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lines on the record: 43
first: 2017-08-29
most recent: 2019-03-28
sittings or episodes: 7
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“We met them with all-out force and in six months took back Marawi at a fantastic fatality ratio of 165 of our soldiers slain to more than 1,000 dead jihadists. Our counter-terrorism efforts are anchored in respecting human rights because a State's first, foremost and overriding responsibility is to protect the law-abiding against the lawless and the innocent against those threatening their safety and well-being. To that responsibility, my President has made an iron, unwavering and total commitment. We just do not care about politically compromised public opinion. To the contrary, it will not be pretty, but we will get them. The Philippines is pleased to have co-sponsored resolution 2462 (2019).”
2019-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8496 (2019) · source
“Contributions that they receive for laudable purposes are knowingly diverted to, or set up precisely as conduits for, terrorist financing. Such non-governmental organizations operate in the southern Philippines. The geographical distribution of threat incidents indicates that some regions are more at risk than others, hence the need to reinforce counter- terrorism mechanisms at the local Government level. Marawi illustrates the symbiotic relationship between terrorism and the illegal drug trade. With drug money, terrorists were able to gather a motley assortment of well-armed extremists, criminals, mercenaries and foreign terrorist fighters to take control of Marawi and re-establish in our part of the world their shattered caliphate in the Middle East.”
2019-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8496 (2019) · source
“Stand-alone money-service businesses, particularly remittance agencies, have been used as a channel for terrorist financing. Money transfers through informal channels helped terrorist groups launch the Marawi attack in 2017. Remittances account for 9.8 per cent of our gross domestic product. Restricting their flow has touched off a cultural nerve of resistance. The challenge is to balance the requirements of counter-terrorism and the imperative of convenience for those who have struggled in Babylonian captivity to make ends meet in Biblical lands for their families at home. The dilemma has tempted foreign banks to demand that they be used exclusively for remittances at piratical rates. Bankers will be bankers. There is also a concern with non-profit organizations.”
2019-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8496 (2019) · source
“We adopted the 2018-2022 national anti-money- laundering and countering the financing of terrorism strategy in response to the 40 recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force and our own national risk-assessment exercise. At its core is the lesson that financial intelligence units, law enforcement agencies, the prosecution service and local Government units must work together, share information with one another and raise awareness - not only between the private and public sectors, but first and foremost among themselves. Intelligence gathering has been ineffective because agencies were only looking at terrorist acts, not the means that enable them. Our strategy tells us to further tighten our legal and regulatory framework. In that regard, I want to focus on a crucial driver of the Philippine economy - remittances.”
2019-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8496 (2019) · source
“Money is the lifeblood of terrorism. The financing of terrorism in the Philippines is a complex web of illicit flows, money- laundering, transnational organized crime, especially the drug trade, and even the occasional remittance sent by Filipinos overseas. Porous physical, financial and cyberborders enable it. Since the adoption of resolution 1373 (2001), the Philippines has complied with the call to counter the financing of terrorism by all means sufficient for its containment and extinction. We have defined terrorist financing as a separate crime and are amending our human security act to address the exploitation of cyberspace for terrorism. Without an international regulatory framework for cyberspace, its increasing use of encrypted platforms for transnational terrorist financing will continue to create security challenges.”
2019-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8496 (2019) · source
“Countries of wealth and power may have a brief respite from the final catastrophe, but their lives will be extremely diminished. But those with the intelligence and caring to do something about climate change should not beg for cooperation from those who lack both. In the end, we shall have the sad but real satisfaction ofa common fate. We might suggest, however, that the Security Council chisel the climate-change challenge on granite as its first, foremost and last security concern. When the end finally comes and all social bonds are severed, all the conflicts of the past will seem like sports competitions by comparison, and that includes the far- more horrendous first two decades of the twenty-first century, which cannot plead ignorance as an excuse, with the horrors of the twentieth still fresh in mind.”
2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source
“Therefore, stronger synergies among States and deeper international cooperation are imperative. The Humanitarian Assistance Centre of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has strengthened its cooperation in line with the approach of the One ASEAN, One Response. Globally, we are committed to the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and, above all, to the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. We will never see a reason to abandon the latter. In that regard, we share the intelligence of everyone who continues to adhere to it. The climate-driven conflicts and desperate mass population movements that we see today are what we will see more of tomorrow. No country will be safe. Some can retreat behind walls, but they will not be subsequently able to venture beyond them. Sooner or later, chaos will scale any wall.”
2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source
“Misery quite rightly craves company. It is a kind ofjustice. We must develop better risk assessment and mitigation strategies for climate-related disasters. Although we emit less than half of 1 per cent of global emissions, the Philippines has put itself firmly on the path to low-carbon development. Far better-off societies will not do so out of greed and self-serving ignorance, but Filipinos are different. Whatever is the right thing for everyone to do, Filipinos will do it, even if no one else does. We have adopted, continued to improve and are actually implementing a comprehensive national disaster risk-reduction and management plan, but climate change knows no boundaries. And every one of us is at the mercy of actions and inaction beyond our borders.”
2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source
“The 2018 Global Climate Risk Index shows that our country lost an annual average of 1 per cent of our gross domestic product over the past two decades. Climate change has generated civil strife and foreign wars. It will get worse, and there will be more. A new Dark Age will descend on most of the planet never before seen in breadth. Unlike in the past, the darkness will never be lifted. No age of enlightenment will follow. Human life will not be worth living except for brutes, and there are quite a few of those already in countries denying climate change and refusing its challenges. For less developed countries that trace their privations to the depredations of developed ones, it will be self-destructive retribution. If all humankind cannot have this planet on the same terms, no part of humankind should.”
2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source
“They are havens for massive drug trafficking - the scourge of humankind and the death of nations - as evidenced by the desperate flight of populations from narcoStates. Should global warming not be arrested, 98 per cent of our coral reefs - rich fields for fisheries - will die out by mid-century and becoming extinct by century's end. To be sure, we would welcome the evaporation of territorial disputes when the reefs they concern vanish completely beneath the rising sea, along with the structures built on them. Every cloud has a silver lining. As Typhoon Haiyan powerfully showed, storm surges wipe out coastal communities in a matter of minutes, erasing decades of economic progress and social improvement and leaving perdurable misery in their wake.”
2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source
“Humankind is facing the ultimate challenge to the life of the planet and the penultimate challenge to its own survival - the imminent prospect of ecological collapse. That will not be another ice age in the course of nature, but a deadly certainty generated entirely by human activity and inaction. Science proves it. Experience shows it. The increasing ferocity of storms demonstrates its certain advent. Only mumbo jumbo disputes it. The devastating effects of climate change are suffered the most severely in especially vulnerable countries like mine. Sea levels have risen 60 centimetres, more than three times the global average of 19 centimetres. We have 7,107 beautiful islands. We will have much fewer. Not all those losses will be regretted. We have so many islands and maritime features that they defy effective patrolling.”
2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source
“We thank Norway for its hospitality and perseverance and, we hope, its continued engagement in that peace process. The Philippines continues to co-sponsor the General Assembly resolution on promoting mediation and more funding for it. We have contributed mediation experts and constitution-writing, power-sharing and gender-inclusion issues to give prominence to women's organizations in recognition of the gender that binds the wounds of war and bears the heaviest burden of its excesses on their shoulders, as well as those of their loved ones. While we should put our trust in a common humanity, we must keep our powder dry.”
2018-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8334 (2018) · source
“After 18 years of sustained engagement in the peace process, the Philippine Government has enacted the Bangsamoro Organic Law, creating the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region. Signed by President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, it recognizes the aspirations of those living in Muslim Mindanao, including indigenous and Christian peoples, within the framework of one indivisible democratic republic and one bill of rights. Sovereignty cannot amputate itself; a republic cannot sponsor a non-republican solution, nor a democracy a dictatorship. A caliphate was never in the cards. With regard to our peace negotiations with the Communist Party of the Philippines, the presidential adviser on the peace process announced that the doors for peace negotiations with the communist rebels are still open.”
2018-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8334 (2018) · source
“It is much worse today: conflicts are longer and more intractable, with precision weaponry more indiscriminate and, from that height, impervious to compassion. All the more compelling is the case for mediation. The Philippines highly appreciate the leadership of the Permanent Mission of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in convening today's open debate on mediation and the settlement of disputes. We reaffirm the Philippines' commitment to mediation. The Manila Declaration on the Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes is eponymous with the Philippines' desire for peace and its emphatic abhorrence of settlement by the use or threat of force. When used in key phases of conflict, mediation is a game changer, especially in indecisive conflicts. The Philippine experience attests to this.”
2018-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8334 (2018) · source
“Billions of dollars in weapons were left rusting in rice fields - the last ones dumped in the sea - and a great nation came to doubt its indispensable mission to advance freedom in the world. Mediation in Paris came too late, especially for those who, in good faith, made common cause with a foreigner and paid the price of abandonment. The minimum that mediation achieves is that, even when it fails, a lot is gained. For example, the realization of the real value in contention and the real price to be paid for it before the first shot is fired in an intractable conflict and before the last shot fired in vain. Sometimes the game is not worth the candle, nor is the price worth the cost of war. That said, we take note of Russia's point: mediation can be misused to achieve domination on the cheap.”
2018-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8334 (2018) · source
“What is still the longest war proves it: a lightly armed people defeated in no uncertain terms, accompanied by the most graphic photographic images. First the Europeans, then a super-Power that threw at a tiny nation of small people like my own every weapon of mass destruction short only of nuclear weapons. None are defeated until they say so; no one is victorious until the enemy leaves in disarray, as when the last chopper took off from the rooftop of the enemy's Embassy. Discreet mediation followed the release ofprisoners of war and remains of the slain for their memorials back home, but the costs of victory and defeat were staggering: 3 million killed on one side, 54,000 soldiers and scores of student protesters on the other.”
2018-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8334 (2018) · source
“The words "ultima ratio regis" were once inscribed in the bronze on Spanish royal cannon, meaning, "the sovereign's last argument". Kings in the past, republics in the present. War is the last argument of sovereignty - to fight for things essential to national honour and self-preservation, where surrender is never an option. But mediation is a wise preliminary choice. Through mediation, States at odds might arrive at the settlement of disputes by the exchange of words, not bullets, and the deployment of arguments, not armour. Anyway, "ultima ratio regis" is always available - never peace at any price. There are situations where property is not worth saving and life not worth living, but speaking only from the mouths of the most number of cannons will not always decide the outcome in their favour.”
2018-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8334 (2018) · source
“The militants are not bound by any of those conventions, protocols or plans in their predation, and their vision of society is never hospitable to the idea that children are outside the scope of war as opposed to one of its spoils.”
2018-07-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8305 (2018) · source
“Childhood should be the most cherished stage of a person's life. All are entitled to know the innocent joys from which we are all compelled to graduate into the world that adults make. We are committed to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocols to uphold children's rights and welfare. That commitment is guided by the third national action plan for children in the Philippine plan of action for the elimination of violence against children. Executive order 138 strengthens the children in armed conflict programme which involves human rights training, monitoring, reporting and responding to violations of children's rights in situations of armed conflict.”
2018-07-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8305 (2018) · source
“The armed forces of the Philippines are mandated to be a primary duty-bearer not only of peace, but especially of the safety of children in armed conflict. Under its regulation called "children protection during armed conflict situations", children are afforded special protection in armed-conflict situations. Those rescued or recovered, including those apprehended for alleged association with rebel armed groups, are handed over to the local social welfare officer for processing and psychosocial services. Both the armed forces and the commission for the welfare of children work with UNICEF to end child rights violations. For that, the Army has received scant credit, while enemies of the State are repeatedly eulogized for their repeatedly avowed and never-fulfilled intention to end their recruitment of child soldiers.”
2018-07-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8305 (2018) · source
“Achieving peace remains at the core of the Philippine President's agenda. The six-point peace and development agenda aims to bring about new peace agreements, always and consistently in compliance with human rights and our democratic Constitution, while diametrically opposed to the tyranny of terror and forever adamant in enforcing the civil and human rights found in political constitutions familiar to the civilized world. It is designed to promote a culture of peace and conflict sensitivity, and achieve a peace that fosters catch-up economic development in conflict areas. Earlier this year, the President ordered his Peace Secretary to resume talks with the communist rebels. They rejected it.”
2018-07-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8305 (2018) · source
“In May 2017, militants affiliated with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham took Marawi, a city in the southern part ofthe Philippines. After five long months of fighting, Government forces took back the city, but not without huge costs in terms ofthe casualties that they suffered and damage to the city. Regrettably children recruited by the militants were hurt in the fighting. Schools occupied by militants were taken back. The city was destroyed, thereby confirming the irony that sometimes a village must be destroyed in order to save it because it cannot be left in militant hands behind an advancing army's back. But one could always surround or go around a school and leave it behind. Rebellion and armed conflict are complex issues, but they do not defy solutions. My Government is tirelessly seeking a resolution to those conflicts.”
2018-07-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8305 (2018) · source
“The Philippines shares the United Nations profound desire to keep children away from armed conflict and - should it be unavoidable that they find themselves in the middle of battle - to keep them safe. The depth of our disdain for armed groups recruiting children and using them as human shields can be measured only by our grim determination to fight them. Such armed groups are beneath contempt. Our country has suffered human, social and economic costs from armed conflicts waged by them. The suffering is multiplied when children and youth are involved because of the psychological cost of war, which is immeasurable, as it is borne by the children as they grow into adulthood, and impacts the nation's future.”
2018-07-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8305 (2018) · source
“Within this Chamber, we talk about the human rights of children - the right to life, to a name, to education and to health, inter alia. Today I want to mention another right - their right not to know. Children have the right not to know at first hand the horrors of war. They have the right not to know the weight of a rifle or the sharpness of its edges as it strikes them. They have the right not to know fear, particularly the fear they must feel when they are staring down the barrel of a gun aimed at them. They have the right not to know hate, the tempestuous hate that is assuaged only by murdering its object. Except perhaps on the screens of their Xboxes and Nintendos, children have the right not to know what the battlefield looks like. It is one place where they do not belong within the militant's malignant embrace.”
2018-07-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8305 (2018) · source
“With regard to strengthening the whole-of-mission approach, we repeat our support for relevant United Nations resolutions on the peacebuilding architecture, which underscore the importance of prioritizing intervention, addressing the root causes of conflict and devising long-term peacebuilding strategies, with adequate and sustainable financial resources that translate into concrete measures at the country level, but absolutely without any political coloration. If the politics of peacekeeping is not national, it is foreign interference. That used to be called peacekeeping by janissaries. In order to revive a sense of shared responsibility for the success of peacekeeping, we support intergovernmental platforms that enable peer-learning on building resilience and encouraging constructive dialogue on the challenges of sustaining peace.”
2018-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8218 (2018) · source
“We join Indonesia in making ensuring the safety of peacekeepers an equally high priority, principally by enhancing the capacity of contributing countries and drawing as much hardware from developing countries as lessons from their generally satisfactory experience in the field. We do not recall ever having abandoned or abused those who sought our protection. Surely we have something to say on that score. Concerning the responsibility to improve peacekeeping operations, we support the call for sustained triangular consultations and cooperation among the Security Council, the Secretariat and contributing countries. Without them, it is impossible to have a shared understanding of appropriate policy and of operational responses and their implications for the mandate and conduct of an operation.”
2018-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8218 (2018) · source
“We repeat our support for calls to invest more in local political solutions to conflicts, which United Nations peacekeeping must reinforce and not supplant. People in conflict situations must feel that they own the peace that we merely help to bring about and keep. It is they who must configure the peace and the approaches to it, and no one else. In complex and high-risk environments, success in peacekeeping operations must be measured by the mandate to protect civilians as the core criterion of success, with child protection and combating sexual abuse as key elements. Predeployment training efforts should be tailored to respond to particular, country-specific challenges with regard to protecting civilians, with clear definitions of the responsibilities, opportunities and constraints that peacekeepers will face in the field.”
2018-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8218 (2018) · source
“Together with ASEAN, we reaffirm peacekeeping as a key element of ASEAN's political and security cooperation, as highlighted in the Plan of Action to Implement the Joint Declaration on Comprehensive Partnership between ASEAN and the United Nations (2016-2020). Currently, 4,500 police, military advisers and troops from ASEAN countries are in 12 United Nations peacekeeping missions. The Philippines has scaled down its contributions because of local exigencies, but in the wake of victories at home, we are determined to bring our numbers up again and keep them growing in peacekeeping missions abroad. Iwould now like to present the Philippines" recommendations for our collective action to improve United Nations peacekeeping operations.”
2018-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8218 (2018) · source
“We therefore signed the Voluntary Compact against Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, which concerns issues that have put to shame what should be held up and honoured - the United Nations peacekeeping mission. We renewed our pledge at the second Chiefs of Defence Conference to provide more military officers as observers and staff and to deploy more women peacekeepers, based on our conviction, grounded in experience, that the gender that binds the wounds of war, comforts the widows of war and shelters the children of conflict has the strongest motivation and the wisest approaches to preventing its outbreak and restoring peace that is broken.”
2018-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8218 (2018) · source
“The Philippines aligns itself with the statement made by the representative of Indonesia on behalf of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and thanks the Netherlands for convening this high-level open debate. We are gathered to show our collective commitment to sustaining peace as a goal and as a process to reinvigorate the Organization's mandate for peace as a core principle across the United Nations system, with the aim of restoring to the United Nations the lustre it had at its creation as the world's pre-eminent keeper and maker of peace. During 50 years of peacekeeping operations, the Philippines has never faltered in its commitment to answering calls from the United Nations for peace and investment in peace, even as they have evolved in a changing world.”
2018-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8218 (2018) · source
“It is my Government's hope that, in establishing and nurturing a functioning relationship with the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Governments will be able to facilitate the issuance of timely, accurate and balanced reports, which will pave the way to stamping out violence against children in the wars that Member States, sadly, still wage to protect their people from enemies and their countries from dismemberment.”
2017-10-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8082 (2017) · source
“We want and we have an army that fights to win conflicts, as the Marawi siege demonstrated with distinction, and do not want to create new conflicts by committing abuses, especially against children. That is the dubious distinction of insurgents. We are proud, and not ashamed, of our army. I have personally observed the care and caution shown by the army in avoiding civilian casualties when I worked as a television journalist covering the battlefield for ABS-CBN News. We do not know, however, how insurgents regard the practices that we all abhor.”
2017-10-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8082 (2017) · source
“In my meeting with the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, her office expressed the desire to maintain a continuous engagement with the States Members of the United Nations on those issues. I welcome that initiative because it addresses two concerns that, in my Government's experience, pose a challenge to achieving fair and balanced reporting on the part of the Special Representative. First, it addresses the brevity of time within which a Member State must provide comments to a draft report; and secondly, the lack of clarity and details regarding some cases cited in reports, which make it difficult for the Governments concerned to validate the claim, thereby making the work not unlike boxing with shadows. We have no need or desire to hide abuses.”
2017-10-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8082 (2017) · source
“More protective laws, circulars and policy statements are in the works. However, like those present here at today's meeting, we prefer to measure success by results, rather than simply by good intentions, with which the road to war is paved. That is why accuracy and objectivity in reporting is imperative. It can make or break the sincere desire to continue the endeavour to protect children in conflict. The Philippines will continue to help in the work of the United Nations towards the protection of children in armed conflict, and to support the publication of its annual report in line with its adherence to the highest standards of international law and the principles of transparency and accountability.”
2017-10-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8082 (2017) · source
“The Philippine State, which enjoys the distinction of maintaining one of the best public education systems in the developing world, has urged all schools to adhere to the Department of Education's basic curriculum and pedagogy, and, while the State does not have the wherewithal to offer classes in Marxism-Leninism, to reserve that subject for home schooling if that is some people's desire. The military has always been at the forefront of protecting the welfare of children in armed conflict. In February 2016, the Armed Forces issued a circular, "Child protection in armed conflict situations", which serves as a policy guide for the armed forces in preventing the commission of grave violations of children's rights. It sets the procedures for monitoring, reporting, and responding to Violations committed by State or non-State actors.”
2017-10-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8082 (2017) · source
“Of paramount importance is the protection of children from any form of threat, assault, torture, or other cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment. The delivery of social services to children, regardless of the situation they are in, must also be unhampered. No military advantage can possibly be gained by leaving them hurt, exposed and unattended. Education should continue in war and peace. In line with that policy, schools are also declared zones ofpeace.”
2017-10-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8082 (2017) · source
“A total of 1,869 children identified by the Front as associated with its armed wing were released from combat duty in a process that culminated early this year. Despite existing pockets of conflict in the country, including the recently ended Marawi siege, the State, as responsible for the human rights situation in the country, continues to prioritize the welfare of children and to discourage insurgencies from using children as warriors for a dubious and disgraceful advantage. In the Philippines, children are regarded as zones ofpeace, in accordance with the law on the special protection of children against abuse, exploitation and discrimination. That means that children must not be exposed to attack by using them as combatants. They are entitled to special respect and protection.”
2017-10-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8082 (2017) · source
“My delegation wishes to thank the Secretary-General and his Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict for their proactive work in preventing and promoting, monitoring and ensuring accountability with regard to the grave Violations committed against children in armed conflicts. The 2016 report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict (A/HRC/34/44) brings to light the tragic effects of armed conflict on children, while highlighting the good practices and headway made. The Philippines is heartened to note the delisting of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front group from the report after they finally stopped the recruitment of children in armed conflict.”
2017-10-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8082 (2017) · source
“With regard to safety and security, we cannot emphasize enough the importance of ensuring the safety and security of peacekeepers, while protecting civilians and building protective environments. The Philippines recommends that peacekeeping missions work more closely with local communities and non-governmental organizations. With regard to strengthening operational capacity, the Philippines supports calls by Member States for the Secretariat to be more transparent in selecting contingents from troop- and police-contributing countries. The Philippines stands in solidarity with the community of responsible nations and remains steadfastly committed to contribute to United Nations peacekeeping operations, cognizant of their strategic contributions to sustaining peace.”
2017-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8033 (2017) · source
“With regard to conduct and discipline, viewed in the context of the protection of civilians, the issue of sexual exploitation and abuse must be addressed aggressively through the following measures: robust pre-deployment and in-mission training programmes that underscore leadership responsibility and accountability throughout the chain of command; appropriate information sharing in connection with context-specific responses to cases; and innovative capacity-building initiatives based on best practices in overcoming a culture of impunity. The Philippines strongly supports the new policy on the protection of children in armed conflicts and hopes that the mandate will be mainstreamed into United Nations operations.”
2017-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8033 (2017) · source
“Concerning the overall policy framework, the Philippines reiterates its strong support for the Secretary-General's recommendation that peacekeeping operations will need to be politically adept in identifying options to support coherent, international strategies for negotiated settlements, while building collaborative partnerships with key stakeholders in each conflict context. We believe that more effort must be invested in local political solutions to conflicts, with peacekeeping in support.”
2017-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8033 (2017) · source
“For 50 years, the Philippines has consistently played an important role in United Nations peacekeeping operations in countries that are too numerous for me to list here. The Philippines' participation demonstrates the country's enduring commitment to work with key actors and stakeholders to ensure peace and stability in the affected areas. With regard to the deployment of Filipino peacekeepers, the Philippines has consistently observed the following parameters: the sole prerogative of the Philippine President to decide on Philippine participation; the authority of the Security Council; a clear and achievable mandate; a definite time frame and exit strategy; and the consent of the receiving State. Allow me to provide the Philippines' recommendations on key elements of today's open debate.”
2017-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8033 (2017) · source
“The Philippines aligns itself with the statement made by the representative of Venezuela on behalf of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries. Seventy-one years ago, General Carlos P. Romulo addressed the General Assembly and said, "We are not here to make the peace, but to build for peace. We are not here to avenge the injuries of the past, but to fulfil humanity's hopes for the future. We are not here to reap and divide the harvest of victory, but to make ready the hearts and minds of men for the seeds ofpeace." (A/PV.41, p. 18) We are all here today not only to meet head on the challenges to peace, but also to answer the call for sustaining and investing in peace. Peacekeeping remains the flagship agenda of the United Nations enterprise.”
2017-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8033 (2017) · source