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2023-09-05
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  1. “In that regard, my country has implemented a coherent legal and institutional framework that provides for gender mainstreaming across the whole range of our public policies, foreign and domestic. Having said that, Greece also includes women, peace and security among the priorities of its candidacy for non-permanent membership of the Security Council, and if elected, we intend to keep the issue high on the Council’s agenda.”

    2023-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9452Resumption1 (2023) · source

  2. “At the same time, participation is gender equal when it includes all women in all their diversity — peacebuilders and mediators, women from civil society organizations, grass-roots activists and human rights defenders, as well as local and Indigenous women — so that no one is left behind. Moreover, women’s meaningful participation requires that their security, dignity, as well as human rights, including their right to have control over their own body and their sexual and reproductive health and rights, are equally respected, promoted and protected. Greece is committed to accelerating the realization of substantive gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in all their diversity, both at home and abroad, as the only way to achieve sustainable peace, security and development.”

    2023-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9452Resumption1 (2023) · source

  3. “Nonetheless, women’s participation makes peace talks more inclusive since it allows diverse voices to be heard, more issues to be discussed and, therefore, renders peace agreements more gender responsive and sustainable. In that regard, meaningful gender-equal participation, representation and leadership, one of the fundamental pillars of the Security Council women and peace and security agenda, should also be regarded as a cross-cutting issue to be taken into account when designing action to reinforce the pillars of prevention, protection and relief and recovery.”

    2023-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9452Resumption1 (2023) · source

  4. “I would like to begin by thanking Brazil for convening today’s annual debate on women, peace and security, dedicated to women’s participation in international peace and security, as well as our speakers for their thorough interventions. Greece fully aligns itself with the statements delivered on behalf of the European Union and the Group of Friends of Women, Peace and Security. I would now like to make some additional remarks in my national capacity. It is a truth commonly acknowledged that even though armed conflict disproportionately affects women and girls, they are still underrepresented or, in many cases, absent in peace processes.”

    2023-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9452Resumption1 (2023) · source

  5. “We stress the importance of the Council going back to conducting missions to the field more often. We also believe that closer consultation by the Council with the Member States that are directly affected by resolutions is very helpful. Lastly, we encourage the Council to take measures to ensure the safe and meaningful participation in Council meetings of civil-society briefers, including women, while protecting them from retaliation and threats of violence. I would like to conclude by stressing that Greece, as a candidate for membership of the Security Council for the 2025–2026 term, will continue to closely follow the discussions on the improvement of the working methods of the Council and will consistently work for that goal if elected.”

    2023-09-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9410Resumption1 (2023) · source

  6. “In that regard, the Council should consider inviting the Chair of the Commission regularly in order to brief its members on issues relevant to peacebuilding. Thirdly, we support ensuring more substantive and effective interaction during the Council’s open debates. Fourthly, my country supported General Assembly resolution 76/262, which launched the so-called veto initiative, in the firm belief that it represents an invaluable contribution to enhancing the Council’s accountability. In that spirit, we share the view that the reports of the President of the Council to the President of General Assembly related to that resolution should be more detailed and in-depth in order to provide the broader membership with the background and possible rationales behind the casting of a veto.”

    2023-09-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9410Resumption1 (2023) · source

  7. “The launch event on 30 June for the Interactive Handbook, organized by the Permanent Missions of Japan, Kuwait, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Albania and the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, in which we participated, offered the broader United Nations membership a good opportunity to become familiar with the Handbook’s content and use. At this point I would like to present seven ideas for improving the working methods of the Council. First, we share the view of many Member States that the Council should officially adopt its provisional rules of procedure. Secondly, we support improving the interaction between the Council and its subsidiary bodies, such as the Peacebuilding Commission, to name only one.”

    2023-09-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9410Resumption1 (2023) · source

  8. “We also encourage all the members of the Council to continue working to fully implement all of its elements, including the monthly programme of work, the monthly forecast, meetings, informal consultations of the whole, the drafting of outcome documents, dialogue with non-Council members and bodies and Security Council missions. I would also like to commend Japan for its invaluable work in preparing and updating the Interactive Handbook of the Working Methods of the Security Council, dating back to 2006, as well as for its recent digitalization.”

    2023-09-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9410Resumption1 (2023) · source

  9. “Let me begin by commending you, Sir, for organizing this annual open debate on the Security Council’s working methods, as well for your work as Chair of the Informal Working Group on Documentation and other Procedural Questions. The debate offers an excellent opportunity to evaluate the state of the Council’s work and to exchange ideas and proposals on the improvement of its working methods, with the ultimate objective of enhancing its efficiency, transparency, effectiveness and accountability. In that regard, we fully support that the revised note by the President S/2017/507, which consolidated, streamlined and restructured its predecessor (S/2010/507) and all additional stand-alone presidential notes, should be the basis of our discussions and guide us in our efforts.”

    2023-09-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9410Resumption1 (2023) · source