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lines on the record: 30
first: 2000-11-15
most recent: 2004-02-17
sittings or episodes: 3
sources: un-security-council

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“The European Union recognizes this obligation, and Africa, the United Nations and the whole international community will find the EU to be a willing and eager partner for peace and development for all the African peoples.”
2004-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4911 (2004) · source
“Notwithstanding the success and importance of AMIB, the European Union believes, as stated last November in this Chamber, that the option of a United Nations operation in Burundi, authorized by the Council, will have to be considered in due course. In this regard, the EU welcomes the fact that the Secretary-General is sending an assessment mission to Burundi later this month, and we look forward to its reporting in due course. The wind of peace is blowing across the African continent. Africa and its people deserve our full support in their quest for peace, democracy and sustainable development. Nowhere is this more true than in Central Africa.”
2004-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4911 (2004) · source
“The European Union is committed to working closely with our African partners to strengthen African capacities in the area of conflict resolution and peacekeeping. In this regard, the European Union commends the African Union for establishing the African Mission in Burundi (AMIB) - the first force of its kind in the history of the African Union. The European Union fully supports this initiative and is contributing â‚¬25 million to AMIB. In addition, a number of EU member States have also made significant national contributions, both in advance of and in response to the Secretary-General's recent appeal for support.”
2004-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4911 (2004) · source
“The European Union is pleased that those talks took place in a constructive and cordial atmosphere. We also welcome the parties' recognition of the need to end violence in Burundi and their willingness to continue the dialogue. The European Union hopes the proposed follow- up meeting between President Ndayizeye and the FNL takes place at the earliest opportunity. The EU calls for the cessation of all hostilities in Burundi and for the conclusion of an agreement for the inclusion of the FNL in Burundian State institutions. The EU remains willing to assist the parties in their quest for a peaceful solution, and we reconfirm our readiness to support Burundi in its reconstruction efforts, which remain severely hampered by the ongoing violence in the absence of an all-inclusive peace agreement.”
2004-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4911 (2004) · source
“The EU stands ready to support concrete initiatives for the rebuilding ofa stable Congolese State able to guarantee the safety of the Congolese people, national reconciliation and stability in the region. In that regard, the European Union commends the Secretary-General for his initiative last week in calling a high-level meeting to consider a strategy for the international community's support of the security sector reform effort. The European Union is greatly encouraged by recent progress in Burundi. Since we last had the opportunity in the Council Chamber to discuss the state of the peace process there, a significant milestone has been reached with the convening of talks between President Ndayizeye and a delegation from the Forces nationales de liberation (FNL).”
2004-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4911 (2004) · source
“Difficult decisions have been taken, and the commitment of the parties is encouraging. Nevertheless, the situation remains fragile, and the European Union urges President Kabila and his Government to continue their work and put in place the legislative framework and establish the national institutions required for the holding of free and transparent elections at all levels, the formation of restructured and integrated military and police forces and the implementation of a national disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) programme. The European Union is committed to underpinning peace, security and democracy in Democratic Republic of the Congo. Operation Artemis and the EU's support for the Integrated Police Unit are clear demonstrations of that commitment.”
2004-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4911 (2004) · source
“Aldo Ajello, and by our efforts to strengthen more effective subregional cooperation and integration through mechanisms such as those set up by the Economic Community of Central African States. As I mentioned previously, the prospects for the international conference on the Great Lakes region are much improved due to the progress made in the peace processes in the region. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the European Union is encouraged by the significant improvements achieved. Those include, inter alia, the improved security situation, signs of national reunification such as increased transport links and improving commerce, better relations between that country and its neighbours, and progress in security sector reform. The EU commends the transitional Government in its implementation of the Sun City and Pretoria agreements.”
2004-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4911 (2004) · source
“As the Secretary-General notes in his report, it is during that first regional preparatory meeting that detailed discussions on substance and priority programmes expected from the international conference will be initiated at the regional level. In addition, coordination and consistency with other existing processes such as the New Partnership for Africa's Development are also important. As preparations continue throughout the year towards the first summit of the conference, the European Union stands ready to engage as a committed and supportive partner to the countries of the region, as a member of the Group of Friends of the Great Lakes region, through the good offices of the EU Special Representative for the Great Lakes, Mr.”
2004-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4911 (2004) · source
“In that regard, we welcome the important progress made in the preparatory process to date, including the outcomes of the most recent meeting in Addis Ababa. The European Union suggests that the conference will be all the more successful if an agreed time frame for clear and realistic goals based on concrete operational agreements or projects can be defined early on. In that regard, it is now important that all the national preparatory committees take immediate steps to enable the agreed timetable for the holding of the conference to proceed on schedule. The EU welcomes the Secretary-General's call for the first regional meeting of national preparatory committees to be convened as soon as possible.”
2004-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4911 (2004) · source
“The European Union is convinced that tackling those shared problems also demands that we develop a regional approach which is in concert with our efforts in each of the individual countries concerned. In considering a regional approach - and in particular the convening ofthe international conference for the Great Lakes region - it is encouraging to note that the Secretary-General has said that the prospects for success in the region have improved significantly, most notably in Burundi and the Democratic Republic ofthe Congo. The European Union believes that the success of the Great Lakes conference will depend primarily on the common political will of the countries involved in achieving shared objectives.”
2004-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4911 (2004) · source
“I would also like to thank the Secretary-General for his progress report on the recommendations of the Security Council mission to Central Africa last year (S/2004/52). I also thank Assistant Secretary-General Kalomoh for his briefing this morning. Although Central Africa has the potential to be one of the richest subregions in Africa, its potential has not been realized. Many of the subregion's countries are either in conflict or in post-conflict situations, and the subregion as a whole continues to suffer from the proliferation of small arms and armed groups, high unemployment among young people, an underdeveloped infrastructure, great numbers of displaced persons and refugees, poor human rights records and the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Those are significant challenges that demand our attention.”
2004-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4911 (2004) · source
“I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union. The acceding countries Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia; the candidate countries Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey; the countries of the Stabilization and Association Process and potential candidates Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Serbia and Montenegro; and the European Free Trade Association countries members of the European Economic Area, Iceland and Norway, align themselves with this statement. On behalf of the European Union, Mr. President, I would like to thank you and the Security Council for scheduling this meeting today, which is an opportunity for the international community to demonstrate our commitment to the Central African region.”
2004-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4911 (2004) · source
“It was in fact central to the development of the peace process in northern Ireland and in particular in creating conditions on the ground that facilitated the process leading to the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. That Agreement, in affirming the commitment of the parties to the democratic process, explicitly underscores the right of women to full and equal participation in the political process. Australia and New Zealand both have referred to the positive experience of including women in decision-making at the national level in the Solomon Islands and in East Timor.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589Resumption1 (2002) · source
“In this regard, I would just note that Ireland has been deploying women civilian police officers and military for 20 years. It is also important to ensure that gender issues are fully addressed in the transition from peacekeeping to peace-building, so that the promotion and equality of women's rights is integrated into the whole peace- building phase. Lessons should also be drawn in due course from the experience in East Timor and elsewhere. Finally, just on the particular point of women as peace-builders - France has also referred to the importance of involving women in decision-making in Afghanistan as an example - we, through our own experience in the issue of the peace process in northern Ireland, have seen the importance of women as peace- builders in their own communities.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Another point that has been addressed by a number of speakers, this afternoon as well, is the issue of training. We see particularly that training is very important. It applies, of course, to staff at Headquarters and at the highest levels in the Organization, as well as to field personnel. As Under-Secretary-General Guehenno said this morning, awareness starts at the top. A point that has been addressed this afternoon, in particular by the United States and a number of others, is the issue of women's participation in peacekeeping operations. We believe too that an increase in the number of women participating in military, civilian and civilian aspects, including at the highest levels, would have an important effect on the atmosphere of a mission.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589Resumption1 (2002) · source
“On the related point of ensuring that gender is adequately addressed in the mandate of an operation, there would be appear to be increasing evidence that sexual violence is being used as a weapon of war. In this respect, the ruling of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia that rape and the enslavement of women can be classified as crimes against humanity brings into focus the importance of making adequate provision for gender issues in mandates. I think that in this particular regard, Ms. McAskie noted last week that the mandate of the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone could have been more comprehensive had it moved it beyond the norms of gender sensitivity and mainstreaming to include responses to endemic gender-based violence and sexual exploitation.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Last week, in drawing on the lessons learned in Sierra Leone, Ms. McAskie of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs made a number of very useful observations. One in particular, she mentioned that under the structure in Sierra Leone, humanitarian issues were centralized within the political and military decision-making of the Mission. Furthermore, she concluded that the inclusion of human rights and civilian affairs officers was an advance over previous operations. We believe that dedicated gender advisers in positions of influence in missions would be important to centralizing gender issues within the wider context of the mission.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589Resumption1 (2002) · source
“There should be continuous monitoring and evaluation of how different parts of the United Nations family are doing and what steps could be taken to improve the system to ensure a consistent approach. We agree very much with UNIFEM. that gender should be an integral part of all peace operations, in the same way that security, policing and so forth are also a part. Gender advisers should be deployed at the outset of peace operations, including at the planning stage - as we said a moment ago - and should be sufficiently senior to have an influence on the decision-making process. In this regard I think the very positive experience in Kosovo and East Timor and other operations which have gender units bear out the idea that gender should be an integral part of all such operations.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Similar focal points should be considered for other departments, including, for example, the Department of Political Affairs, so as to systematically ensure that women are involved at every stage of peace negotiations in the planning, decision-making and implementation at all levels. Australia has just now also addressed that point. Provisions should also be made for the financing of those mechanisms, and resources should be allocated so that they can fully support gender offices in the field. In our View, any mechanisms or focal points should be based in the departments themselves at a senior enough level so as to have an impact on the decision- and policy-making of the department concerned. With regard to the issue of follow-up monitoring, we believe that this is crucial.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589Resumption1 (2002) · source
“I think that it is clear from today's discussion that there are a wealth of proposals and ideas as to how we might integrate gender perspectives into peace operations. The challenge, however, is to ensure that these recommendations and guidelines are implemented consistently throughout the system and to ensure that where the United Nations system deals with peacemaking, peacekeeping and peace-building, the gender perspectives are taken into account as a matter of course. My delegation would like to see the forthcoming reports identify appropriate mechanisms to ensure that gender perspectives are fully integrated into the work of all parts of the United Nations system. Those could include, for example, the proposal to establish a gender adviser in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations - a proposal that we would fully support.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589Resumption1 (2002) · source
“I will start off by thanking Under-Secretary-General Guehenno, Assistant Secretary-General Angela King and Ms. Heyzer, the Executive Director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). My delegation concurs fully with the main findings and recommendations of their reports as highlighted this morning, and we look forward to receiving their detailed recommendations on implementation of resolution 1325 (2000). The presidency of the European Union spoke earlier in this debate, and we fully subscribe to the points made. The earlier speakers have addressed many of the points that my delegation would have made. For those reasons and also given the late point at which we are intervening, I will try to shorten our intervention. But there are a few points that we would like to make.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589Resumption1 (2002) · source
“These are just some reflections that have arisen out of our consideration of some of the points which were made earlier in the debate.”
2000-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4223Resumption1 (2000) · source
“But this is not to say, of course, that an appropriate regard for cost should not be part of a solution to a problem. The world is not perfect. If it were we would not need peacekeeping. Our approach to individual situations will always have to take this into account. We agree fully with others who spoke earlier that we need a more fully articulated analysis of situations and, on occasion perhaps, a greater sharing of that analysis by the members of the Security Council and the international community in general. However, not all situations will be amenable to such an approach, and to be practical, therefore, we have to take account of the problems which arise in a world of differing interests and perceptions; but equally we should be on our guard against allowing ourselves to be paralysed by them.”
2000-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4223Resumption1 (2000) · source
“This, however, does not mean- and we would be naive to propose such a thing - that cost considerations are not relevant. It is painful to Member States, whose taxpayers are contributing to a peacekeeping operation and are contributing, in many cases, large amounts of funding for development cooperation, to see parties refusing to engage meaningfully in negotiations for peace or resisting the effective implementation of a peace process. It is particularly painful to see parties and leaders exploiting a troubled situation in order to benefit personally from resources which should properly be used for the benefit of the people who are suffering from war and civil strife. So, in summary, an approach purely motivated by cost is not an appropriate one.”
2000-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4223Resumption1 (2000) · source
“But despite any differing interests or perspectives which they may hold, which may well cause them to grade threats to peace and security in accordance with different scales, they nonetheless must do all in their power to respond to the needs of specific situations on the basis of a common understanding. The Council therefore should draw up mandates based primarily on analysis and not other considerations. The issue of costs may sometimes give rise to a desire to bring a peacekeeping operation to a possibly premature end. This is always unfortunate, in our view. The international community must always be prepared to contribute the necessary resources that will allow a peacekeeping operation to be brought, where possible, to a successful conclusion.”
2000-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4223Resumption1 (2000) · source
“Security Council missions to areas of operation, therefore, will not only provide first-hand information, but will allow the Council to round out its assessment of conditions on the ground and the needs of the situation, including potential revision of mandates. So, in this regard, we welcome very much, as some other speakers have done, the sending of Security Council missions to areas of operation. Again, in an ideal world, the members of the Security Council and the international community in general would share an analysis of the origins and nature of the threat to international peace and security in any particular situation. But it is inevitable that individual members of the international community will look at specific problems from their own perspectives.”
2000-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4223Resumption1 (2000) · source
“Each problem has its own characteristics, and in the real world it is often difficult to see one's way clear to the desired outcome. The very notion of rapid response, where the international community would intervene at short notice in critical situations, implies that the conditions necessary for bringing the interventions to an end may not be very clear at the outset. The immediate imperative to save lives, when the window of opportunity to do so exists, may well have to take precedence at a given moment over careful analysis. The analysis must, of course, be done, but we may not have the luxury of waiting for its completion before we must take action.”
2000-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4223Resumption1 (2000) · source
“This implies that a good exit strategy is also a good entry strategy where the problem has been thoroughly analysed, the parties are ready to accept international intervention, the causes of the problem are addressed - to use the formula of the Brahimi report - in the context of a clear, credible and achievable mandate and appropriate peace-building measures are put in place so that the peacekeeping operation can withdraw, leaving behind a process which, with the continued assistance of the international community, through other means perhaps, will sustain peace. However, we are talking, particularly in the post- cold-war period, of very complex conflicts which are multifaceted and have their roots as much in economic, political and social conditions as in purely military rivalries.”
2000-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4223Resumption1 (2000) · source
“President, forces us to look carefully at how we use the words in question, and you are quite right to draw attention to the overtones of the term "exit strategy". A good exit strategy for a peacekeeping operation, it seems to us, should be notjust one which offers a clear prospect of sustained peace, but one in which the causes of the original problem have been addressed in such a way as to give reasonable promise that the problem will not recur.”
2000-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4223Resumption1 (2000) · source
“Mr. President, like others, I would like to commend you, Mr. President, for scheduling this open debate during the Netherlands presidency. This is an imaginative, and as many people have underlined, a very timely initiative. We have listened carefully to previous interventions and we share many of the points made about the need for better conflict prevention, peacekeeping and peace-building strategies, clear mandates, precise objectives, the need for a multi- disciplinary approach to the kind of conflicts which have arisen in recent years and strengthening of the Secretariat's capacity, in particular, to assist the Council in its decision-making. The title which you have chosen for your paper, Mr.”
2000-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4223Resumption1 (2000) · source