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1. “In that regard, in addition to engaging official State agencies, it is critical for the international community to find innovative ways of involving non-State armed groups in ways that do not undermine the rule of law in seeking lasting solutions to armed conflict around the world. In conclusion, Malawi appreciates the work of the International Criminal Court, UNICEF, the Department of Peacekeeping Operations and the Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict to address the use of children in armed conflict in all its dimensions. Malawi also takes this opportunity to encourage the Security Council to ensure that political considerations do not override the need to protect children from armed conflict. Malawi condemns the use of children in armed conflict.”

   2008-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5936Resumption1 (2008) · source

2. “In addition, States that have not done so yet should be encouraged to sign and ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict, and ensure that their national legislation is aligned to the Convention. Most importantly, the Convention and its Optional Protocol must be fully implemented in order to render them meaningful in the fight against the use of children in armed conflict. That is because the obligation to protect and assist children, both in times of peace and in armed conflict, is a basic principle of human rights and humanitarian law.”

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3. “With regard to the rule of law, we note with concern that most countries affected by armed conflict lack the capacity to bring the perpetrators of armed conflict to justice due to a lack of resources. While national Governments have the primary responsibility to provide effective protection and relief to children affected by armed conflict, they need to be assisted in strengthening their law enforcement and legal and judicial systems in order to be responsive to the security needs of their people. The United Nations and, in particular, the Security Council have an important role to play in that regard.”

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4. “In that regard, we agree with the call made by the President of the Security Council on 12 February to adopt a broad strategy of conflict prevention that would address the root causes of armed conflict in a comprehensive manner in order to enhance the protection of children on a long-term basis, including by promoting sustainable development, poverty eradication, national reconciliation, good governance, democracy, the rule of law and respect for and protection of human rights, in particular the rights of the child. However, that can be achieved only if the Security Council works in full cooperation with relevant organs of the United Nations, such as the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council, that are mandated to deal with development issues.”

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5. “Those norms, standards and guidelines are incorporated into a number of instruments, for example the Paris Principles and commitments to protect children from recruitment or use by armed forces and armed groups, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Security Council resolutions 1612 (2005) and 1820 (2008), the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the African Child, the Cape Town Principles on child soldiers in Africa and other international instruments. However, more needs to be done to protect children from the menace of armed conflicts.”

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6. “In that regard, my delegation observes that some progress has been made at the international level in the development of norms, standards and guidelines aimed at combating the recruitment or use of children in armed conflict and at securing the release of children in armed conflict, supporting their reintegration into society and affording them the greatest possible protection from armed forces or groups.”

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7. “Many die and others are displaced from their homes and communities, maimed or disabled and let to suffer untold physical, developmental, emotional, psychological, mental and spiritual harm. Because armed conflict destroys State structures that provide social services, children in armed conflict suffer from the loss of access to basic social services such as health care, education, water, sanitation and nutritious food, thereby deepening poverty. Those are issues of key importance to national and international peace and security, requiring the immediate, as well as long-term, collective attention of the international community.”

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8. “Let me begin by commending you, Sir, for convening this open debate on children and armed conflict and thanking you for allowing my delegation to address the Security Council. At the World Summit in 2005, world leaders reaffirmed their commitment to promoting and protecting the rights and welfare of children in armed conflicts. They also called upon States to take effective measures, as appropriate, to prevent the recruitment and use of children in armed conflict, contrary to international law, by armed forces and groups, and to prohibit and criminalize such practices. Despite that noble call, children continue to be kidnapped and forcibly conscripted or recruited into service around the world as armed fighters, guards, helpers or sex slaves. In the process, their rights are violated with impunity.”

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9. “In that regard, we call upon African Governments, arms-producing countries and the rest of the international community to vigorously and proactively support international discussions to achieve a robust arms trade treaty to ensure that Africa is protected from armed violence. In the meantime, we support all the efforts being made in the implementation of the United Nations Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects. In conclusion, we commend the Peacebuilding Commission for its integrated approach to post-conflict peacebuilding and its central role in addressing the problem of armed violence and conflict in Africa.”

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10. “We believe that the unregulated availability of small arms and light weapons leads to a breakdown of the rule of law, democracy and legitimate State structures. Accordingly, we support ongoing efforts towards the elaboration of an arms trade treaty aimed at ending the illicit manufacture of and trade in small arms and light weapons and their ammunition. We believe that this is a significant step towards the standardization of international trade in conventional arms and ensuring that small arms and light weapons do not end up in the wrong hands and are not used for illegal activities. It is therefore our hope that the arms trade treaty will control both the supply of and demand for conventional weapons.”

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11. “Literally thousands of hospitals, schools, and roads could have been built, positively affecting millions of people. Not only do the people of Africa suffer the physical horrors of violence, armed conflict undermines their efforts to escape poverty." In that regard, Malawi views the unregulated manufacture and supply of small arms and light weapons as a real threat to peace, security and development. It is for those reasons that Malawi endorsed the Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development, which emerged from a summit hosted by Switzerland and the United Nations Development Programme in June 2006. Furthermore, we also associate ourselves with the efforts of the international community to establish an effective international regime to regulate the manufacture and transfer of small arms and light weapons and their ammunition.”

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12. “Africa can no longer afford the cost of armed conflict or allow armed conflict to continue to hold back economic growth and the livelihoods ofits people. In her foreword to briefing paper 107, entitled "Africa's missing billions", published by the International Action Network on Small Arms, Oxfam and Saferworld and launched on 11 October 2007, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia summarizes the immeasurable loss of development occasioned by armed violence and conflict in Africa in these words: "This is money Africa can ill afford to lose. The sums are appalling: the price that Africa is paying could cover the cost of solving the HIV and AIDS crisis in Africa, or provide education, water and prevention and treatment for TB and malaria.”

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13. “In that regard, in the 2005 World Summit Outcome Document, our heads of State and Government recognized the linkage between development, peace, security and human rights and its impact on the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals. Accordingly, Malawi calls upon the international community, led by the United Nations, to intensify its efforts in assisting to remove illegal arms from African countries and to prevent armed violence in order to help Africa achieve the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, in a peaceful and secure environment. After all, the vast majority of arms used to commit armed violence and armed conflict come from outside Africa.”

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14. “That has in turn imposed enormous costs on the Government, on communities and on individuals, and has had a profoundly negative impact on socio- economic and human development in the country, particularly in the rural areas, where economic activities have been greatly affected by armed crime and violence. Ordinary people in rural communities have lost valuable property and lives to criminals armed with small arms or light weapons. Many have been maimed or injured and are no longer able to freely conduct their economic activities without the threat of armed violence. Freedom from the threat of violence is a basic human right and a precondition for social, economic and human development, and the dignity and well- being of all people.”

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15. “Let me begin by congratulating you, Mr. President, on your presidency of the Security Council for the month of April and by thanking you for the initiative to hold this debate and giving me the opportunity to address the Council. We welcome the report of the Secretary-General on small arms, which highlights adequately the problems associated with small arms and light weapons. Over recent years Malawi has witnessed an increased and alarming flow of small arms and light weapons into the country from conflict-afflicted areas, particularly in Africa. The use of such weapons, illegally brought into Malawi, has destroyed lives and livelihoods, bred insecurity of person and property and caused fear and horror among the people in various ways.”

    2008-04-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5881Resumption1 (2008) · source

16. “In conclusion, my delegation wishes to reiterate that resolution 1325 (2000) holds out a promise to women and girls around the globe that the international community is ready to protect their rights both in times of peace and in times of war or armed conflict, and to remove all barriers to their equal participation and full involvement in the maintenance and promotion of sustainable peace in the world in general and in their own communities in particular. Seven years after the adoption of resolution 1325 (2000), the United Nations needs to do more to keep and realize that promise.”

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17. “We support the recommendations contained in the Secretary-General's report and in that respect underline the importance of establishing a Security Council mechanism to monitor the implementation of resolution 1325 (2000) at the national level. We believe that this would help to address gender-based violence and abuses of human rights and women's rights during conflict and in post-conflict situations.”

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18. “Therefore, we hope that adequate and predictable mechanisms will be introduced to support the full implementation of resolution 1325 (2000) in an efficient, transparent, accountable, coherent and sustainable manner that takes into account the special needs of women and children, particularly in situations of armed conflict. These include putting an end to gender-based violence and degrading and inhumane treatment, which has resulted in millions of women and children in armed-conflict-afflicted areas losing their limbs or their lives. We are particularly appalled by reports of the sexual exploitation of women and children, particularly by the very same people who are entrusted with the responsibility to protect them.”

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19. “We note with concern from the report of the Secretary-General contained in document S/2007/567 that institutional gaps and challenges such as inadequate funding for gender-related projects and insufficient institutional capacity for gender mainstreaming in peacekeeping and peacebuilding operations have impeded the full implementation of the United Nations System-wide Action Plan on women and peace and security for 2005-2007. However, we are confident that those challenges and gaps will be addressed as the United Nations embarks on the implementation of the United Nations System-wide Action Plan on women for 2008-2009, which, as we understand it, is a results-based programming, monitoring and reporting tool.”

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20. “This is even more critical in countries such as Malawi, where the population of women is larger than that of men and where the majority of women are engaged in the agricultural production that drives the economy. In that regard, we call upon the Security Council to work in coordination with other United Nations bodies, particularly the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council, the Human Rights Council, the United Nations Development Programme, UNICEF, the United Nations Development Fund for Women, the Peacebuilding Commission and others, in seeking measures that would ensure that the MDGs are achieved in full by 2015 in a peaceful and secure environment that is fit for all.”

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21. “In that regard, women have been instrumental in sustaining the relative peace and security that Malawi has enjoyed since independence in 1964, proving the point that peace does not necessarily mean only the absence of war or armed conflict. Accordingly, we urge the United Nations to take further deliberate steps to increase the participation of women in the highest-level decision-making positions in peacekeeping operations, conflict prevention, peace negotiations, peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction. We believe that the incorporation of a gender perspective in those areas is critical for the achievement of sustainable and lasting peace at both the national and the international levels and for achieving the internationally agreed goals, including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).”

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22. “In that regard, we note that resolution 1325 (2000) calls upon Member States to ensure increased representation of women at all decision-making levels in national, regional and international institutions and mechanisms for the prevention, management, and resolution of conflict. In Malawi, for example, in support of that call women have been integrated in political and decision- making processes at various levels of Malawian society. Women now occupy prominent positions in the Government and parastatal organizations and have demonstrated themselves to be effective leaders by ensuring that the people of Malawi always remain focused on activities that are aimed at attaining social and economic development for the country.”

    2007-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5766Resumption1 (2007) · source

23. “Let me begin by congratulating you, Sir, on your delegation's presidency of the Security Council for the month of October 2007. My delegation is grateful to be given the opportunity to address the Security Council during this open debate on the theme, "Women and peace and security: towards a coherent and effective implementation of Security Council resolution 1325 (2000)". We associate ourselves with the statement delivered by the Permanent Representative of Zambia on behalf of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). We would like to add the following remarks. Given that peace is inextricably linked to equality between men and women, the importance of involving women - in our view the world's most effective peacemakers - in peacekeeping and peacebuilding, cannot be overemphasized.”

    2007-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5766Resumption1 (2007) · source