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Migration and Tunisians Abroad of Tunisia

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  1. “It will allow existing conflicts to be comprehensively and permanently settled and their causes to be effectively addressed, and thereby enhance the role of preventive diplomacy as a mechanism for maintaining international peace and security.”

    2021-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/394 (2021) · source

  2. “In conclusion, I should like to emphasize that the magnitude of the challenges facing the world and the emerging risks that are targeting humankind and threatening our collective security demand that we review our approach to international peace and security from a collaborative perspective. With that in mind, we call for strengthening existing cooperation between the United Nations and regional and subregional organizations to address common challenges, above all conflicts and terrorism, and to address the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic, in line with resolution 2532 (2020), which was adopted unanimously on 1 July 2020 pursuant to a Tunisian-French initiative. Strengthening and promoting cooperation between the United Nations and regional organizations will help to enhance our common understanding of the root causes of crises.”

    2021-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/394 (2021) · source

  3. “They are therefore well-positioned to play effective roles in mediation, confidence- building and the promotion of political dialogue and reconciliation between the parties involved. It is important today to act to prioritize intervention by regional and subregional organizations to help address crises and create solutions that spring from within regions, as the African Union is trying to do in a number of places. In that regard, we look forward to the Secretary-General’s proposals in his upcoming reports on ways to strengthen cooperation between the United Nations and regional organizations in the area of confidence-building and the promotion of political dialogue as a tool for resolving disputes.”

    2021-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/394 (2021) · source

  4. “Such cooperation will contribute to a common understanding of the underlying causes of the various conflicts and crises S/2021/394 plaguing the Arab and African regions, thereby making our approaches to dealing with them more practical and effective. Even as we express our satisfaction with the cooperative relations that have been forged between regional organizations and the United Nations over the past 20 years, we stress here today that such efforts must be redoubled in order to achieve a quantum leap in those relationships and realize the highest possible level of coordination, integration and shared responsibility. Regional organizations are aware of local specificities and understand the underlying drivers and causes of conflicts and the background to relations between the parties to regional tensions.”

    2021-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/394 (2021) · source

  5. “That makes it all the more urgent for the international community to join forces and coordinate regional and local actions to resolve those crises with a view to ensuring global security, stability and peace. Tunisia is committed to serving the interests of international peace and security and addressing global issues, especially those affecting Arab and African countries. It therefore places special importance on consultation and cooperation between the Security Council and both the League of Arab States and the African Union. The two latter organizations are the most important actors in their respective regions, the most capable of understanding regional specificities and complications and the best positioned to deal with regional conditions.”

    2021-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/394 (2021) · source

  6. “The importance of today’s meeting lies in our belief that the role of regional organizations must be integrated into United Nations and Security Council efforts to lay the foundations for international peace and security. That requires a meshing of efforts and a consolidation of visions in a unified, coordinated and integrated international approach. In that regard, we call for stepping up coordination and cooperation between the Security Council and regional organizations to a higher level. That will lead to greater effectiveness in addressing various situations and will help to facilitate the resolution and prevention of conflicts and crises. Crises and security, economic, humanitarian and development challenges around the world have been compounded by the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.”

    2021-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/394 (2021) · source

  7. “That meeting culminated in the adoption by the Security Council of presidential statement S/PRST/2021/2, which reflected the consensus on the need to advance cooperation between the Organization and regional organizations, given the major roles played by regional organizations in political, economic and development matters. Such organizations are also cornerstones of maintaining security and peace and proactive platforms for defusing tensions. In that regard, I would be remiss if I did not mention the meeting (see S/2020/1179)held on 4 December 2020 during the Council presidency of South Africa concerning cooperation between the United Nations and the African Union.”

    2021-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/394 (2021) · source

  8. “It reflects the importance we all place on strengthening cooperation and integration between the United Nations and regional organizations, particularly in the area of preventing, managing and resolving conflicts around the world under Chapter VIII of the Charter of the United Nations. During its Council presidency in January 2021, Tunisia had the honour of holding a high-level briefing (see S/2021/66) on cooperation between the Security Council and the League of Arab States, which was marked by constructive proposals and a rich discussion.”

    2021-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/394 (2021) · source

  9. “At the outset, I should like to thank Secretary-General António Guterres for his valuable briefing on supporting communication and cooperation with regional organizations, enhancing the role of the United Nations and multilateral action. I welcome former Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who at the very start of his term laid the foundations for mechanisms and frameworks for coordination and cooperation between the United Nations and regional organizations for the maintenance of international peace and security. I also thank Viet Nam for its on-target choice of the important topic that is the focus of the Security Council today.”

    2021-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/394 (2021) · source

  10. “We must work to provide mine survivors, particularly women and children, with the best possible care by giving them the necessary material support, psychological help and rehabilitation so they can be reintegrated into their local communities in a manner that conforms with their humanity. Tunisia calls for strengthened international cooperation for capacity-building, support for resilience and the inclusion of affected communities in social and economic policies. We also stress the importance of providing financial resources to respond to the mine threat and support for demining projects in order to assist affected States in meeting their international obligations and help create the necessary conditions for achieving the goal set forth in the 2014 Ottawa Landmine Convention of a mine-free world by 2025.”

    2021-04-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/346 (2021) · source

  11. “In that regard, Tunisia stresses the need for all parties to conflicts to abide by the provisions of international humanitarian law and international human rights law, refrain from using mines and explosive devices and turn over all maps showing the locations of mines in conflict zones in order to facilitate their removal.Our country also stresses the need to find peaceful settlements to all these conflicts, so as to lay the groundwork for building lasting and comprehensive peace in areas affected by the threat of mines and realizing the goals of the Secretary- General’s “Safe ground, safe home” campaign. Mines constitute a serious violation of human rights — primarily the rights to life, health and inviolability of the body.”

    2021-04-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/346 (2021) · source

  12. “However, despite important progress, efforts continue to fall short of existing challenges. Mines continue to pose a threat to the lives of millions of people in some 60 States. Ongoing conflicts, the proliferation of hot spots around the world, the spread of terrorism and the insistence by parties to conflicts on continuing to use mines and improvised explosive devices limit what international and regional efforts can do, and thus stand in the way of implementing peacebuilding programmes and realizing security and stability. Those factors also hinder the responsiveness of humanitarian relief operations and the delivery of humanitarian assistance to rightful beneficiaries, not to mention the return of displaced persons to their lands.”

    2021-04-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/346 (2021) · source

  13. “For decades, United Nations agencies and peacekeeping forces, partner Governments, non-governmental organizations and local communities have made significant progress in following up the implementation of international conventions and United Nations demining strategies, policies and guidelines, and raising awareness of the dangers of landmines. That has contributed to peacebuilding in numerous States ravaged by war and conflict by protecting peoples, particularly children and women, from the remnants of armed conflicts to which they were in no way party to but of which they found themselves the primary victims. We highly value all efforts, both those that strengthen the international legislative and institutional mine action framework and those involving mine action in the field.”

    2021-04-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/346 (2021) · source

  14. “Tunisia takes this opportunity to affirm that it is fully compliant with international conventions relating to the prohibition of mines and is actively involved in all regional and international efforts aimed at ridding the world of the landmines and explosive remnants of war, which are a lurking threat to the lives of millions of people around the world. We also salute all the workers and activists working to eliminate mines, unexploded bombs and improvised explosive devices. They have braved the coronavirus disease pandemic to carry on humanitarian work that saves innocent civilians by clearing thousands of mine fields. In our view, that is the type of humanitarian work covered by the spirit and letter of resolution 2532 (2020).”

    2021-04-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/346 (2021) · source

  15. “At the outset, I should like to congratulate the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam on its assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the current month and wish it success in carrying out its duties. I would be remiss if I did not also congratulate Bui Thanh Son on his appointment today to the post of Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, and wish him the best in carrying out his duties as the chief diplomat of that country. I also express our appreciation, on this World Mine Awareness Day, for today’s meeting devoted to the issue of mine action.”

    2021-04-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/346 (2021) · source

  16. “In conclusion, allow me to reiterate that Tunisia is determined to continue to work within the framework of its membership in the Security Council and its S/2021/48 chairmanship of CTC to further strengthen cooperation between CTED, UNOCT and the other relevant United Nations agencies, particularly through the events coming up this year, including the review of the United Nations Global Counter- Terrorism Strategy and the renewal of the CTED mandate. We will also continue to actively engage with all frameworks for joint action, both bilaterally and within CTC, to further support and strengthen international efforts to confront terrorism and violent extremism.”

    2021-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/48 (2021) · source

  17. “Fifthly, the fight against terrorism must be made into a major national issue that mobilizes all the energies of society in support the efforts of Government agencies while maintaining full respect for human rights, so that the struggle against terrorist movements will appear as what it really is, a conflict between the terrorists and society as a whole. Sixthly, we must help Governments to respond to the basic needs of their citizens and provide the requirements of a decent life so as to deprive terrorist and extremist groups of opportunities for polarization.”

    2021-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/48 (2021) · source

  18. “Thirdly, we must explicitly abandon politicized discourse and the practice of linking terrorism and extremism to any religious, ethnic or national affiliation, because that is devoid of truth and perpetuates grievances among certain segments of humankind that provide terrorist ideology and terrorist groups with fertile ground for growth and polarization. Fourthly, we must admit that Governments by themselves do not have the capacity to respond to terrorist rhetoric and movements on the Internet and social media. They need effective and practical partnerships with the private sector and civil society organizations nationally, regionally and internationally.”

    2021-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/48 (2021) · source

  19. “Secondly, we must adopt a comprehensive approach based on strengthening the preventive dimension and addressing the conditions and factors that fuel the fires of violent extremism and terrorism. That includes accelerating the peaceful settlement of conflicts, especially long-standing ones, and supporting a culture of dialogue, tolerance and moderation. We must push sustainable development forward, realize gender equality, eliminate corruption and all manifestations of marginalization and exclusion and enshrine the rule of law and the protection and promotion of human rights.”

    2021-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/48 (2021) · source

  20. “Against that backdrop, we present to the Council the following ideas and recommendations as a contribution from Tunisia to the international community’s efforts to learn the lessons of the past and meet emerging challenges. First, it is imperative that mobilization of financial and human resources at the national and international levels to counter the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic not cause a decline in the resources allocated to combating terrorism. On the contrary, the latter must be upgraded to prevent terrorist groups from using the pandemic to their advantage. We must keep counter-terrorism at the top of international and national priorities despite the challenges posed by the pandemic.”

    2021-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/48 (2021) · source

  21. “Terrorist organizations are even trying to exploit the political, social and economic repercussions of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic to step up their destructive activities, spread their destructive ideology and attract more marginalized and vulnerable groups, particularly through modern means of communication and social media websites. To that end, resolution 2532 (2020), which was adopted unanimously by the Security Council on 1 July 2020 following a Tunisian-French initiative, provides that the general and immediate cessation of hostilities and the humanitarian pause that it called for in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic should not apply to military operations against terrorism.”

    2021-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/48 (2021) · source

  22. “Tunisia has also been keen to actively engage with various global and regional mechanisms and alliances to combat this phenomenon, including security cooperation and exchange of information and data, such as the global coalition to counter the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, the mechanisms of the African Union, the Sahel-Sahara group S/2021/48 and the Trans-Saharan Counter-Terrorism Partnership, which aims to strengthen regional capabilities and increase cooperation between among countries and North Africa in combating this scourge. Despite all those United Nations, international, regional and national efforts, terrorism risks and threats persist around the world.”

    2021-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/48 (2021) · source

  23. “In 2015, it enacted a new law that conforms to all the international instruments and Security Council counter-terrorism resolutions, while respecting human rights through strict procedural provisions and precise definitions of terrorist crimes. Tunisia received support from CTED to develop its initial vision for a national strategy to combat terrorism and violent extremism, which it adopted in 2016.”

    2021-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/48 (2021) · source

  24. “It was the first building block of international efforts to counter terrorism in its various forms and established the foundations of the United Nations counter- terrorism system by creating the CTC, which, together with CTED, has actively contributed over the past two decades to the ability of States to confront this complex international criminal phenomenon and keep pace with its ever-changing forms. In the years following its Freedom and Dignity Revolution, as part of its commitment to improving its implementation of international conventions, Tunisia has sought to harmonize its legislation with the international counter-terrorism legal framework.”

    2021-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/48 (2021) · source

  25. “Our thanks goes to the Security Council Committee created by the resolution, which was initially chaired by Sir Jeremy Greenstock, then the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom, which has made great efforts to explain the requirements of resolution 1373 (2001) and how it should be complied with by the international community. Resolution 1373 (2001) reflected the collective awareness by the international community of the serious threat posed by terrorism to international peace and security.”

    2021-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/48 (2021) · source

  26. “It provides us with an opportunity to begin assessing two decades of national and international efforts and activities and to draw, share and build on lessons learned. That choice reflects the special attention that my country attaches to this issue among its national, regional and international priorities, as well as the central importance of the resolution, which marked a historic turning point in international engagement with the phenomenon of terrorism. Tunisia, and I personally, had the privilege of taking part in the drafting and adoption of that resolution. Our commemoration of that event takes on special significance when we recall the considerable efforts made by Security Council members in 2001 to adopt the resolution, which today has become the international reference for multilateral efforts to combat all forms of terrorism.”

    2021-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/48 (2021) · source

  27. “At the outset, allow me to thank Vladimir Voronkov, Under-Secretary- General and Head of the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism, and Michèle Coninsx, Assistant Secretary-General and Executive Director of Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), for their valuable briefings to the Security Council. I also thank Ms. Fatima Akilo, representative of civil society, for her important statement. We have chosen to hold this open meeting on international cooperation in combating terrorism at the beginning of this year, which marks 20 years after the establishment of the international counter-terrorism system following the Council’s unanimous adoption of resolution 1373 (2001) and the establishment of the Counter- Terrorism Committee (CTC).”

    2021-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/48 (2021) · source