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2011-11-09

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2023-07-14

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1. “In that regard, we commend the initiatives taken in recent years by the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, in cooperation with the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations and in consultation with the Security Council, to better prepare the military, police and civilian personnel deployed under the auspices of the United Nations for their task of protecting civilians. They do so in ever more complex environments and conflicts, in which civilians continue to be the first victims of the acts of violence committed by parties to the conflict. The efforts of the Council to better protect children in armed conflict and to fight sexual violence in conflicts are part and parcel of the agenda for the protection of civilians.”

   2011-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6650Resumption1 (2011) · source

2. “We therefore commend the Council for giving peacekeeping operations increasingly explicit mandates to protect civilians. The Council has an excellent tool, the aide-memoire (S/PRST/2009/l, annex), to do so in a systematic and coherent fashion. Is it essential to translate the mandates set by the Council into rules of engagement on the ground that enable Blue Helmets to successfully discharge their protection-of-civilians mandate. While the expectations of the populations in areas where peacekeeping operations are deployed are enormous, the resources available to our peacekeepers are often too limited.”

   2011-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6650Resumption1 (2011) · source

3. “As the Deputy Prime Minister of Luxembourg stated in the General Assembly in September, "We did not want to reproach ourselves yet again for having hesitated too long, for having neglected our responsibility to protect those unable to defend themselves against the cruelty of their own authorities. We did not want once again to be the powerless witnesses of large-scale violence." (A/66/PV.24, p. 2) We must now support the new Libya along the difficult path towards democracy and the rule of law. Enhancing the protection of civilians in armed conflict lies at the heart of the Council's work to maintain international peace and security, not only in the Libyan context. The protection of civilians is the noblest task of our peacekeepers, and possibly the most difficult and the most delicate.”

   2011-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6650Resumption1 (2011) · source

4. “Mr. Maes (Luxembourg) (spoke in French): Luxembourg fully aligns itself with the statement just delivered by the observer of the European Union. We warmly congratulate the Portuguese presidency of the Council for organizing this bi-annual debate on the protection of civilians, which has taken on particular importance against the backdrop of the developments in North Africa and the Middle East in recent months. The Security Council assumed its responsibilities by authorizing, in resolution 1973 (2011), the operation to protect civilians in Libya. The determined intervention of the international community made it possible to save the lives of countless Libyan men, women and children. The international community had to act.”

   2011-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6650Resumption1 (2011) · source