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Meszaros

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2017-02-13
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2017-10-27
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  1. “On the leadership side, women hold only 21 per cent of the NATO civilian staff leadership positions. Over the past year we have seen the departure of two out of three of our female four-star officers. Again, we urge NATO member States to play their part to redress the imbalance. Our work on revising our policy and action plan for 2018 will enable us to highlight the importance of integrating gender perspectives in all our tasks and at all levels. Gender is not only a perspective; it is a tool that contributes and adds value to all of NATO's objectives and core tasks, and it is fundamental to ensuring peace and security for all.”

    2017-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8079 (2017) · source

  2. “We are funding research on the role of gender in countering violent extremism, and we have initiated a structured dialogue with civil society through the civil society advisory panel, which held its second meeting in early October in order to contribute to the upcoming revision of our policy for implementing resolution 1325 (2000) and action plan. Nevertheless, much remains to be done. On the key question of participation, we have seen only a small increase in female representation in the armed forces of member States - an average of 10.9 per cent in 2016, compared to 10.8 per cent in 2015. The average percentage of women in NATO operations for NATO allies was 6.8 per cent in 2016, compared to 6.4 per cent in 2015. We understand that we need to improve those figures, and urge our member States to do their part.”

    2017-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8079 (2017) · source

  3. “Much has already been achieved. NATO's military commands and missions have established a network of gender advisers, and the implementation of the action plan is supported at headquarters level by a network of gender focal points. Military guidelines on preventing and responding to conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence are being implemented by our strategic commands, and NATO will review progress in 2018 in concert with other international organizations, including the United Nations. NATO recently updated and approved a strategic command-level directive on gender that includes standards of behaviour and a code of conduct to be upheld by our personnel and NATO-led forces.”

    2017-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8079 (2017) · source

  4. “Mr. Meszaros: Empowering women is not only the right thing to do, but we know that it also leads to more peaceful, just and inclusive societies. It is essential for conflict prevention and it makes peace more sustainable. That is why NATO supports empowering women within our own organization, the armed forces, civilian structures and societies of allies and partners. NATO's current action plan for the implementation of resolution 1325 (2000) and related resolutions have been endorsed not only by the 29 NATO allies, but by a total of 55 nations in all, bringing together the largest political coalition to implement the women and peace and security agenda. NATO aims to maintain that momentum and level of support in 2018, with revised versions of both our policy for implementing resolution 1325 (2000) and our action plan.”

    2017-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8079 (2017) · source

  5. “We stand ready to share best practices and lessons learned as appropriate with the relevant United Nations bodies, in particular the Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force and the Working Group under its auspices. Taking into account our interconnectedness with others, we consider resilience and critical-infrastructure protection to be a shared responsibility, and we stand ready to contribute NATO's experience and expertise to the wider international efforts to enhance resilience.”

    2017-02-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7882 (2017) · source

  6. “Accordingly, we are working with the European Union to bolster resilience to hybrid threats and are offering capacity-building assistance to partners in Eastern Europe, South-East Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, particularly in establishing robust crisis-management systems and in training. We are taking this work forward by engaging our partner nations, the private sector and our counterparts in the European Union on the resilience-baseline requirements so as to ensure transparency and compatibility and to foster a sense of shared responsibility. NATO can act as a platform for allies and partners to share expertise and best practices, but also eventually to provide training and awareness-raising in the area of the protection of critical infrastructure and on wider counter-terrorism issues.”

    2017-02-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7882 (2017) · source

  7. “For NATO, building resilience is in the spirit of article 3 of the founding Washington Treaty, which obligates every ally to do what is necessary in order to be able to resist attack. But in an age of global interconnectedness, we note that our own resilience is directly linked to the resilience of our neighbours. That is why NATO's work to improve resilience and protect critical infrastructure also includes our partners. If our partners are more resilient, NATO will be more secure. The Warsaw Summit commitment therefore underlined the need to provide continued support for partners and improve cooperation with other international organizations in order to address vulnerabilities and make the alliance, NATO's neighbourhood and the wider international system more secure. No single entity holds all the tools necessary to achieve resilience.”

    2017-02-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7882 (2017) · source

  8. “That is why at the Warsaw Summit NATO Heads of State and Government committed to enhancing resilience in those and other critical areas. More important, from the perspective of critical-infrastructure protection, NATO nations agreed to meet resilience requirements in seven sectors: continuity of Government, energy supplies, civilian supplies, civilian transportation systems, civil- communication services, food and water supplies and the ability to deal with mass casualties and large-scale refugee movements. Those requirements define the level of resilience that allies require in order to be able to counter the full range of threats. NATO member nations are now doing what is necessary to meet those requirements.”

    2017-02-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7882 (2017) · source

  9. “Mr. Meszaros: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies and the international community as a whole confront a wide range of terrorist challenges that pose a direct threat to the security of our populations and to international stability and prosperity more broadly. We have faced terrible terrorist attacks on our soils and in our cities. In the changing security environment, NATO is strengthening its capabilities for deterrence and defence. That means investing in and improving military capabilities, but it also means improving nations' resilience to the full range of threats, especially those that are aimed directly at soft targets, such as our civilian populations, our critical infrastructure, our cybernetworks and our essential Government functions.”

    2017-02-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7882 (2017) · source