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“My delegation commends the work of the African Initiative for Peace and Reconciliation in the Central African Republic, which fosters dialogue and addresses the root causes of instability and armed violence in the country. We call on all armed groups to join the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration process. We also highlight the need for the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), together with the Government, to establish lasting strategic and operational partnerships with all relevant international and regional stakeholders.”
2018-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8378 (2018) · source
“I shall now make a statement in my capacity as the representative of the Plurinational State of Bolivia. My delegation thanks all of today's briefers, especially Ambassador Adom, as Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 2127 (2013) concerning the Central African Republic. According to the Secretary-General's most recent report (S/2018/922), the situation in the Central African Republic remains unstable due to the ongoing violence and insecurity perpetrated by armed groups. That instability hampers the country's development, capacity-building and State presence, despite progress in protecting civilians, fostering inter-institutional cooperation and training the Central African Armed Forces, among other achievements.”
2018-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8378 (2018) · source
“Vervaeke is joining the meeting via teleconference from Brussels. The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. I wish to draw the attention of Council members to document S/2018/922, which contains the report of the Secretary-General on the Central African Republic, 15 June-15 October 2018. At this meeting, the Security Council will hear briefings by Mr. Onanga-Anyanga, Mr. Nebie and Mr. Vervaeke, as well as by Ambassador Kacou Houadj a Leon Adom, Permanent Representative of C6te d'lvoire, in his capacity as Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 2127 (2013) concerning the Central African Republic. I now give the floor to Mr. Onanga-Anyanga.”
2018-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8378 (2018) · source
“In accordance with rule 37 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite the representative of the Central African Republic to participate in this meeting. In accordance with rule 39 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite the following briefers to participate in this meeting: Mr. Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Central African Republic and Head of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic; Mr. Bedializoun Moussa Nebie, Special Representative of the African Union to the Central African Republic; and Mr. Koen Vervaeke. Managing Director for Africa, European External Action Service. Mr. Onanga-Anyanga and Mr. Nebie are joining this meeting via video-teleconference from Bangui, and Mr.”
2018-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8378 (2018) · source
“In conclusion, and using the words of President Evo Morales when he spoke at the General Assembly in 2015 (see A/70/PV.15), we believe that the Council must reflect in the future on the following before taking decisions based on various contexts. President Morales said that we are living in times of peace, not times of invasion or domination. We must therefore ask ourselves, who benefits from wars? After interventions, who retains control over natural resources? Who governs - our citizens, or foreign interests that promote wars for their own benefit? Those questions can help to a certain extent as we begin today's debate. I now resume my functions as President of the Security Council. I give the floor to members of the Council who wish to make statements.”
2018-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8372 (2018) · source
“Some 3 million people in a country of 11 million joined the middle class, which grew from 35 per cent of the population in 2005 to 58 per cent in 2017. The infant mortality rate dropped by more than half between 2008 and 2017. The number of medical and health facilities doubled. Life expectancy increased from 63 years in 2005 to 72 years in 2018. The school dropout rate fell from 4.5 per cent in 2005 to 2 per cent in 2017. I understand that this subject is not one that is inextricably linked to peace and security-related issues, but the sovereign control of natural resources enables fairer and more human societies to be built.”
2018-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8372 (2018) · source
“Bolivia's gross domestic product also grew steadily. In 2017, it was 4.82 per cent, well above the regional average of 1.87 per cent, and our gross domestic product rose from $9 billion in 2005 to $36 billion in 2017. Our international reserves increased from $1.7 billion to $10 billion between 2005 and 2018. In the past 12 years, this new flow of income and its redistribution has enabled us to reduce extreme poverty from 37 per cent in 2005 to 17 per cent today, and to shrink inequality. In 2005, the richest 10 per cent owned 128 times more than the poorest 10 per cent, whereas in 2017, and today, that figure has been reduced to only 47 times more. Public investment increased from $620 million in 2005 to $5.5 billion in 2017.”
2018-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8372 (2018) · source
“It is no lie to say that before that time, my country's presidents would go to the International Monetary Fund or the Paris Club almost as beggars to ask for economic assistance just to be able to pay the salaries of our teachers or doctors. Twelve years ago, the dynamics of the distribution of profits for hydrocarbon exploitation sent 82 per cent of them to transnational companies and only 18 per cent to the benefit of the country. Since our resources were nationalized, 82 percent now remains in the hands of the Bolivian people and 18 per cent goes to the service contracts of the transnational companies that remain in the country because they still make healthy profits. Hydrocarbon revenues in Bolivia increased from $2.9 billion for the period between 1994 and 2005 to $35.2 billion for the period between 2006 and 2017.”
2018-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8372 (2018) · source
“In 2006, the State decided to nationalize the country's natural resources, which were recognized through the Constitution adopted in 2009 as the direct, indivisible and irrevocable property and dominion of the Bolivian people, under the administration of the State in accordance with the collective interest. This mandate allowed the recovery of the natural resources of strategic companies from the hands of the companies that had exploited them to the detriment of the interests of our people. An example of how sovereign control of our resources changed the course and development of Bolivia can be seen in the social and economic changes that my country has been experiencing for the past 12 years.”
2018-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8372 (2018) · source
“A clear example of this goes back to the nineteenth century, when the exploitation of natural resources by foreign corporate interests drove an asymmetrical and expansionist war in the region that deeply affected my country. These foreign interests were replicated during much of the twentieth century and translated into the privatization and exploitation of our natural wealth - water, silver, tin, oil and gas - for the benefit of transnational corporations, leaving only tiny royalties for the development and well-being of our people. Iwould simply like to try to show what has been done in Bolivia with respect to this issue.”
2018-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8372 (2018) · source
“Accordingly, the Security Council must reformulate the mandates of the subsidiary bodies dealing with sanctions, so that the panels of experts have a mandate to investigate and identify these corporations, affecting or definitively shutting down these criminal networks. With the results of these investigations, the Council should be able to impose sanctions on such networks. It is important to fight not only the illegal exploitation and misappropriation of natural resources, but also the unequal distribution of the benefits resulting from their commercialization, which can make them catalysts that exacerbate conflicts. The Bolivian State has faced these scenarios throughout its history.”
2018-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8372 (2018) · source
“In the case of conflicts related to natural resources, sanctions should also be applied to what we may term commercial enablers, which in large part are composed of large transnational companies that enable the commercialization of natural resources that have been obtained illegally or in conflict situations as well as for their insertion into global markets. Sanctions should also apply to what we may term financial facilitators, composed of financial corporations and tax havens, which allow for the insertion and legitimatization of profits derived from the commercialization of these resources into the global financial system.”
2018-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8372 (2018) · source
“In other cases, when sovereign policies of the States over their natural resources affect the interests of corporations or of some other countries that form part of the chain of industrialization or commercialization of the resources, these corporations have no qualms about financing separatist movements, arming opposition groups or provoking policies of change of regime to establish Governments in line with their interests. The history of the twentieth century in many countries in my own region is a clear example of this. We believe that it is not enough to monitor and punish armed groups, their heads as individuals, or the parties to the conflict; it is also necessary to make sanctions regime more dynamic and effective. To do this, we must apply sanctions to the networks that make up the entire chain of those involved in the conflict.”
2018-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8372 (2018) · source
“Some examples very close to the concerns of the Security Council, just to mention a few from throughout the history of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, are the coup d'etat against Iran in 1953, undertaken against a democratically elected Government that, in the exercise of its sovereignty, had nationalized oil from the hands of an Anglo-American company; the invasion of Kuwait in 1990 by Iraq, whose intention was to control 20 per cent of world oil production; the conflict in Libya, where parties are constantly clashing over control of the country's hydrocarbon industry and which is also affecting the entire Sahel region; the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003, whose objective was, in the end, to control oil production and the oil market; and the involvement of various armed groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo as a result of the illegal trade in tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold.”
2018-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8372 (2018) · source
“In many cases, when control, exploitation or access to oil, gas, water, minerals or other natural resources becomes a strategic objective of the parties to the conflict or of armed groups and criminal organizations, it is because behind them there are often also multinational corporations or foreign interests willing to use them to gain access to these resources.”
2018-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8372 (2018) · source
“The current conflicts arising in different parts of the world show us that behind many international or local geopolitical disputes is also almost always an interest in access to and the control and exploitation of economically attractive natural resources, which is reflected in the fact that according to the Secretary- General's report published by the United Nations Environment Programme, over the past 60 years at least 40 per cent of conflicts have been motivated by this reason.”
2018-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8372 (2018) · source
“I thank the Secretary-General for his interesting and extensive briefing. I shall now make a statement in my capacity as representative of the Plurinational State of Bolivia. My delegation thanks the Secretary-General for his briefing today, and we take this opportunity once again to reiterate our support for his important work. The twentieth century is characterized by the strengthening of multilateralism as a fundamental component of relations among States and respect for the basic norms of international law, built on the basis of treaties that establish rights and duties that we mutually accept within the framework of the exercise of our sovereignty, with the objective, among other things, of protecting the most vulnerable from encroachment, misappropriation and depredation by the most powerful.”
2018-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8372 (2018) · source
“The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. I wish to draw the attention of Council members to document 8/2018/901, which contains a letter dated 9 October 2018 from the Permanent Representative of the Plurinational State of Bolivia addressed to the Secretary-General, transmitting a concept paper on the item under consideration. I wish to warmly welcome the Secretary-General, His Excellency Mr. Antenio Guterres, and to give him the floor.”
2018-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8372 (2018) · source
“In favour: Bolivia (Plurinational State of), China, cote d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, France, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Russian Federation, Sweden, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and United States of America The President (spoke in Spanish): The draft resolution received 15 votes in favour. The draft resolution has been adopted unanimously as resolution 2438 (2018). I now give the floor to the representative of the Sudan.”
2018-10-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8371 (2018) · source
“In accordance with rule 37 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite the representatives of the Sudan and South Sudan to participate in this meeting. The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. Members of the Council have before them document S/2018/909, which contains the text ofa draft resolution submitted by the United States of America. The Council is ready to proceed to the vote on the draft resolution before it. I shall put the draft resolution to the vote now. A vote was taken by Show ofhands.”
2018-10-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8371 (2018) · source
“In that regard, we of course reiterate the call for ensuring that the United Nations agencies in the country are well coordinated with the rest of the international community. The initiative of Vice-President Marta Ramirez highlights the importance of the economic empowerment of women in this process. Promoting and supporting gender and ethnic perspectives and the role ofyoung people in reintegration processes is vital to the proper implementation of the peace agreement. Finally, I would like to emphasize our unwavering commitment to the Colombian people, in this and other forums and through our observers on the ground, and to the objective of continuing to contribute to our brother country of Colombia's attainment of its long- desired peace. I now resume my functions as President of the Council.”
2018-10-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8368 (2018) · source
“We firmly condemn and express our deep concern about the assassinations of social leaders, former FARC-EP members and human rights defenders. We believe it is essential to expand the presence of public law enforcement beyond the reintegration areas. We also encourage compliance with the national pact for life and the protection of social leaders and human rights defenders agreed to on 23 August. Thirdly, with regard to the numbers related to progress on economic reintegration, of the dozens of projects proposed for almost 14,000 ex-combatants, only 17 have been approved and two funded. It is vital that the National Reintegration Council resume its activities. Support is also needed for productive projects and for generating income for FARC-EP ex-combatants, for which access to landownership, among other things, is crucial.”
2018-10-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8368 (2018) · source
“To briefly mention the issues that my country believes are urgent, the first is that respect for the independence and autonomy of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace must be ensured and victims' right to truth, justice, reparation and non-repetition guaranteed. It is also vital to eliminate the uncertainty and fear that FARC-EP ex- combatants feel with respect to their legal guarantees, and to ensure their access to transitional justice. Secondly, regarding security guarantees, as the Secretary-General says in his report (S/2018/874), the competition of criminal groups for territorial control and the expansion of illegal economies has allowed violence to persist in the areas that were under the control of the FARC-EP.”
2018-10-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8368 (2018) · source
“The presence of the High Counsellor and Foreign Minister Trujillo in the Council today is a clear sign of the new Government's willingness to continue working with our Organization and the international community to build a stable and lasting peace in Colombia. My country is of the view that the peace agreement is also an opportunity to comprehensively address the fundamental problems in Colombia by seeking to eliminate the deep-rooted historical discrepancies between rural areas and cities, and the poverty, inequality and absence of the State in the areas affected by the conflict. All the progress we have made in implementing the agreement has taught us important lessons about our ability to address Colombia's challenges.”
2018-10-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8368 (2018) · source
“We must always keep in mind the magnitude of what has been achieved in order to be sure that this process is irreversible. And although the tasks ahead are not simple, we must reaffirm the commitment that we all have to the Colombian people. We are encouraged by President Duque Marquez's positive statements and by the measures he has taken in these initial months, among which we want to highlight the appointment of high-level officials to the Commission for the Follow-up, Promotion and Verification of the Implementation of the Final Agreement. The role of Colombia's institutions in the implementation of the agreement is essential, and we encourage them to continue working on that process.”
2018-10-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8368 (2018) · source
“Together with the beginning of the mandate of the new Colombian Government, we are also witnessing a new stage in the peace process, in which the commitment to implementing the Final Agreement for Ending the Conflict and Building a Stable and Lasting Peace in order to effectively reintegrate ex-combatants of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia- Ejercito del Pueblo (FARC-EP) into civilian life is crucial to the entire peacebuilding agenda in Colombia. In what has now been almost two years, Colombia has seen a definitive ceasefire between the Government and the FARC-EP, the laying down of arms, a significant drop in the levels of violence, the formation of a new political party and its participation in this year's electoral process and assumption of its new legislative duties.”
2018-10-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8368 (2018) · source
“I will now make a statement in my capacity as the representative of the Plurinational State of Bolivia. First of all, we cordially welcome Mr. Carlos Holmes Trujillo Garcia, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia, and Mr. Emilio Archila, High Counsellor for Post-Conflict. We would like to take this opportunity to express Bolivia's support for the task ahead of consolidating Colombia's long-awaited peace. We would also like to welcome Mr. Jean Arnault, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, and to thank him again for his commitment to peace and to our region.”
2018-10-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8368 (2018) · source
“I thank Mr. Arnault for his briefing. I shall now give the floor to those members of the Council Wishing to make statements.”
2018-10-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8368 (2018) · source
“In accordance with rule 37 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite the representative of Colombia to participate in today's meeting. On behalf of the Security Council, I warmly welcome His Excellency Mr. Carlos Holmes Trujillo, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia. In accordance with rule 39 of the Council's provisional rules ofprocedure, I invite Mr. Jean Arnault, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia, to participate in this meeting. The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. I wish to draw the attention of Council members to document 8/2018/874, which contains the report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia. I now give the floor to Mr. Arnault.”
2018-10-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8368 (2018) · source
“The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on the agenda. At this meeting, the Security Council will hear an informative briefing by Ambassador Joanna Wronecka, Permanent Representative of Poland, in her capacity as Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1591 (2005) concerning the Sudan. I now give the floor to Ambassador Wronecka.”
2018-10-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8366 (2018) · source
“I wish to draw the attention of Council members to document S/2018/807, which contains the report of the Secretary-General pursuant to Security Council resolution 2380 (2017). The Council is ready to proceed to the vote on the draft resolution before it. I shall put the draft resolution to the vote now. A vote was taken by show ofhands. In favour: Bolivia (Plurinational State of), China, Cote d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, France, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Russian Federation, Sweden, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America The President (spoke in Spanish): The draft resolution received 15 votes in favour. The draft resolution has been adopted unanimously as resolution 2437 (2018).”
2018-10-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8365 (2018) · source
“In accordance with rule 37 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite the representatives of Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Libya, Malta, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain to participate in this meeting. The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. Members of the Council have before them document S/2018/887, which contains the text ofa draft resolution submitted by Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.”
2018-10-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8365 (2018) · source
“The Wiesbaden process conferences foster such a dialogue between States and industry. In conclusion, I would like to highlight that the spirit of cooperation and dialogue with the Member States continues to inform the 1540 Committee's activities. (spoken in Spanish) I now resume my functions as President of the Council. I now give the floor to those Council members who wish to make statements.”
2018-10-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8364 (2018) · source
“For example, we have continued to publish a quarterly message from the Chair that goes out to the wider 1540 network, including civil society. A special effort is being made to engage parliamentarians through, for example, the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). In that regard, I will have the honour to deliver a video message to an upcoming meeting of the IPU. I should stress that the implementation of resolution 1540 (2004) is the responsibility of States. However, effective implementation is more than simply ensuring that legislation or regulations are in place. Among other things, it also requires active engagement between the State and relevant sectors of society, including industry, academia and professional associations. An effective partnership between States and industry is also vital to successful non-proliferation efforts.”
2018-10-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8364 (2018) · source
“We have also intensified our engagement with international organizations whose mandates are directly related to resolution 1540 (2004), such as the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the Biological Weapons Convention Implementation Support Unit, the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime, INTERPOL, the World Customs Organization, as well as those bodies that support related committees, such as the Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate. I would like to acknowledge the cooperation between the 1540 Committee, its Group of Experts and these international organizations. Transparency and outreach are vital to the effective implementation of resolution 1540 (2004). With that in mind, the Committee is seeking ways to make better use of its website.”
2018-10-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8364 (2018) · source
“Assistance providers are always welcome to update the Committee about their assistance programmes. The Committee stands ready to add to its website new programmes or information on available assistance. The Committee and its Group of Experts have maintained the momentum of outreach events in the course of fulfilling the Committee's programme of work. A top priority is direct engagement with States through visits and national round tables, at their invitation. In the course of that process, increased use has been made of the support that can be offered by regional organizations, including the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs and its regional centres.”
2018-10-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8364 (2018) · source
“In particular, the Committee seeks to match assistance requests from States with offers from States or international, regional or subregional organizations in a position to provide assistance. By doing so, an assisting State or organization can respond effectively to requests for assistance. Pending assistance requests are displayed on the home page of the 1540 Committee website and date back to 2010. As of today, 21 assistance requests are still open and further assistance is needed. The 1540 Committee website also includes lists of States and international, regional and subregional organizations that have offered assistance in general. As of 30 May, 47 States and 16 organizations had informed the Committee about general assistance programmes that could help facilitate the implementation of resolution 1540 (2004).”
2018-10-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8364 (2018) · source
“The Committee has developed regional training courses for national points of contact, including the most recent ones in Addis Ababa for French-speaking African States, hosted by the African Union, and in Rostov-on-Don, with the support of the Russian Federation and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. The regional national points of contact training courses, not only aim to enhance the capacity and coordination role of points of contact, but also seek to create a living network of points of contact to strengthen cooperation and coordination with the Committee and among points of contact in the respective regions. One of the priority areas the committee is focused on is improving the system of assistance to facilitate Member States' capacity to implement their obligations under resolution 1540 (2004).”
2018-10-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8364 (2018) · source
“The Member States are in the best position to identify effective national practices and to share them with the 1540 Committee and other partners. As one example, the Committee had an opportunity to hear about the peer review meetings between Chile and Colombia, held in each country in 2017, in relation to the implementation of resolution 1540 (2004). That was the third peer review to take place globally and the first in the western hemisphere. The discussions highlighted the value of the peer review process for promoting Member States' confidence in sharing information about the challenges of the implementation of resolution 1540 (2004) and generating ideas about effective national implementation practices. The 1540 Committee recognizes the key role of the 1540 national points of contact in support of the resolution's implementation.”
2018-10-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8364 (2018) · source
“While reporting is important, what also matters is the effectiveness of the practical steps taken at the national level to implement the resolution 1540 (2004). One helpful step in that regard is for States to develop voluntary national implementation action plans as encouraged by paragraph 5 of resolution 2325 (2016). In the implementation of such action plans, and in order for the process to work, all key national stakeholders must be engaged with the implementation of resolution 1540 (2004). The voluntary national implementation action plans also help to identify actions to close any gaps and vulnerabilities in legislation, regulation and national control frameworks, and to identify areas where assistance may be required Exchanges and the sharing of information by Member States are among the Committee's core activities.”
2018-10-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8364 (2018) · source
“In that sense, I am pleased to report that the overwhelming majority of States have demonstrated their commitment to resolution 1540 (2004), and through their reporting to the 1540 Committee have provided valuable information on the measures they have taken, or plan to take, to comply with their obligations under the resolution. It is worthy of note that to date 181 countries - more than 90 per cent of all United Nations Member States - have submitted initial reports. To that end, two experts will be assisting Mali in preparing its initial report on the implementation of resolution 1540 (2004) during an upcoming visit this month. Regular additional reporting and updating are also important so that the status of implementation can be reflected and assessed accurately.”
2018-10-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8364 (2018) · source
“Given the global nature of the challenges posed by the proliferation of the capabilities and technologies that can be used by non-State actors for weapons of mass destruction programmes, no State is exempt from making every effort to prevent such proliferation from happening. The obligations under resolution 1540 (2004) are designed precisely for that purpose. The full and effective implementation of obligations under resolution 1540 (2004) involves a wide range of activities beyond the requisite adoption and enforcement of measures to prohibit non-State actors from manufacturing, acquiring, possessing, transporting, transferring or using nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and their means of delivery.”
2018-10-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8364 (2018) · source
“The key concern for the 1540 Committee is preventing the proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, their means of delivery and related materials to non-State actors, in particular for terrorist purposes. While the mandates of the three committees differ, there are important areas of complementarity. Cooperation among the three committees and their supporting experts is important to promoting the effective implementation by States of their obligations under the respective Security Council resolutions. However, the 1540 Committee continues to be concerned by the potentially devastating effects and catastrophic consequences of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons proliferation by and to non-State actors, and the use of such weapons for terrorist purposes.”
2018-10-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8364 (2018) · source
“I thank Mr. Meza-Cuadra for his briefing. I shall now provide a briefing in my capacity as Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004). (spoke in English) On behalf of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004), I am pleased to report on the progress made since our last report, in April 2018. We fully endorse the joint statement delivered on behalf of the Committees established pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) concerning the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Da'esh), Al-Qaida and associated individuals, groups, undertakings and entities, as well as of the Counter-Terrorism Committee and the 1540 Committee.”
2018-10-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8364 (2018) · source
“I thank Ambassador Umarov for his briefing. I now give the floor to Ambassador Gustavo Meza-Cuadra of Peru, in his capacity as Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1373 (2001) concerning counter-terrorism.”
2018-10-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8364 (2018) · source
“I now resume my functions as President of the Security Council. I now give the floor to Ambassador Kairat Umarov, Chair of the Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) concerning Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Da'esh), Al-Qaida and associated individuals, groups, undertakings and entities.”
2018-10-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8364 (2018) · source
“The three Committees and their respective expert bodies will continue to cooperate and to coordinate their work in line with their respective mandates, with a view to ensuring an effective and efficient approach to countering terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction by and to non-State actors. The three Committees reaffirm their continued engagement in supporting Member States in those global efforts. The Chairs of the three Committee are committed to meeting on a regular basis, at least twice a year, to improve coordination and to discuss the main priority areas for possible joint actions. The three Committees look forward to receiving further guidance from the Security Council on areas of common interest and to further strengthening their joint activities.”
2018-10-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8364 (2018) · source
“In its presidential statement S/PRST/2018/9 of 8 May, the Security Council requested the Counter- Terrorism Committee, the Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015), and the Committee pursuant to resolution 1988 (2011) to hold a special joint meeting within 12 months on addressing the issue of the nexus between international terrorism and transnational organized crime. The expert bodies also shared their up-to-date expertise and experience at a number of internal thematic professional training activities and briefings by external partners and interlocutors.”
2018-10-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8364 (2018) · source
“The Committee invited the Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) concerning Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Da'esh), Al-Qaida and associated individuals, groups, undertakings and entities to take part injoint open briefings, such as that on challenges in countering terrorism in West Africa and that held together with the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011) concerning Libya on challenges in countering terrorism in Libya, both of which took place in June 2017. In addition, the Counter- Terrorism Committee invited the other two Committee expert bodies to its briefings on the role of financial institutions in combating terrorism, in October 2017, and on virtual currencies and the misuse of new technologies to finance terrorism, in December 2017.”
2018-10-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8364 (2018) · source
“In May 2017, the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate involved the Monitoring Team in a regional workshop on counter- terrorism financing, held jointly by the Eurasian Group International Training and Methodology Centre for Financial Monitoring and the Commonwealth of Independent States Anti-Terrorism Center. The Executive Directorate and the Monitoring Team jointly contributed to the United Nations inputs into the final declaration of the conference on combating the financing of Da'esh and Al-Qaida, held in Paris in April. The three expert bodies continue to hold regular informal meetings. The Counter-Terrorism Committee also regularly invites the other two expert bodies to its thematic briefings and official meetings.”
2018-10-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8364 (2018) · source