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  1. With regard to the issue of the regional economic communities, they play an important role in resolving conflict situations on the continent of Africa. United Nations agencies and the partners' group have also been effective in marshalling efforts to enhance the capacity of the AU to better address matters of peace and security. So we are taking a multifaceted and very deep approach in the new Office. As we continue to establish ourselves, we look forward to having a more prominent presence there on behalf of the United Nations. In conclusion, I hope to have another opportunity in the future to present a more comprehensive report as our Office grows.

    2011-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6561 (2011) · source

  2. Mr. Muburi-Muita: Thank you, Mr. President, for the opportunity to take the floor once again. I do not have much to respond to, but I wish to seize this occasion to thank you personally, Mr. President, and Council members for the very warm words expressed to me personally and especially to my new Office. Again, we are taking a very broad approach to our work. As I mentioned earlier, we worked on a multi-pronged approach in which the two Councils play a primary role, as do the United Nations-African Union Joint Task Force on Peace and Security, the Secretariat and the Commission - all the way down to the desk-to-desk meetings. One such meeting has just been convened in Nairobi to bring together technical staff of the African Union (AU) and United Nations.

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  3. I firmly believe that the various activities of my Office will greatly strengthen the foundation for this relationship by helping the Secretariat to improve its effectiveness so that better strategic planning, better analysis and better coordination with other partners can inform political decision-making and pave the way for more effective political coordination between the two organizations. In conclusion, I would like to thank the Council for its support in the establishment of UNOAU, and to assure it of my utmost commitment to achieving its objectives.

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  4. As members saw for themselves during the Council's visit to Addis Ababa last month, we have achieved a lot in our partnership with the AU. But the full potential of the cooperation between the two organizations is still to be achieved in a number of areas. Helping the AU to strengthen its capacities so that it can play an ever more effective role in addressing peace and security issues in Africa is an objective that we all share, and it is the basic reason UNOAU was created.

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  5. We also maintain constant contact with the AU Commission on cross-cutting issues such as elections, conflict prevention and mediation. In developing these joint efforts and consultations, I hold regular meetings with the African Union Commission Chairman, Mr. Jean Ping, and the various commissioners, particularly the Commissioner for Peace and Security, Mr. Ramtane Lamamra. In that context, I have been frequently invited to attend meetings of the AU's Peace and Security Council on pressing issues facing the African continent, including efforts to resolve the crises I have just mentioned. I have also represented the Secretary-General at high- level meetings in Africa. In conclusion, let me say a few words about the overall strategic relationship, the improvement of which, as I said earlier, is one of the priorities of my Office's mandate.

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  6. We have facilitated more than a dozen training activities and workshops for AU regional economic communities on peacekeeping, planning, logistics and other operational and administrative issues, helping to ensure that they are in line with AU Commission training policy guidelines, which themselves, under our guidance, are largely based upon United Nations standards. Just this past weekend, another in a regular series of desk-to-desk consultations was held between staff of the Secretariat, the AU Commission, UNOAU, the African regional economic communities and members of peace and security cluster. Some 40 participants held a thorough discussion and exchanged analysis on current issues such as Somalia, the Sudan and Cote d'Ivoire.

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  7. We are now assisting the AU in achieving the newly approved strength of 12,000 troops. UNOAU also helped to review, update and develop most of the strategic and operational documents for AMISOM, in keeping with United Nations standards. The Office has also assisted in recruiting AMISOM. civilian staff. We have been helping to strengthen the AU Peace Support Operations Division. AMISOM. public information offices have helped to update the AMISOM communications strategy and its strategy on the protection of civilians. It has also translated and published the AMISOM. rules of engagement and code of conduct in a pocket-sized format.

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  8. As part of the African Peace and 3 Security Architecture, an AU continental-level peace support operation exercise code named AMANI AFRICA was conducted with UNOAU support, in close coordination with the European Union and NATO, to assess the operational readiness of the African Standby Force (ASF). This brought to a close the ASF Road Map II. UNOAU is currently assisting with the development of the African Standby Force Road Map 111, which should culminate in the operationalization of the Force by 2015. As part of its ongoing support to the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), UNOAU assisted the African Union Commission in generating the troops for AMISOM. to meet its original mandated strength of 8,100 and in conducting a number of predeployment visits to ensure the smooth insertion of the troops.

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  9. In addition to the established African Union Partners' Group, which meets regularly at different levels, we have agreed to establish coordination among experts of the Group supporting the African Union in their respective areas of specialty. In most cases, UNOAU will play a leading role in such multi-partner coordination. We are also engaging organizations that can bring other resources to the table. For example, the World Bank has expressed keen interest in partnering with us on support to the AU in the area of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration. We have also made gains in our support and advisory roles with regard to AU planning; let me mention a few.

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  10. Realistically, however, we must accept that institutional capacity-development is a long-term goal. As members of the Security Council know, UNOAU is not alone in supporting the AU's institutional development. That is why coordination is an important part of our mandate. The Ten-Year Capacity-Building Programme brings together the entire United Nations family to support that objective. In February, the Secretary-General submitted a report to the Council and to the General Assembly that recommended, among other things, more clearly defined work programmes for the Ten-Year Capacity- Building Programme and its clusters, aligned with the programming and planning cycles of the AU Commission. We are working with the Commission and partners to that effect. Coordination with partners outside the United Nations is also essential.

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  11. 11-38140 At the working level, while there are many imperatives for short-term support, which must be responded to cooperatively, we have made it a priority that all UNOAU planners make tangible achievements in helping the AU to assess its capacity needs in their areas of expertise; in designing appropriate strategies aligned with AU priorities and adapted to a realistic assessment of absorptive capacity to fill those needs; and in implementing those strategies. Far too often, capacity-building efforts get bogged down in helping counterparts meet urgent day- to-day needs, and achieve little in terms of strengthened capacity. We want to avoid such a pattern so that we can achieve our common goal of helping the African Union Commission to be fully capable of planning and executing its own peace support missions.

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  12. As we recruit more staff for UNOAU, we are enhancing the effectiveness of our capacity-building support to the African Union, helping it to design and implement new strategies to develop its institutional capacity for peacekeeping management, especially the African Union Peace Support Operations Division's structural needs, in the context of an ongoing and long- term overall restructuring of the AU.

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  13. We are also working to improve the activities of its three sub-clusters, namely, on the Peace and Security Architecture of the African Union; post-conflict reconstruction and development; and human rights, justice and reconciliation. As Chair of the cluster, I have launched a committee to work with the secretariat of the Regional Coordination Mechanism on an overall strategic plan into which our cluster activities will be integrated as part of efforts to implement the Ten-Year Capacity-Building Programme for the African Union.

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  14. In addition, building upon the gains from two United Nations-Africa Union workshops on collective peace efforts in Somalia, Guinea-Bissau and Kenya, the United Nations Secretariat and the Africa Union Commission have agreed on United Nations-Africa Union mediation partnership guidelines. The guidelines will be endorsed and launched by the third meeting of the United Nations-African Union Joint Task Force on Peace and Security, to be held in New York in September on the margins of the sixty-sixth session of the General Assembly. To help address these and other challenges, we have also embarked on revitalizing the peace and security cluster as part of the regional coordination mechanism framework.

    2011-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6561 (2011) · source

  15. Nobody knows better than the Security Council that the mediation of conflicts is a challenging business, particularly when we are faced with a multiplicity of actors, initiatives and organizations all playing varying roles. That is why one of UNOAU's roles is to strengthen our coordination with AU institutions and enhance their capacity to deliver peace in Africa. My regular participation at meetings of the African Union Peace and Security Council on country specific situations, such as Cote d'Ivoire, Somalia and the Sudan, and on the most recent developments in North Africa, has proved to be instrumental in coordinating action.

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  16. We have intensified consultations with the AU at the strategic level to respond to common challenges on long-standing peace efforts in Africa - for example, on Cote d'Ivoire, the Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Somalia - and on recent developments in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. At the strategic level, we are focused on enhancing coordination, strengthening common understanding and maximizing comparative advantages on United Nations-African Union joint peace efforts in Africa. Our experience with the cooperation between the two organizations shows that we do better in 11-38140 addressing crises in the continent when we stand together and speak in one voice.

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  17. The consolidation of the Office and the elevation of the Head of Office to a Special Representative of the Secretary-General at the level of Assistant Secretary- General have certainly raised the United Nations profile at the AU. To help inform United Nations decision-making, we are producing real-time reporting and political analysis on peace and security issues based on daily consultations with senior AU officials on political developments in Africa. Upon my arrival, our Office immediately organized a substantive retreat with our African Union Commission counterparts, which resulted in a fruitful exchange of views on how best to work together, especially on the implementation of the UNOAU mandate.

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  18. In support areas where we could see efficiency gains, and to fill gaps in our own support structure, we have signed an memorandum of understanding with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in Addis Ababa, allowing us to tap into their existing common services and provide UNOAU with adequate office space in the new premises being constructed at the ECA compound. We expect to be collocated there in the first quarter of 2013. As with any new office, we have been busy with these administrative issues - logistic, personnel and support - while at the same time undertaking action to deliver on the main mandate of UNOAU.

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  19. I am very happy to say that, with the active engagement of the Department of Field Support, we are nearing completion of our transition from three former separate offices - the United Nations Liaison Office to the African Union, the African Union Peace Support Team and the United Nations planning team for Somalia - 2 and the administrative function of the Joint Support and Coordination Mechanism of the African Union- United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) - reporting separately to three different departments at Headquarters and supported remotely by UNAMID in Darfur - to a new lean, self-sufficient operation based in Addis Ababa. Also, by 31 July, we will have recruited 61 staff members out of a total of 63 positions.

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  20. As the Council is well aware, the establishment of the Office is part of our collective efforts, over a number of years, to, inter alia, enhance the United Nations-African Union strategic partnership on peace and security issues, provide coordinated and coherent United Nations support to the African Union (AU) on both short-term operational and planning matters and long-term capacity-building, and make the United Nations representation to the African Union on these matters more coherent, cost-effective and efficient. I am pleased to report today that I think we are making progress on all three fronts. Let me begin by briefly updating the Council on our activities designed to operationalize the Office and streamline the United Nations presence.

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  21. Mr. Muburi-Muita: It is a great pleasure for me to appear before the Security Council today to make my maiden presentation on the work of the newly established United Nations Office to the African Union (UNOAU). While I have spent several years working with the United Nations as a Permanent Representative, this is my first briefing to the Council as Special Representative of the Secretary-General, a role I assumed some nine months ago.

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  22. However, limitations in funding and resources threaten to undermine this effort. We urge Member States to explore strategies that will ensure the alignment of resources with priorities and ensure adequate and regular funding for activities related to the implementation of resolution 1325 (2000). In conclusion, it is the sincere hope of my delegation that the accountability, monitoring and reporting system will be strengthened to ensure enhanced coordination and implementation of resolution 1325 (2000).

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  23. We are grateful to note that increased attention has been given to the role of women in post-conflict rebuilding processes, especially in the judicial, legislative and electoral sectors, as well as in the restoration of the rule of law and transitional justice. Women still need considerable support and capacity-building to be effective in new democratic and legal structures that have traditionally been dominated by men. We commend the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) for their pivotal roles in the implementation of resolution 1325 (2000). Over the past decade, UNIFEM. and UNFPA have been at the forefront of the promotion of the role of women in peacebuilding and post-conflict situations, especially in Africa.

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  24. In view of this, Kenya welcomes the recommendations in the Secretary-General's report (S/2007/567) aimed at strengthening the implementation of the resolution. Kenya appreciates that the Department of Peacekeeping Operation has made strides in promoting gender equality in peacekeeping operations and in the incorporation of gender expertise in peacekeeping missions. These have been useful steps, but we still need to ensure sustained efforts in gender mainstreaming at all levels of peacekeeping operations. Currently, Kenya has deployed women to most of the peacekeeping missions where we have troops, and we are determined to increase the numbers. Resolution 1325 (2000) emphasized the need to incorporate gender perspectives in post-conflict reconstruction and peacebuilding.

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  25. Kenya further encourages this decision and calls for the further involvement of local women in all processes. My delegation acknowledges that since the adoption of resolution 1325 (2000), significant progress in its implementation has been achieved by Member States, the United Nations system and civil society. This year's report of the Secretary General (S/2007/567) further demonstrates this encouraging advancement. The progress is slow, however, and more needs to be done to tackle institutional and organizational gaps in the implementation. These include the need for capacity to understand and implement gender mainstreaming programmes, leadership and commitment in implementing the resolution, adequate accountability mechanisms and resources and interagency coordination.

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  26. The aim is to integrate women in decision-making through legal, regulatory and institutional reforms. We must all emphasize the centrality of gender mainstreaming, in particular by including women at all levels of decision-making on peace and security issues, and especially during conflict prevention and resolution processes as well as in post-conflict peacebuilding. Women's perceptions and concerns should form an integral part of any peace process. Women must be participants at the negotiating tables. It is therefore gratifying to note that the United Nations has, over the years and more particularly since the adoption of resolution 1325 (2000), made significant progress in mainstreaming gender perspectives into peace initiatives.

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

  27. Let me join other delegations that have spoken before me in commending you, Sir, for convening today's debate on women and peace and security and also for your excellent leadership in the work of the Security Council for this month of October. My delegation is cognizant that women are critical agents of change in development, and that investment in them creates a multiplier effect that enriches and accelerates the improvement of their status in society. Kenya affirms the centrality of gender equality in all spheres of life including governance and decision-making, and it recognizes the critical role that women must play in development. As part of Kenya's effort to fully implement this objective, the Government has adopted a national policy on gender development and established a national commission on gender and development.

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  28. We will continue to pursue these goals as we call upon the international community - and especially the United Nations Security Council - to remain seized of the matter.

    2007-08-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5735Resumption1 (2007) · source

  29. To put it in context, the reason for which a country allows foreign troops on its soil is to create - not to keep - peace. The high-sounding argument that there has to be political agreements between warring factions is itself misplaced. Intra- State conflicts require a neutral party to mediate between the warring parties and a credible neutral force to protect civilians and facilitate humanitarian effort. My country continues to shoulder great responsibilities in our region of Africa on the subject under discussion. As the current Chair of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development and the Great Lakes Forum, Kenya has spearheaded aggressive regional political initiatives to change the situation.

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  30. We call upon both bodies to deepen the cooperation in order to enhance the capacity of the AU to handle regional security issues, especially through the African Union Peace and Security Council. While commending the Security Council for its good work, let me mention that, unfortunately, all too often it has been stuck in its traditional approach of peacekeeping. In most conflict situations, there will be no peace to keep, and yet the international community will be looking to the United Nations to deal with the situation, as eloquently articulated by the Permanent Representative of fellow East African Community partner State, Uganda. It is a commonly held View that the United Nations preconditions that a country at conflict must have a peace to keep in order for the United Nations to deploy is untenable.

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  31. This is based on the realization that there can never be development in the absence of peace and security, while, on the other hand, peace and security are prerequisites for development. Lack of development, poverty, deprivation and suffering are all breeding grounds for insecurity. In this respect, my delegation would add that the ongoing United Nations reform should ensure that proper working mechanisms are put into place between the peace and security organs, namely, the Peacebuilding Commission and the Security Council on the one hand, and the development arms of the United Nations, especially the Economic and Social Council, on the other. Kenya welcomes the support that the United Nations is giving to the African Union in accordance with Chapter VIII of the United Nations Charter.

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  32. The ongoing restructuring of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations might be construed to mean that the United Nations is gearing itself up to building sufficient capacity to deal with numerous complex peacekeeping missions. It is instinctive to observe that peacekeeping is more expensive than conflict prevention. The energies and resources of the United Nations should therefore be channelled more to conflict prevention through use of its good offices to address potential root causes of conflicts at the earliest stages, before full escalation. These include Increasing economic opportunities and promoting the culture of inclusive politics to avoid marginalization and alienation of large sections of populations, which often leads to conflict. Peace, security and development are mutually interdependent.

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  33. Foremost among the challenges of the Darfur mission is the urgency to improve the safety and security of the civilian populations. Kenya recognizes the good work being done by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Horn of Africa, particularly in Somalia. The great effort to coordinate the humanitarian work by United Nations relief agencies and that of other international bodies has saved the lives of a great number of the internally displaced persons and has ameliorated the condition of the sick and other vulnerable groups. These humanitarian agencies are operating in extremely difficult circumstances, and my delegation calls upon the international community to support them.

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  34. My delegation welcomes the decision of the Security Council to hold an open debate to consider how to enhance its effectiveness in conflict prevention and resolution, particularly in Africa. We wish to hail this Congolese initiative and to applaud the support of the Secretary- General. This year has turned out to be a turning point on matters of international peace and security, not only for the United Nations but also for the African Union. Recently, the Security Council finally adopted a resolution authorizing its peacekeeping mission destined for Darfur and also extended the mandate of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). We look forward to seeing full implementation of these two resolutions. My country will work to support both missions.

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  35. Establishing a Security Council working group, or designating a focal point on women, peace and security issues, as recommended by the Secretary- General, would ensure systematic integration and implementation of resolution 1325 (2000).

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  36. We continue to encourage the United Nations Development Fund for Women in its role in the implementation of resolution 1325 (2000), especially in promoting the role of women in peacebuilding and post-conflict transition, in particular on the African continent. However, limitations in funding and resources threaten to undermine this effort. We urge member States to explore strategies that will ensure the alignment of resources with priorities and the provision of adequate and regular funding for activities related to the implementation of this resolution. Finally, Kenya strongly endorses the recommendation for the need to re-conceptualize the Action Plan in order to strengthen its accountability, monitoring and reporting system and to ensure enhanced coordination across the United Nations system.

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  37. Currently, we have women in uniform deployed in six out of the eight peacekeeping missions in which we are engaged. We are determined to raise this number. Resolution 1325 (2000) emphasized the need to incorporate gender perspectives in post-conflict reconstruction and peacebuilding. We are happy to note that there has been increased attention to the role of women in the post-conflict rebuilding process, especially in the judicial, legislative and electoral sectors, as well as in the restoration of the rule of law and transitional justice. Women still need considerable support and capacity-building to be effective in new democratic and legal structures that were traditionally dominated by men.

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  38. Kenya appreciates the fact that the Department of Peacekeeping Operations has made great strides in promoting gender balance among peacekeeping personnel. The incorporation of full-time gender advisers in peacekeeping missions has been very useful in this regard. Although gender balance is far from having been attained, we have taken steps in the right direction. The Department of Peacekeeping Operations should redouble its efforts towards achieving this goal. It must develop and disseminate to States, especially troop-contributing States, effective guidelines to ensure sustained efforts in gender mainstreaming at all levels of peacekeeping operations. In response to resolution 1325 (2000), Kenya has made deliberate efforts to increase the participation of women in peacekeeping missions.

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  39. While expressing gratitude for the four excellent presentations from the Secretariat this morning, I must, however, hasten to add that, despite the progress made, numerous challenges still stand in the way of the implementation of resolution 1325 (2000). These challenges include: a lack of capacity to understand and implement gender mainstreaming programmes; an unfortunate lack of leadership and commitment in implementing the resolution; a lack of adequate accountability mechanisms; a lack of resources; and limited inter-agency coordination. In view of these challenges, we welcome the comprehensive recommendations made in the report of the Secretary- General aimed at overcoming these challenges and strengthening implementation of the resolution.

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  40. In his words, he said, "The women of this country provide a critical mass for our economic development However, there is a serious imbalance between the number of women employed in the public service and that in the private sector and in the leadership of the country in general I therefore call upon the public service to apply affirmative action in new employment by ensuring that a minimum of 30 per cent of new recruitment and appointments in public service establishments are women." Kenya expresses its deep gratitude to the Secretary-General for the comprehensive report on the status of implementation of the resolution, in particular through the System-wide Action Plan developed in 2005. The report showcases the key sectors where tangible progress has been achieved and identifies the gaps and challenges in implementation.

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  41. 10) In this room a month or so later, my predecessor spoke passionately during a session similar to this one, emphasizing the centrality of mainstreaming gender and, in particular, of including women at all levels while addressing security issues, especially during post-conflict peacebuilding measures. Last Friday, in keeping with his solemn pledge to include women at all levels in decision-making, President Kibaki decreed that 30 per cent of all public service jobs would be reserved for women henceforth.

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  42. I join other delegations in congratulating you, Mr. President, on the excellent stewardship of the work of the Security Council and especially in organizing today's debate on women, peace and security. We have been enriched by the incisive contributions presented thus far. A year ago, the President of Kenya, His Excellency Mr. Mwai Kibaki, stated in the General Assembly: "Kenya affirms the centrality of gender equality and recognizes the critical role that women must play in development. We also recognize that achievement of the Millennium Development Goals depends on the empowerment of women. As part of our effort to fully attain this objective, my Government has adopted a national policy on gender development. The aim is to integrate women in decision- making through legal, regulatory and institutional reforms." (A/60/PV.10, p.

    2006-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5556Resumption1 (2006) · source