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Perceval

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“After two decades of activity, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), as has been said, are in their final stages, whereby, according to the completion strategies laid down by the Council, they are to complete their judicial work according to the established timetables and to transfer their cases and archives to the Residual Mechanism. Argentina would like to recognize the progress reported by the ICTY and ICTR. We believe that June was the most recent occasion on which we considered the reports on the progress achieved by the Tribunals (see S/PV.6977).”
2013-12-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7073 (2013) · source
“Mrs. Perceval (Argentina) (spoke in Spanish): I am grateful today for the presence in the Council of Presidents Meron and Joensen and of Prosecutors Jallow and Brammertz, and to thank Judge Meron in his capacity as President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals. I would also like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the expertise of Guatemala and to thank Ambassador Rosenthal for his leadership of the Informal Working Group on International Tribunals. Sometimes, when we talk about the ethics of responsibility and belief we keep them separate, but I believe that in Ambassador Rosenthal's leadership the ethics of responsibility and belief are all perfectly in line.”
2013-12-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7073 (2013) · source
“Finally, we call upon UNOCA to pursue its efforts and in particular to support activities to disarm, demobilize, repatriate, reintegrate and resettle LRA elements and to cooperate in ending this threat once and for all through a long-term solution.”
2013-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7065 (2013) · source
“We commend the work of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA) in support of regional efforts to prevent conflict, promote justice and the rule of law, and strengthen peace and security in countries of Central Africa. We note the optimism expressed in the Secretary-General's report before us (S/2013/671) about the decline in LRA attacks as a result of the regional efforts led by the African Union through the Regional Task Force. However, we must recognize that a number of issues remain pending and topical. Joseph Kony and other LRA leaders continue to evade justice. Attacks, kidnappings and the killing of civilians continue alongside human rights violations, especially against women and children. Impunity cannot be tolerated.”
2013-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7065 (2013) · source
“The arms embargo and sanctions pursuant to resolution 1591 (2005) must be strictly enforced. Mr. Michel Djotodia, head of the transitional Government of the Central African Republic, has said that he would take extraordinary measures to remedy the critical situation of former Se'leka fighters. I believe that the Security Council should strive to understand what such extraordinary measures would consist of. Influential voices from a number of organizations and States - including Mr. Dieng on 1 November at the Council's Arria Formula meeting - are describing the situation as pre-genocidal. Argentina welcomes the efforts of the African Union and the Economic Community of Central African States to fight the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).”
2013-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7065 (2013) · source
“With regard to illegal elephant poaching and the trafficking of ivory, we share the Secretary-General's concerns that these activities fuel the international criminal economy and finance transnational organized crime and the many armed groups that are active in the region, such as the Lord's Resistance Army. I would also point to the flow of arms and combatants across porous borders from the Sahel region down towards the Central African subregion. Given the information received by Mr. Moussa, and as reflected in the report of the Secretary-General on the existence of "a well- known corridor for illicit trade, passing from Darfur to the Central African Republic" (S/2013/67], para. 11), we urge the authorities to take effective measures to close this corridor.”
2013-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7065 (2013) · source
“More than 63,000 people have had to seek refuge in neighbouring countries, generating increased humanitarian problems and needs and causing tensions in bordering countries. While the deployment of the African-led International Support Mission for the Central African Republic is a positive development, we must recall that the crisis is complex and requires a broad and comprehensive solution that addresses more than just the security situation. The Security Council should consider without delay but in depth what steps to take to stabilize the situation in the country if we wish to avoid irreversible damage and human suffering and loss of life.”
2013-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7065 (2013) · source
“Mrs. Perceval (Argentina) (spoke in Spanish): I would also like to thank Mr. Abou Moussa, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for his presentation of the report of the Secretary-General (8/2013/671). At the outset, like my colleagues, I would like to highlight the serious situation of insecurity in the Central African Republic, where abuses and violations of human rights are a daily and alarming reality, not to mention the growing tensions and intercommunal strife with religious connotations that is spreading throughout the country. The estimate of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees shows that some 400,000 people have been displaced from their homes in itself constitutes a desperate plea for help. In addition, the situation has already affected the entire subregion.”
2013-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7065 (2013) · source
“By historical consciousness and collective fate, we are of the South and we therefor favour dialogue and the search for ways to overcome and avoid dead ends. The people and Government of the nation of Argentina, as our former President Kirchner said, are the children of the mothers and grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, and that is why we understand that all victims have the right not to be forgotten or treated with indifference, including those in Kenya in 2007. They all deserve justice, truth, reparations and a guarantee that what happened will not happen again. Finally, I would like to reiterate Argentina's firm support for the International Criminal Court, and we will continue to focus our efforts on the noble task of its universalization.”
2013-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7060 (2013) · source
“Argentina appreciates the presentation of the African Union Contact Group of Ministers on Kenya's understandable concerns and the reasons given for not supporting the draft resolution. Argentina has heard them and recognizes the decision of the Kenyan leadership to cooperate with the Court and assume its responsibility as a State party to take the route of going to trial, which would enable a coherent response to Kenya's concerns. At the moment, the working group on amendments of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute is focusing on negotiating amendments to the Court's rules of procedure. Argentina is firmly committed to that process, and it is encouraging that we have been working closely with Kenya and other African countries.”
2013-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7060 (2013) · source
“As the President of Argentina has said, if multilateralism is to be genuinely equitable, compliance with United Nations resolutions is required of weak countries and strong, small countries and large. We also abstained because we recognize the legitimacy of the claim of those of us that have voluntarily subjected ourselves to the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court by becoming a party to it, and we see that once again our destinies and the need for true justice are tied to the decisions of political bodies such as the Security Council. That is why Argentina hopes for the universal participation of all Member States in the Court and that those who defend the fight against impunity will reflect that in a full commitment to ratifying the Statute of the Court.”
2013-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7060 (2013) · source
“We also abstained having taken into account the fact that, in complying fully with the Statute of the Court, it is the responsibility of the Security Council to analyse the subject at hand in strict interpretation of article 16 of the Statute. That means understanding that suspending a trial can be necessary in order to preserve international peace and security while not implying a ruling on the substance of a case under the Court's consideration. We abstained, moreover, because on a number of occasions we have shared our frustration and that of others who see the Security Council as a body that is once again helping to promote the law of the jungle.”
2013-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7060 (2013) · source
“Mrs. Perceval (Argentina) (spoke in Spanish): Argentina abstained in the voting on the draft resolution before us because, as a State party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, we understand that we are dealing with a court ofjustice established in order to help eliminate impunity, and that is complementary to and not a replacement for the responsibility of every State - a responsibility that cannot be renounced - to ensure that justice, truth and memory are served in the face of atrocious crimes. Those are the central pillars of Argentina's policy of promoting, protecting, defending and guaranteeing human rights.”
2013-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7060 (2013) · source
“This morning in my country, the Federal Appeals Chamber finally returned a verdict in the case of two priests, Carlos de Dios Murias and Gabriel Longueville, who were illegally deprived of liberty and murdered under the military dictatorship. Today in my country, at 8 a.m., we heard the testimony of Eduardo Pinchersky, a victim of the civil-military dictatorship. Speaking not only as a political activist but also as a Jew, he said, "The gods decided who would die and who would live. They thought they were gods." We need the International Criminal Court.”
2013-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7059 (2013) · source
“The legitimate concerns of many members with respect to seeing a more efficient Court and one able to deliver justice with greater speed - concerns such as those raised by the representative of the Russian Federation- cannot be satisfied if the Court faces serious financial problems in the execution of justice. To conclude, my delegation would like to stress that the International Criminal Court is one of the most notable contributions to the struggle against impunity and the prevention of atrocities. Just this morning in my country, the Senate approved a law for full reparations to political prisoners, union members and students detained under the last military dictatorship.”
2013-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7059 (2013) · source
“Secondly, Argentina is concerned by the provision, contained in the two referrals made so far, exempting nationals of non-party States to the Rome Statute from the Court's jurisdiction for acts or omissions derived from operations established or authorized by the Council or related to such operations. Argentina believes that the Court's jurisdiction is universal and should remain so. Another matter that could seriously affect the Court is that, in both referrals, the Council has determined that the expenses involved should be borne not by the United Nations but rather by the States parties to the Rome Statute. That deviates from the provisions of article 115 (b) of the Roma Statue and article 13 of the Relationship Agreement between the International Criminal Court and the United Nations.”
2013-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7059 (2013) · source
“First of all, referrals by the Council - including the situation in Libya - entail an obligation for follow- up. In Argentina's view, the Council must do more than take note of these reports. We are pleased that in its presidential statement S/PRST/2013/2, on the protection of civilians in armed conflicts, the Council expressed its commitment to providing follow-up to its decisions with respect to ad hoc tribunals and the ICC. Given that a follow-up mechanism for ad hoc tribunals already exists, it is now urgent to implement that commitment by establishing a specific mechanism for the International Criminal Court.”
2013-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7059 (2013) · source
“Argentina, like the Prosecutor, fully understands the multiple challenges facing the Libyan authorities and commends the Office of the Prosecutor for its willingness to continue to support the Government in its efforts to address the greatest possible number of cases under its jurisdiction. Above and beyond the matter of the competency of the Court, whose focus is naturally on the worst offenders, it is important and auspicious that the Libyan Government should continue to solidify its fight against impunity and render justice for the heinous crimes that have been committed, because only accountability before justice will consolidate peace and bring relief to the victims. As is the case each time the Prosecutor presents a report to the Council, there are several additional points that my delegation would like to highlight.”
2013-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7059 (2013) · source
“In that regard, we urge Libya to make every effort to comply with the timeline established by the new law of transitional justice, which establishes that the cases of detainees associated with the previous regime and accused of crimes should be transferred prior to 21 December 2013 to the competent prosecutor to be handled according to due process. We join the Prosecutors call for Libya to effectively apply the law it adopted in April, penalizing torture, discrimination and forced disappearance. The members ofthe Council once again have before them a report that emphasizes Libya's willingness to cooperate with the Court.”
2013-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7059 (2013) · source
“Argentina reminds Libya, as the Prosecutor does in her report, that it is obligated to hand over Saif Al-Islam Al-Qadhafito the Court. Argentina commends the Prosecutor for pursuing her investigations into other possible suspects, including those outside Libyan territory. My country also recognizes the Prosecutor's concern regarding the report "Torture and deaths in detention in Libya," released in October by the United Nations Support Mission in Libya and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, covering detention centres held by armed brigades, in which torture is routinely employed. It is imperative for such detention centres to be placed under State control.”
2013-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7059 (2013) · source
“With regard to the cases of SaifAl-Islam Al-Qadhafi and Abdullah Al-Senussi, which had been suspended by the Office of the Prosecutor when Libya questioned their admissibility, Argentina has always stressed that, in accordance with sub-paragraphs (a) and (c) of article 17 (1) of the Rome Statute, this was a judicial matter under the exclusive purview of the Chambers of the Court. The Court also ruled on the admissibility challenge in the case against SaifAl-Islam Al-Qadhafi. The Appeals Chamber rejected the Libyan request to suspend the decision of the Pre-Trial Chamber, which had found that the case was admissible before the ICC. Argentina notes that the Pre-Trial Chamber decided on 11 October that the case against Abdullah Al-Senussi was inadmissible before the ICC, a decision that Mr. Al-Senussi has appealed.”
2013-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7059 (2013) · source
“Mrs. Perceval (Argentina) (spoke in Spanish): Argentina thanks the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Ms. Fatou Bensouda, for introducing the sixth report of the Office of the Prosecutor pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011). The constructive dialogue between the Libyan authorities and the Office of the Prosecutor is a work in progress. In May, we recognized that the constraints in contact with the Government of Libya had been overcome, and that the Office of the Prosecutor had re-established contact with the new Administration following the 2012 elections. At that time, we commended the fact that Office of the Prosecutor and the Prosecutor-General of Libya had recently signed a memorandum of understanding concerning the distribution of work in future investigations and trials.”
2013-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7059 (2013) · source
“To conclude, as on previous occasions when Argentina has chaired the Working Group on Documentation and Other Procedural Questions, we are convinced that, without impact on its decision-making abilities, the Council could and must be more transparent in its its relations with the general membership. I am grateful for the support I have received from all the other members of the Working Group, who have without exception worked in a constructive spirit, which I trust we will continue to enjoy. I also thank the group of members that are engaged in an analysis of the concerns of general membership in respect of this issue, as well as all members taking part in today's debate. Their views assist in the ongoing task of improving our working methods.”
2013-10-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7052 (2013) · source
“With respect to the provision of information, the note indicates that the Secretariat will provide potential TCCs and PCCs with all the information they require to take the decisions to participate in a peacekeeping operation. The note addresses a variety of issues, and I reiterate that it answers all of the concerns of the general membership, which have been heard and heeded. The note points out that, with respect to the renewal of mandates, the Secretary-General shall provide a copy of his reports to the TCCs and PCCs sufficiently in advance of meetings.”
2013-10-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7052 (2013) · source
“It calls for consultations with TCCs and PCCS, including at their request, with respect to urgent situations that affect their operations, in particular regarding the security of their personnel in the field. It also calls for consultations in other important circumstances in a peacekeeping operation, such as the transition from peacekeeping to peacebuilding, drawdown, an increase or decrease in personnel, and termination. I note that in addition to the meetings organized with the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, the Council could convene informal meetings with a view to engaging in an interactive dialogue with TCCs and PCCs.”
2013-10-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7052 (2013) · source
“With respect to the note, the Working Group was always aware of the fact that consultations with TCCs and PCCs are critical because they improve the Council's ability to take effective and timely decisions in exercising its responsibilities. Like many other aspects, consultations with TCCs and PCCs must be improved on an ongoing basis, as reflected in the fact that in every debate on working methods, the issue of dialogue with TCCs and PCCs is noted by many members. In note 630, the members of the Security Council acknowledge the need to fully utilize all existing options and to continue to improve consultations. The note, which complements resolutions and presidential notes on this matter, addresses two major aspects: consultations with TCCs and PCCs and the provision of information to those countries.”
2013-10-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7052 (2013) · source
“Argentina recognizes in particular the commitment ofthe Working Group to take up the issue of wrap-up meetings so as to develop them to their full potential for providing summaries of the Security Council's monthly activities and for highlighting for the general membership the varying approaches and priorities of Council members on agenda items. The wrap-up meetings are very valuable, and we therefore urge all members to convene them at the end of their respective presidencies and to raise in the Working Group the issue of how to enhance their interactive aspects and effectiveness. Yesterday, 28 October, we adopted presidential note 8/2013/630, concerning consultations with troop- and police-contributing countries.”
2013-10-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7052 (2013) · source
“The note contains provisions on open meetings, interactive dialogues, Arria Formula meetings, invitations to the President of the Peacebuilding Commission and the Chairs of country-specific configurations to informal dialogues, the need for subsidiary bodies to submit substantive information to the wider membership and to add momentum to their work, and the modalities of wrap- up meetings. The last item on that list must be stressed. Several members of the Council acknowledge that its methodology should and must be improved.”
2013-10-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7052 (2013) · source
“Argentina has engaged with enthusiasm in its chairmanship the Informal Working Group on Documentation and Other Procedural Questions, as it has always done during its previous chairmanships of the Working Group. We acknowledge that the other members of the Council have consistently supported our efforts to seek practical ways of making the Council's work more transparent and of improving its dialogue with the general membership, the troop-contributing countries (TCCs) and police-contributing countries (PCCs), and other bodies. In August, we adopted note S/20l3/515 on Security Council dialogue with the broader membership and other bodies in response to a commitment undertaken years ago by the Council. Some of its elements are reflected in note 507 of 2010.”
2013-10-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7052 (2013) · source
“It is fundamental to recognize the positive developments that have taken place in recent years, including the holding of debates such as today's, which provide an opportunity to all Members not members of the Council to make proposals to improve our working methods and democratize our decision-making mechanism. Those developments are attributable to the commitment of Council members, whom we thank, and to their continuing responsibility to improve the Council's working methods. However, that shared responsibility to improve our working methods is also a response to the ongoing support and initiatives of the general membership, which appreciate all opportunities to engage in a more interactive dialogue with the Council so as to air the concerns of all Member States.”
2013-10-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7052 (2013) · source
“Mrs. Perceval (Argentina) (spoke in Spanish): I would like to thanks the presidency of Azerbaijan for having convened today's important open debate - important not only for the members of the Security Council but also for the general membership. Argentina has historically advocated that efforts to improve transparency, inclusivity, openness, democratization and efficiency in the work of the Security Council should be ongoing. Argentina is therefore honoured to have the responsibility of chairing the Informal Working Group on Documentation and Other Procedural Questions.”
2013-10-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7052 (2013) · source
“Lastly, I should like to avail myself of this opportunity to recognize the fact that the Council has been able to adopt a presidential statement on the humanitarian aspects of the crisis (S/2013/PRST/15). For Argentina, it is important though not crucial that the declaration was issued as a presidential statement and not as a resolution. It speaks as the expression of a united Council, not as a menu of options that the parties can choose from. It speaks of obligations and requirements that emanate from international law that must be complied with by all.”
2013-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7047 (2013) · source
“In fact, in August we could say that unity in the Council was perhaps accidental. We no doubt made progress with resolution 2118 (2013), but we do not know if the dynamics surrounding the conflict have changed. We recall that Kofi Annan, when he left his post as Joint Special Envoy for Syria, said something that, as far as we can tell, remains valid to this day. He said: "Only a united international community can compel both sides to engage in a peaceful political transition. But a political process is difficult, if not impossible, while all sides - within and without Syria - see opportunity to advance their narrow agendas by military means." If Geneva II is to take place, the regional and international stakeholders that support both sides should be fully convinced that the political solution is the only possible solution.”
2013-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7047 (2013) · source
“We hope that both the Government and the opposition will soon put together credible delegations that are able to make compromises and implement them so that the conference can start as announced next month. It is worth reiterating that, in accordance with paragraph 12 of the 30 June 2012 communique, the global and regional Powers that met in Geneva last year and are today sitting in today's open debate reaffirmed their opposition "to any additional militarization of the conflict". That part of the communique seems to have been forgotten but it must be complied with. Resolution 2118 (2013) was undoubtedly a meaningful accomplishment. It was a sign ofunity in the Security Council which, except for sporadic moments, had been paralysed with regard to the Syrian crisis.”
2013-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7047 (2013) · source
“However, resolution 2118 (2013) has an additional component that is equally, if not more, important that the elimination of the chemical weapons programme in Syria. Through that resolution, the Security Council echoed the 2012 Geneva communique (S/2013/523, annex) and explicitly called for the "Geneva II" conference to be held as soon as possible in order to implement the communique, thus launching a transition led by the Syrians themselves that would put an end to the spilling of blood that has lasted more than two and a half years. To comply with that request, we need the same political will and the same determination shown by all of the relevant stakeholders when it comes to looking at the matter of chemical weapons.”
2013-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7047 (2013) · source
“In a few days, a month will have passed since the adoption of resolution 2118 (2013), on chemical weapons programme in Syria. We note with satisfaction that, with the collaboration of the Syrian Government, the initial verification activities for the elimination of that programme began almost immediately. The Secretary-General sent along his recommendations on the role of the United Nations in that process - including those on putting together the Joint Mission of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the United Nations and appointing a special coordinator to lead those efforts - and they were quickly backed by the Security Council. All of that is a good start for a process that has involved much suffering and difficulty and should conclude at the middle of the year ahead.”
2013-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7047 (2013) · source
“We repeat, as others have done, that illegal settlements campaign has increased on the West Bank, as have demolitions and displacement in East Jerusalem and in Area C, ongoing confrontations between protesters and the Israel Defense Forces and tragic developments such as the one we saw in August in Kalandia, rocket launches against Israel and unceasing confrontational rhetoric. At the same time, the humanitarian situation in Gaza continues to deteriorate, suffocated by a blockade that has been in place for more than six years. We know and agree that the next several months will be decisive in putting an end to an occupation that has lasted for more than half a century and that is a morally reproachable, politically unacceptable and strategically unviable. I turn to the matter of Syria as a second issue.”
2013-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7047 (2013) · source
“Enormous atrocities have been committed in the world with the call for realism and pragmatism. Therefore, once again we urge the Security Council to express itself on the principles that it maintains in order to give a definitive solution, so that there can be real, lasting peace with secure borders for Israel and a consolidated Palestinian State. While there have been brave acts, such as the release of the first group of Palestinian prisoners detained prior to the signing of the Oslo Accords, since the beginning of the negotiations we have seen other developments as well that are completely incompatible with the peace process and that deepen the mistrust and do not contribute to creating favourable conditions for dialogue.”
2013-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7047 (2013) · source
“We believe that the Security Council should express itself on the entirety of the situations that we have been describing as situations that either positively or negatively affect the Palestinian-Israeli situation and take concrete steps to complement the negotiations and support the two-State solution. I think that it is important for the Council to express itself on behalf of the overwhelming majority opinion favouring a two-State solution. In doing so, the Council could help to counteract those who I do not want to classify, but perhaps I would call them "free thinkers", who think that the principles of the Charter of the United Nations or of international law or the 1967 solution are obsolete and that instead we need to be realistic and pragmatic.”
2013-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7047 (2013) · source
“In various newspapers around the world, we are already seeing that lack of respect for the principles upheld by the international community. Some articles that I have been reading in the past few days have said that the question is not whether there will be conflict in the future between Isreal and Palestine. There will be, and that cannot be prevented. Preventing catastrophic changes involves putting an end to the oppressive reign of an obsolete idea and allowing for both sides to see the world as it is and adapt to it. Those remarks, which have been underscored in different ways, have been published in important newspapers around the world, including in Latin America. They undoubtedly strengthen the idea that Argentina has been putting forth and which we stress again.”
2013-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7047 (2013) · source
“However, three of the nine months that the parties established as the time period for reaching an agreement have gone by, and despite the fact that the negotiations have been carried out with a great deal of reservations, the information that we have indicates that the progress so far has been complex, which is understandable, but also extremely slow. That is partly because, instead of beginning with the broad and widely accepted principles, there is questioning of the parameters of the two-State solution, which are contained in international law and supported by the overwhelming majority of the international community. Among those parameters is that the pre-June 1967 borders should be the basis of any negotiation.”
2013-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7047 (2013) · source
“Mrs. Perceval (Argentina) (spoke in Spanish): I thank Mr. Feltman for his briefing. I also extend my appreciation to the Permanent Representative of Israel and the Permanent Observer of Palestine for their statements. At the end of July, some days after our last open debate on the situation in the Middle East (see S/PV.7007), Palestinians and Israelis returned to the negotiating table, giving new life to the peace process and overcoming the inertia of a dangerous stalemate that had been ongoing for almost three years. That was an auspicious moment in a regional context, which, as we have all noted, is marked by uncertainty and upheaval.”
2013-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7047 (2013) · source
“In my region of Latin America and the Caribbean, a woman in a conflict situation said that a woman can never report a rape to her national police; it would be like being raped all over again. Finally, I would like to share the sentiments expressed in 2012 by a group of women Nobel Peace Prize laureates - Jody Williams, Shirin Ebadi, Mairead Maguire and Leymah Gbowee - that a world without war and violence against women is possible and that "[o]ur collective efforts have brought gender violence to the forefront of policy and public discussions. Now, our united actions will stop rape in conflict". However, we still have much to do to achieve women's effective equality as people with rights and to achieve equal representation in decision-making arenas, and for those reasons, we welcome the resolution adopted today (resolution 2122 (2013)).”
2013-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7044 (2013) · source
“In a country in Asia, we heard recently from a group of women who were subjected to sexual torture. Their genitals were burned, they said. They were forced into prostitution by security forces, rebel groups and members of peacekeeping missions. In Europe, a women from the former Yugoslavia testified that in the camps the soldiers raped her all day long. She would fall asleep, but when she awoke a different soldier would be in her bed. In the Middle East, many women do not turn to the justice system for the crimes they have been subjected to because they say that they are scared - scared of exclusion, ofbeing victimized again, or ofbeing victims of honour crimes.”
2013-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7044 (2013) · source
“In that connection, I would like to end with the testimony of women from various parts of the world. In this century, in one country in Africa, 1,152 women were raped every day - that is 48 every hour or four every five minutes. In another area of that continent, a woman reported that, when women tried to escape, their children were killed. She said that they raped lots of women and girls and were happy when they raped them. They even sang while they raped them and told them they had the right to do whatever they wish with women. In another country, a women's organization told us that the criminal code there still interprets rape as a form of adultery. If a women cannot prove that there was no consent and if there are not at least four witnesses who confirm her testimony, women are punished for adultery by whipping or stoning.”
2013-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7044 (2013) · source
“Despite all the progress made - as we recently noted in our visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Great Lakes region - weak States, authoritarian Governments, corrupt systems and a widespread culture of impunity serve to perpetuate inequality and violence against women in conflict and post-conflict situations, and that enables other types of inequality, discrimination and violence to exist in society. We have worked very hard to put an end to rape as a weapon of war and to the wrongful response of impunity for its perpetrators. While those efforts have contributed to reducing impunity's negative effects, we are aware that the problem has still not been eradicated. We cannot lock ourselves inside a laboratory to restore and recognize women's human rights or to build a genuine rule of law.”
2013-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7044 (2013) · source
“However, it was particularly through resolution 1325 (2000) and subsequent resolutions focused on the situation of women in conflict and post-conflict situations that the Council underscored, as priorities in achieving lasting peace, the promotion and protection of women's human rights and their equal participation in transitional justice and reconciliation processes, as well as a human rights perspective and a gender perspective in all the efforts and programmes for development, peace, security and the building and strengthening of the rule oflaw. It is true that much remains to be done.”
2013-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7044 (2013) · source
“From resolution 1208 (1998), on security for refugees, which underscores the special security needs of women in camps, to resolution 1314 (2000), which underscores the importance of prevention, disarmament, demobilization and reintegration policies including a gender perspective, it is clear we have made progress.”
2013-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7044 (2013) · source
“In accordance with that progressive increase in awareness, the Security Council's trajectory shows an awareness and increasing commitment to preventing and eradicating sexual and gender-based discrimination in situations of conflict and post-conflict situations, as well as a commitment to ensuring that when sexist crimes are committed, the perpetrators will not enjoy impunity, that there is justice and redress for the Victims and that societies can achieve a lasting peace based on authentic reconciliation that is born of an understanding of the truth and a recognition of the fact that nobody has the right to deny another human being of their life, their freedom or their dignity, nor can they impede their participation by way of any type of discrimination in any area of society.”
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“With complete clarity, the International Criminal Court Statute would subsequently establish that acts of rape, sexual slavery, prostitution, forced pregnancy or sterilization or any other form of sexual violence of comparable severity constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity.”
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