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first: 2009-06-26
most recent: 2014-12-30
sittings or episodes: 160
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“The violence experienced in recent months in the Palestinian territories and Israel underlines the terrible human costs of the failure of final status negotiations and how fragile the situation is in the absence of genuine progress towards establishing a Palestinian State, an objective in which Australia believes and to which we are committed. Australia urges all parties to refrain from provocative actions and leaders from both sides to show real courage in returning to the difficult path of peace negotiations.”
2014-12-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7354 (2014) · source
“Australia remains committed to a future where Israeli and a Palestinian State exist side by side in peace and security within internationally recognized borders. As such, our efforts must be focused on constructively encouraging the parties to return to direct negotiations towards that goal. Regrettably, the draft resolution under consideration today (S/2014/916) will not help this process, and that is why we voted against it. It lacks balance and seeks to impose a solution put forward by one party alone. Final status issues can be resolved only between the two sides; a process agreed by both sides is the only way forward to reach an enduring agreement.”
2014-12-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7354 (2014) · source
“The Council must regularly assess the situation and give serious consideration to further action it might take, in the interests of the North Korean people themselves and in support of peace and security in their region and globally.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7353 (2014) · source
“We continue to look to those countries that have the most influence on North Korea, including those in the North Asia region and other partners, to continue to press the case for fundamental change to the State apparatus of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. We know, of course, this will not be easy. To conclude, the Security Council must also live up to its responsibilities in the absence of action by the regime, particularly in relation to accountability for crimes against humanity. Given the scale of the human rights violations and their link to international peace and security, it is essential that the Council remain seized of the situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7353 (2014) · source
“It can commit to cooperating with the international community by extending full cooperation to the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, including by granting him full, free and unimpeded access to the country and by providing unfettered access to humanitarian agencies. There are options for the Democratic People's Republic regime - humane options - and we will continue to press its leadership to embrace them. Assistant Secretary-General Simonovie alluded to some of them a moment ago. In the meantime, we are realistic about the brutal prospects for the North Korean people and what needs to be done to provide them with a measure of protection.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7353 (2014) · source
“Recent cyberattacks against international companies have been attributed to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, which is another example of the extraterritorial reach of its crimes, along with abductions of foreign nationals, and demonstrates the extent to which it is prepared to defy international norms and aggressively seek to destabilize other countries and international commerce. The international community's message to the Democratic People's Republic ofKorea regime is direct. It must change course. It can take steps immediately to put an end to all systematic, widespread and gross human rights violations being perpetrated in the country, which only further weaken the North Korean people and the stability of the State itself.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7353 (2014) · source
“The country's recent indications of a purported willingness to increase its cooperation with the international community on human rights were welcome, but those offers have since been withdrawn, and there has been no sign of any internal reform. Instead, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has responded to the General Assembly's call for it to engage on human rights issues by denouncing that call and indicating it would engage in further hostile acts. When the Democratic People's Republic responds to human rights criticisms with threats to use nuclear weapons, it only strengthens the link between the country's human rights policies and their implications for international peace and security.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7353 (2014) · source
“The commission asked the Council to refer the situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the International Criminal Court. The General Assembly has called on the Council to consider this recommendation. Australia believes that the crimes against humanity documented in the commission's report warrant the attention of the International Criminal Court. In the absence of any move by the North Korean regime to ensure accountability, the Council should seriously consider this recommendation. The North Korean regime does have the power to change its behaviour. Most of the commission's recommendations are directed towards the Democratic People's Republic of Korea itself.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7353 (2014) · source
“This view is clearly shared by the majority of the States Members of the United Nations, which last Thursday adopted resolution 69/188 in the General Assembly, which submitted the commission's report to the Council for consideration and action. This is broad recognition by the United Nations membership that the Council has a responsibility on this issue, including to ensure accountability for the crimes being committed. Those crimes are integral components of the political system of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. We must assume that crimes against humanity will continue if there is no international response. A core element of the commission's mandate was to ensure accountability for human rights violations, in particular where such violations amounted to crimes against humanity.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7353 (2014) · source
“The commission found that the information it received established that crimes against humanity have been committed in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, pursuant to policies established at the highest level of the State. We strongly support the commission's conclusion that the international community must accept its responsibility to protect the people of North Korea from crimes against humanity because the Government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has manifestly failed to do so. The gravity, scale and nature of these human rights violations distinguishes North Korea as a State that, in the Commission's words, has no parallel in the contemporary world. The need for an international response could not be more obvious.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7353 (2014) · source
“One of the cruelest policies of the regime is the system of arbitrary detention and political prison camps. An estimated 80,000 to 120,000 people have been imprisoned without trial in four political prison camps, and the commission found that the majority, including children, had no prospect of ever being released. Summary executions and other cruel extrajudicial punishments are meted out for violations of camp rules. Torture is routine. As the commission notes, "The limited information that seeps out from the secret camps creates a spectre of fear among the general population..., creating a powerful deterrent against any future challenges to the political system" (ibid., para. 730).”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7353 (2014) · source
“Yet the commission also finds that malnutrition and starvation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea could have been avoided through even a marginal redistribution of State military spending. The commission also found an entrenched pattern of discrimination based on the uniquely harsh songbun class system, which is systematically applied so as to maintain control against perceived threats, both external and internal. Likewise, the extreme restrictions on the freedom of movement within North Korea and across its borders are designed to maximize State control. Punishments for violations are severe, often vicious and inhumane. Women, who are subjected to horrific discrimination, resort to international traffickers to escape. The torture that they are subjected to if they return cannot be regarded as a solely domestic concern.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7353 (2014) · source
“Instead, the citizens of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea are forced to denounce conduct that is perceived by the regime as a threat to it. Family members must report on each other. The regime's vast surveillance apparatus ensures harsh punishment - even summary execution - for those who do not comply. The country's extreme militarization has come at a devastating cost. The North Korean people have paid for the world's fourth largest standing army - and the development of nuclear weapons and an increasingly sophisticated ballistic missile system to deliver them - with mass starvation and deprivation. The commission estimates that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea devotes up to 25 per cent of its gross national product to defence expenditures.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7353 (2014) · source
“The Commission's report lays bare the depraved nature of the tools of control of the regime of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, including the denial of access to basic human needs: food, water, heating, shelter and work. The massive humanitarian catastrophe that has resulted from the scale of the reign of terror in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has affected all of its neighbours and has threatened regional stability. There is a lethal restriction on the freedom of expression. One witness told the commission that no one would dare object to the harsh living conditions in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, because "protest is equivalent to death" (A/HRC/25/CRP.I, para. 225).”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7353 (2014) · source
“With the publication of the seminal report of the commission of inquiry on human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (S/20l4/276, annex), the international community now has a comprehensive, evidence-based assessment of the systematic, widespread and gross human rights violations being committed by the North Korean regime. The report is deeply disturbing and compels a response. The commission's findings on the extent ofthe Democratic People's Republic of Korea's indoctrination programme highlight a deliberate strategy to control the population in order to secure the regime's hold on power. The programme seeks to instil national hatred, which includes incitement to discrimination, hostility, violence and propaganda for war.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7353 (2014) · source
“The regime's system of repression enables its proliferation policies and the deprivations that it imposes on its people fund those policies. Some have asserted that the Council has no business considering this issue. Australia strongly disagrees. History shows that human rights violations of the type and scale that we are seeing in North Korea have reverberations well beyond the country in which they are committed. They amount to a rejection of the international norms that underpin stable societies, and they undermine peaceful relations between States. As we have seen time and again, serious violations of human rights serve as a warning sign of instability and conflict, especially in the absence of accountability for such violations.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7353 (2014) · source
“By meeting on the topic, the Council recognizes that the dangerous threat to international peace and security posed by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea regime is not limited to its weapons programmes and proliferation activities, but that the threat also flows from its atrocious treatment of its people and its determination to use every means possible to resist action that it perceives as a challenge to its authority. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is, in effect, a totalitarian State that uses violence and repression against its own citizens to maintain itself and its threatening military apparatus in power. The regime's atrocities against its own people have created an inherently unstable State.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7353 (2014) · source
“I thank Assistant Secretary-General Taye-Brook Zerihoun and Assistant Secretary-General Ivan Simonovie for their briefings. Today's meeting is an historic step forward in the international community's efforts to consider the situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and its broader implications. It also sends a vital message to the people of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea that the international community is aware of their suffering and stands in solidarity with them.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7353 (2014) · source
“Given the gravity and systematic nature of the human rights violations taking place in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the threat to the maintenance of international peace and security, we do not consider that this can be appropriately considered by the Council on an ad hoc or informal basis. Secondly, a formal Council meeting under the new agenda item must take place today. Rule 2 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure provides that the President shall call a meeting ofthe Security Council on the request of any one member of the Council, and it has been over two weeks since 10 Council members requested such a meeting. We consider therefore that we should now simply proceed to adopt the agenda, which has as its substantive item "The situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea".”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7353 (2014) · source
“We request a meeting of the Security Council on the situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, pursuant to rule 2 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, and request that a senior official from the Secretariat and a senior official from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights formally brief the Council under that agenda item, which will enable Council members to receive further information from the Secretariat on this situation and its implications for international peace and security." (S/2014/872) The 10 members of the Council which signed the letter are first seeking the establishment of a new agenda item, "The situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea", under which the Council can, as a matter of urgency and then as necessary, consider the serious and deteriorating human rights situation in that country.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7353 (2014) · source
“These violations threaten to have a destabilizing impact on the region and the maintenance of international peace and security. "Therefore, we write to request that the situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea be formally placed on the Council's agenda without prejudice to the item on non-proliferation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7353 (2014) · source
“I shall make only a few brief remarks. I would like to start by reading the letter that a group of 10 Council members addressed to you, Mr. President, in your capacity as President of the Council on 5 December. The letter stated: "We the undersigned members of the Security Council - Australia, Chile, France, Jordan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Republic ofKorea, Rwanda, the United Kingdom and the United States - are deeply concerned about the situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. "We are particularly concerned by the scale and gravity of human rights violations detailed in the comprehensive report undertaken by the Human Rights Council commission of inquiry on human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (A/HRC/25/63), as contained in document S/2014/276.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7353 (2014) · source
“Whatever the Council's failures, we have also achieved a great deal together and the whole Australian team is deeply grateful for that.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7352 (2014) · source
“To conclude, as Australia finishes its term, I would like to thank the entire membership of the United Nations for giving us the privilege of representing them on the Council for the past two years, and convey our uninhibited support to members ofthe Council for 2015 as they take over what is an immense responsibility. We also convey our deepest gratitude to all United Nations personnel at Headquarters and in the field who work so hard and often in great danger to fulfil the tasks the Council gives them and to realize the ideals of the Charter. They are truly the custodians of the best of humanity. Finally, I would like to thank all Council members, the Security Council Affairs Division for the remarkable experience of working with them.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7352 (2014) · source
“Key precepts of the Charter - including respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, the prohibition on the use of force in inter-State relations, and the legal framework for the protection of individuals in conflict and in peacetime - have been dramatically defied in the past year. The Council must continue to be vigilant and work continuously, whatever the obstacles, to ensure that those fundamental norms are protected for all Member States and for the hundreds of millions of individuals who look to the United Nations for protection.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7352 (2014) · source
“The conversation has started; Member States will demand more by way of participation and technical assistance from the Council and the Secretariat; and the delivery of the recommendations at the high-level review shortly will be the next important phase in that work, and we will continue to pursue it after the conclusion of our term. As we approach the seventieth anniversary of the Charter of the United Nations next year, it would be nice to think that the fundamental norms it contains are unversally accepted and no longer require protection, but, ominously, that is not the case.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7352 (2014) · source
“There is a strong and growing demand among affected States and United Nations Members in general - since all are obligated to implement the Council's sanctions decisions - to engage with relevant committees and to access technical assistance. Australia intended to put forward a draft resolution that would provide the United Nations system with the capacity it needed to respond to that demand. Unfortunately, despite the overwhelming support of the United Nations membership for assistance, a Council consensus has not been achievable, but that of course is not the end of the matter.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7352 (2014) · source
“Resolution 2189 (2014), adopted 10 days ago, is designed to underwrite that through a continuing international presence to assist the Afghan security forces following the conclusion of the International Security Assistance Mission's combat mission at the end of this month. Our experience as Chair of the Sanction Committees on Al-Qaida, Taliban and Iran confirmed our view that the United Nations system needs to modernize and professionalize its approach to sanctions. We have worked hard to that end in chairing our committees; as a co-sponsor with Sweden, Greece, Germany and Finland; at the high-level review of United Nations sanctions; and in regular Council negotiations.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7352 (2014) · source
“Our ambition, shared with Luxembourg and Jordan, to tackle the humanitarian crisis in Syria - the single greatest humanitarian crisis the world faces - reflected the determination of three elected members to find a way through the political gridlock of the permanent five members (P-5). We succeeded certainly because we were determined, but fundamentally also because the P-5 needed us to succeed. There is a lesson for elected members in that. Resolution 2191 (2014), adopted last week, was our third Syrian resolution since February and has renewed the historic mandate of resolution 2165 (2014), on access across borders. As penholder on Afghanistan we have sought to ensure strong Council support for that country's transition to a democratic future.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7352 (2014) · source
“Australia came on to the Council convinced that elected members could and should contribute across the whole Council agenda, but we also knew that it was important to identify practical issues that required Council attention and on which we could focus in order to try and make a difference. Our initiatives on small arms, which resulted in the adoption of resolution 2117 (2013) in September 2013, and on policing, which resulted in the adoption of resolution 2185 (2014), adopted last month, sought to fill gaps in the most defining Council task - the prevention or control of conflict.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7352 (2014) · source
“The Council has applied sanctions to two new situations, in the Central African Republic and Yemen, while calibrating existing sanctions regimes to better respond to evolving situations. New listing criteria have been developed with more direct focus on listing perpetrators of crimes against humanity and war crimes. We have also pursued accountability. While the Council has been unable to provide the International Criminal Court the support it deserves and needs, it is paying closer attention to the link between human rights and conflict. Some resist this, but the linkage is as linear as it is unassailable. The just-published report of the International Commission of Inquiry on Serious Crimes Committed in the Central African Republic provides ample demonstration.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7352 (2014) · source
“As we commemorated the twentieth anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda a few months later, there seemed to be some sign that the international community now recognized that we had a responsibility to protect that requires us to respond in the face of mass atrocity, and that this might mean something in practice. Later today, we must act to help the people protect the people ofNorth Korea by inscribing a new item on our agenda, "The situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea". That is a situation of a totalitarian State systematically and grossly violating the most basic human rights of its citizens in a way unparalleled in today's world. In the past two years, the Council has used another key tool, sanctions, as a response to threats to international peace and security.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7352 (2014) · source
“The establishment of the Force Intervention Brigade in the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in March last year took robust peacekeeping for the protection of civilians to a new level. The mandates for the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali and the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic confirm that trend. The decision of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan to shelter 80,000 civilians initially in its bases when violence broke out a year ago demonstrated, we hope, a new mindset.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7352 (2014) · source
“Terrorism is resurgent, and in large areas rampant. It will, of course, always be the case that the Council will be judged by its failures. Our failure to break the geopolitical stalemate on Syria will be a permanent stain, but faced with that catalogue of crisis and conflict, the Council has sought to respond. We have not always succeeded, but the Council had endeavoured to use the tools it has in innovative ways, and sometimes to decisive effect. Peacekeeping is the Council's primordial tool. The number of peacekeeping missions and the number of personnel deployed are at record levels. The Council has taken some crucial steps to strengthen peacekeeping, and the Secretary-General's current high-level review should consolidate these.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7352 (2014) · source
“That has spawned the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, with its horrific oppression - an exhibitionist defiance of the most basic norms of human behaviour. As Under-Secretary-General Valerie Amos told the Council on 15 December (see S/PV.7342), we have run out of words to describe this. Worldwide, almost 60 million people are now displace by conflict, either internally or as refugees, which is the highest number since Second World War. One hundred and twenty million people are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance, the vast majority due to conflict. The dimensions of the challenges before the Council are staggering. We face more simultaneous conflicts with a bigger impact on a larger number of people across a wider swathe of the world that at any time since the Second World War.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7352 (2014) · source
“There are ominous indications of a further threat to the territorial integrity of Georgia. And then there is Syria - a situation already extremely grave two years has grown immeasurably worse two years later. Over 200,000 people have now been killed, 12.3 million require urgent humanitarian assistance, and over half the population has been displaced. The Syrian regime's deliberate targeting ofits citizens through the use ofbarrel bombs and siege-and- starve tactics continues to violate every civilized norm, despite the Council's unanimous demand that they stop. We have seen the extremes to which the regime will go: torture on an industrial scale, as evidenced in the Caesar report, and the use of chemical weapons against civilians in Guta and on multiple occasions since.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7352 (2014) · source
“A number of situations that had appeared to be on a positive trajectory have deteriorated sharply. In Libya and Yemen, conflict has broken out. Only a year after the Council applauded Sierra Leone's Foreign Minister in this Chamber for his county's peacebuilding achievements at the end of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Sierra Leone (see S/PV.7034), the Ebola crisis threatens the gains that that country, Liberia and Guinea have made in the past decade. We have witnessed a deliberate pattern of provocation, destabilization and outright aggression that have led to the annexation of Crimea; conflict in eastern Ukraine, with over 4,500 dead in the past 10 months; and a commercial aircraft shot out of the sky, with 298 killed, including 38 Australians.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7352 (2014) · source
“In the past two years of Australia's term on the Council, heaven has never been within reach, but there were many days when it seemed we were already deep in hell - the massacres and mass rapes in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, the brutal killings of civilians in South Sudan; the horrific attacks committed by both Seleka and anti-balaka forces in the Central African Republic, where we only barely averted disaster and where the killing in Bangui stopped because there was no one left to kill; the awful rising toll of United Nations peacekeepers and humanitarian workers deliberately targeted and killed in situations as diverse as Syria, Mali, Iraq and the Sudan; and the constant drumbeat of horrific terrorist attacks with children so often the victims.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7352 (2014) · source
“Ithank you, Mr. President, for convening this session and for guiding us so effectively as President this month. We welcome the fact that you have focused the Council's attention on issues of crucial importance to Africa, including the lethal threat from the alliance of terrorism and transnational crime, and that Chad has received recognition for its commitment to United Nations peacekeeping. Ambassador Perceval has just quoted probably the most revered Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjold, and I will too. He famously said that the United Nations was not created to take humanity to heaven but to save it from hell.”
2014-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7352 (2014) · source
“It is imperative we understand that reality and calibrate our responses accordingly. This must be an ever-more crucial dimension of the Council's role in maintaining international peace and security. We again thank Chad for the initiative in bringing this to us today.”
2014-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7351 (2014) · source
“Strengthening intraregional cooperation builds trust, facilitates information exchange, enhances capacities and eliminates safe havens for transnational crime. We welcome advances in African regional networks that we have been briefed on today. We have seen this work in our own region, the Pacific, with the 18 Transnational Crime Units that make up the Pacific Transnational Crime Network having worked successfully to disrupt illicit drug, firearms and wildlife trafficking throughout the region. As the UNODC has often said, it takes a network to defeat a network. We must strengthen our networks, use the tools we have to maximum effect and above all keep pace with the rapidly changing nature of the threat. To conclude, it is today axiomatic that terrorism and transnational crime are increasingly linked.”
2014-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7351 (2014) · source
“They can ratify and implement the key international treaties on terrorism and transnational organized crime to provide a stronger platform for cooperation; better align responses to the nature and scale of the threats by making more effective use of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) transnational crime threat assessments; and build technical capacity in law enforcement, border controls and criminal justice. We would add to that capacity in following the money. Going after the proceeds of crime through the use of anti-money-laundering tools, financial intelligence, asset freezes and seizures can be as effective in reducing the incentives of criminal activity as going after the criminals themselves. Finally, stronger bilateral and regional partnerships are fundamental.”
2014-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7351 (2014) · source
“And as Ambassador Antonio has said this morning, that is especially important for neighbouring States when an arms embargo and a peace operation are being set up. Only then will we effectively constrain the ability of terrorists and spoilers to procure funds, arms and recruits. It is also essential that the Council continue to take more innovative steps to enforce the sanctions measures where violations are acute. We have done that in Somalia, as others have mentioned, by mandating maritime interdiction of weapons and charcoal. Charcoal alone has been giving Al-Shabab a financial lifeline to the tune of $80 million annually. There is also a great deal that Member States can do.”
2014-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7351 (2014) · source
“That includes organized criminal groups, even if they have no ideological connection to Al-Qaida. The Council reinforced that point when it identified the key sources of financing for Islamic State for Iraq and the Levant-Daesh in its 19 November presidential statement (S/PRST/2014/23), which Australia brought to the Council. States need to bring those facilitators to the Council's attention. And, as today's resolution 2195 (2014) reaffirms, sanctions self-evidently need to be implemented if they are to have any effect. The Council and the United Nations system must deliver more support to key States to ensure they have the technical capacity to implement the sanctions measures. Member States are begging for such assistance.”
2014-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7351 (2014) · source
“The Council needs to consider where the United Nations can play a more effective role - drawing on modern technologies, providing capacity-building of border agencies, supporting border community engagement programmes and facilitating regional initiatives. Secondly, one of the most effective tools at the Council's disposal - sanctions - should continue to be finely honed to deny terrorist groups access to resources and sanctuary and, most importantly, to starve them of funds. As Chair of the Council's Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee for the past two years, I have consistently tried to highlight that any individuals who materially support the actions of a person or entity on the Al-Qaida sanctions list are themselves eligible to be included on the list and subject to the sanctions.”
2014-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7351 (2014) · source
“United Nations police components can play an important role in building the capacities of host- State law enforcement in that area, as highlighted in Resolution 2185 (2014), on policing, which the Council adopted last month. Skills in areas like criminal investigations, analysis and financial crime are relevant to both transnational crime and terrorism. The United Nations should deploy more serious crime support units, such as the model proposed in the Central African Republic, and the Standing Police Capacity needs more expertise in this area. But the support from United Nations missions also needs to extend to judicial systems. Actual prosecutions and convictions are one of the most important tools in the fight. Strengthening border management is potentially the most challenging task.”
2014-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7351 (2014) · source
“The first is United Nations peacekeeping and special political missions. Eight of the eleven countries facing the highest threat from Al-Qaida-affiliated groups currently host United Nations missions. And organized crime is a major threat in almost every theatre in which United Nations missions are present. In addressing the threat, we need to get more serious about the role of those operations. We cannot ignore the elephant in the room, as a recent International Peace Institute report described it. This starts with strengthening mandates in relation to transnational organized crime. Missions also need more tools and training to gather information on and analyse the threat to help host States disrupt illicit activities.”
2014-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7351 (2014) · source
“Weak institutions are corroded further, corruption is more firmly entrenched, legitimate economic opportunities decline and become less appealing, development is hindered, and conflicts are prolonged. The adoption of today's resolution 2195 (2014) is an important advance. The report requested of the Secretary-General should survey the links between terrorism and transnational crime and should better position the United Nations system to disrupt the ability of terrorists to establish and benefit from those links. The report should define how the Council can play a more effective role In the meantime, the Council can sharpen two of its core tools. Both are important for the report we have mandated from the Secretary-General and also from the Secretary-General's independent review of peacekeeping operations.”
2014-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7351 (2014) · source
“The links between terrorism and transnational crime and the dramatic impact they have on contemporary conflict is a subject that this Council has not adequately addressed before. I therefore thank you, Mr. President, personally for being here and for Chad's leadership in convening this debate. I also thank Under-Secretary-General Feltman for his briefing and Ambassador Tete Antonio for his statement. All speakers today have described how terrorist groups and criminal networks each pose an increasing threat to peace, security, development and growth. Combined, the consequences are greater and more complex. No region is immune. The effects are particularly manifest in countries already affected by conflicts, where the consequences of criminal activity often exacerbate their very causes.”
2014-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7351 (2014) · source
“I would like to convey my thanks to the members of the Committee, the Panel and our colleagues in the Secretariat for their hard work and assistance in advancing the Committee's work. It has been a privilege to serve as Committee Chair for the past two years.”
2014-12-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7350 (2014) · source