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Peñaranda

lines on the record: 103
first: 2018-10-25
most recent: 2023-12-15
sittings or episodes: 18
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“The Security Council could encourage debates and initiatives on securing a full-life cycle approach on small arms, light weapons and ammunition. In conclusion, I would like to highlight the importance of allowing the increased involvement of the greater membership of the Council to make decisions on this subject. The Council should take on board the perspectives and contributions of the Member States and regions most affected by the diversion and trafficking of arms.”
2021-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8909Resumption1 (2021) · source
“For instance, in resolution 2370 (2017), the Council encouraged Member States to share information, establish partnerships, with both the public and private sectors, and develop national strategies and capabilities. Thirdly, we should strengthen engagement with industry stakeholders. The goal is to improve controls of small arms and light weapons. The industry is the first line of defence in the battle against weapons proliferation. Lastly, we should address ammunition. Excluding ammunition would mean that, once weapons are successfully smuggled, the supply of the corresponding ammunition is free and limitless. We need to track the movement of ammunition to ensure that it also does not fall into the wrong hands. Multilateral and bilateral transparency measures are crucial to combating the black market for weapons and ammunition.”
2021-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8909Resumption1 (2021) · source
“The aim is to identify trafficking routes and patterns, diversion points and other methods of concealing weapons for the purpose of trafficking. Those will have to be coupled with effective regulatory impact analysis and assessment in the country that employs an efficient methodology for determining the viability, effectiveness, cost, benefit and implementation framework of a given policy. Secondly, we should build capacity. Building the capacity of Member States — for instance, to report the number of seized and collected small arms and light weapons — will be crucial to monitoring progress on Indicator 16.4.2 of the Sustainable Development Goals. The Security Council can find ways to contribute to building capacity, and it can encourage Member States to develop synergies.”
2021-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8909Resumption1 (2021) · source
“We have seen that arms smuggling is part of the operations of terrorists. Civilians on the island of Mindanao paid a high price, with dozens killed and widespread destruction of homes and property, amid the battle of Marawi, which pitted the Philippine military against militants allied to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham. The Security Council should enjoin Member States to act cooperatively to prevent terrorists and criminals from acquiring weapons. There are various issues that need to be addressed collectively, but I would like to highlight the following recommendations. First, we should improve data analysis. The Philippines sees value in the Council deepening its support for long-term, standardized, systematic and disaggregated data collection and analysis, including small arms surveys.”
2021-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8909Resumption1 (2021) · source
“The Philippines appreciates the efforts by Mexico, led by Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón, Secretary for Foreign Affairs of Mexico, to organize this very timely and important open debate. There is indeed an urgent need to prevent and combat the diversion and the illicit international transfer of small arms and light weapons to unauthorized recipients, as noted by Member States in the outcome this year of the seventh Biennial Meeting of States to Consider the Implementation of the United Nations Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects. In the Philippines, addressing the diversion of small arms and light weapons that may eventually end up in the hands of terrorists and criminals is of critical importance.”
2021-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8909Resumption1 (2021) · source
“We support the increasing deployment of women peacekeepers at all levels and in leadership positions. We are committed to further engaging with the United Nations and other partners, in advancing the women and peace and security agenda.”
2021-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8886Resumption1 (2021) · source
“In the region, the Philippines supports the work of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in mainstreaming the women and peace and security agenda into its work. The ASEAN Women for Peace Registry, a compendium of women leaders in ASEAN with expertise in various aspects of peace processes, including as negotiators, mediators, facilitators, researchers and others, is a good practice that can be shared with other organizations. The ASEAN Institute for Peace and Reconciliation, ASEAN’s research arm, can also share best practices and lessons on gender and conflict. The Philippines reiterates its call for increasing the participation of women in uniformed roles and for integrating gender perspectives into all aspects of peacekeeping.”
2021-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8886Resumption1 (2021) · source
“In the light of the coronavirus disease pandemic, the Philippine Defence Department seeks to increase the financing of the women and peace and security agenda, while recognizing that the pandemic exacerbates gender inequality in conflict-affected, post-conflict and humanitarian crisis contexts. Women and girls face a higher incidence of gender-based violence and more difficulties in accessing basic goods and services. The Philippine National Police is mandated by law to prioritize the recruitment and training of women. The police force reserves at least 10 per cent of its annual recruitment, training and education quota for women, and has established more than 2,000 women and children protection desks nationwide, manned by trained women investigators.”
2021-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8886Resumption1 (2021) · source
“A product of constructive engagement between the Government and civil society, the plan maximized the gains of decades of gender mainstreaming work in the country. It enabled national Government agencies and local Government units to identify women and peace and security interventions to be integrated into their regular plans, budgets and accomplishment reports, as required by the country’s landmark law, the Magna Carta of Women. The current plan provides a framework for promoting women’s rights and leadership roles in peacebuilding, peacekeeping and peace negotiations. Women were instrumental in putting to rest the decades-long conflict between the Philippine Government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. The Government panel was led by a woman — the first female chief negotiator in the world to sign a peace accord with a rebel group.”
2021-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8886Resumption1 (2021) · source
“Mr. Peñaranda (Philippines): We thank Kenya for its leadership as it convenes today’s open debate. We also thank the Secretary-General and the briefers for their statements. Women’s full, equal, effective and meaningful participation in all stages of the peace process is crucial. Women have an indispensable role in the prevention and resolution of conflict and in peacebuilding and peacekeeping. Those views are embodied in resolution 1325 (2000), which the Philippines fully supported, and in subsequent relevant resolutions. Since 1997, Filipino women have played a very significant role in mediation and the Mindanao peace process — whether as members of the Government negotiating panel, its secretariat or technical working groups. The Philippines is the first country in Asia to adopt a national action plan on women and peace and security.”
2021-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8886Resumption1 (2021) · source
“We need the Security Council, as the highest representatives of the international community, to continue believing in us, in Colombia, to continue supporting us so that transformation, inclusion, equity and peace become a reality, and so that we — Afro-Colombian, indigenous, ethnic communities and peoples, and above all, women — can continue to work together with it to make progress on the “ethnic chapter” of the Peace Agreement and ensure its comprehensive implementation from an anti-racist gender perspective. As Colombians we must continue to work to build a colour-blind, ethnicity-blind anti-racist peace that acknowledges indigenous black peoples in their territories, their authorities, their worldview and their view of life. Peace in Colombia will either be anti-racist or it will not be.”
2021-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8879 (2021) · source
“We need the rights and territorial autonomy of the authorities of the black and indigenous peoples of Colombia to be recognized, and we need comadreo to be the symbol of compassion. We need a specific path for reincorporating former combatants and peace signatories from the black and indigenous peoples, and we need for the violence that is disproportionately affecting ethnic territories, their authorities, their leaders and their communities to stop.”
2021-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8879 (2021) · source
“As black women, we bet on life, recognize ourselves as teachers of peace, dig our own trenches, march, define our agendas, we defend the territory. We make compassion true and affective through comadreo — female bonding — and we turn our pain into creativity. We need the armed groups to leave our territory, and we need to recover solidarity in our neighbourhoods, strengthen the fraternal bonds that used to unite us or create new ones from the pieces that remain, and reinforce the circles of knowledge, healing spaces and ancestral wisdom. We need the policy of fighting armed groups to be developed and for the policy of reconciliation to become a reality in our country.”
2021-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8879 (2021) · source
“Although the Government has put forward processes for retitling land, it is made clear that these land adjudications in favour of indigenous and black peoples are part of previous agreements — not part of the implementation of the Peace Agreement. The issues of eradication and Government’s non-compliance are of concern. We are also concerned that with regard to the “ethnic chapter”, the gender approach that is being applied is not an anti-racist. Indeed, we can say that the State is applying racist processes because it is unaware of the dispossession to which ethnic peoples have been subject. The real, felt needs of Afro-Colombian, Raizal and Palenquero, indigenous and gypsy black women are not being addressed anywhere.”
2021-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8879 (2021) · source
“Despite the persistent resurgence of war and conflicts between armed groups, transnational interests in the territories and the weak or barebones response of an absent Government, the transformative capacity of those of us who want and support peace truly exists; not only is it contained in the agreement, but it is also what we are striving to build upon on a daily basis — behind the backs of a political class that looks only after its own interests, those of its families, its trade unions and its allies. I wish to express concern about the lack of safety for peace signatories and leaders, as they receive threatening messages every day, and the risks are mounting. In specific relation to gender, we are concerned that no progress has been made on the “ethnic chapter”, particularly issues relating to Colombia’s indigenous black peoples.”
2021-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8879 (2021) · source
“What is in the agreement is not what the now-defunct Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejército del Pueblo asked of former President Santos Calderón, but what the people want: territory, land, housing, to eat well, live in peace, drink clean water, be educated, have access to health, raise animals and care for the land. Is that too much to ask for?”
2021-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8879 (2021) · source
“The main strength of this Peace Agreement is that it listened to the voices and the proposals of rural folk, women, ethnic peoples, young people and people of diverse gender and sexual orientations. Its worst weakness, however, is that we are a society whose Government is woefully absent, sectionalized and racist. It is a Government that simulates democracy and continues to believe that violence is the way to regulate power relations, as was demonstrated in this year’s social unrest. This Government has lacked the stature to fully comply with the demands of the Peace Agreement, despite the fact that the Agreement was the ultimate wish of the ethnic communities and peoples of Colombia.”
2021-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8879 (2021) · source
“And I thank those who care about Colombian issues out of Ubuntu. Council members have heard a lot about Colombia — the Peace Agreement, the social problems and the armed groups that have nested in our country, fed by a history of systematic violence that began with the colonial period and has persisted until today. Council members know that Colombia’s public and private sectors are rife with corruption and drug trafficking, contributing thereby to bloodshed in the country, producing a war that has gone on for so many years that I do not remember a single day in which I was aware of not hearing news of war and death. I want to make it clear that although violence regulates power relations in Colombia, the Peace Agreement is important for those of us in communities who are living with violence, abandonment or expulsion from territories.”
2021-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8879 (2021) · source
“Ms. Peñaranda (spoke in Spanish): I extend cordial greetings to every member of the Security Council. My name is Bibiana Peñaranda Sepúlveda, an anti-racist, black woman. I am the Coordinator of Butterflies with New Wings in the Buenaventura district, and I represent black, Afro-descendent, Raizal and Palenquera women in the Special Forum on Gender in order to ensure the implementation of a transversal gender approach with regard to the Final Agreement for Ending the Conflict and Building a Stable and Lasting Peace — one that builds peace for all and protects human rights. I warmly thank the Kenyan presidency of the Security Council for inviting me to participate at this important meeting. To the representatives of Colombia, I offer my greetings of solidarity for the situation we are living in our country.”
2021-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8879 (2021) · source
“The Government renews its solemn responsibility to protect those most vulnerable 4 children 4 against those malignant forces by any means necessary to achieve the defining purpose of the existence and expense ofa State. The Philippines aligns itself with the statement to be delivered by the representative of Viet Nam on behalf of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The Philippines congratulates Poland on assuming the presidency of the Security Council. We will continue to work with the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Gamba, and with United Nations agencies and other stakeholders in pursuing our common aspiration that no child will ever again have to experience the horrors of war.”
2019-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8591 (2019) · source
“The law reaffirms that children are zones of peace and cannot be recruited into Government forces, or be allowed to participate in armed conflict. They must be treated as victims, not enemies, and be protected from maiming, torture, abduction, rape and killing. They must be treated humanely in all circumstances and should never be objects of attack. Communities, Government authorities and, if applicable, religious leaders are required to preserve the peaceful integrity of children. Our new law also prohibits attacks on schools, hospitals, places of worship, child development and day-care centres, playgrounds and recreational parks. The Government denounces the use of schools by rebel groups to foster their ideology of war and make soldiers out of children.”
2019-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8591 (2019) · source
“We note the readiness of the United Nations to help build its capacity to achieve peace, democratic governance and respect for human and children's rights. The Philippines armed forces has issued and committed itself to the circular entitled "Child protection during armed conflict situations", its policy guide to preventing grave child's rights violations. The circular reaffirms the armed forces' moral and legal commitment to ensuring that children affected by armed conflict are afforded special protection and are entitled to special respect. This principle is enshrined in the Philippine Government's enactment in January of Republic Act 11188, entitled "Special protection of children in armed conflict act".”
2019-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8591 (2019) · source
“In the case of Marawi, in the southern Philippines, children were recruited by armed rebels as fighters, couriers, guides or spies. We are proud that the Government retook Marawi from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham in a relatively short time. We denounce with indignation the use of children by criminal groups, and we lament the loss of children's lives. The Government has intensified reconstruction, rehabilitation and reintegration in Marawi, including expeditiously clearing locations of unexploded ordnance to avoid further casualties and injuries, especially to children. The establishment of the Bangsamoro Transition Authority and the ratification of the Bangsamoro organic law will pave the way for lasting peace in the region.”
2019-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8591 (2019) · source
“Children embody the most compelling justification for the existence of States, that is, to protect their most vulnerable charges as they would preserve themselves. For what is a State without children, if not on the brink of extinction? The Philippine Government takes its role as protector of children seriously. The Constitution requires it to do so. But in going beyond the demands of the law, Philippine society has accorded children a hallowed place, as treasured assets whose survival must be ensured and whose fullest potential must be fulfilled. Children do not belong on a battlefield. They have the right not to know first-hand the horrors of war. But it is indeed a harsh reality that far too many children are forced to experience war.”
2019-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8591 (2019) · source
“I want to conclude by noting that an effective protection-of-civilians mandate must be anchored in human rights and international humanitarian law, particularly with regard to vulnerable groups, as well as in adherence to the principles of accountability, conflict sensitivity and peacebuilding.”
2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source
“Grass- roots leaders from various countries have travelled to Mindanao to learn more about it on the ground. In May 2017, the Government of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front established a peace corridor to first provide a safe and secure corridor for the rescue of trapped individuals in conflict areas, and secondly to provide a secure space for humanitarian assistance to pass through the province most affected by the Marawi crisis. At the end of its operations in Marawi, a total of 255 civilians were rescued and safe passage of aid was provided to many Government and humanitarian organizations.”
2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source
“Finally, the Philippines calls on the Secretary- General and Member States to promote unarmed strategies and unarmed civilian protection as a key complement to the protection-of-civilians toolkit - no arms, no mistaken intentions and therefore no excuses. The Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process acknowledges civil society's active role in bringing peace to Mindanao through, for example, Ceasefire Watch, Spaces for Peace, Mothers for Peace and Tiyakap Kalilintad, or Care for Peace, which partner with Government agencies. In 2009, the Philippine Government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front agreed to expand the mandate of the international monitoring team to include civilian protection. That civilian-based ceasefire monitoring and response is a model for other countries in conflict.”
2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source
“Secondly, the Philippines encourages the deployment of more women in United Nations peacekeeping operations, including in positions of command. The Philippines has an all-female civilian- relations company from the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police to assist in the rehabilitation and recovery of internally displaced persons from the Marawi crisis. They complement peacekeeping operations by helping internally displaced persons, conducting peace education and extending psychosocial debriefing among the traumatized, particularly women, children and young people.”
2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source
“The Philippines reiterates its support for Security Council and General Assembly resolutions that underscore the principal issue of preventing conflicts and protecting civilians if conflict does break out. We would like to make the following suggestions. First, predeployment training should be incentivized to draw on existing policy, guidance and training resources to explain what the protection of civilians means in a given operational context, defining the responsibilities, opportunities and constraints that peacekeepers deployed in that context face. The Philippines encourages Member States to host centres of excellence by region to deliver training packages to troop- and police-contributing countries consistent with United Nations standards.”
2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source
“We are hopeful that those challenges will be clearly addressed by the Declaration of Shared Commitments on United Nations Peacekeeping Operations, under the Secretary-General's Action for Peacekeeping initiative, adopted by 151 Member States in September. We commend Indonesia, in its presidency of the Security Council, for today's ministerial-level open debate on the subject, an appropriate follow-up to the open debate on investing in peace (see S/PV.8521) held two weeks ago. Much is expected of the mandate giving first priority to the protection of civilians in peacekeeping, with an emphasis on the protection of children and on combating sexual exploitation and abuse. As it should be, it is the standard by which the performance of United Nations peacekeeping is measured, affecting its legitimacy and credibility.”
2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source
“In theory and practice, the protection of civilians has gained traction among Member States and has become a priority in nine United Nations peacekeeping missions to which 95 per cent of peacekeepers are currently deployed. However, the implementation of the protection-of-civilians mandate is beset by three key challenges. First, missions tend to implement the protection-of-civilians mandate in a process-oriented way or based on activities; secondly, there is a disconnect between the protection of civilians and political strategy; and thirdly, there is the question of how to apply a whole-of-mission strategy, which involves the political, civilian, military and police components, in order to pursue a protection-of-civilians mandate.”
2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source
“The Philippines associates itself with the statement to be delivered by the representative of Viet Nam on behalf of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The protection of civilians is at the front and centre of the dialogue on peacekeeping operations. It has been 20 years since an explicit mandate on the protection of civilians was established for the peacekeeping mission in Sierra Leone. The late former Secretary-General Kofi Annan called for a culture of protection to permeate the United Nations system and the mindset of those in the field. In 2015, what are now the Departments of Peace Operations and Operational Support defined the protection of civilians around three tiers of protection - protection through dialogue and engagement, the provision of physical protection and the establishment of a protective environment.”
2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source
“In conclusion, I would like to emphasize that the conviction of the Philippine Government is grounded in the experience that the gender that binds the wounds of war, comforts its widows and shelters children in conflict has the strongest motivation and the best approaches to stop the outbreak of war and restore a broken peace.”
2019-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8508 (2019) · source
“The Philippines will hold a forum exploring various sub-themes of women and peace and security in order to familiarize participants, mainly from the Philippines' security sector, on the impact and significance of women's participation in peacekeeping around the world, with particular emphasis on the Philippine experience. The Philippines further supports the calls of Member States to appoint gender advisers as members of crisis management teams in peacekeeping missions and for the United Nations to commit resources for mission leaders.”
2019-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8508 (2019) · source
“On the second pillar, the Bangsamoro Organic Law upholds and protects the fundamental rights of women, including the right to engage in lawful employment and to be protected from exploitation, abuse or discrimination. On the third pillar, the agency strategic action plans operationalize the commitments of national Government agencies under the national action plan. Capacity- building programmes for local Government units, Government agencies and civil society organizations are also being conducted to ensure that the women and peace and security agenda is mainstreamed in the plans and budgets for gender and development programmes.”
2019-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8508 (2019) · source
“The Philippines is one of the first countries to formulate and implement a regional action plan to localize resolution 1325 (2000). The following are the Philippines' inputs. On the first pillar, among the provisions of the Bangsamoro Organic Law, which was signed by President Rodrigo Roa Duterte on 26 July 2018, is the allocation of reserved seats for women in the Bangsamoro Parliament and Cabinet. The continuing efforts of the all-female Hijab troopers - as members ofthe armed forces and the Philippine national police, in partnership with different Government agencies, such as the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process and civil society organizations - are being undertaken through programmes and projects focused on social healing and reconciliation and preventing violent extremism.”
2019-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8508 (2019) · source
“More emphatically than ever before, the Philippines joins the United Nations in calling for more female peacekeepers to enhance the holistic effectiveness of peacekeeping operations. More than 50 per cent of our total deployed peacekeeping personnel in six United Nations missions - South Sudan, Darfur, the Central African Republic, Haiti, Mali and the India/Pakistan border - are women. That is well beyond the 15 per cent requirement for troop- and police-contributing countries. Since the launching of the second cycle of its national action plan on women and peace and security, in March 2017, the Philippines has achieved the following milestones under the three pillars of empowerment and participation, protection and prevention, and promotion and mainstreaming.”
2019-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8508 (2019) · source
“The world will remain stuck in a cycle ofviolence and conflicts as long as nations put almost every other issue ahead of equality for women. That is a takeaway from the 2019 United Nations Peacekeeping Ministerial held here two weeks ago. Today's open debate is crucial as we approach the twentieth anniversary of resolution 1325 (2000), on women and peace and security. That resolution deals with women's strategic roles as peacekeepers, negotiators and mediators and their contributions to the narratives of war and peace. It is an operational and moral imperative to recruit more women peacekeepers. From the Vancouver Peacekeeping Ministerial in November 2017 to the 2019 United Nations Peacekeeping Ministerial, the Philippines has strongly committed itself to deploying more women peacekeepers.”
2019-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8508 (2019) · source
“Thirdly, the integration of women in peacekeeping operations is part of our effort under the women and peace and security agenda, as we promote the important contributions of women in peace negotiations and peacebuilding and their roles in shaping the narratives ofpeace. There are 17 female military, police or civilian personnel serving in peacekeeping and special political missions in Africa. Philippine participation in United Nations peacekeeping operations and peacebuilding missions in Africa demonstrates my country's enduring commitment to working with key actors and stakeholders to ensure international peace, security and stability.”
2018-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8407 (2018) · source
“Secondly, the Philippines will continue its active engagement with the Department of Peacekeeping Operations in the deployment of Filipino peacekeepers. Nationally, our deployment policy is guided by the Philippine National Council for United Nations Peace Operations and approved by the Office of the President. We therefore strongly support the recommendations of the High-level Independent Panel on Peace Operations to further improve the safety and security of our peacekeepers. To date, Philippine military, police and civilian personnel are deployed to United Nations peacekeeping and special political missions in Darfur, the Central African Republic, Somalia and South Sudan.”
2018-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8407 (2018) · source
“First, as a troop- and police-contributing country, the Philippines is committed to international efforts for peacekeeping operations in Africa. In general, the Philippines continues to support the Secretary-General's initiatives to advocate for integrated approaches to addressing security, development and humanitarian challenges in the African region. Specifically with regard to strengthening peacekeeping operations in Africa, we believe that much could be accomplished through capacity-building, training, or peer-learning exercises, and through the exchange of best practices and lessons learned. Voluntary contributions are also very important, and the Philippines is a contributor to the Peacebuilding Fund.”
2018-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8407 (2018) · source
“We also commend Secretary-General Antonio Guterres' strong commitment to a culture of prevention and partnership through the Action for Peacekeeping initiative and the Declaration of Shared Commitments on United Nations Peacekeeping Operations, which was endorsed by 150 Member States, including the Philippines. For more than 50 years, the Philippines has consistently played an important role in 19 United Nations peacekeeping operations in Asia, the Middle East, South America and Africa. Along with North American F-86E Sabre jet fighter planes and equipment, the first Philippine United Nations-formed unit was composed of members of the Philippine Air Force Limbas Squadron deployed to the United Nations Operations in the Congo in 1963. I would like to highlight three points.”
2018-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8407 (2018) · source
“First of all, allow me to introduce to the Security Council my colleague Military Adviser Ruben Fajardo. He is the main officer responsible for the increase in the number of peacekeepers whom we deploy to various missions. We thank him for his service. Peacekeeping remains a flagship agenda of the United Nations. More importantly, it is a core element in sustaining peace. The Secretary-General's latest report on the work ofthe Organization emphasizes that, "Sustaining peace is relevant to all the United Nations peace and security tools and entails an emphasis on partnerships, national ownership and recognition of the interlinkages of the United Nations work." (A/73/1, para. 57) We therefore commend China for convening today's open debate on peacekeeping operations in Africa.”
2018-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8407 (2018) · source
“We firmly believe that reform of the Security Council is integral to strengthening multilateralism, and that developing international norms further and in a balanced manner is critical. However, while the Philippines is strongly supportive of multilateralism, we emphasize that the United Nations and its agencies are a collection of sovereignties. It is not itself a sovereign collective. It is therefore always imperative to ensure first and foremost that the sovereignty of States is respected and upheld. States are always by far the best positioned to solve any problem, and there is no agency or group that can act with anything close to a State's own effectiveness. If a State itself is the problem, that State itselfis in the best position to solve it. So let us work with it.”
2018-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8395 (2018) · source
“Since 2004 we have also been partnering with Pakistan on an annual General Assembly resolution under the agenda item on a culture of peace. In the area of maritime cooperation at the regional level, while recognizing differences among States and never compromising our respective core interests, the Philippines has the coordinating role for the next three years on the adoption of a common code of conduct in the South China Sea. The success that the Philippines has had in countering terrorism has revealed this scourge's transnational nature and confirmed that it is the most pressing threat to peace and security in the world today. The fight against terrorism should therefore unite us all. It demands our total and sincere cooperation.”
2018-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8395 (2018) · source
“Multilateralism is sometimes too slow to act and just as slow to achieve consensus on the most urgent issues. There have been tragic instances when what cried out to be done was not. As a founding member of the United Nations, the Philippines actively promotes the multilateral process. With regard to economic and social issues, we are coordinating and facilitating issues that really matter to our constituents 4 migration and development, trafficking, persons with disabilities and biological diversity, as well as human rights. We have been advocating for the global compact on migration, which is anchored in human rights and just plain decency. Concerning peace and security, the Philippines has championed the universal ban on nuclear weapons. We cooperate closely with the United Nations on counter-terrorism.”
2018-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8395 (2018) · source
“The Philippines supports the Secretary-General's call for a renewed commitment to a rules-based order and a vigorous return to multilateralism, which gives voice to the voiceless, counsels patience until the relevant facts are in, weighs the options for practicality and sustainability and imparts to actions when they are finally taken a credibility often rightly denied to unilateral and, more often than not, impulsive decisions. The ongoing implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development manifests one of the main and lasting achievements of collective action. Member States have painstakingly developed national agendas aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals. However, the environment conducive to peace, stability and progress that we endeavour to nurture can be lost with a single impulsive, unilateral act.”
2018-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8395 (2018) · source
“The Philippines welcomes this open debate initiated by the Chinese presidency of the Security Council, and aligns itself with the statement delivered earlier by the representative of Singapore on behalf of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Our discussion is timely, considering the growing trend towards unilateralism and increasing efforts to discredit multilateralism, mainly, and ironically, by the chief architect of the United Nations.”
2018-11-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8395 (2018) · source
“Continued capacity-building for local Government units, Government agencies and civil society is also being undertaken to ensure that the women and peace and security agenda is mainstreamed in their gender and development plans and budgets for sustainability. As we move the process forward, the Philippines will continue to support the goal of realizing the transformational potential of women's equality and their meaningful economic and political participation for peace and development.”
2018-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8382 (2018) · source
“On the implementation of the gender-specific recommendations of the Transitional Justice and Reconciliation Commission, the Philippines is the first country in the world to formulate and implement a regional action plan on women and peace and security. The plan is part of the Government's efforts to implement resolution 1325 (2000) locally. It is now in its second year of implementation. Consistent with our goal to promote and mainstream gender perspectives in all aspects of conflict prevention, resolution and peacebuilding, the Government established agency strategic action plans to operationalize the commitments made under the national action plan on women and peace and security. The plans constitute the translation of the action points of the national action plans into concrete programmes, activities and projects.”
2018-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8382 (2018) · source