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2015-07-30
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  1. “Iwould therefore like to conclude by placing before you, Mr. President, and members of the Security Council, a special request on behalf of SIDS, namely, to consider including in the Council's future schedule a day dedicated to the consideration by the Council of the peace and security challenges facing small island developing States. That would be a tangible outcome of our open debate today.”

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  2. “The global response to those challenges is a powerful illustration of what is possible when States collaborate and cooperate to achieve common and critical goals. Without putting too fine a point on it, that is why we are here as Pacific nations and as SIDS. It is to take up this rare opportunity to inform the Security Council that the challenges we face, including the impacts of climate change, present real threats to the peace and security of our island countries and peoples. As our modest contribution towards our collective security, we will continue to provide police officers to United Nations peacekeeping missions in order to honour a commitment we made in 2000. Today's event has garnered so much positive spirit and goodwill that it would be truly most unfortunate if the debate were to be an end to itself and a once-only occurrence.”

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  3. “The Samoa Pathway again recognized that sea-level rise and other adverse impacts of climate change continue to pose significant risks to small island developing States and represent for many the gravest threat to their survival and viability, including through the loss of territory. We will therefore continue to advocate at every available opportunity and forum, the Security Council included, for the need for the United Nations community to be open-minded and not to reject out of hand the security implications of climate change. While the Council has traditionally focused on inter-State conflict, it has not shied away from acting proactively to address the root causes of other non-conventional security issues, including HIV/AIDS, refugee issues, children in armed conflicts, poverty and development, and Ebola.”

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  4. “Our declaration accepted that climate change and its adverse impacts are a threat to territorial integrity, security and sovereignty, and in some cases to the very existence, of our islands because of the submersion of existing land and the regression of our maritime heritage. My reference to climate change should surprise no one. In 2013, in their Majuro Declaration for Climate Leadership, the Pacific Forum leaders called as a region for collective international responsibility and action to urgently reduce and phase down greenhouse gas pollution, including by Pacific island countries themselves.”

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  5. “We continue to see the United Nations, through the Security Council, as the key arbiter for the maintenance of international peace and security, stability and prosperity. That is important for our countries, which risk a reversal of the development gains they have made owing to external forces over which we have little or no control. To cement and build upon development goals already achieved, international peace and security must be maintained, and it is the responsibility of all Member States, particularly those in the Security Council, to work in close cooperation to ensure that happens. A fortnight ago today, the Polynesian Leaders Group issued their Climate Declaration in Tahiti, French Polynesia.”

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  6. “Global interconnectedness through fast, efficient transport links and information technology have brought many undoubted benefits to our region. However, even the Internet now also comes with a cautionary note of risks to peace and security through dangerous content and its use for criminal activities and for inflammatory purposes, problems that our small islands' jurisdictions and societies are currently not well equipped to handle. Samoa has taken steps to try to address the risks of the Internet, but we will need the support of our partners in order to find fully successful solutions. It is therefore imperative that the United Nations and its Member States commit to tackling threats to international peace and security, especially through the Security Council. Our organization was founded upon values of collective security.”

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  7. “International crime is unlikely to decrease in the immediate future. If allowed to take a firm foothold, it will not only be detrimental to those Pacific island countries currently affected, but also to the entire Pacific. In response, the Pacific has adopted a regional approach as the only viable means to coordinate the efforts of national and regional law enforcement agencies to facilitate information-sharing and avoid duplication of efforts and resource wastage. For Samoa, our Transnational Crimes Unit works closely with the law-enforcement agencies of our regional and international partners to help seize illicit drugs, arrest criminal fugitives, confiscate money- laundering proceeds and halt the misuse of social media, to name a few.”

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  8. “A great external threat stems from globalization. The global context is changing rapidly. Relative isolation and remoteness no longer shield us from globalization's reach and impacts. Our vast ocean adds to our vulnerability in terms of security, and the difficulty of providing effective maritime policing and surveillance compounds that further. We have witnessed significant serious transnational organized crime activities in the region. They include drugs and firearms trafficking, financial crimes and money laundering, human trafficking and people smuggling, labour and sexual exploitation. Some organized crime groups and networks are gradually becoming entrenched in our region, which will continue to test the ability of our capacity- constrained law enforcement agencies to combat organized crime groups.”

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  9. “The agreed outcome of the third International Conference on Small Island Developing States (A/CONF.223/10) held last year categorically reaffirmed the importance ofpeace and security issues for this special group. That is a part of the record of the United Nations, and we are not inventing something new. To contextualize those challenges from the perspective of the Pacific region, one can say with confidence that we have largely maintained a peaceful and secure environment. On the surface of it, because we are not situated in the world's troubled spots nor are we homes to any of the current conflicts, it is tempting to equate that perceived tranquility with the absence of security challenges for our islands. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Pacific's security concerns are varied, complex and many.”

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  10. “No region, no group of countries and no selective security issues should continue to have a monopoly of the Council's time, attention and resources. SIDS form an important constituency of the Security Council in their own right, irrespective oftheir sizes, economic influence, political clout or military strength. Their concerns matter like everyone else's in this Chamber, their voices deserve to be heard, their views need to be understood and their challenges considered and addressed. The Small Island Developing States Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA Pathway) (General Assembly resolution 69/15, Annex) is our global pact. It is a blueprint of the needs and aspirations of SIDS, together with the opportunities and means to implement them.”

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  11. “Today's debate dedicated to addressing peace and security challenges facing small island developing States is a rarity in this Chamber. The Government of New Zealand is to be commended for this timely initiative, and we are grateful to members of the Security Council for providing a platform so that peace and security issues from the perspectives of small island developing States can be the focus of the Council's time and occupy centre stage, even if only for just a day. The exceptional political capital demonstrated by the high-level of participation of small island developing States (SIDS) this morning is a strong reaffirmation that important issues entrusted to the Security Council are of equal priority and importance even to the smallest Member States of the United Nations. The SIDS message to the Council is unequivocal.”

    2015-07-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7499 (2015) · source