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“The United States continues to support the goals of the peacebuilding architecture in service of the important objectives of ensuring that we not only respond to symptoms, but also address root causes; ensure that we are not only responding to war, but that we help to actually build peace; and ensure that the United Nations system is well-positioned to strategically and effectively address the needs of countries and regions, notjust while civilians are under attack, but in the days, months and years after a conflict has ended. While we continue to support those goals, we also believe that, fundamentally, the peacebuilding architecture has not lived up to its mandate or fully fulfilled the role that it was created to perform. We have diagnosed the problem many times in many different forums.”
2016-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7629 (2016) · source
“I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this open debate on peacebuilding. I would also like to thank Ambassadors Kamau, Skoog and Rosenthal for their briefings and for their important work to assist the world's most fragile countries in building sustainable peace. This meeting is especially important in the light of the ongoing review of the United Nations peacekeeping architecture * an architecture that Member States developed over a decade ago. Three of the most crucial tenets at that time remain the core of our efforts today, namely, sustaining international attention to countries emerging from conflict, developing more effective strategies to build peace and continuing to mobilize the necessary resources to prevent a relapse into violent conflict.”
2016-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7629 (2016) · source
“We therefore call once again upon Eritrea to respond to Monitoring Group requests for information and permit the group to travel to Eritrea.”
2016-02-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7626 (2016) · source
“We urge the Monitoring Group to investigate such allegations, including claims that cluster munitions were deployed in violation of international law, and report back to the Committee as soon as possible. Finally, with regard to the situation in Eritrea, unfortunately little has changed and, frankly, it needs to. The Government's refusal to engage constructively with the Monitoring Group and the Sanctions Committee must change before anyone can take Eritrean calls for the sanctions to be lifted seriously. Obstructing the ability of the Group to fulfil its mandate, combined with further reports of Eritrean non-compliance with the sanctions, is simply at odds with the stated desire of Eritrean officials for the sanctions to be lifted.”
2016-02-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7626 (2016) · source
“As we fight terrorism and corruption, we must redouble our efforts to ensure that Somalis are not victimized, especially by those working to help secure their country. We are deeply disturbed by allegations that international forces bombed and launched ground attacks on civilian areas on 15 January in Gedo and in Middle Juba. We understand that this happened in the wake of an Al-Shabaab attack on the Kenyan Defence Forces of the African Union Mission in Somalia at the El Adde forward operating base. The point of fighting terrorists is to keep people safe. When the actions of those fighting terrorists potentially endangers rather than protects civilians, it merits serious scrutiny.”
2016-02-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7626 (2016) · source
“It can help translate our intentions and commitments in the Council into more real and meaningful changes on the ground. Even as we tackle the challenges posed by terrorist groups such as Al-Shabaab and the illicit trafficking of natural resources that finance them, the Security Council must also keep a close eye on another scourge that threatens Somalia - corruption. The mismanagement of public funds in Somalia will undercut any security gains made in the country. We therefore believe that the Federal Government of Somalia must redouble its efforts to ensure financial transparency, particularly with respect to the signing of contracts related to natural resources. We encourage the Monitoring Group to continue to focus on such issues and make appropriate recommendations to improve public financial management in Somalia.”
2016-02-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7626 (2016) · source
“We encourage the Committee and the Council to look broadly at how to prevent the diversion of Somalia's natural wealth to terrorists, corrupt officials and others who would undermine peace. Related to that, we commend the commitment of the Combined Maritime Forces to helping track illicit exports. The Committee should do more to ensure that information from the Combined Maritime Forces about illicit smuggling trends is publicly shared and brought to the attention of relevant States. We would also like to encourage the Combined Maritime Forces to work closely with the Monitoring Group to update the Committee in real time, if possible, on charcoal shipments being tracked from Somalia. Such timely intervention can lead to swift action to interdict.”
2016-02-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7626 (2016) · source
“The Committee should continue to engage directly with countries that may be receiving such charcoal, and Member States should remain vigilant and cooperative and actively share information, including information on vessels carrying charcoal, shipping documents, data on importers and anything else that can help in order to robustly and better enforce the ban. By imposing the charcoal ban, the Security Council came together to take firm, effective action to break the linkage between natural-resource trafficking and threats to stability in Somalia. Where we encounter this nexus, the Security Council should act. We should not shy away from addressing drivers of conflict in Somalia or elsewhere.”
2016-02-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7626 (2016) · source
“However, the Government of Somalia must do its part by accurately reporting on the composition and disposition of its security forces. Without that reporting, we lack the most basic information to judge whether arms or related materiel supplied to strengthen Somalia's security sector will be safeguarded from diversion. Al-Shabaab still constitutes a serious threat to Somalia's peace and we remain committed to ensuring that this terrorist group is defeated. Cutting off Al-Shabaab's sources of financial support is central to that effort and a key to bringing about stability in Somalia. The Committee, with the support of the Monitoring Group, should continue to expose and crack down on the illicit charcoal trade.”
2016-02-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7626 (2016) · source
“We would like to thank the Somalia and Eritrea Monitoring Group for its efforts to oversee the implementation of these important sanctions and to keep the Council and the Sanctions Committee informed on a range of issues, including countering Al-Shabaab, piracy, corruption and violations of human rights. These sanctions have limited the illict flow of charcoal, depriving the terrorist group Al-Shabaab of revenue, and the Committee, with the support of the Monitoring Group, has helped us understand and maintain focus on the corruption that undermines efforts to build strong institutions in Somalia. Peace will neither emerge nor be sustainable in Somalia until Somalis create a professional security sector, and we are commited to doing everything we can to facilitate security assistance to achieve that goal.”
2016-02-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7626 (2016) · source
“I thank you, Sir, for your briefing and chairmanship of the Committee pursuant to resolutions 751 (1992) and 1907 (2009) concerning Somalia and Eritrea. It is abundantly clear that the Council needs to remain diligent and focused on supporting Somali efforts to advance a stable, prosperous future with fair and transparent governance, establishing a Government that is accountable to the people and has the capacity to ensure that the country's natural resources are harnessed for the benefit of all Somalis, and not misappropriated by thieves or used to fund terror.”
2016-02-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7626 (2016) · source
“We must see the truth that is concealed by arguments that seek to distort and manipulate the purposes and principles of the Charter in an attempt to prevent the United Nations and the Council from tackling the global challenges that it was meant to confront. Those who had the foresight to create the United Nations would demand nothing less, as do the citizens of the world who bear the consequences when we fail to live up to that moral ambition.”
2016-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7621 (2016) · source
“That diplomatic breakthrough would not have been possible had the Council had not taken strong and decisive action to address Iran's nuclear activity. I want to conclude with another prescient remark that President Truman made in his address to delegates in San Francisco. He noted that "Nations, like individuals, must know the truth if they would be free - must read and hear the truth, learn and teach the truth." We in the Security Council, guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, should take that lesson to heart. When we see Governments whose actions contribute to global instability, or we observe new threats to international peace and security, we, as Council members, must speak the truth.”
2016-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7621 (2016) · source
“Yet we have also seen the value that comes from the Council acting to impose sanctions, create tribunals and deploy peacekeeping missions. Beginning in 2006, the Council responded to increasing concerns about Iran's nuclear programme by adopting a robust sanctions regime. The willingness of Member States to work together to carry out their obligation to implement and to enforce those resolutions created an opportunity to bring them around to the negotiating table to address the international community's concerns. Those efforts resulted in the conclusion of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the provisions of which, through full and complete implementation, will continue to ensure that Iran does not develop a nuclear weapon.”
2016-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7621 (2016) · source
“Indeed, we must continue to update our understanding of threats to keep pace with the world around us, and we have made important strides in doing so, from addressing public health crises like Ebola to countering the movement of foreign terrorist fighters to new entities like the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. The Security Council must be prepared to recognize these kinds ofnew threats, and when the Security Council determines the existence of a threat to international peace and security, we must use the tools at our disposal to act decisively. At times, the Council has appropriately relied upon swift mediation, under the good offices of the Secretary-General, or upon cooperation with regional organizations, consistent with Chapter VIII, to forestall conflicts.”
2016-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7621 (2016) · source
“These Governments all too often argue that the Charter exempts them from criticism and that we must blind ourselves to internal oppression, even where systematic repression can be directly connected to broader regional and international security. To do so would ignore the lessons that led us to adopt the Charter of the United Nations in the first place. While we must be guided by the principle of the sovereign equality of States enshrined in the Charter, we cannot let ourselves become so afraid of encroaching on State prerogatives as to prevent us from acting to respond to the world's real and emerging threats, even if they look different than the threats the founders of the Organization confronted 70 years ago.”
2016-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7621 (2016) · source
“We cannot and should not wait to speak out until Governments escalate to the point of slaughtering their own people, as we saw in Rwanda, or to the point that a regime employs medieval siege tactics to starve its own people, as we see today in Syria. Borders cannot blind us to our responsibilities as a Council, or as people with conscience. We must respect sovereignty, but so too must we recognize the relationship among democratic processes, freedom, civil society, systematic violations of human rights and threats to international peace and security. Many of the items on the Council's agenda began when Governments started to denigrate the dignity of and erode the enjoyment of rights for their people.”
2016-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7621 (2016) · source
“Too many Governments are passing legislation and taking administrative actions designed to keep people scared and silent, and to keep them from speaking out against abuses of power or from undertaking any political activity whatsoever, including by keeping leaders of the peaceful political opposition imprisoned for exercising fundamental freedoms. They inundate civil society organizations with frivolous prosecutions and try to block what little funding exists to sustain these groups. They accuse human rights defenders and civil society organizations and those who support them of carrying out nefarious foreign agendas or even committing treason. When regimes crack down on the enjoyment of fundamental freedoms, these steps can be an indicator, and too often a harbinger, of worse violations to come.”
2016-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7621 (2016) · source
“It is by supporting strong democratic institutions that we help prevent the horrors of genocide or the emergence of ungoverned spaces where terrorist organizations may thrive. The pursuit of these values is not in tension with the purposes and principles of the United Nations; it is precisely these values that animate the United Nations. Despite these purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter, in the real world we are witnessing the opposite trend - a sustained and seemingly contagious effort to silence, crack down and shut down space for civil society around the world, rather than embracing the idea that empowered citizens can work together to make sure the Governments work for people.”
2016-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7621 (2016) · source
“The very first Article, Article 1, of the Charter of the United Nations, makes clear that the central purpose of the United Nations is "promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all". In this clause, those drafting the Charter recognized that repressive Governments that seek to choke off freedom of expression, stifle the media and prevent citizens from determining their own political future undermine an international system based on peaceful cooperation among the world's peoples. Governments in which people can hold their leaders accountable through elections and an active civil society and Governments in which an independent judiciary can serve as a check on executive authority are Governments that can help prevent, rather than create threats to international peace and security.”
2016-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7621 (2016) · source
“Take North Korea, for example, where the Government imprisons and tortures citizens for the so-called crime of owning foreign films, and where 80,000 to 120,000 political prisoners are starved and beaten to death in detention camps. Just as North Korea treats its citizens with disdain, the regime also flouts the resolutions of the Security Council on its nuclear and ballistic missile activities while threatening its neighbours with annihilation. In Syria, the Al-Assad regime's brutal response to peaceful political protest has devolved into horrific attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure, forced displacement and starvation. The Syrian Government's inability and unwillingness to protect its citizens - indeed, its predilection to do the opposite - has given armed extremist groups the space to operate with impunity.”
2016-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7621 (2016) · source
“That means demanding that Russia end its illegal occupation of Crimea and cease support for separatists intent on seizing even more of Ukraine, in clear violation of the Charter of the United Nations. It also means recognizing that, in carrying out our responsibility to maintain international peace and security, that responsibility includes promoting respect for human rights and those institutions necessary to safeguard freedom. As we have seen on far too many occasions, widespread human rights violations and abuses can themselves pose a threat to international peace and security, and regimes that flagrantly violate the universally recognized human rights of their own people often show similar contempt for the universal principles that help maintain our shared security.”
2016-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7621 (2016) · source
“Sovereignty is an important aspect of States, of course, but as the Secretary-General has emphasized today and as he has said in the past, "the less sovereignty is viewed as a wall or a shield, the better our prospects will be for protecting people and solving our shared problems". It is the United Nations Charter that leads us to recognize the nexus between human rights and the maintenance of international peace and security. It is the United Nations Charter that leads us to act decisively using all of the tools at our disposal to respond to threats to international peace and security, and it is the United Nations Charter that calls on us to ensure that the Council keeps pace with emerging threats. We must recommit to, not retreat from, those principles today.”
2016-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7621 (2016) · source
“And yet, we have not fully transformed our faith into a world without tyranny, a world without strife and a world without poverty the responsibility that our predecessors in San Francisco passed to us. Some seem to suggest that the solution is one of retrenchment in which we would all play a more hands- off role in responding to drivers of conflict, and in which we dismiss respect for the dignity and human rights of individuals as a matter of purely domestic concern. The purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, however, impel us to do the opposite. Animating the United Nations Charter is a concern for the dignity of every person, regardless of nationality. Respect for political independence and sovereignty cannot mean turning a blind eye to oppression, intimidation and abuse.”
2016-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7621 (2016) · source
“In 1945, at the conclusion of the United Nations Conference in San Francisco, United States President Harry Truman reflected on the just-completed Charter of the United Nations and called it "a declaration of great faith by the nations on this Earth 4 faith that war is not inevitable, faith that peace can be maintained". It was a feat unparalleled in history for the representatives of 50 nations to be able to come together after the world's most devastating conflict and imagine a new international order rooted in peaceful cooperation and respect for human rights. In the 70 years that followed, we have worked to uphold this declaration of faith, welcoming 143 new Member States into the United Nations, avoiding a third world war and expanding the promise of freedom and democracy to millions.”
2016-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7621 (2016) · source
“This point should not be controversial, given that individuals and entities that facilitate violations are obviously working to thwart the will of the Council. Yet sanctions committees frequently shy away from effective responses to Violations. In some cases, sanctions committees have been unable to agree to take any action even when confronted with unambiguous evidence of wrongdoing. Such inaction undermines the international rule of law, not to mention the Council's credibility. As stated at the outset, we welcome further discussion on how to enhance the work of sanctions committees. We particularly welcome any opportunity for the Council and its subsidiary bodies to elevate attention to sanctions and eliminate excuses for non-compliance.”
2016-02-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7620 (2016) · source
“When procedural steps are taken to block the normal public release of these reports, our interests and transparency are frustrated. Just yesterday, when we adopted resolution 2265 (2016), on the Sudan Panel of Experts, the resolution had no new elements informed by the compelling data presented by the Panel because the Panel's report had been blocked from publication, ensuring that Member States could not benefit from the Panel's findings and judge its reporting on its merits. We should not create panels of experts and give them a mandate to find facts, only to block their findings from being published when the facts are inconvenient. My third point is that the United States believes that sanctions committees must significantly improve their ability to respond to wilful violations of Security Council resolutions.”
2016-02-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7620 (2016) · source
“Secondly, we agree strongly with our Council colleagues who insist on greater transparency in the work of the committees. Too often, the committees are opaque to the outside world. We need concrete ways to improve transparency, such as through more open briefings, the release of written background materials, more travel by committee chairs to affected regions, and further dialogue between communities and affected States on implementation challenges. In this vein, I would note again that United Nations sanctions expert panels, which report to the committees, play a key role in promoting this transparency. Their analysis and findings help the international community to understand the role of sanctions and how they must be implemented.”
2016-02-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7620 (2016) · source
“In the light of the contribution of sanctions to the Council's work, I should like to make three brief points about sanctions committees. First, the sanctions committees should do more to ensure that their work is integrated with other United Nations tools. For example, we support regular meetings to assess the role of sanctions in the Security Council's overall political strategy towards a targeted country or region. Such discussions should occur on a rolling basis, perhaps joined by relevant Special Representatives of the Secretary-General, to ensure that the sanctions are calibrated to evolving and changing situations on the ground. To better integrate this work, committee chairs and Special Representatives should have regular dialogue to ensure that their work is mutually reinforcing.”
2016-02-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7620 (2016) · source
“Sanctions have proven to be a tool that when used properly allows bodies such as this one to advance our shared interests in the protection of human rights, territorial integrity, justice and other values central to the Charter of the United Nations. I note the representative of the Russian Federation's characterization of the United States role as penholder for the Sudan sanctions regime. Let us be clear. When a member of the Security Council blocks the publication of a Panel of Experts' report, they are not acting in the interest of progress; they are frustrating it. It is the opposite of transparency. Those who frustrate the functioning of our sanctions regimes, whether in South Sudan, Darfur or Yemen, are usually zealously guarding prerogratives other than the values that animate the Charter of the United Nations.”
2016-02-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7620 (2016) · source
“Under this deal, which will ensure that Iran's nuclear programme is and will remain exclusively peaceful, we agreed to lift nuclear-related sanctions on Iran, in exchange for the verified completion of a series of steps to roll back its nuclear programme. As demonstrated in this case, sanctions are not intended to be permanent. Cooperation and dialogue can pave the way for the lifting of sanctions. Sanctions, when imposed judiciously and in concert with comprehensive strategies, can produce diplomatic breakthroughs. We have seen that, including in countries we will hear from today. Of course, sanctions cannot be and never are an end in and of themselves. They must targeted, deployed with purpose, and grounded with a clear strategy for promoting international peace and security.”
2016-02-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7620 (2016) · source
“Targeted sanctions have also helped to address crises in South Sudan and the Central African Republic, marginalizing spoilers and helping address violations of international humanitarian law. Sanctions can be one of the most effective tools we have to prevent greater violence or change the calculus of countries that Violate serious rules of international law, such as those that seek to develop nuclear weapons in Violation of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, those that threaten to commit genocide, those that abuse human rights or provide support to terrorists. Most recently, robust enforced United Nations sanctions helped resolve international concerns over Iran's nuclear programme, leading to a historic deal between the five plus one group and Iran - the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.”
2016-02-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7620 (2016) · source
“Today, the Committee established pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) concerning Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Da'esh), Al-Qaida and associated individuals, groups, undertakings and entities is helping to choke off the sources of funding for the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant and is working to mitigate the global threat posed by foreign terrorist fighters. The Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1718 (2006) on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is working to prevent the flow of sensitive nuclear and ballistic missile technology to North Korea, to cut off financial relationships and transactions that the fund the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's prohibited activities and to freeze the assets of those involved in violating sanctions.”
2016-02-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7620 (2016) · source
“These are flexible tools. In the case of Liberia, the Council imposed measures at the height of violence instigated by Charles Taylor that cost thousands of lives. Then, as a democratic transition occurred, the Council crafted the sanctions anew to target human rights violators and those who continued to threaten the peace, security and stability of the country. Over time, the Council adjusted these measures to accompany and encourage progress and stabilization and support good governance of natural resources. In turn, this spring, the Council is poised to terminate this sanctions regime - a true testament to how far Liberia has come.”
2016-02-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7620 (2016) · source
“I would like to begin by thanking the representatives of Chile and Sweden for their statements. "Oh, there is no doubt." Those are the words of the late Nelson Mandela on the eve of black majority rule in South Africa, describing the role that international sanctions played in ending apartheid. Indeed, there is no doubt that sanctions have also advanced the Security Council's goals on a range ofissues, including the prevention of conflict, protection of human rights, protection of civilians, nuclear non-proliferation and even responsible utilization of natural resources. In Western Africa, the timely application of United Nations sanctions, including asset freezes, travel bans, arms embargoes and natural resource trade bans, helped bring peace to Sierra Leone, Liberia and Cote d'Ivoire over a period of almost two decades.”
2016-02-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7620 (2016) · source
“It is unfortunate that the remarks of a member of the Council have attempted to politicize this consensus adoption. We urge all Council members to engage on Cyprus free of ulterior political motives driven by external factors, and in the best interest of the Cypriot people. The meeting rose at10.20 am.”
2016-01-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7613 (2016) · source
“The United States fully supports the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus. We commend both Cypriot leaders for their determination to make substantial progress towards a comprehensive settlement to end the long-standing division of the island and reunify Cyprus as a bizonal, bicommunal federation. As the Secretary of State of the United States, Secretary Kerry, recently said at the World Economic Forum, we are committed to supporting "the best chance in decades to achieve a Cyprus settlement". The United States is optimistic that a settlement agreement can be achieved, but we know that this will require the continued persistence of the two leaders, as well as support from the international community, including the Security Council.”
2016-01-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7613 (2016) · source
“"The Security Council, including through its Working Group, remains committed to further discussions to enhance triangular consultations, particularly its partnership with troop- and police-contributing countries, and to take forward the undertakings of this presidential statement. Recalling its resolution 1353 (2001) and related presidential statements, the Security Council expresses its readiness to further develop the process of informal consultation sessions with troop- and police-contributing countries on an ongoing basis and in advance of mandate renewals and urges troop- and police-contributing countries to provide their views on this issue by 31 March 2016, including through its Working Group." This statement will be issued as a document of the Security Council under the symbol S/PRST/2015/26.”
2015-12-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7599 (2015) · source
“The Security Council also notes the importance of the issues of capabilities and performance requirements for triangular consultations, through a thorough common understanding of the tasks to be performed by missions and in that regard calls on the Secretariat to assist troop- and police-contributing countries by clarifying these requirements and welcomes ongoing support by Member States to troop- and police-contributing countries in meeting these requirements. The Security Council encourages troop- and police-contributing countries to communicate during negotiations in respect of possible deployment, national caveats regarding the use of military or police contingents and emphasizes that these caveats will be taken into account in the decision-making process when selecting forces, including whether to proceed with deployment.”
2015-12-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7599 (2015) · source
“"The Security Council takes note ofthe intention of the Secretary-General to provide briefings to the Security Council on conduct, discipline and performance issues that undermine implementation of the mandate, including failure of troop- and police-contributing countries to implement the mandated tasks and on implementation of protection of civilians' mandates and allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse as well as the Secretary- General's intention to inform the Security Council appropriately and notes the importance of these issues for triangular consultations.”
2015-12-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7599 (2015) · source
“The Security Council calls on the Secretary-General to ensure that heads of mission, force commanders and police commissioners engage early with senior civilian and military staff of the mission on changes to a mandate in advance of the issuance of a new concept of operations and directives, to ensure unity of understanding of mandate changes and better mandate implementation across the mission and to ensure that operational commanders' views are considered during the process.”
2015-12-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7599 (2015) · source
“The Security Council strongly encouragesthe Secretariat to consult with troop- and police-contributing countries in a timely manner when planning any change in military tasks, mission-specific rules of engagement, concepts of operations or command- and-control structure or early peacebuilding that would have an impact on the personnel, equipment, training and logistics requirements, so as to enable troop- and police-contributing countries to contribute their advice during the planning process and to ensure that their personnel have the capacity to meet the new demands.”
2015-12-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7599 (2015) · source
“"The Security Council recognizes that the success of peacekeeping operations will increasingly require strong collaboration between the United Nations and regional and subregional organizations from the outset and in this regard encourages the Secretariat, and expresses its readiness, as appropriate, to consult with relevant regional organizations, particularly the African Union, especially if transitioning from a regional to a United Nations peacekeeping operation.”
2015-12-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7599 (2015) · source
“The Security Council welcomes in this regard the establishment of the Strategic Force Generation and Capability Planning Cell. The Security Council requests the Secretariat to regularly brief troop- and police-contributing countries, together with the Security Council, and seek their views, including of their uniformed personnel deployed on the ground, in assessing progress once the mandate of a peace operation is established.”
2015-12-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7599 (2015) · source
“"The Security Council invites the Secretariat to brief potential troop- and police-contributing countries, as needed, together with Security Council members, on its assessment of a conflict and potential mandate options before an operation is authorized, with aview to allowing the consideration of capabilities required and giving the Council an opportunity to obtain insights on the challenges and opportunities involved in mandating certain tasks and in generating the required capabilities under specific time frames. The Security Council also invites the Secretariat to regularly brief troop- and police-contributing countries, through existing mechanisms when appropriate, and emphasizes the importance of a full exchange of views on the operational challenges being faced by troop- and police-contributing countries.”
2015-12-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7599 (2015) · source
“The Security Council emphasizes the importance of holding inclusive and meaningful consultations on a regular basis with the Secretariat and troop- and police-contributing countries at senior levels, including with specialized personnel, experts and high-level military officials, as needed, the aim of which should be to ensure a shared understanding among the Secretariat and potential contributors on required capabilities, resulting in commitments to deliver on the mandate and concept of operations.”
2015-12-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7599 (2015) · source
“The Security Council welcomes developments in the informal approach to consultations between the three stakeholders, as reflected in the report on the activities of its Working Group on Peacekeeping Operations for the period 1 January to 31 December 2015. The Security Council strongly encourages its members to continue to hold and further develop such informal, interactive and focused consultations with the Secretariat and troop- and police-contributing countries. "The Security Council underscores that sustained consultations with potential troop- and police-contributing countries prior to the establishment and during the lifecycle of a mission are important for a shared understanding of the mandates and a common commitment to their implementation,recognizingthat such consultations should not delay the establishment of a mission.”
2015-12-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7599 (2015) · source
“The Security Council views consultations with troop- and police-contributing countries as an opportunity to set expectations for the required capabilities, performance standards and timelines, as well as to understand the limitations of troop- and police-contributing countries. Recalling operative paragraph 7 of resolution 2242 (2015), the Security Council underlines that such briefings must include the appropriate information in order to ensure that a gender perspective is taken into account in the planning of new missions and the review of existing ones. "The Security Council encourages the Secretariat to further provide to relevant troop- and police-contributing countries, information, as appropriate and in a timely manner, in particular related to critical security incidents within missions.”
2015-12-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7599 (2015) · source
“"The Security Council recalls its presidential statement of 31 January 2001 (S/PRST/2001/3), by which it established its Working Group to, where appropriate, seek the views of troop- and police-contributing countries, including through meetings between the Working Group and troop- and police-contributing countries, with their views being taken into account by the Security Council. The Security Council stresses the usefulness of full and comprehensive briefings by the Secretariat at private meetings and the importance of full participation by all those involved, including troop- and police-contributing countries taking the initiative to call for meaningful exchanges of information.”
2015-12-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7599 (2015) · source
“The Security Council stresses the importance of substantive, representative and meaningful exchanges and underscores the importance of full participation by the three stakeholders, so that meetings are useful and productive. The Security Council acknowledges the importance of effective consultations among the Security Council, troop- and police-contributing countries and the Secretariat, and that these consultations must extend beyond the issue of mandates of operations and to areas such as safety and security ofpeacekeepers, strategic force generation, gender, conduct and discipline, including allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse, implementation of protection of civilian mandates, capability, performance, equipment and national caveats.”
2015-12-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7599 (2015) · source