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Manrique

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2023-07-21
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2023-07-21
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  1. “We call on the parties to refrain from using cluster munitions given the collateral damage they cause in the immediate, medium and long term. Ecuador, as a State party to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, insists that those weapons must be banned. Finally, we strongly urge the Security Council to reiterate its support for the work of the Secretary- General as it did in May 2022. That work will remain indispensable both on the humanitarian front and in efforts to bring us closer to a just and lasting peace based on the principles of the Charter of the United Nations.”

    2023-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9382 (2023) · source

  2. “We are also distressed by the growing impact of the invasion on agriculture and rural livelihoods in Ukraine, with households sustaining tens of billions in losses and huge destruction of machinery and equipment, storage facilities, crops, inputs and 600,000 hectares of agricultural land, as we were just informed. The attacks on humanitarian responders and their headquarters, including Odesa and Mykolayiv, must be stopped, and we urge the Russian Federation to allow humanitarian access to areas temporarily under its control. We insist on the need for the parties to respect without restrictions their obligations under international humanitarian law, including the principles of distinction, proportionality and precaution. We are concerned about contamination by mines and explosive remnants.”

    2023-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9382 (2023) · source

  3. “What worse way could there be to implement resolution 2417 (2018), in which the Council urged all parties five years ago to ensure the proper functioning of food systems and markets in situations of armed conflict? And what worse way could there be to accompany the decision to suspend the Grain Initiative than by bombing Ukraine’s port cities and grain-loading infrastructure, specifically in Odesa? Not to mention that any threat or attack against civilian vessels in the Black Sea would be unacceptable. Ecuador stresses the importance of respecting food and water supply systems and reminds everyone of the existing prohibition on attacking, destroying, removing or rendering useless objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population, including agricultural and arable goods.”

    2023-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9382 (2023) · source

  4. “Since then the regional and global consequences have become a major concern for Latin America and the Caribbean. While cereal exports are not food aid operations in and of themselves, they continue to play a vital role in alleviating food insecurity and therefore in the global humanitarian situation. The implementation of the Black Sea Grain Initiative has saved millions of lives from hunger, particularly in the most vulnerable areas, as has been repeatedly confirmed by the FAO and even the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. To that we must add the impact that the suspension will have on the operations of the World Food Programme, which has benefited thousands of children in Afghanistan, Yemen and the Horn of Africa, to mention just a few examples.”

    2023-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9382 (2023) · source

  5. “I deplore the Russian Federation’s announcement that it will terminate its participation in the Initiative, which has been central to alleviating the global consequences of the food insecurity that has been exacerbated by the military aggression against Ukraine. Since the invasion began the Secretary-General has been warning about the global consequences that the conflict would have, with its harshest impact being on people with fewer resources, owing to the disruptions of the supply chain, bringing the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Food Price Index to its highest level in history. In March 2022, a few weeks after the war began, Ecuador hosted the FAO Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean.”

    2023-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9382 (2023) · source

  6. “Mr. Manrique (Ecuador) (spoke in Spanish): Madam President, I am grateful to you for convening this meeting at the request of France and Ecuador. I also appreciate the briefings by Mr. Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, and Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs and Peacebuilding. I also listened carefully to Mr. Khazin. Tomorrow, 22 July, marks the first anniversary of the signing of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, which the Secretary-General described as a beacon of hope. It is unfortunate that rather than fanning that flame, actions are being taken that may extinguish it.”

    2023-07-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9382 (2023) · source