to prevent conflict and to contribute to sustaining peace.”

    2018-04-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8241 (2018) · source

  7. “Allow me to express the EU's appreciation for the progress study and its support for the recommendations therein. The EU contributed to this landmark process through hosting a European regional consultation on youth, peace and security, and we welcomed that opportunity to channel the voices of young Europeans into this process. We applaud this open debate, with appreciation for Peru's leadership and the envisaged adoption of a new Security Council resolution on youth and peace and security. We anticipate a forward-looking, strategic outcome to accelerate the implementation of this important agenda. We also support annual implementation reports by the Secretary-General as well as yearly open debates in the Council, including briefings by young peacebuilders.”

    2018-04-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8241 (2018) · source

  8. “Mr. Leffler: I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union (EU) and its member States. The candidate countries the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Albania; the country of the Stabilization and Association Process and potential candidate Bosnia and Herzegovina; the European Free Trade Association country Liechtenstein, member of the European Economic Area; as well as Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova and Georgia align themselves with this statement. I would like to start by extending a special thanks to the Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth and to the lead author of the independent progress study on youth and peace and security (see S/2018/86), as well as to the representatives of youth and civil society, for their statements.”

    2018-04-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8241 (2018) · source

  9. “Secondly, we have set up an EU trust fund for stability and for addressing the root causes ofirregular migration and displaced persons in Africa, which will address the causes and effects of conflict and instability that lead to displacement and migration. Thirdly, we are developing the EU-wide strategic framework for supporting security-sector reform. Mr. Wilson took the Chair. The primary responsibility for conflict prevention and sustainable development lies with Member States. But the international community has a role to play, including the Council within its mandate. A clear message in the 2030 Agenda is the need for a comprehensive and integrated approach to tackling global challenges. We must bridge peace, development and security and work together to achieve a safer, more prosperous and more sustainable world.”

    2015-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7561 (2015) · source

  10. “That includes investing in human rights, but also mainstreaming that priority by embracing human rights-based approaches. In that context, women's empowerment is essential. Women are crucial agents of conflict prevention, and realizing gender equality will make a crucial contribution to sustainable development. The United Nations is currently engaged in a period of strategic reflection at several levels. The result must be comprehensive and ambitious. We should develop synergies between the 2030 Agenda and the three peace and security reviews. Let me finally mention a few recent initiatives that we have been working on in the European Union. First, we are refining the sharing of conflict-analyses with partners, which should lead to coherent approaches to State-building and peacebuilding.”

    2015-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7561 (2015) · source

  11. “The EU believes that we should continue in that direction through, for instance, horizon-scanning briefings, ensuring that longer-term peacebuilding is considered in mission mandates, and by strengthening and reforming the advisory role of the Peacebuilding Commission. For the same reasons, we are pleased that counterterrorism and fighting illicit flows, drug trafficking, transnational organized crime and small- arms proliferation have long been on the Council's agenda. The Council must now step up its interaction with other parts of the United Nations system to maximize coherence in these areas. The EU has always insisted on the need to prevent or tackle conflicts and crises comprehensively. In our interconnected world, our own security relies on human security around the globe.”

    2015-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7561 (2015) · source

  12. “Building peace, preventing conflict and strengthening international security are core objectives of the European Union, and we remain committed to taking a comprehensive approach to security and development issues. We are pleased to see that the Council is increasingly looking beyond the immediate symptoms of existing crises and adopting a more forward-looking approach. We all need to invest more in prevention. It is the EU's conviction that sustainable development is an important preventive element. The Security Council has intensified its preventive work and its focus on post-conflict peacebuilding so as to prevent relapses into violence.”

    2015-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7561 (2015) · source

  13. “We know that poverty, inequality, weak and ineffective institutions as well as the adverse effects of climate change are drivers of conflict. Equally, for sustainable development to be possible, we need freedom from violence and conflict. And neither lasting peace nor sustainable development can be fully realized without respect for human rights and the rule of law. As we tackle these global challenges, the role of security and development actors can and should be complementary. We welcome the strong message of the United Nations peace operations and peacebuilding reviews that sustaining peace should be a unifying thread running through the work of the United Nations.”

    2015-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7561 (2015) · source

  14. “The candidate countries the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Albania, the country of the Stabilization and Association Process and potential candidate Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova, Armenia and Georgia, align themselves with this statement. I would like to start by thanking the presidency for having convened this timely and pertinent debate. I would also like to express our appreciation to the Secretary-General, Ambassador Skoog and Ms. Bouchamaoui for their opening remarks. As the Council has stated in the past, security and development are closely interlinked and mutually reinforcing. This is recognized very clearly in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (General Assembly resolution 70/1).”

    2015-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7561 (2015) · source

  15. “Mr. Leffler: Following the terrible events that took place in Paris last Friday and the carnage in Beirut just the day before, let me start my intervention by presenting our condolences to the Governments and peoples of France and Lebanon. Those attacks, as well as those on the Russian airliner, in Iraq and elsewhere where terrorists strike, are an attack on us all. They are an affront to humankind and a challenge to the fundamental values that we have committed collectively to defend. I have the honour to speak in this debate on behalf of the European Union (EU) and its member States.”

    2015-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7561 (2015) · source