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  1. “In conclusion, while peacekeeping is a partnership, triangular cooperation must be one of its preferred tools. It would be even more robust if the burden of peacekeeping were better shared. It will hardly solve every problem, but it will, I am convinced, help improve a collective and multilateral management of the challenges that those operations entail. I hope that today's debate will help set in motion the flexible and informal institutionalization of such triangular cooperation.”

    2019-07-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8570 (2019) · source

  2. “The Council's negotiating processes must be better informed by the realities on the ground, and triangular cooperation must be a means to that end. Secondly, such dialogue is also part and parcel of the unity of the Council, which is vital to those operations. The political battles pitched here and there only weaken those operations. Conversely, better mutual understanding increases the sense of sharing the same goals. Lastly, by providing improved information for all concerned, such dialogue must help build a better consensus on how to carry out peacekeeping operations and better identify a realistic and achievable operational framework for them. In brief, we must move beyond words and develop an operational doctrine adapted to the specificity of those operations as well as to their changing environments.”

    2019-07-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8570 (2019) · source

  3. “The challenge today is to reverse the trend and to take advantage of the new momentum offered by today's meeting to implement a mechanism for triangular consultations that is in everyone's interest for three crucial reasons. First, meaningful triangular cooperation would allow the Security Council to consider matters on the ground from a closer perspective. It is obviously not in the Council's interest to develop mandates that ultimately would not be implemented on the ground, or that contributors would implement only reluctantly. That would only open the door to all types of non-compliance, restrictions on the use of resources and other forms of inaction that damage the reputation of the Blue Helmets.”

    2019-07-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8570 (2019) · source

  4. “The idea would be to systematize what is currently informal and make such exchanges into an obligatory and useful part of the negotiations concerning a given mandate. To that end, such meetings must also be taken seriously by all so that everyone participates in a constructive spirit, with the relevant information available for them to consider. That will of course require a number of adjustments in terms of the flow of information to and from the contingents on the ground, their capitals and subsequently their Permanent Missions in New York. That may also require the establishment of strategic dialogues among capitals in which issues related to peacekeeping operations must be better addressed.”

    2019-07-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8570 (2019) · source

  5. “The objective of triangular cooperation must be to achieve a shared understanding of the challenges and a shared responsibility to make those operations more efficient, as well as better supported politically, militarily and financially. Each endpoint of the triangle has an important role to play in that common endeavour through engagement that must be early, meaningful and timely. As I wrote in 2015, triangular cooperation is a reform that is free of charge and, instead of costing money, increases the cost efficiency of peacekeeping operations. (spoke in French) Against that backdrop, the idea is not to further burden the agenda of the Security Council and add yet another meeting whereby words would replace taking action.”

    2019-07-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8570 (2019) · source

  6. “To summarize, what is needed is to have one type of triangular meeting that is informal in nature but mentioned in the programme of work of the Council, restricted in its format, called for by the penholder and organized in coordination with the presidency of the Council for that month. As the Security Council decides on operations in increasingly challenging and dangerous contexts and pushes major contributors to take more and more risks in a context of financial cuts, it is only legitimate that those contributors demand a greater say in how the Security Council shapes peacekeeping mandates and how the missions are designed. In such a challenging context, the United Nations can no longer postpone triangular discussions and let the gap between the Council and contributing countries widen and tensions increase.”

    2019-07-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8570 (2019) · source

  7. “Those triangular consultations should be held at the expert level and attended by political and military experts, as such discussions are fundamentally political and military. That does not mean that, at times, when stakes are higher, those meetings could not be held at a more senior level in order to enable effective decisions. And, as already suggested by resolution 1353 (2001), such meetings could be strengthened by holding a parallel discussion of a purely military nature within the informal setting of the Military Staff Committee, to which key contributors not serving in the Council could be invited.”

    2019-07-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8570 (2019) · source

  8. “The idea would be that views and concerns expressed by troop- and police-contributing countries would be taken into account by the penholder and would therefore shape the way a mandate is conceived. But that would not encroach upon the decision-making prerogatives of the Council. The consultations should be held before the renewal of the mandate of a mission, before and after a major strategic review has been conducted by the Secretariat and when a major mission-related crisis occurs. They could be held at the start of the process initiated by the penholder to renew a mandate and immediately after the advance copy of the Secretary-General's report is sent and shared with the main contributors. Sufficient time should be afforded to all stakeholders to come to those meetings with appropriate feedback and input.”

    2019-07-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8570 (2019) · source

  9. “(spoke in English) Triangular consultations should take the form of regular private meetings among the Security Council, the Secretariat and the major contributors. They should involve the primary troop- and police-contributors specific to the mission under consideration, since they are taking the main risks in the field. Ten troop- and police-contributors could be considered a good number to allow for a focused discussion. Some flexibility would of course be required when adjusting the exact number of attendees, but the meetings should not be transformed into yet another forum where no one is willing to talk openly and informally about the real issues. The meetings should be informal in order to facilitate constructive dialogue. No readout of the meetings should therefore be issued.”

    2019-07-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8570 (2019) · source

  10. “Various initiatives have been taken but none of them has resulted in a regular and systematic process to institutionalize the practice, establish a framework, as called for in the HIPPO report, or begin interactive consultations that would have a real impact on the implementation of mandates. That framework must now be specifically defined so that such interaction becomes a regular practice of the Council and no longer depends on the initiatives of one or the other. I would like to make some concrete proposals to help achieve that objective by striking a balance between the formal and informal dimensions of those meetings, where each actor - the Security Council, the contributors and the Secretariat - can gain the confidence to talk about issues of concern to them.”

    2019-07-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8570 (2019) · source

  11. “At the heart of that resolution is the debate on the effectiveness of peacekeeping operations in terms of adequate capacity and support, adequate human and financial resources, support for the training of various personnel, information development and analysis to assist with regular planning - all of which are at the core of the debate the Council has had over the past year concerning the Action for Peacekeeping initiative. Since the adoption of resolution 1353 (2001), all reference documents calling for the improved effectiveness of peacekeeping operations - from the Capstone Doctrine to the report of the High-level Independent Panel on Peace Operations (HIPPO) (see S/2015/446) to the New Horizon initiative - have mentioned the need to strengthen triangular cooperation.”

    2019-07-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8570 (2019) · source

  12. “It should even be a basic principle in an Organization where those who mandate, pay and contribute personnel are not the same. Resolution 1353 (2001), of 13 June 2001, lays the foundation for triangular cooperation by adopting a declaration of principles and proposing a number of options for organizing such cooperation. It also tasked the then recently established Security Council Working Group on Peacekeeping Operations to work in that area. In resolution 1353 (2001), the Council underlined that its consultations with the Secretariat and troop-contributing countries should enhance its ability to make appropriate, effective and timely decisions in fulfilling its responsibilities.”

    2019-07-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8570 (2019) · source

  13. “First of all, allow me to sincerely thank you, Mr. President, for inviting me to brief the Security Council today, as it has been the subject of my research in international relations for more than 20 years. The Council has invited me to address the issue of triangular cooperation, which may at first seem technical but is obviously not. Triangular cooperation is at the crossroads of the Security Council's work when it takes a decision; creates a peacekeeping operation, calls for a number of reforms from the Secretariat, assesses the work of peacekeepers on the ground or when it considers a mission drawdown or closure. At each of those stages, the Security Council must engage in some form of dialogue with the Secretariat and the troop- and police-contributing countries. And that dialogue, I believe, must be strengthened.”

    2019-07-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8570 (2019) · source