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Matjila/Mrs. Pandor/Ms. Mapisa-Nqakula

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  1. “There are still a number of speakers remaining on my list for this meeting. Given the lateness of the hour, I intend, with the concurrence of the members of the Council, to suspend the meeting until 3 pm. The meeting was suspended at 1.20pm.”

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  2. “Our contributions all indicate that we know what must be done - perhaps we need to devote a sharper focus on why we are failing to act in pursuit of agreed objectives. Once we have identified the real barriers, we will probably then begin to make greater progress. I now resume my functions as President of the Council. I shall now give the floor to the other Council members who wish to make statements. I call on the Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office of Germany.”

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  3. “As a supporter of collective approaches to address issues that affect us all, South Africa will continue to actively participate in existing global initiatives, such as the Women, Peace and Security Focal Points Network; the Elsie Initiative for Women in Peace Operations; and the Secretary-General's Action for Peacekeeping initiative. We find these initiatives useful in that they also serve as instruments to raise awareness on the importance of the women and peace and security agenda. As I conclude, let us agree to commit today to continue to advance the cause of women and of peace and security and the agenda thereto by ensuring that we implement the recommendations and guidelines emanating from existing resolutions.”

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  4. “The South African contingent of the Force Intervention Brigade of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is composed of 14.5 per cent women, and the officer commanding the South African force is a woman. During our side event here at the United Nations on women in peacekeeping, which was held yesterday afternoon, these women shared experiences on how to achieve the goals we have set to increase the representation of women in peace support operations. We are pleased that the United Nations uniformed personnel gender-parity strategy clearly indicates the quotas and time frames that must be reached to increase the number of women deployed as military, police, corrections andjustice personnel.”

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  5. “They are here to observe our continued commitment to serving areas of the world in which there is conflict. I would like to ask those women in uniform to stand. They have served and therefore deserve recognition. I know that I am breaching all diplomatic rules, but it is unfortunate that they appointed a novice as Minister for Foreign Affairs. On peacekeeping, South Africa will continue to ensure the meaningful participation of women in peace support operations. Currently, our national defence force comprises 30 per cent women. That has enabled South Africa, as a troop-contributing country to United Nations peacekeeping missions, to deploy more females on the front lines of armed conflicts.”

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  6. “South Africa has been a proponent of the women and peace and security agenda since its inception. We remain committed to implementing the agenda so that it can support and contribute to silencing the guns across the world, as well as work towards saving succeeding generations from the scourge ofwar, as we committed to do at the founding of this very Organization. Our country has been engaged in training women across all of these areas. We are therefore optimistic that operationalizing the Global Alliance of Regional Women Mediators Networks will advance some of these objectives. We are not speaking empty rhetoric when we refer to the participation of women - we have women here from our various armed forces in South Africa and our police service who have served in peacekeeping missions.”

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  7. “We believe that some of those recommendations from 2015 are still relevant in terms of elaborating practical and attainable deliverables. It is also for that reason that we in South Africa have advocated for its inclusion, in order to embolden the message on the full implementation of the agenda outlined in resolution 1325 (2000). Our deliverables must be visible and discernible. They must be clearly aimed at ensuring the meaningful participation of women at all levels of peace processes; increasing the number of women in uniformed and civilian components of peacekeeping operations; investing in women as peacebuilders, such as in mediation and negotiation; protecting the human rights of women, particularly sexual and reproductive health rights; and advancing accountability for heinous crimes such as sexual violence.”

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  8. “It is within that context that we in South Africa saw it fit to present a draft resolution (8/2019/841) focused on the full implementation of the women and peace and security agenda. Resolution 2493 (2019) now recognizes that, although there has been progress, there is still a great deal that we must do. As we exchange views on how to strengthen implementation, particularly as we move towards the twentieth anniversary of the adoption of resolution 1325 (2000), it is also imperative for us as the international community to take into account the findings and the recommendations of the 2015 Global Study on the Implementation of United Nations Security Council resolution 1325 - the study commissioned by this very organ needs to be taken into account.”

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  9. “Resolution 1325 (2000), which was adopted 19 years ago in October, and its subsequent resolutions underpin the women and peace and security international normative framework. We in South Africa View the women and peace and security agenda as a means for women to mediate in conflict situations and as an essential tool for ending the use of force as a means of settling disputes. The report of the Secretary-General (S/2019/800) that we have before us provides us with a useful overview of the successes and gaps in the implementation of that agenda. It gives us concrete recommendations that can move us from rhetoric to action, so that we can effectively implement the commitments that we have set ourselves. Women are tired of us talking. Women want action. Women want change.”

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  10. “Ifwe fail to address the barriers in the next 20 years and beyond, then we will have to face the fact that we are falling far short of our ambitions to realize the objectives that we set as an international community. Together, the United Nations, Member States, regional organizations, civil society and other actors supporting peace processes must hold each other accountable to maintain and go beyond current progress in the area of women and peace and security and its agenda by 2020. Everybody's participation today in this important meeting confirms the significance of the women and peace and security agenda. The myriad and complex conflicts in the world serve to underscore the need to reinforce the implementation of that agenda and its related actions.”

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  11. “I am told that that is a welcome return to consensus in the Council, and we are extremely pleased at that. I wish to thank everybody here for participating in our discussion today. In particular, I wish to thank all those who provided us with such significant briefings in the course of our deliberations. As we have heard, women from diverse contexts across the world continue to face obstacles and resistance. They continue to bear the brunt of armed conflict, and their personal, economic, civil and political security is persistently undermined. Women's efforts to ensure their participation in peace processes continue not to receive a positive response.”

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  12. “I thank Ms. Salah for her briefing, and I thank the guests present here for their applause. I had been wondering whether people applaud at the United Nations, because I am a stranger to this organ. I am therefore very pleased to see that there is a human element present. I notice that many participants are looking at their cell phones as the discussion continues. I hope that they are tweeting that they support all the demands that have been put to them this morning. I shall now make a statement in my capacity as the Minister for International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa. My name is Naledi Pandor, and I wish to begin by acknowledging the Security Council for its adoption of resolution 2493 (2019), just a few moments ago. We are absolutely thrilled at the unanimity that was indicated in that adoption.”

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  13. “I shall put the draft resolution to the vote now. A vote was taken by Show ofhands. In favour: Belgium, China, Cote d'Ivoire, Dominican Republic, Equatorial Guinea, France, Germany, Indonesia, Kuwait, Peru, Poland, Russian Federation, South Africa, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America The President: The draft resolution received 15 votes in favour. The draft resolution has been adopted unanimously as resolution 2493 (2019). I shall now give the floor to those members of the Council who wish to make statements on the resolution just adopted.”

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  14. “I wish to draw the attention of Council members to document 8/2019/800, which contains the report of the Secretary-General on women and peace and security, and document S/2019/801, which contains a letter dated 8 October 2019 from the Permanent Representative of South Africa addressed to the Secretary-General, transmitting a concept paper on the item under consideration. Members of the Council also have before them document S/2019/84l, which contains the text ofa draft resolution submitted by Armenia, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Georgia, Indonesia, Ireland, Jordan, Liberia, Morocco, North Macedonia, Norway, the Philippines, Portugal, the Republic of Korea, San Marino, South Africa, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Uruguay. The Council is ready to proceed to the vote on the draft resolution before it.”

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  15. “Mara Marinaki, Principal Adviser on Gender and the Implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) on Women and Peace and Security of the European External Action Service; His Excellency Mr. Maged Abdelfattah Abdelaziz, Permanent Observer of the League of Arab States to the United Nations; and Ms. Amarsanaa Darisuren, Senior Adviser on Gender Issues of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. I propose that the Council invite the Permanent Observer of the observer State of the Holy See to the United Nations to participate in the meeting, in accordance with the provisional rules of procedure and the previous practice in that regard. There being no objection, it is so decided. The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda.”

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  16. “In accordance with rule 39 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite the following briefers to participate in this meeting: Ms. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women; Ms. Bineta Diop, African Union Special Envoy on Women, Peace and Security; Ms. Lina Ekomo, on behalf of the Network of African Women in Conflict Prevention and Mediation and the African Women Leaders Network; and Ms. Alaa Salah, civil society activist and community leader. In accordance with rule 39 of the Council's provisional rules ofprocedure, I also invite the following to participate in this meeting: Ms. Clare Hutchinson, Special Representative of the NATO Secretary-General for Women, Peace and Security; Her Excellency Ms.”

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  17. “In accordance with rule 37 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite the representatives of Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Georgia, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, India, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Latvia, Lebanon, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, the Netherlands, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, the Philippines, Portugal, Qatar, the Republic of Korea, Romania, Rwanda, San Marino, Sierra Leone, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, the Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Uruguay and Viet Nam to participate in this meeting.”

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  18. “I wish to warmly welcome the Secretary-General, Ministers and other distinguished representatives present in the Security Council Chamber. Their presence today underscores the importance of the subject matter under discussion.”

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