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Perceval

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“We have been unable to save 66,000 women per year from falling victim to femicide; the over 500,000 whose lives are repeatedly put in danger; or the 70 per cent of women who will experience violence at some point in their lives; or prevent the abuse of a woman every 18 seconds somewhere in the world. And why have been unable to prevent all of this? It is because women's equality and freedom need to be more than just an idea; they have to be a reality, a feeling, and an expression of will. If gender equality and freedom could be the mere manifestation of an idea, then the statistics Ijust shared, which highlight the suffering and humiliation of millions of women in times of conflict, post-conflict and peace, would not exist.”
2015-01-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7374 (2015) · source
“Until now, and beyond the progress made, if we take a snapshot picture of the state of education worldwide the image we would get would show us that of the number of children not attending school, around 93 million, most of whom are girls. With regard to the world of work, in particular the world of paid work, if we exclude women in the agricultural sector we find that more than 60 per cent of female workers are in informal employment. And what can be said of human trafficking? It is a big business, as is that of weapons, amounting to $32 billion dollars annually. And who tends to be the victims of that trafficking? We are - women and girls.”
2015-01-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7374 (2015) · source
“Until now, however, we have not been able to prevent forced marriage from affecting more than 400 million women worldwide, nor have we been able to innovate ethically. We will not be able to prevent it from extending to more than 142 million girls during this decade. Until now, it has been very difficult to prevent 86 million girls around the world from suffering mutilation of their external genitalia from here to 2030 if the practice continues at the current pace. Until now, world hunger does not spare women, who represent a little more than half of the world population; in fact, of the 842 million people who are hungry more than 60 per cent of them are women. About half of all pregnant women have anemia.”
2015-01-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7374 (2015) · source
“We will not go through all the articles, but without fear of error we could affirm that the ideals in the Charter and the Declaration of Human Rights are contained in the post-2015 goals, in particular with respect to the cause of women, which is none other than that of equality and freedom. When we proposed to make poverty a priority, we did so not because we believe or think that all poor people are good but because the poor are poor. In that context, we also have to work for freedom and equality for women not because we believe that women are blameless but because they are human and have the right to dignity. If we were to make equality and freedom as the right of all people, there would have no place for violence against women neither in conflict or post- conflict situations or in peacetime.”
2015-01-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7374 (2015) · source
“And we are acting with awareness of how far we have come far but also, and to a greater extent, of how far we still have to go. This year, in which our Organization celebrates 70 years of existence, whose ideal embodied in the Charter and in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted on 10 December 1948 by the General Assembly tells us that freedom, justice and peace in the world are based on the recognition of the inherent dignity of all members of the human family and of their equal and inalienable rights. The people of the United Nations have reaffirmed in the Charter their faith in fundamental human rights and dignity and value of the human person and the equal rights of men and women.”
2015-01-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7374 (2015) · source
“The post-2015 agenda is not just a set of good and clear ideas; it is the substantive pressure brought to bear by the ideal of our time. And that is why this agenda is destined to become a new social, economic, environmental contract at the global level which we all need. This agenda will certainly have an impact on the international peace and security the Council is charged with overseeing. This agenda, based on an ideal that is known and felt to be urgent, complex, ambitious, is a political ideal etched with compassion and insight with respect to the geography of this global, uncertain, interdependent, fearful, dynamic, violent world. It is a necessary agenda because if humankind were content and the world were full of wonders then this agenda post-2015 would have no justification whatsoever.”
2015-01-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7374 (2015) · source
“I recall the most recent briefing to the Security Council, in October 2014, by Executive Director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, Ms. Mlambo-Ngcuka, in which she discussed the chasm that exists and persists between what is and what should be, between the facts and the law (see S/PV.7289). IfI may, I would like to evoke an initiative of the current president of Chile when, in her first term, she invited Chilean society to make a new social contract, a new covenant, a covenant that will have equality as its substance and point of View, including the fundamental equality between men and women. In that same spirit, I want to draw the Security Council 's attention to what is being discussed in other organs.”
2015-01-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7374 (2015) · source
“Mrs. Perceval (Argentina) (spoke in Spanish): The commemoration in July this year of the twentieth anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, described by Secretary-General Kofi Annan as "the worst crime committed on European soil since the Second World War", in which more than 8,000 people were killed and more 25,000 women and girls were forcibly deported, many of them after being subjected to rape and torture, is not only a sad reminder but also a deep commitment to the principle of "never again". That is why the debate you and your delegation have called, Mr. President, is so timely. I welcome each of the briefings made by the different persons invited to inform us at this meeting of the Security Council on the protection of civilians with a special focus on the situation of women.”
2015-01-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7374 (2015) · source
“Mrs. Perceval (Argentina) (spoke in Spanish): Argentina believes that an explanation of its affirmative vote is unnecessary. The history of the Palestinian people, international law and resolutions of the United Nations are the deepestjustification ofthe position taken by my country. We lament that the Security Council has not today adopted a draft resolution that sought to express thejustice ofthe Palestinian cause. But members of the Council must know that no resolution can block the resolve of a people to be free and independent and, above all, to maintain their dignity. Each one of us will have to be responsible for the consequences ofwhat just happened in this Chamber.”
2014-12-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7354 (2014) · source
“At the same time, Argentina has maintained in the Council and in various forums that we are concerned about the threat that the nuclear and ballistic missile programme of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea poses to the stability of the peninsula and the region, and their implications for international peace and security. Such situations remind us of the importance of diplomatic means and political negotiations, and we therefore urge all parties, including the Security Council, to redouble their efforts to restart the dialogue with a view to reaching a definitive solution to the issue and to declaring the peninsula free of nuclear weapons as a matter of priority. We also reaffirm that the Government of that country must protect and guarantee the human rights of its people.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7353 (2014) · source
“Today's exceptional decision, based on previous recommendations of the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly, should not constitute a precedent to encourage the extension of this practice. Nonetheless, as it did in the Human Rights Council, the Argentina expresses its concern at the conclusion reached by the commission of inquiry that systematic, widespread and grave violations of human rights, which we deplore, have been and are being committed in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. We are also concerned by the commission's conclusion that crimes against humanity have been committed.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7353 (2014) · source
“Both condemn in the strongest terms the serious, widespread and systematic violations of human rights committed in that country. However, we wish to stress that Argentina considers the inclusion of this issue on the agenda of the Security Council to be of an exceptional nature. Argentina believes that the Security Council must carry out its specific mandate under the Charter of the United Nations, which is a response to the strategic vision of a clear delineation of tasks among the different organs of the United Nations. Thus, it is stipulated that the Security Council has a responsibility to address matters pertaining to peace and international security. It does not contribute to the proper and effective functioning of the United Nations system when the Security Council extends its range of action.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7353 (2014) · source
“Mrs. Perceval (Argentina) (spoke in Spanish): I thank the Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Mr. Taye-Brook Zerihoun, and the Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, Mr. Ivan Simonovie, for their briefings. I do not wish to reiterate the contents of the report before the Council (S/2014.276, annex), but I shall explain Argentina's position on this issue. Argentina is following with deep concern the situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. It has voted in favour of each of the resolutions adopted by the competent forums, both the Human Rights Council and the Third Committee of the General Assembly vote, including the most recent, resolution 25/25 of the Human Rights Council and resolution 69/ 188 of the General Assembly.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7353 (2014) · source
“Former Secretary-General Hammarskjold challenged us when he said that the United Nations was at a landmark moment in its time, for its future. The members have to choose between two concepts of the United Nations - as a static machine for having meetings or as a dynamic instrument through which nations can organize a dignified, peaceful, just, egalitarian and free global community.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7352 (2014) · source
“As to the current permanent and non-permanent members, those that are remaining and those that are departing, it has been an honour for Argentina to learn and work with them, each and every one of them, where we have agreed and where we have differed, in the conviction that beyond our individual visions we have worked more or less successfully with great effort and honesty. We thank the Secretariat, in the person of Mr. Movses Abelian and the staff who assisted the Argentine delegation in its two presidencies of the Council and in leading the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1591 (2005) concerning the Sudan and the Informal Working Group on Documentation and Other Procedural Questions, for their support and advice.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7352 (2014) · source
“The challenges are enormous, as are the obstacles, but also, as a colleague said, the five permanent members are not our enemies, not even our adversaries. We are 15 countries working together, agreeing sometimes and having differences at other times, but working together, even though we may make mistakes, as I mentioned. We can make many mistakes, and we will continue to do so. But where we cannot go wrong is with respect to the principles that we have committed to uphold.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7352 (2014) · source
“When we face conflict, we keep repeating a false idea. We respond with militarization, weaponization and violence - those things do not lead to victory. How could it be possible that such a path could lead to victory when it is so costly, when such a victory, if it even existed, would be built on the destruction of another, who, with luck, has been destroyed right down to their dignity? I therefore believe that not only the Council, but our entire Organization - and all of our time - has to be dedicated to seeking and thinking otherwise in order to act differently. I wish every success to Angola, Spain, Malaysia, New Zealand and Venezuela, who willjoin the Security Council as members. I would advise them not to think small or be daunted.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7352 (2014) · source
“In one of my early days in the Council, I said that I not only had the honour of being the representative of Argentina but that, as a matter of personal conviction, I define myself as a feminist. Equality really is a good objective to achieve between men and women. I recalled that Alva Myrdal said in 1982, when she won the Nobel Peace Prize, that women are not so ambitious as to believe that we will find eternal peace in the world or solve all disputes between nations. The economic and political conflicts that we are witnessing are very deep. We do not lay claim to an angelic state of perfect harmony. Ours is a more modest goal: women believe that we can do more in concrete terms. People often speak of increasing devastation, which is why I believe that we must change the mindset in order to transform the way we act.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7352 (2014) · source
“The need to deal with problems that alarm us all and that are even increasing in their severity has served to justify the Security Council's encroaching on the competency of other organs of the United Nations, notably the General Assembly, as has been the case with climate change and in some ways, more recently, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Finally and paradoxically, the goals of exporting democracy and universalizing the enjoyment of human rights have served to justify the sending of weapons to the parties in conflict to achieve peace. I will only reaffirm that, for Argentina and for many Member States, normalizing arbitrariness, the phasing out of legal rights, and unprincipled pragmatism are not valid options. Not just any means justifies the end sought after.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7352 (2014) · source
“The urgency of addressing acute situations or emerging crisis situations with limited human and financial resources has served to justify accelerating the drawdown of forces in other situations where peace is not fully consolidated and where we face the risk that there will be a return to conflict. The violence unleashed in the context of the recent political crisis in Haiti makes us fear that we are facing one of those situations there. Argentina warned of that trend during the negotiations on and in the context of the adoption of latest renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (resolution 2180 (2014)).”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7352 (2014) · source
“The objective of neutralizing armed groups that attack innocent civilians has served tojustify departing, without an extensive consultation with the expanded membership at a minimum, from the principles that have for decades informed peacekeeping operations, such as the consent of the parties, impartiality and the non-use of force except in self-defence or in defence of the peacekeepers' mandate, as has been the case with the Force Invention Brigade of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7352 (2014) · source
“The objective of ensuring the protection of the human rights of innocent people and of depriving the parties of the means to continue hostilities has served to justify the imposition of unilateral sanctions at odds with the principles of sovereignty and non-intervention in the internal affairs of States.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7352 (2014) · source
“But the pursuit of that objective, even though it contributes to the realization of other goals deemed important by the Security Council, has served to justify decisions to deprive, in large or small part, persons included on Sanctions Committees' lists of their due process rights. The objective of ending impunity for crimes against humanity, as in the case of Syria, has served to justify actions that undermine the Rome Statute through referrals made in inappropriate terms that are likely to affect the validity, credibility and effectiveness of the International Criminal Court.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7352 (2014) · source
“However, as time goes by, it seems that we are becoming used to some horrors of the sort to which we should never become used. And so what in the past would be deemed a tragedy that the Security Council should never allow is now becoming business as usual, and not only because some new conflict has arisen that demands our attention meaning we can no longer devote the same time and dedication to the others as we did in the past. The fourth lesson learned, which is perhaps the most worrisome for my country, is the difficulty we have observed over the past two years in translating principles into concrete achievements, as if certain ends justified the means. The aim of eradicating the scourge of international terrorism is one to which Argentina is fully committed.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7352 (2014) · source
“I am not suggesting that the crisis in Ukraine is not serious, even very serious; I am simply observing that, beyond the troubling reports of violations of minority rights, by no measure are we faced there with the sort of humanitarian tragedy we are seeing in Syria, the Central African Republic or South Sudan. The third lesson learned is that the Security Council seems to work in fits and starts, generally compelled by a reflex mechanism, in the spirit of a volunteer firefighter or medical emergency rather than preventative medicine. When a conflict breaks out, the first reaction is to meet immediately in order to get more information, send messages to the world, or simply exchange views to determine how we can tackle a given situation and prevent its deterioration.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7352 (2014) · source
“A second lesson learned is that the Security Council seems to remain tied to a logic belonging to the twentieth century rather than the twenty-first, which sees it motivated more by geopolitical and security considerations than by the concept of an ethical institution to which we all ascribe as Members of the United Nations that freely undertake to respect the Charter. Even in situations of mass, widespread violations of human rights and of international humanitarian law, there is disagreement on matters on which there can be no difference of opinion! It suffices to compare the attention the Council devoted to the situations in Syria, South Sudan and the Central African Republic, on the one hand, and to the situation in Ukraine, on the other, in any month since these conflicts broke out.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7352 (2014) · source
“I would like to make some brief observations regarding the Council's handling of these situations and others that it addressed in 2013 and 2014. A first lesson learned is that the Council's work falls short when it comes to prevention - preventing situations likely to endanger international peace and security. It seems clear that the Security Council did not foresee, never mind prevent, the outbreak of the crises in the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Iraq and Ukraine, or prevent their escalation or help de-escalate them, while it must be recognized that the Council did closely monitor these crises from a relatively early stage.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7352 (2014) · source
“Blaming the Security Council or the United Nations in general for failing to prevent or solve these and other conflicts would be unfair and naive. The Security Council is by its institutional nature a forum for political consultation among 15 countries, including the major Powers, with different views and interests, which, by one form of legitimacy or another, the international community has entrusted with the maintenance of international peace and security, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations. But this should not lead us to forget that the United Nations and the Security Council were created so as to replace jus ad bellum withjus contra bellum, and, in this regard, the achievements of the Security Council over the past two years have been at best mixed.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7352 (2014) · source
“In Europe itself, the situation in Ukraine - where the indirect consequences of the conflict included the downing of a plane carrying 298 innocent people of 15 nationalities - has exacerbated tensions and differences among the big Powers, which have manifest themselves in the dynamics ofthe Security Council itself, on matters beyond the situation in Ukraine specifically, such as the situations in the Sudan, South Sudan, Afghanistan and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and cross- cutting topics such as sanctions imposed by the Security Council, the protection of civilians in armed conflict, and the upholding and application of international human rights and international humanitarian law.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7352 (2014) · source
“The security situation in Yemen, which was considered the success story of the Arab Spring, is deteriorating, making the collapse of the State along sectarian and tribal lines more likely and providing a haven for Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. The prospect of an independent Palestinian State, living in peace alongside Israel, seems ever more elusive following the 50 days of extreme violence last summer - the deadliest in recent years - and given the inaction of the Security Council.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7352 (2014) · source
“I, like my colleagues, will never forget when, on 21 August 2013, we encountered a situation violating the vow of "never again" - a situation in which an attacker dared to use chemical weapons, in violation of international law. Today the conflict has spilled over into neighbouring countries, including, in particular, Iraq, where the self-proclaimed Islamic State terrorist group controls almost half of the national territory, committing crimes reminiscent of those committed by the Taliban in Afghanistan during its reign of terror. Libya is another country divided between Islamist forces and others allied to the Libyan Parliament and the General Haftar, a division that can be traced back to the fall of Al-Qadhafi in 2011 as a result of the NATO- led operation.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7352 (2014) · source
“A year-and-a-half on from South Sudan's emergence as an independent country in December 2013, the blatant power struggle between President Kiir and his ex-Vice-President Machar plunged the country into a civil war that has already claimed more than 10,000 lives, displaced more than 1 million persons within the country and more than 400,000 into neighbouring countries, and put more than half of the population, primarily women and children, at risk of famine. The conflict in Syria has deteriorated sharply in these years. Today Syria is a divided country where terrorists thrive and where conservative estimates put the death toll at approximately 200,000. Some 9 million Syrians have been forced to leave their homes since the conflict broke out in March 2011. The Syrian people have been the victims of chemical weapon attacks.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7352 (2014) · source
“The gaps appear not only to the broader membership but to the entire world as the unfulfilled promises of an Organization that has established principles and standards but failed to realize their reflection in practice - in a reality that at times seems entirely yet to be built. In March 2013, the fall of the Bozize Government in the Central African Republic, as a result of what were doubtless long-standing causes, led to a conflict claiming more than 5,000 lives and displacing approximately one-quarter of the national population, primarily women and children.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7352 (2014) · source
“The United Nations has sought to see sovereignty in terms of strict respect, and not as though it extended beyond all other norms of international law, human rights and international humanitarian law. On the other hand, the issue of human rights; there would seem to be a conflict between sovereignty and the protection and defence of human rights. I say "conflict" because, with regard to the protection of peace, our thinking has often been in terms of prioitizing one or another of these two principles when the challenge is to find harmony between them, while respecting the Charter of the United Nations and international law. Of course there are gaps. That is why we endeavour to work better together as we move towards the future.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7352 (2014) · source
“As we prepare to leave the Security Council, we are committed to recognizing that we face a world with more conflicts and with the exacerbation ofpre-existing conflicts. We leave a world with greater violence, more violations of human rights, and more people in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, especially women and children. In a world that is more violent than that of January 2013, we believe that one element to note is that on more than one occasion, when we have taken decisions, we have been aware of the tension between two valid principles. On the one hand, we need to take decisions on the understanding that sovereignty cannot be interpreted in the twenty-first century as totally inviolable; that is to say, it cannot be absolutely limitless.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7352 (2014) · source
“Mrs. Perceval (Argentina) (spoke in Spanish): At the outset, allow me to thank you, Sir, for your initiative to convene this wrap-up session, the tenth this year and the fifteenth public format of its kind. We hope that this practice will continue in the future and become an institutionalized practice of the Security Council, with a View towards ensuring greater transparency to the entire United Nations membership. With your permission, Mr. President, since this is the final wrap-up session in which Argentina will participate as a non-permanent member of the Security Council, I should like to briefly review how we believe the entire Council should work in terms of dealing with its agenda. Since Argentina assumed a non-permanent seat in January 2013, we believe that we can draw useful lessons for the future treatment of issues.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7352 (2014) · source
“That horror goes hand in hand with the commitment we must all make to bring to an end all forms of extremism and terrorism that are spawning cruel forms of violence and putting all of us at risk. In situations of risk and weakness, our system must respond not with further militarization but with integrated missions that incorporate the promotion of equality, sustainable human development and the independence of States to determine their own futures in the face of all of these challenges. The existence of such violence extremism and terrorism calls for strengthening the role of regional organizations with full respect for the principles of the Organization we share, the United Nations.”
2014-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7343 (2014) · source
“In conclusion, all Members ofthe Organization- in particular the permanent members of the Council, while theyretainthatstatus-mustassumetheirresponsibilities for maintaining international peace and security, and engage in this debate ensuring that, among other things, any support provided by the United Nations fully comply with the policy of due human rights diligence in the context of United Nations support to security forces outside of the Organization, and the particular responsibility borne by the permanent members of the Security Council for maintaining international peace and security be met effectively. I would like to express Argentina's disgust and our solidarity with the people and the Government of Pakistan.”
2014-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7343 (2014) · source
“It is unacceptable to continue indefinitely postponing such a debate and, at the same time, blurring the lines between the various types of operations on the ground, which seems now to have become a repeated and prevalent occurrence. However, such confusion runs the risk, on the one hand, of abandoning the principles of impartiality and the non-use of force that have always guided the work of the Organization to date, and which must continue to do so, and, on the other hand, of failing to clearly and fairly assign responsibilities to the various stakeholders involved in the maintenance of international peace and security.”
2014-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7343 (2014) · source
“At the same time, we believe there is a need to underscore that the role and responsibilities of the United Nations and the Security Council with regard to those operations led by regional organizations that involve establishing peace have not yet been fully defined, including in terms of financing, which is among the points included in the concept note provided by the presidency (S/2014/879, annex). This is a sensitive discussion, which must take place in both the Council and the General Assembly, and which must encompass not only the operational, logistical and financial dimensions but also, as a priority, the ethical and political ones.”
2014-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7343 (2014) · source
“The establishment of appropriate coordination mechanisms between the United Nations and regional organizations is also necessary. Finally, financing mechanisms that provide sufficient predictability and sustainability should be established. Argentina underscores the need for the three basic principles that continue to characterize United Nations peacekeeping operations - the consent of the parties, impartiality and the non-use of force except for legitimate self-defence or to fulfil the mission mandate - to be strictly respected in the process of outsourcing.”
2014-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7343 (2014) · source
“Relations between the United Nations and regional and subregional organizations must be based, therefore, on established objectives and joint strategies that provide for, as has been said, genuine cooperation. The political, operational and financial conditions must also be established so that regional organizations and agreements can take on their responsibilities for the maintenance of peace and security. That includes the provision of specialized technical assistance by the United Nations in the planning and deployment of regional operations as well as in the application of concepts of operations with a view to strengthening its administrative and command and control structures, improving information and communications technology infrastructure and providing capacity-building where necessary.”
2014-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7343 (2014) · source
“It is a matter of a cooperation that is not thought of as a dispersal of resources, but rather of proper financing, the necessary capabilities and the crucial element of cooperation and complementarity. Furthermore, in our View, it is essential for United Nations mandates and objectives to be implemented with respect for sovereignty, territorial integrity and national unity, and in keeping with the provisions of international humanitarian law, human rights law and refugee law. Likewise, regional organizations have an obligation to keep the Security Council apprised of their activities not only in order to promote due accountability but also because this serves as an early- warning mechanism allowing for corrections to be made during the deployment and implementation of a peacekeeping operation, thereby strengthening that which works.”
2014-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7343 (2014) · source
“But it also means that the Security Council must be capable of listening to what regional organizations are saying, because we have just said that those regional actors have greater knowledge, a specific interest and a relationship of trust that we have to respect and uphold. However, I would like to point that this tendency towards decentralization to regional and subregional organizations cannot be a recourse that is thought of in terms of a lesser responsibility for the Security Council. It is not a delegation of responsibility by the Security Council, but rather a strategy of cooperation, trust and joint leadership. Nor can it be a cheaper solution for peacekeeping operations.”
2014-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7343 (2014) · source
“Those attributes have been recognized as being extremely valuable and positive, and they are comparative advantages of great value. The United Nations, for its part, provides its universal composition and its legitimacy, along with its operational capacity and experience. However, it is necessary to acknowledge that this decentralization tendency is also a consequence of the need to overcome the structural or operational shortcomings of the system of collective security through the use of regional organizations. The Council has the role of authorizing the deployment of different types of field operations and of establishing an operation's mandate and conditions of deployment. That means that the peacekeeping operations led by regional organizations are adapted to the mandates and goals of the United Nations.”
2014-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7343 (2014) · source
“These are undoubtedly examples of the contributions of agreements and organizations that have developed new capabilities to act in the field of international peace and security, as we have seen in various peacekeeping operations in the Economic Community of West African States, the Economic Community of Central African States and the Southern African Development Community. It is true that the contribution of regional organizations complements the work of the United Nations by incorporating knowledge of the specific context, including elements that are important to know, to understand and to take on in resolving the deep-rooted causes of conflicts. Moreover, it is those regional organizations that have a special social and political interest in the situations, such as geographic proximity and the confidence that local actors generate.”
2014-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7343 (2014) · source
“Argentina therefore acknowledges the important contribution of the African Union and of other relevant organizations and regional and subregional arrangements in the maintenance of international peace and security. I note that in our first Security Council presidency, Argentina proposed the issue of the role that we have with regard to regional and subregional organizations to contribute to international peace and security. We focused specifically on the promotion of peace under Chapter VI of the Charter. I think the topic of this debate is a common concern and responsibility. In recent years we have seen how new agreements and subregional organizations are playing a fundamental role in both the prevention of conflict and the establishment and promotion of peace.”
2014-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7343 (2014) · source
“I would also like to thank the Secretary-General for his statement and for presenting his biennial report on cooperation between the United Nations and regional and other organizations, as well as for his recommendations on the means to strengthen that cooperation. We would also like to thank in particular the High Representative of the African Union for Mali and the Sahel, His Excellency Mr. Pierre Buyoya, for his statement. We all know that the Charter of the United Nations encourages the Security Council to use regional agreements in carrying out its primary responsibility to maintain international peace and security. The future of United Nations field operations is inextricably linked to the process of regionalization of peacekeeping operations.”
2014-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7343 (2014) · source
“Mrs. Perceval (Argentina) (spoke in Spanish): I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting on a topic to which Argentina attaches great importance, that is, the partnership between the United Nations and regional organizations in the maintenance of international peace and security. Your presence and participation here today, Mr. Minister, shows how relevant and how substantive this debate is. I would also like to acknowledge the enormous work and the quality of the work done by your delegation at the United Nations and as a non-permanent member of the Security Council, under the leadership of Ambassador Cherif.”
2014-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7343 (2014) · source
“Fatou Bensouda, a brave daughter of Africa and of humankind: continue to be what you are - tireless - and comply with what all of us ask, namely, impartiality, by which I meanjustice, for the sake of memory, which is not passive or individual, but collective, as well as for the sake of truth, which is what allows us to know what is happening from the voices of the oppressed, raped and silenced. In a word, for the sake of justice, which means bringing injustice to light. Justice is not a messianic force, it is not revenge, it is not retaliation and it is not lynching. It means "never again". And do so for the sake of reparation to victims, which does not just mean giving them money and improving their health as survivors; it means emancipating victims as human beings and understanding that life - a dignified life - is the right of all.”
2014-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7337 (2014) · source