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first: 2014-10-24
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“We welcome Foreign Ministers Thaci and Dacie back to the Security Council. I commend both their countries on their continued dedication to the normalization of relations through the European-led dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia. We believe that progress is indeed being made, even if the tone of parts of today's discussion did not evince it. Let us be clear. The hands extended by Serbia and Kosovo for reconciliation must be firmly grasped. The kind of nationalistic rhetoric we have heard in the Council today needs to end. It is wholly counterproductive. To that end, the United States agrees with other colleagues who, While recognizing that the situation in Kosovo remains an important matter for the Councils' attention, believe that the three-month reporting cycle has long outlived its usefulness.”
2015-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7510 (2015) · source
“The participation of women in post-conflict security services is crucial to creating structures that are representative, trusted, legitimate and able to meet the security needs of all. Our collective investment in helping strengthen security sectors is an investment in creating reliable partners to not just build safe and stable societies at home, but also to play an active role in defeating transnational threats everywhere. It is an investment in protecting conflict, and it is an investment in peace and stability.”
2015-08-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7508 (2015) · source
“We can and should strengthen the role of United Nations policing in our peacekeeping missions by providing more institutionalized training and equipment for foreign police units and individual police advisers, and, importantly, increasing women's participation in security forces. We have seen in Darfur, with the all- female formed police unit, that increasing the number of women in policing roles advances security and helps build trust and confidence in security forces. The entire community shouldbebroughtinto security sector reform initiatives, rather than marginalized by them. We welcome Special Representative of the Secretary-General Bangura's engagement in working with Governments to make their institutions more effective and accountable.”
2015-08-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7508 (2015) · source
“While it is our collective hope that the Government of South Sudan will sign the peace agreement that is on the table, it is also our collective responsibility to act if it does not. There is no other choice. Maintaining the status quo is only a recipe for more rape, more murder, more hunger and more devastation. It is time for us to move forward together to make the choices confronting the parties unambiguously clear and to render equally apparent our commitment to holding those who reject peace and choose the path of war accountable. Police have a growing role in peace operations, developing host-Government institutions capable of taking over law-enforcement capabilities and often providing critical civilian protection functions.”
2015-08-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7508 (2015) · source
“A new country, once a source of great hope, has become a painful and horrifying humanitarian catastrophe. Crimes that shock the conscience are being perpetrated against the people of South Sudan and they are being perpetrated with impunity. It is time for leaders to act to end the carnage. The region and the friends of South Sudan are united. The choice confronting the Government is plain, and it is incumbent upon us to make the consequences of failing to choose the path of peace equally clear. We must do so in support of the region, in support of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, in support of the people of South Sudan, and in support of peace. War has ravaged South Sudan. It has vanquished hope; it has set back a generation; it must, and it can end.”
2015-08-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7508 (2015) · source
“When the memory of conflict begins to fade, and host Governments are confronting the hardest and most difficult challenges, that is when we have a particular responsibility to support, encourage and press for completion of security sector initiatives. We welcome the idea described by Assistant Secretary-General Titov of a security sector reform compact between the United Nations and host Governments. When a Government's focus on completing reforms wanes, we have a responsibility to use the Security Council and the good offices of the Secretary-General to remind national leaders of their part in such a compact. There are few places where the relapse into conflict represents a more pressing issue than in South Sudan. We have seen the devastation that war has wrought on the country's security sector and, indeed, on every other sector.”
2015-08-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7508 (2015) · source
“While the Government was making progress, having implemented some 70 per cent of the plan within a year, its programmes were both financially costly and politically difficult. They fell by the wayside. Instead of pursuing the integration that was needed, the Government held on to its resources, never fully integrated the police and the army, and allowed the process to get caught in political patronage and internal bureaucratic wrangling, all of which contributed to the violence that surged up again in 2012. Sustaining the reform of security institutions is critical not only to making people safe but also to preventing relapses into war. National ownership of security sector reform is essential, but it should not mean that the international community in general, or the Security Council in particular, should be passive as time goes on.”
2015-08-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7508 (2015) · source
“In Liberia, efforts have led to an increase in the number of women working in the security sector, a strong focus on community policing and increased training on human rights and gender issues. Sierra Leone has taken a holistic approach to security sector reform that has included disarmament, demobilization and reintegration, the establishment of a special court and the reform of security institutions. But we have also seen, for example in the recent history of the Central African Republic, that when attention fades, progress may too. The Government of the Central African Republic launched a vigorous security sector reform campaign in 2008, starting with an international security sector reform assessment of the country's needs and the establishment of a timeline for achieving its security sector goals.”
2015-08-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7508 (2015) · source
“As the Security Council reaffirmed in April 2014 when we adopted the first ever resolution focused solely on security sector reform (resolution 2151 (2014)), such reform is an essential aspect of prevention, and focusing on preventing conflict or relapses into it is something that we must all do more of and become better at doing. Security sector reform helps build accountable, effective and efficient institutions and provides a foundation for resilience in fragile States. It also provides a foundation for the rule of law and respect for human rights. Resolution 2151 (2014) rightly emphasized national ownership; indeed, some of the Security Council's most complex missions, such as in Kosovo and Timor-Leste, have succeeded because of the national authorities' commitment to achieving reforms in partnership with the international community.”
2015-08-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7508 (2015) · source
“I would like to thank you, Madam President, for organizing this important meeting and for your personal leadership and leadership of the Nigerian delegation on the issue of advancing security sector reform. It is critical and appropriate that the Security Council emphasize the role of security sector reform in making local institutions more effective and accountable and fostering both a sense of and actual safety and security. I would also like to thank Assistant Secretary-Generals Titov and Nakamitsu and Special Representative Bangura for their briefings.”
2015-08-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7508 (2015) · source
“But just as the Security Council needs to remain involved when political processes are being carried out by regional actors, so too does the Security Council need to retain accountability and oversight when it authorizes regional or subregional organizations to undertake peace operations. In particular, we need to ensure that all operations carried out under Security Council authority operate with the same respect for human rights and zero tolerance for sexual exploitation and abuse. The stakes for getting the relationship between regional subregional organizations and the United Nations right could not be higher. As neighbours close to a conflict or strangers far from it, each of us must do more to work cooperatively and effectively to support our partners in the important work of advancing peace.”
2015-08-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7505 (2015) · source
“As part of our commitment to strengthening the United Nations capacity to support peacekeeping missions, the United States will co-host a summit this fall at the United Nations to secure new commitments and greater international support for United Nations peacekeeping. We must also, however, ensure that regional forces have the necessary support, training and equipment to carry out their critical work. Where the Security Council has authorized a regional organization, such as the African Union, to undertake critical actions to advance international peace and security, we need to ensure that the regional mission has the resources needed to execute its mandate effectively.”
2015-08-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7505 (2015) · source
“In South Sudan, while the Security Council has deployed over 12,000 troops to the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, the Security Council has deferred to the Intergovernmental Authority on Development to lead mediation efforts. Given the outrageous failure of the parties to reach an agreement yesterday, support for the regional political process now must mean a readiness of the Security Council to take action, mobilize our collective resources, and increase pressure accordingly on those who frustrate peace. We must advance meaningful efforts to hold perpetrators of atrocities accountable.”
2015-08-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7505 (2015) · source
“Regional and subregional organizations have taken on an increasingly important role in facilitating, if not running, political processes to resolve conflicts and reach peace agreements, even when the Security Council has deployed a peacekeeping operation with responsibility for protecting civilians from being victimized in that conflict. This bifurcation of responsibilities sometimes offers important benefits, but it can also come with a price. While neighbours bring familiarity and ownership, they can also bring independent equities and interests. In order for our partnerships to be effective, we need to share responsibility and accountability even as we divide our labour based on comparative advantages.”
2015-08-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7505 (2015) · source
“Indeed, the United Nations system, and United Nations peacekeeping especially, are premised on the idea that sometimes those further removed from deeply engrained challenges - strangers, even, rather than neighbours - are in a unique position to neutrally and effectively engaged to protect people endangered by their neighbours. That is why the Charter of the United Nations envisions a robust partnership between those closest to conflict and the United Nations itself. Both roles are essential. As the complementary and, at times, overlapping responsibilities of regional organizations, subregional organizations and the United Nations develop, there appears to be an increasing bifurcation of political and peacekeeping processes.”
2015-08-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7505 (2015) · source
“Now regional and subregional organizations are obviously much more than the Neighbourhood Watch of the international system, but regional and subregional organizations, as neighbours, are uniquely positioned to recognize root causes more accurately and to identify solutions earlier than organizations further away. When regional or subregional organizations engage, they do so with the benefit that comes from being a neighbour. They bring a unique capacity to understand local experiences, cultures and the complexity of the challenges being confronted. As neighbours, they are often better positioned to watch for problems and to act on them. Butpeacemakingandpeacekeepingarenotandnever should become something that concerns neighbours alone.”
2015-08-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7505 (2015) · source
“Part of that effort will have to grapple with two increasingly relevant phenomena in the evolving relationship between regional organizations, subregional organizations and the United Nations: overlapping responsibilities and inequities and the need to improve the support provided by the international community to support the work of regional organizations. In the United States about 50 years ago, a programme known as Neighbourhood Watch was created. The idea was simple. Neighbours note when something is awry and they have a vested interest in ensuring that their communities and neighbours are safe.”
2015-08-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7505 (2015) · source
“I thank you, Madam President, for organizing this important debate. We would also like to thank the Secretary- General for his briefing. While the nature of threats to global security has become more complex and challenging over the course of the United Nations 70-year history, the partnership between the United Nations and regional organizations has become truly indispensable. We have made much progress in strengthening these partnerships, and we must collectively recommit to continuing to do so.”
2015-08-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7505 (2015) · source
“If that is not enough - and it should be - if it is not enough, consider this: if we do not act swiftly to address those problems, all of the threats manifested in Rusina's community to health, livelihoods, security - all of those threats will eventually be felt in all of our communities. They are not someone else's problems, they are all of our problems. And they are problems we must tackle with determination, with speed and with unity.”
2015-07-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7499 (2015) · source
“We are also taking new action against illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing and seafood fraud. Last year, President Obama tasked United States Government agencies with developing concrete steps to address that problem. The resulting 15 recommendations include strengthening international enforcement and developing a traceability system for all seafood sold in the United States. We urge other countries to undertake similar efforts to tackle that transnational threat to sustainability. Families like Rusina Rusin's are already experiencing the acute impact of man-made threats to international security like climate change. Their communities and nations are on the front lines, bearing the disproportionate impact of problems that others bear responsibility for causing. That, in itself, should be enough to motivate us to take action.”
2015-07-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7499 (2015) · source
“As Secretary of State John Kerry said at the June 2014 Our Ocean conference he convened, "The protection of our oceans is a vital international security issue...The connection between a healthy ocean and life itself for every single person on Earth cannot be overstated." While that connection holds for all people, there are few places where the health of communities and the oceans are more inextricably linked than in small island developing States. The United States understands the imperative to protect our ocean and coastal environments - particularly when they are endangered by pollution, overfishing, acidification and other threats. To that end, we have partnered with the Nature Conservancy to implement a five year Caribbean Marine Biodiversity Program, aimed at reducing threats to marine-coastal biodiversity in the Caribbean.”
2015-07-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7499 (2015) · source
“That is the aim of President Obama's announcement, in April, together with our Caribbean and Central American partners, of the creation of an energy security task force to drive investment in renewable alternatives. It was also the aim ofa series of meetings the United States co-chaired with the International Renewable Energy Agency and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community just last week in Hawaii - in which a number of small island developing States participated - to share best practices in generating clean energy alternatives. And the third and final challenge I would like to address today is ensuring the protection and sustainability of our oceans.”
2015-07-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7499 (2015) · source
“The second challenge is energy security. Small island developing States lack large natural energy resource endowments and dependence on high- cost imported energy creates profound economic vulnerability. As with their response to climate change, small island developing States have shown real leadership in addressing that challenge, in large part by developing renewable energy sources. Samoa has committed to achieving 100 per cent renewable energy electricity-generation by 2017, and Aruba is well on its way to meeting that goal by 2020. In Jamaica, ground was broken earlier this year on the country's largest private sector renewable energy project - a 36-megawatt wind farm. The United States has been and will continue to be a key partner to the small island developing States in developing clean energy sources.”
2015-07-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7499 (2015) · source
“Many small island developing States are making important contributions of their own to mitigate climate change and adapt to its impact, as the Marshall Islands recently did by committing to reduce emissions by 32 per cent below 2010 levels by 2025. But they cannot do it alone. We in the international community have a critical role to play in supporting their efforts. To give just one example, the United States Agency for International Development's Climate Change Adaptation Project Preparation Facility - ADAPT Asia-Pacific - is helping to build the capacity of Governments to access and manage funding to meet needs ranging from coastal resilience to food and water security. In just two years, the ADAPT programme has helped Pacific small island developing States to access some $67 million from multilateral adaptation funds.”
2015-07-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7499 (2015) · source
“One of the most effective ways to help small island developing States and other territories already experiencing the dramatic effects of climate change is to reduce the activities that cause it. The United States is committed to leading that effort, as is demonstrated by our commitment, in March, to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions to 26 to 28 per cent below 2005 levels by 2025. But in order to reach the crucial goal oflimiting the global temperature increase to two degrees Celsius, all countries must reduce their footprint and work together to reach an ambitious climate change agreement at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference in December, in Paris.”
2015-07-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7499 (2015) · source
“As President Obama said recently, "This is not a problem for another generation. It has serious implications for the way we live right now". Fourteen of the hottest fifteen years on record have fallen in the first fifteen years of this century. Last winter was the warmest winter the world has ever recorded. Storms are getting stronger, droughts are getting longer and, as Rusina's story demonstrates, the consequences of climate change impact virtually every aspect of our lives, from our health to our livelihoods, from our habitats to our security. The science is real, the problems are real, and so too is our commitment to addressing them and to doing so together.”
2015-07-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7499 (2015) · source
“Rusina told reporters that in 2014, one of those storms flooded her home, pulling many of her belongings and those of her grandchildren who live with her out to sea. More floods followed in February and March of this year. Rusina, who described herself as not having anything precious except land and grandchildren, said: "Every time it floods, it affects the land, and it costs me. I depend on the crops - the coconut trees, bananas, and herbs for medicine. I could never manage a subsistence life if this continues". Rusina's story is the story of so many people living in the small island developing States, who are disproportionately bearing the consequences of global and man-made problems. Today, I would like to speak to three of those problems and what we as the international community must do to address them. The first is climate change.”
2015-07-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7499 (2015) · source
“I would like to thank the Secretary-General, the Prime Minister of Jamaica, the Prime Minister of Samoa and the Minister of Finance of Seychelles for their briefings, and I thank all of the other distinguished leaders who are present to participate in this open debate today. In particular, I would like to thank New Zealand for focusing the Council on such an important and too often overlooked topic. Rusina Rusin lives in Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Islands, on land that has been in her family for generations. She told journalists that she has never seen storms like the ones she has seen in recent years, which occur with much greater frequency and without the rain and wind that used to signal their imminent arrival.”
2015-07-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7499 (2015) · source
“Our goal for the summit will be to step up cooperation among the United Nations, troop-contributing countries and financial supporters of peacekeeping to ensure that the United Nations can draw on the right resources to help our peacekeeping operations succeed - that is, to make them more responsive, better at protecting civilians and more able to fulfil the mandates that we as Member States call on them and need them to fulfil. Speaking of fulfilling mandates, I would like to thank the Malaysian delegation for its successful and steady leadership of the Security Council in June. Our colleagues from New Zealand can rely on our support for what promises to be a busy July.”
2015-06-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7479 (2015) · source
“The meeting two weeks ago (see S/PV.7462) allowed us to discuss several essential aspects of modern peacekeeping, the imperative of appropriate training, the importance of expanding the pool of troop-contributing countries and the kinds of contributions they make, and the critical question of how the system handles exceptions to the rules of engagement. For the peacekeepers putting their lives on the line for the benefit of humanity, we have a responsibility to get the system right. On a related note, President Obama will host a peacekeeping summit during the General Assembly's high-level week, as many members know.”
2015-06-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7479 (2015) · source
“An inclusive political settlement towards a peaceful transition is the only way to end the conflict, which has killed more than 220,000 people, injured more than 1 million, driven almost 4 million out of the country as refugees, internally displaced 7.6 million people and left 12.2 million others in need of humanitarian aid, including 5.6 million children. We should not allow this to continue. This month, we also continued the important tradition of hearing from Force Commanders on the front lines of United Nations peacekeeping operations. 1 would like to emphasize again our appreciation for their service and our gratitude to all troop contributors who are bravely serving in peacekeeping missions around the world.”
2015-06-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7479 (2015) · source
“A peaceful political transition consistent with the Gulf Cooperation Council Initiative, the National Dialogue Conference outcomes and relevant Security Council resolutions is the only way out of the current crisis. All parties must show greater willingness to compromise than they have done to date. We remain deeply concerned about the humanitarian situation and fully support the United Nations call for a new humanitarian pause. For a new pause to be possible, all sides must be prepared to concretely implement the pause and be bound by its terms. Resuming commercial imports is a humanitarian concern of the utmost importance. Yesterday, we met to discuss the grave crisis in Syria. We said it before, and it bears repeating, that no solution to the Syrian conflict can be imposed by force.”
2015-06-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7479 (2015) · source
“This crisis is man-made, and those responsible for it must put the well-being of the South Sudanese people ahead of their own narrow political interest. To date, they have refused to do so, and that must change. In Yemen, we strongly support the efforts of Special Envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed to begin a preliminary dialogue with the Yemeni Government and the Houthi/Saleh-affiliated delegation in Geneva. Geneva could serve as the beginning of a long and - we hope - useful dialogue process. We must not let momentum falter. To this end, all Council members must use their influence with the parties to press them to engage constructively with the United Nations as it builds on the six principles put forward in Geneva. These constitute a promising basis for the United Nations future engagement.”
2015-06-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7479 (2015) · source
“In another instance, a witness from Rubkona county narrated that she saw Government forces gang-raping a lactating mother after tossing her baby aside, while in another case, two witnesses from Nhialdiu narrated how a 17-year-old girl was gang- raped by armed militia who shot her dead. In at least nine separate incidents, women and girls were burnt in tukuls after being gang-raped, particularly in the Boaw village of Koch county. These reports are a chilling window into the violence against and acute suffering of South Sudan's most vulnerable citizens every day that the parties fail to demonstrate the courage to resolve this conflict, and these most recent reports, in our judgement, merit urgent consideration by the Council. We will work with the incoming presidency to convene the Council in the coming days on them.”
2015-06-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7479 (2015) · source
“Children have been tied together, their throats slit. Just today, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan has released a report that people in Upper Nile state have been burned alive. I want to read an excerpt from the report that came out today from our mission in South Sudan that states that a survivor from Koch county narrated to the human rights division how she was dragged out of her tukul and gang raped alongside her neighbour by Government soldiers in front of her 3-year-old child. The soldiers then taunted them that they would appreciate what men from Mayom county were made of.”
2015-06-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7479 (2015) · source
“The Government of the Sudan has not indicated that it intends to reinvigorate those processes or stop its unrelenting aerial bombardments and attacks in Darfur, Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile. Meanwhile, the Government continues to systematically restrict UNAMID's freedom of movement and access to the extent that a peacekeeper needlessly died last month after the Government shamefully refused to grant a flight clearance for medical evacuation. The Council's attention is needed now more than ever, and so too is UNAMID. Turning to our discussions on South Sudan, I want to recall UNICEF Director Anthony Lake's 17 June statement on the violations being committed against children in South Sudan, with survivors reporting that boys have been castrated and left to bleed to death and girls as young as eight years old gang raped and murdered.”
2015-06-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7479 (2015) · source
“We strongly support efforts by the United Nations, the AU, the East African Community and the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region to broker a peaceful resolution to this crisis, and we urge the Government to engage in a genuine dialogue with all parties. The situation in Darfur, of which the Council has been seized for over 10 years, demands our attention and our action. As we struggle to overcome political divisions, the situation in Darfur continues to seriously deteriorate, as the Council recognized in its resolution adopted yesterday, extending the mandate of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) for another year. Millions of displaced people still cannot return to their homes. The Doha Document for Peace in Darfur and AU High- level Implementation Panel political processes have stalled.”
2015-06-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7479 (2015) · source
“In the face of real risks of instability and grave violence, instead of allowing space for the opposition to speak, demonstrate and organize, the Government of Burundi has done the reverse, ratcheting up restrictions, locking up opponents, shutting down radio stations, arming youth militias and intimidating those who disagree. They do this as President Nkurunziza continues to seek a third term in office, directly violating commitments undertaken in the Arusha Accords. The Government of Burundi must restore independent media outlets, release political detainees, condemn violence, ensure credible presidential elections and allow space for political opposition and civil society to function without fear of retribution.”
2015-06-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7479 (2015) · source
“I thank you, Mr. President, and the Malaysian delegation for your leadership this month. Much of our time this month has been spent addressing security challenges in Africa, and much of that on Burundi. Yesterday, Burundi recklessly moved forward with elections, despite the African Union (AU), the Secretary-General and others urging delay. The risk of mass violence in Burundi remains acute. The elections yesterday were conducted in an environment that was not free, fair or transparent. Those were simply not credible elections.”
2015-06-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7479 (2015) · source
“All that said, the discussion of hibernation, exit strategy and non-cooperation too often loses sight ofthe men, women and children who have been suffering from the ongoing conflict and violence in Darfur. It is their plight that makes the need for accountability so acute, and we must not turn our backs on them. The United States will continue to work with the Security Council and other partners in the international community to promote an end to the Sudan's many conflicts, and a just and sustainable peace.”
2015-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7478 (2015) · source
“Finally, in the light of recent events, I would like to reiterate that the United States opposes invitations to and facilitation of travel by those subject to outstanding International Criminal Court arrest warrants related to the situation in Darfur, and we are not alone in stressing the continued need for accountability. Voices from South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya have been clear and unequivocal. It was a South African organization that approached its own courts to seek enforcement of the ICC arrest warrant. It was Nigerian activists who discouraged a prolonged stay in their country, and it was a Kenyan court that ruled that the Government there must arrest Al-Bashir should he ever set foot there.”
2015-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7478 (2015) · source
“In the absence of any national proceedings in Darfur to investigate and provide accountability for those crimes, we must be able to come together and express support for efforts to prosecute deliberate attacks on peacekeepers - attacks that very much continue to this day, as described in the Prosecutor's report. For example, on 26 April, the Government of the Sudan denied a flight request for the emergency medical evacuation of an Ethiopian peacekeeper, injured while performing his duties in Mukjar, Western Darfur. The evacuation flight clearance was denied and the peacekeeper died hours later.”
2015-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7478 (2015) · source
“The Council must also continue to focus on the need for accountability in Darfur, because it was us who sent peacekeepers into harm's way, and we owe them our support. Attacks on peacekeepers in Darfur have killed citizens ofNigeria, Mali, Senegal, Tanzania and Rwanda, among others. Often lost in the debates about President Al-Bashir is the fact that one of the areas of focus of the International Criminal Court's investigations has been the 2007 attack on the brave soldiers who served in the African Union's peacekeeping mission there.”
2015-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7478 (2015) · source
“Finally, with regard to the issue of non-cooperation, while members of the international community do not see eye to eye on many aspects of the Darfur crisis, we believe that there is abundant common ground among the members of the Council on the fact that States Members of the United Nations have obligations under the Charter to accept and carry out the Security Council's decisions. The Government of the Sudan continues to disregard the Council's decision in resolution 1593 (2005) that it must cooperate fully with and provide any necessary assistance to the Court and the Prosecutor. Surely we can agree that the Council has an interest in ensuring compliance with its own decisions. We continue to urge the international community to ensure compliance by the Sudan with its international obligations under resolution 1593 (2005).”
2015-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7478 (2015) · source
“Increased fighting among the armed groups and intercommunal violence have driven the displacement of over 573,000 people since the beginning of 2014. The need for UNAMID, and the need for it to have full and unfettered access to conduct its work, are more acute than ever across all of Darfur, including in the light of the Prosecutor's decision to hibernate her new investigative work. It is important for UNAMID not just to protect civilians and facilitate humanitarian work, but also to continue to document the ongoing violations and abuses. That is reiterated in the latest communique' of the African Union Peace and Security Council of 22 June.”
2015-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7478 (2015) · source
“We have also heard considerable discussion of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) exit strategy at a time when we need a greater focus on conditions inside Darfur, where the situation is deadly and deteriorating. The reported events of the past year have been alarming. Aerial bombardments, the number of which the Prosecutor described as having significantly increased, kill children and destroy hospitals and humanitarian facilities; sexual violence is wielded against women and girls with impunity, including, reportedly, in Thabit, where an investigation into alleged mass rapes remains incomplete, stymied by the Sudan's systematic denial of independent access to UNAMID personnel. Villages have been burned and communities" very means of survival are destroyed.”
2015-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7478 (2015) · source
“We welcome her clarification that this does not mean the end of her work on the situation in Darfur, but we were and are alarmed that the Sudan's non-cooperation has pushed her to such a point, and we must highlight, in response to those who see this as in some way a victory over the International Criminal Court, that, as the Prosecutor also emphasizes in her report, arrest warrants remain outstanding and prosecutors are continuing to work on the cases as much as possible. We think it is serious cause for concern and an affront to the victims of atrocities in Darfur that the individuals subject to outstanding arrest warrants related to the Darfur situation remain at large.”
2015-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7478 (2015) · source
“The public discussion of Darfur in recent weeks and months has centred on three terms: hibernation, exit strategy and non-cooperation. In each case, however, there is a deeper story to tell, and with respect to all three the discussion would benefit from a renewed focus on those men, women and children in Darfur who have suffered greatly from the fighting and violence. That is especially noteworthy now, since the violence and suffering are approaching levels that have not been seen since 2004. In December 2014, the Prosecutor announced that she would hibernate investigative activities in Darfur.”
2015-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7478 (2015) · source
“We look forward to working with the Peacebuilding Commission, the Peacebuilding Fund and the Peacebuilding Support Office, as well as other United Nations and international actors, on how to best respond to the needs of countries emerging from conflict and to solidify the gains made in countries as they transition to a lasting peace.”
2015-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7472 (2015) · source
“As the Panel's report clearly states, "Put simply, the international community is failing at preventing conflict". Failing to prevent a relapse into crisis is costly, both in terms of human lives and in the time and resources needed after a country has relapsed. It is a failure we cannot afford not to address. The peacebuilding architecture must play a critical role in that effort. In that vein, we welcome the five-year review of the United Nations peacebuilding architecture currently under way as a tool for addressing some of those challenges. The year 2015 is a significant one for United Nations peacebuilding as the international community focuses on the need to pay close attention to the key components of lasting peace after conflict - national ownership, social and political inclusivity, institution-building and predictable financing.”
2015-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7472 (2015) · source