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Pereira Sotomayor

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2019-05-23
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2019-05-23
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  1. “The lack of accountability continues to victimize civilians, destroys the credibility of the international community's ability to act and foments disregard for the law. In that regard, we agree with the Secretary-General's view that it is urgent to adopt more effective, robust, systematic, universal and coherent approaches to ensure accountability for the commission of those serious crimes and respond to the need to provide reparations for serious violations.”

    2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source

  2. “Faced with that desolate humanitarian scenario, Ecuador wishes to acknowledge the excellent work of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on the international protection of refugees worldwide and highlight the humanitarian operations organized and carried out on behalf of 71.4 million refugees, asylum-seekers, displaced persons and stateless persons. We also acknowledge and reiterate our support for the extraordinary work of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East in providing assistance to a total of 6.02 million Palestinian refugees, according to figures in its report of 1 January 2018. Allow me to conclude by pointing out that crimes against civilians should not go unpunished, regardless of who commits them, where they are committed and when they occur.”

    2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source

  3. “With that experiment, we recognize the importance of finding political solutions to conflicts, the lack of which makes it difficult to realize opportunities for the safe and sustainable return of millions of internal refugees. My country believes that the global compact on refugees, adopted by the General Assembly in resolution 73/151 last year, offers an innovative and practical model for promoting solidarity and responsibility-sharing as a guarantee of the right to return. In that regard, it is an inevitable obligation to cite the situation of the Palestinian people and their seven decades of waiting.”

    2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source

  4. “The communique recognizes the need to prioritize the prevention of the use of explosive weapons in populated areas and supports the preparation of an international political declaration that would enable and promote the best protection of civilians, mainly women, children, the elderly and persons with disabilities, in armed conflicts by preventing the use of long-range explosive weapons in populated areas. Ecuador's migration policy takes a human rights approach and our legislation recognizes the same rights for refugees as for Ecuadorian citizens, with a View to allowing people in that condition to exit the welfare system and become agents of development for the benefit of the society that welcomes them.”

    2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source

  5. “The humanitarian impact of the use of explosive weapons on civilian populations cannot be overlooked; that is why we saw the Santiago communique - adopted at the Latin American and Caribbean Regional Meeting on Protecting Civilians from the Use of Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas, organized by the Government of Chile - as a valuable contribution. As those present have already heard, some countries, including Ecuador, endorsed the communique.”

    2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source

  6. “Nonetheless, as the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations has emphasized, the primary responsibility for the protection of civilians rests with host Governments, which is why close cooperation and consultation with national authorities and field missions are important. Ecuador also reiterates its deep concern that civilians are targeted by and subjected to indiscriminate attacks, violations and damage to or the unlawful destruction of civilian infrastructure, hospitals, schools, property and livelihoods of the population, and that those attacks are increasingly taking place in urban areas.”

    2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source

  7. “We have had international humanitarian law rules for more than half a century, but it is civilians who are affected by forced displacement, limitations of humanitarian assistance, attacks against medical and humanitarian personnel and sexual and gender-based violence. In that regard, we appreciate the Security Council's decision to include and prioritize the protection of civilians in the mandates of peacekeeping operations, as in the case of nine missions. It is essential, however, that they respond to a realistic assessment of the situation on the ground and be allocated sufficient resources to ensure their effective implementation and support activities aimed at resolving conflicts by peaceful means.”

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  8. “We regret that, even though that item has been on the Council's agenda since 1999, the situation of immeasurable human and social destruction has not changed, and, even worse, that the suffering and tragedy of civilians persist. Ecuador believes that the protection of civilians must be a rational, unwavering and firm commitment of the community of States and that the obligations based on the Geneva Conventions are permanent. My country attaches the greatest importance to the protection of civilians in armed conflicts. It considers it inhumane that the main victims continue to be civilians, particularly women, children, persons with disabilities, internally displaced persons and refugees.”

    2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source

  9. “Ms. Pereira Sotomayor (Ecuador) (spoke in Spanish): We thank the Republic of Indonesia for convening this important debate. The protection of civilians in armed conflict must remain an overarching objective of the Security Council, along with the political will of the United Nations to implement international humanitarian law and human rights law. My delegation thanks the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Executive Director ofthe Center for Civilians in Conflict for their briefings, as well as Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for his report (S/2019/373), updated in May, which highlights the wide range of effects from which civilian populations continue to suffer.”

    2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source