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2015-09-30
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  1. “In conclusion, the current challenges in the Middle East and North Africa are multidimensional in nature, and therefore require multidimensional answers. As we watched people from Syria and other countries pass as refugees through Croatia, one thing that was clear was that they were middle-class people. They are people with degrees - high school, university degrees - exactly the people who are needed to rebuild a country after a war. If they leave the neighbourhood, if they leave and go somewhere in Western Europe or North America or God knows where, it is very unlikely that they will return. If they do not return, there will be nobody to rebuild Syria and other countries once the fighting and the war are over, and everybody will be left behind. We ourselves might even be left behind, if we do not act now.”

    2015-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7527 (2015) · source

  2. “Finally, on the Middle East peace process, I think there is nobody in the Chamber and around this table - regardless of the different opinions that States, countries and people might have on the issue - who does not think that we should devote all our efforts to reviving the peace process in the Middle East. The process has, obviously, not been successful; in fact, it has been a very difficult. Although it has looked like a failure many times, there is no alternative to it. We have to persevere in trying to revive the peace process in the Middle East. In addition, as a member State of the European Union, which informs our perspective, we also believe that the European Union should play a more active role and take more responsibility for the process.”

    2015-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7527 (2015) · source

  3. “With respect to Iraq, we believe that we should remain committed to helping the Iraqi Government to further sustain the transition process, in particular with regard to the inclusiveness of its policies, credible national reconciliation and reform. We believe that the Iraqis - the Iraqi Government and Iraqi forces - need and deserve our support. The Iraqi forces and the Peshmerga are fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant and need and deserve humanitarian assistance and support. Earlier this year, I Visited a number of refugee camps in Iraq. They definitely need us and our support.”

    2015-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7527 (2015) · source

  4. “If we do not do that, spring will bring new surprises and new suffering for the people of the region, as well as the danger of an expansion of the crisis into a much broader regional neighbourhood than the one we are looking at now. On Libya, we believe that we need to continue to support the United Nations-led inclusive political process headed by Bernardino Leon aimed at reaching an agreement on establishing a Government of national unity. A bad Government is a bad thing. The only thing worse than a bad Government is no Government. Libya is probably a case in point. In that sense, we need to support all United Nations efforts to establish a unified Government in that country.”

    2015-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7527 (2015) · source

  5. “In Syria, in order to stop the fighting, we need everybody who is prepared to participate in the effort to stop the fighting to be on board. In order to build peace, we probably need a different group of actors, but that will come later. In my view, Staffan de Mistura has been doing an excellent job in showing the way and the need to replace fighting with talking. Sometimes that actually works. At the end of all of the fighting there is talking, so it is probably better to start sooner rather than later. We also believe that time is of the essence in that context. Winter is coming. Now is the time when we should find a common solution for stopping the fighting in Syria.”

    2015-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7527 (2015) · source

  6. “The third step needs to involve using this coming winter to find a way to stop the fighting in Syria and Iraq, but especially in Syria. With regard to Syria, I would like to emphasis again the fact that we see, from our experience in that respect, the termination of the fighting as a connected but separate process from the actual bringing about of peace, which takes years or decades. Stopping the fighting is not peace yet, but it is a prerequisite for peace. It is a prerequisite for starting to build and embark on the long-term process called peacebuilding, which ends in real peace. We believe that, in order to stop the fighting, we might need a different or broader group of partners than the one needed to build peace.”

    2015-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7527 (2015) · source

  7. “It is difficult, but if we have a clear objective in mind - a clear second and third step - as to what can be done and how to approach or address the problem, we can deal with it. But if our thinking remains entirely open-ended, if we do not know what we are doing and we are just lying low and letting waves of people wash over us, it is going to be destructive for a much broader set of countries than the countries of the Middle East. Recognizing and dealing with the refugee crisis is also, in our view, a serious wake-up call for all of us who have seen people come to our doorstep, a wake-up call to all of us that our first reaction should be a humane one - we need to treat these people as people - and the second step needs to involve talking to all partners.”

    2015-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7527 (2015) · source

  8. “Our action should have a strong regional and country-specific dimension and outreach that brings on board all international and regional players. It should be an approach that includes intensified diplomatic engagement in finding political solutions while at the same time comprehensively employing other mechanisms to improve conditions on the ground: sustainable development, humanitarian and stabilization support, counter-terrorism, peacebuilding and confidence-building measures, and so on. The current refugee crisis that has engulfed the Middle East has spilled over into Europe. It is a test of humanity and solidarity for us in Europe, especially for us in the immediate neighbourhood. Close to 90,000 people have crossed Croatia's border in the past two weeks.”

    2015-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7527 (2015) · source

  9. “The second is bringing peace, and I emphasize here the difference between stopping the violence and creating peace; they are two different though related processes and sometimes require different partners. The third is a sustainable and long-term solution, in other words, a functioning, safe State. Only by addressing the root causes and facilitating political solutions can we create prospects that will stand the test oftime. To achieve this, we need a genuine political commitment on all sides; otherwise, even the best- designed approach will fail. In this regard, we see the importance of a United Nations-led process to negotiate political settlements and find sustainable solutions for peace and stability in the region.”

    2015-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7527 (2015) · source

  10. “Weak and non-functioning institutions definitely contribute to that, lawlessness contributes to that; all of this contributes to the increasing number of conflicts and to making people leave their homes in search of safety and peace, most of them running for their lives. Such challenges require an exceptional, coordinated and comprehensive response as well as strong leadership and genuine partnership. We urgently need to stand together and act with resolve. This is in the interest of us all, as we see it. We believe that in our approach we should address this problem at three levels. The first is the immediate priority: the stopping of violence.”

    2015-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7527 (2015) · source

  11. “We are currently confronted with unprecedented challenges in the Middle East and North Africa that are having immense, rippling effects on the wider region, the broader neighbourhood, of which Croatia is definitely a part, and on other parts of the world. Unresolved conflicts, poverty, water and food insecurity, all sorts of discrimination, terrorism, violence, human rights violations, the transformation of war into a war exclusively against the civilian population, and the elevation of sexual violence to the level of the weapon of choice in these conflicts all demonstrate that this type ofwar has become less about territory or even natural resources and more about the destruction of peoples.”

    2015-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7527 (2015) · source