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  1. “In memory of the millions of children we lost during our liberation war, we wish to remain engaged with any concrete initiative in future to alleviate the situation of children affected by armed conflict and violent extremism.”

    2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source

  2. “In our regional context, we remain available to advance dialogues on these issues through sharing of ideas and good practices. We recognize the challenge of evidence-based and credible monitoring, analysis and reporting of child rights violations, especially during armed conflicts. The Secretary-General's annual report, along with its annexes, is indeed a powerful tool for raising global consciousness about grave violations of child rights and for triggering remedial responses. It is therefore crucial that the report aim at putting specific situations in their right perspectives in order to reach informed conclusions about the perpetrators and the seriousness of the alleged violations. In Bangladesh, our national children policy and corresponding legal measures prohibit the recruitment and use of children for armed conflicts.”

    2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source

  3. “Civil society actors with proven expertise must be encouraged to work in close partnership with national and local authorities to strengthen and scale up capacity for rehabilitation, reintegration, counselling, legal aid, physiotherapy and psychosocial support for children affected by armed conflict and violent extremism. We stand in principle behind the call for ending targeted attacks against schools, hospitals and other critical infrastructure for children. The growing sensitization about avoiding school premises for stationing armed forces, including peacekeepers, is indeed positive. As a troop- and police-contributing country to United Nations peacekeeping operations, Bangladesh remains committed to abide by those broadly applicable norms and ensure protection of children within the broader mandates for the protection of civilians.”

    2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source

  4. “The inherent resilience of families and communities needs to be bolstered in order to keep our children safe and engaged. We must harness our resources to raise our children as truly global citizens, with respect for tolerance, pluralism and critical thinking embedded in them. An enlightened and emancipated human being is perhaps our best bet against the forces of destruction. We draw hope from the growing awareness demonstrated by various State and non-State actors about relieving children of armed training and operations. We owe much of those gains to the work of UNICEF and a number of grass-roots organizations committed to their cause.”

    2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source

  5. “On all those fronts, we appreciate the diligent work of the Secretary-General's Special Representative on Children and Armed Conflict, Ms. Leila Zerrougi, and her team. The growing number of children displaced due to conflicts poses a real test for our humanitarian principles. In keeping with our pledge to leave no one behind, we must commit to the protection and well- being of these children as a shared responsibility. The global compacts we envisage for refugee protection and safe, regular and orderly migration must place the cause of children, including unaccompanied minors in mixed migratory movements, at the heart of their respective agendas. The lurking shadow of violent extremism and terrorism that haunts our children's lives everywhere must not be allowed to be the new normal.”

    2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source

  6. “The images of hapless children on boats or swimming ashore in the Mediterranean Sea or the Andaman Sea last year brought home to us the horrifying realities of protracted armed conflicts and the systematic purge of communities for how they look or who they pray to. Yet, as the Secretary-General's report (S/2016/360) reveals, there are some grounds for solace. The Children, Not Soldiers campaign is gaining steady momentum, including in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as we just heard. United Nations-sponsored action plans to remove children from combat operations, often with the support of non-State armed groups, are mostly going in the right direction. Most important, the commitment to disarm children is often paving the way for further inclusive dialogues among parties to conflict.”

    2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source

  7. “We have yet to reconcile as a nation with many of these unaccounted chapters of our independence struggle. Children continue to be disproportionately affected by armed conflicts around the world. The recent, belated news about children faced with a famine-like situation in areas under the sway of Boko Haram in Central Africa demonstrates the limits of our global reach. The sight of children being killed in despicable terrorist attacks in Peshawar or Nice defies our faith in human sanity. The abduction, enslavement and maiming of children, and using them as human shields or suicide bombers by terrorist and armed groups, are just abhorrent, to say the least.”

    2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source

  8. “The Bangladesh delegation joins others in thanking your presidency, Madam, for organizing this open debate and for sharing a concise and informative concept note (S/2016/662, annex). We appreciate the compelling statements made by the Secretary-General and the other briefers this morning. In Bangladesh we often come across the iconic poster for the first-ever humanitarian concert, organized by the late George Harrison and Ravi Shankar here in New York during our liberation war in 1971. The poster showed a sepia-tinged image of a refugee child blankly staring at a starvation-like situation. That sole image spoke volumes about the countless children who perished during the war due to armed attacks, torture, displacement, starvation, disease, disappearance and abandonment.”

    2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source

  9. “The Non-Aligned Movement believes that the debate in this Council will, of course, add value in gaining further momentum for the subsequent discussions on the 2010 review of the PBC now taking place in the General Assembly. In closing, we should not lose sight of the urgent need to provide necessary support to the PBC with a view to fulfilling its mandate. A failure to do so will cast shadows in the minds of those who need our attention the most - the people who are suffering from the curse of conflict. We cannot and should not bypass, in the name of the scale and complexity of peacebuilding needs, the critical role that the PBC can play in bringing lasting peace and sustainable development to post-conflict countries.”

    2010-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6299Resumption1 (2010) · source

  10. “Fifthly, the PBC should continue to work in cooperation with national or transitional authorities in full conformity with the principle of national ownership. Finally, the PBC needs to develop a more dynamic relationship with the Secretary-General with a view to providing effective guidance to the peacebuilding efforts of the United Nations. In this respect, it is imperative to strengthen the capacity of the Peacebuilding Support Office with a view to promoting more integrated and strategic United Nations responses in post-conflict countries, keeping in mind the need for better support to peacebuilding activities on the ground. Looking ahead, the Non-Aligned Movement is convinced that the upcoming debate in the review process will undoubtedly contribute to strengthening the PBC in addressing critical peacebuilding needs.”

    2010-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6299Resumption1 (2010) · source

  11. “stresses that, in crafting peacekeeping mandates, the Council should clearly define the role of peacekeeping operations in the peacebuilding process. Thirdly, NAM. strongly emphasizes the importance of partnerships and early investments to economic recovery and development in the peacebuilding process and in the sustenance of peace. The international community must ensure from the very beginning a coherent and predictable deployment of resources in countries emerging from conflict. NAM stresses that that there can be no lasting peace without development, and no sustainable development without stability. Fourthly, NAM. reiterates that it is of the utmost importance that the gender perspective be reflected as an essential element in the peacebuilding process.”

    2010-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6299Resumption1 (2010) · source

  12. “First, the General Assembly, the Security Council and the Economic and Social Council should fully utilize the ongoing 2010 review to realize the potential inherent in the PBC as an advisory body to achieve its ultimate goal of preventing countries from relapsing into conflict. Secondly, NAM. highlights the need to clearly define how the PBC can ensure a successful peacebuilding strategy through a better coordination among all actors - including the international financial institutions, the United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, the private sector and civil society organizations that are operating on the ground - in order to maximize synergies in the peacebuilding process. In this regard, NAM.”

    2010-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6299Resumption1 (2010) · source

  13. “There is concurrence and broad consensus within the Commission that economic reconstruction and rehabilitation and job creation should be at the forefront of all efforts aimed at sustaining peace, initiating development and promoting post-conflict recovery. Like any new and fledgling apparatus, the PBC has experienced difficulties in accomplishing its given mandate. Despite many challenges, the PBC has made good progress in addressing the challenges of the four countries on its agenda. I would like to highlight the following important issues that my group believes need to be addressed to strengthen the ability of the PBC to contribute actively to the efforts for post-conflict peacebuilding.”

    2010-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6299Resumption1 (2010) · source

  14. “We should engage ourselves in defining how the PBC can capitalize on its current composition, in accordance with operative paragraph 4 of resolution 60/180, so as to draw on the competitive advantages and expertise of the diverse representation of the general membership in the Organizational Committee, in particular the representation of the United Nations Charter bodies. The Non-Aligned Movement places significant value on the PBC, particularly its role in support of the national ownership - I repeat, national ownership - of post-conflict peacebuilding priority planning and initiatives.”

    2010-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6299Resumption1 (2010) · source

  15. “The Non-Aligned Movement hereby reiterates the crucial relevance of the General Assembly, while having regard for the powers and responsibilities of other organs in the fulfilment of their respective obligations. This debate takes place against the backdrop of a major review of the United Nations peacebuilding architecture, which is being conducted under the auspices of the General Assembly, as stipulated in resolution 60/180. The Movement seeks to reassure itself that the discussion in this Council is aimed at augmenting the efforts for a successful completion of that process. It is the view of NAM. that the potential inherent in the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) as an advisory body is far from being fully utilized.”

    2010-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6299Resumption1 (2010) · source

  16. “My delegation commends the Japanese presidency for having organized this timely debate on post-conflict peacebuilding. I thank the Secretary-General for his comments earlier in the day. I also thank the Ministers of Japan, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Timor-Leste and Bosnia and Herzegovina, who participated in the debate today. I have the honour to speak on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). The General Assembly is the main deliberative body of the United Nations, composed of representatives of all Member States, and is entrusted with the responsibility of addressing important questions relating to peace and security, among other significant matters.”

    2010-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6299Resumption1 (2010) · source