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  1. “In that regard, Timor- Leste offers a significant example of a country in which the completion strategy is being accomplished through the tireless efforts of the United Nations and the recipient country. Japan hopes to see other peacekeeping operations redouble their efforts to fulfil their mandates in accordance with completion strategies appropriate to the specific situations on the ground.”

    2005-05-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5180 (2005) · source

  2. “Japan, as a friend in Asia, has participated substantively in the efforts to assist Timor-Leste in its process of maintaining peace and consolidating the gains of peace, through UNMISET and other multilateral and bilateral frameworks. At the Timor- Leste and development partners meeting held in Dili in April, Japan pledged to continue and strengthen, our bilateral support to Timor-Leste, which has included dispatching experts for human-resources training and institutional capacity-building. Finally, my Government believes that peacekeeping operations must have clear completion strategies. Recipient countries of such operations should keep that point in mind and make the utmost effort to attain self-sufficiency.”

    2005-05-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5180 (2005) · source

  3. “We expect that the United Nations, other international organizations and Member States will continue to provide assistance for nation-building in Timor-Leste for the remaining one- year period, with UNOTIL at the centre. The coming year will represent the final demonstration of the direct contribution of the United Nations to Timor-Leste. In order to make that effort a success, Japan will provide strong and sustained support in Timor-Leste. UN OTIL, in our view, should fulfil a coordinating role in order to effectively combine all bilateral and multilateral assistance for the future sustainable development of Timor-Leste.”

    2005-05-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5180 (2005) · source

  4. “We also highly commend the recent strengthening of Timor-Leste's relations with neighbouring countries, including Indonesia. Recognizing the continuing need for assistance from the international community for institutional capacity-building in Timor-Leste, including in the areas of the judiciary and the police, my Government welcomes the unanimous adoption by the Security Council of resolution 1599 (2005), authorizing the establishment of UNOTIL. We would like to express our appreciation to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Sukehiro Hasegawa, and his staff in UNMISET for their unstinting efforts to assist the Government and the people of Timor-Leste in moving the peace and development process forward.”

    2005-05-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5180 (2005) · source

  5. “Thank you, Madam President, for convening this very timely public meeting as Timor-Leste makes the transition from the United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor (UNMISET), a peacekeeping operation, to the United Nations Office in Timor-Leste (UNOTIL), a special political mission focusing on peacebuilding. At the outset, we note with satisfaction the tangible achievements and progress made during UNMISET's so-called final consolidation phase over the past year, especially the improvements seen in the security situation, State institutions and capacities and in the promotion of democracy and human rights. The recent peaceful resolution of the demonstrations initiated by church leaders, as described in the Secretary-General's report (8/2005/310), exemplifies the consolidation of democracy in Timor-Leste.”

    2005-05-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5180 (2005) · source

  6. “Owing to the resolution, the importance of partnership between men and women in the peace-building and reconstruction process now enjoys wider recognition, and, indeed, the international community has made significant strides in implementing the resolution. As the Secretary- General's report notes, however, the real test of the adequacy of those efforts is measured by their impact on the ground. Japan is committed to working actively in this area, and building on the lessons learned, so that we are more effective in bringing about more real changes on the ground.”

    2004-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5066Resumption1 (2004) · source

  7. “The United Nations Population Fund is conducting an approximately $1 million project on emergency reproductive health services in Eritrea. The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) is administering an approximately $1 million project to promote reintegration of internally displaced persons and refugee women in community building in Afghanistan. In Rwanda, UNIFEM. is conducting a $1.3 million project on enhancing human security through gender equality in the context of HIV/AIDS. In the four years since the adoption of resolution 1325 (2000), there has been a positive shift in international understanding of the impact of armed conflict on women and girls, as well as of the importance of their participation in all areas related to peace and security.”

    2004-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5066Resumption1 (2004) · source

  8. “Women need assistance in order for them to play larger roles in their communities and to be integrated into the mainstream peace-building and reconstruction processes. In that regard, my delegation wishes again to refer to the concept of human security, which we believe is, in essence, the protection and empowerment of ordinary individuals. The promotion of human security is now one of the major pillars of Japan's foreign policy. In order to ensure that more actions are taken in the field to enhance human security, Japan took the initiative to establish the United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security. Allow me to cite a few examples where United Nations funds, programmes and specialized agencies are utilizing that Fund for the purpose of empowering women in post-conflict situations.”

    2004-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5066Resumption1 (2004) · source

  9. “Moreover, Japan is convinced that empowering women is one of the most effective means for peace-building in post conflict situations. Successful peace-building will lead to the prevention of the recurrence of conflict, thus reducing the risk of gender-based violence spreading again. As resolution 1325 (2000) reaffirmed, women themselves have an important role to play in the prevention of conflict, as they are known to play critical roles in building the capacity of communities to prevent new or recurrent violence. The recognition that women play important roles in peace-building is now widely shared. What we must do is to follow up that recognition with action on the ground to empower women in post-conflict situations.”

    2004-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5066Resumption1 (2004) · source

  10. “Thank you very much Mr. President for providing us with an opportunity to make a few comments on a subject to which we attach great importance - strengthening the United Nations response to gender-based violence in conflict and post- conflict situations. The manner in which women are often obliged to live during armed conflict is indeed a moral outrage. They are usually neither the initiators of conflict nor the wagers of war, and yet their gender is often specifically targeted. That situation should in no way be tolerated. However, we also need to be sober enough to recognize that the international community can do much more to address the problem in post- conflict situations rather than during the conflict. The post-conflict situation opens up real opportunities to remove threats to women's dignity.”

    2004-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5066Resumption1 (2004) · source

  11. “We believe that on the issue of children and armed conflict, the time has come for us to move from advocacy to implementation.”

    2004-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4898Resumption1 (2004) · source

  12. “Child protection advisers are now appointed to relevant peacekeeping operations, and United Nations agencies are now better prepared to deal with this issue. At the same time, the issue of children and armed conflict is becoming more and more complex. In order to better tackle those complexities, a more comprehensive approach and better collaboration among United Nations agencies are necessary. In this context, we welcomed the decision of the General Assembly, at its fifty-seventh session, to request the Secretary-General to undertake a comprehensive assessment of the United Nations system response to this issue. That report has yet to be submitted. We hope that it will be issued in the near future and that it will provide us with useful guidance in our discussions on this issue.”

    2004-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4898Resumption1 (2004) · source

  13. “In line with such developments on the legal front concerning the protection of children, Japan signed, in May 2002, the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict, and we intend to obtain parliamentary approval for its ratification this year. We sincerely hope that other nations that have not yet ratified that important instrument will do so soon. My delegation would like to thank Mr. Olara Otunnu, the Special Representative of the Secretary- General for Children and Armed Conflict, for the exemplary work he has done over the past six years in raising the awareness of the international community of the issue of children and armed conflict.”

    2004-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4898Resumption1 (2004) · source

  14. “A number of international instruments exist that aim to protect children in armed conflicts: I need hardly mention the historic significance of the comprehensive framework of the Geneva Convention. The international community has striven to improve the level of protection for children in armed conflict. Two Protocols additional to the Geneva Convention - for which we intend to obtain parliamentary approval this year - include specific provisions concerning the protection of children. The basic principle behind such provisions evolved into the Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court. The Rome Statute, the establishment of which Japan consistently supported, stipulates that the use of children as soldiers in armed conflict is a war crime.”

    2004-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4898Resumption1 (2004) · source

  15. “We need to help, and we can do so more effectively once the conflicts have ended. Japan believes that the "Back to School" campaigns run by the United Nations Children's Fund are among the most important ongoing efforts to rebuild societies in post-conflict situations. We are proud to be supporting those programmes in Afghanistan and, now, in Iraq. They help alleviate the trauma of individual children who have endured so much during armed conflict and give hope to their communities for a better future. As a nation promoting the concept of human security, Japan will continue to work together with relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes to promote the empowerment of communities, with an emphasis on children and women.”

    2004-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4898Resumption1 (2004) · source

  16. “My delegation would like to express its gratitude to you, Madam, and to the Security Council, for having provided us with an opportunity to address the issue of children and armed conflict. This debate comes at an opportune time, as new post-conflict situations are emerging in Africa, and as new actions - in the form of the creation of political missions or peacekeeping operations - may be taken by the Security Council. Currently, a major newspaper in Japan is running a series of feature articles on the real experiences of child soldiers in Sierra Leone and Liberia, accompanied by photographs showing them carrying Kalashinikov rifles. For many of us living in peace, the concept of child soldiers - 11-year-old girls and 10-year-old boys - is almost surreal, almost incomprehensible. Yet those images are real.”

    2004-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4898Resumption1 (2004) · source

  17. “In order to provide an effective response to the challenging needs and priorities of women and girls who take on this range of tasks, gender perspectives have to be more systematically integrated into all activities related to peace and security. There is still much to be done in this regard. Japan hopes that the Security Council, Member States, the United Nations system - including the offices within the Secretariat responsible for these issues - non-governmental organizations and civil society as a whole will all do everything in their power to fully and systematically implement the recommendations of this resolution. To conclude, may this discussion be a demonstration of the firm commitment of the entire international community to achieving the goal of creating a world of peace and security.”

    2003-10-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4852Resumption1 (2003) · source

  18. “On this third anniversary, I reaffirm the commitment of my delegation to the implementation of the provisions of the Council's resolution on women and peace and security; my delegation condemns the violations of the human rights of women and girls in conflict situations, wherever they occur. We are all aware that women experience conflict in different ways than men. In a conflict situation, women are often widows grieving the loss of their husbands, mothers who mourn their lost children and victims of violence that targets their gender. Today, however, women's roles are changing in every aspect, and more women have a say in how they will participate in conflict resolution. More women can participate not only by providing non-military support but also by assuming important roles in peace-building if they so wish.”

    2003-10-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4852Resumption1 (2003) · source

  19. “In February last year, the Government of Japan dispatched a Ground Self-Defence Forces engineer group of 680 members, together with 10 headquarters personnel, to the United Nations peacekeeping operation in Timor- Leste. For the first time in our history, Japan included female personnel in that large peacekeeping unit. Seven women were members of the group, a relatively small number but significant nonetheless, we believe. Japan recognizes the need for expanding the roles and contributions of women in United Nations field-based operations and indeed for increasing the participation of women at all levels. We are starting by doing what we can but have every intention of broadening and increasing our efforts.”

    2003-10-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4852Resumption1 (2003) · source

  20. “For example, the Japan International Cooperation Agency sent experts on gender issues to the Ministry of Women's Affairs, to the sector responsible for the rehabilitation of women's schools and colleges and to the mother and child healthcare hospital. Japan provides the United Nations Development Fund for Women with assistance through the Trust Fund for Human Security. That assistance finances vocational training, seminars, and income-generating programmes for female Afghan refugees and displaced persons. We believe that such programmes help to empower women and girls and encourage them to assume more active roles in Afghanistan. Allow me to share with the Council another example of the efforts Japan is making.”

    2003-10-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4852Resumption1 (2003) · source

  21. “As a country striving to do its utmost in the areas of conflict prevention and post-conflict peace-building, Japan fully supports this resolution and will intensify its efforts to implement it. Empowering women is one of the key elements of enhancing peace and security. Allow me to share with the Council some modest but practical steps that Japan has taken in this regard. In Afghanistan, we remember that under the Taliban regime, women were denied access to education and work outside their homes. For a country in a reconstruction process, such as Afghanistan, Japan is convinced that the participation of women is absolutely essential, and thus a gender perspective is taken into account in all aspects of Japan's reconstruction and humanitarian assistance programmes for Afghanistan.”

    2003-10-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4852Resumption1 (2003) · source

  22. “At the outset, I should like to pay tribute to you, Sir, Ambassador John D. Negroponte, for convening this meeting on the third anniversary of the adoption of Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) on women and peace and security. I should also like to extend my appreciation to Mr. Jean-Marie Guehenno, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, and Ms. Amy Smythe for sharing with the Council their insightful observations regarding the implementation of the resolution. The ultimate goal of the international community, and therefore of the United Nations, is to build a world free of conflict. By adopting that resolution three years ago, the Security Council showed its wisdom by fully recognizing the important role played by women and girls in the process of building and maintaining peace and security.”

    2003-10-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4852Resumption1 (2003) · source