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“Where nationaljurisdictions are unable or unwilling to prosecute perpetrators, the Council should consider referrals to the International Criminal Court. Targeted Council sanctions have a clear role to play - to expose and circumscribe the perpetrators and create a powerful deterrent to others. The current events in South Sudan encapsulate the challenges we face in that regard. In consultations two days ago, the Security Council was told the exact times and the content of the media broadcasts inciting rape and the names of the individuals who made them. We must ensure that they are held to account.”
2014-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7160 (2014) · source
“Decisively, we must move beyond just the immediate or short-term provision of support, vital though it is. Empowering survivors with their own economic future can be a transformative way to reconstruct their lives. Obviously, accountability is centrally important. States must accept their primary obligation to investigate and prosecute sexual violence crimes, provide support for survivors and protect witnesses who testify. Teams of experts working to support local justice mechanisms can have lasting impacts. As part of the regional peacebuilding mission to Solomon Islands, Australia has mentored female Solomon Islands police to take victim statements, compile evidence and support survivors throughout court processes. Such models are naturally being applied elsewhere and should have broad application.”
2014-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7160 (2014) · source
“We must confront the issue of pregnancy as a result of rape, particularly where abortion services are illegal and the health consequences of unsafe abortion and a lack of maternity care are dire. Civil society and women's organizations providing services and giving political voice to women affected by conflict must also be adequately resourced. Australian Foreign Minister Bishop announced in Jordan this week a $20-million contribution to the United Nations "No lost generation" initiative to support Syrian refugee children, including child survivors of sexual violence. Sexual Violence is a persistent and deliberate feature of the conflict in Syria, brutalizing civilians and displacing populations, and is a constant threat in the refugee camps, themselves.”
2014-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7160 (2014) · source
“There must be situation-specific training for all peacekeeping personnel, including military and police, that addresses the full range of sexual violence crimes, including abductions, forced marriage and sexual slavery. Particular attention must also be given to the needs of the most vulnerable populations, including the marginalized, children, older persons, indigenous communities, people with disabilities and displaced persons. The needs of men and boy survivors must also be considered. As Ms. Misaka reminded the Council this morning, it is crucial that survivors have quick access to comprehensive services, including sexual and reproductive health services and psychosocial, legal and livelihood support.”
2014-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7160 (2014) · source
“Commitments on the part of Governments and parties to conflict to combating sexual Violence are crucial to change on the ground. We commend Special Representative Bangura for securing new commitments with the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Somalia. Reaching armed groups is hard, but we must try. Ceasefire agreements should always include sexual violence as a prohibited act. Specific actions to prevent sexual violence must be included in security sector reform, rule oflaw initiatives and disarmament, demobilization and reintegration processes. As resolution 2117 (2013) recognized, the misuse of small arms and light weapons exacerbates sexual violence, and we call on all States that have not yet done so to sign and ratify the Arms Trade Treaty.”
2014-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7160 (2014) · source
“We congratulate the United Kingdom and Foreign Secretary Hague on their efforts on the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative, in which Australia's Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop, is an active champion. Our challenge, now as always, is implementation- turning the resolutions into solutions, as Ms. Bangura has just said. Fundamental to that is timely and comprehensive information. Unhindered humanitarian access is essential, as are measures to fight the stigma and threats of reprisal against survivors, which impede its reporting. Increasing the numbers of women in peacekeeping missions and police units can help, and we must address barriers to their recruitment, deployment and retention. We must ensure the early deployment of women protection advisers in United Nations missions.”
2014-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7160 (2014) · source
“Misaka for her briefing, which has been a good and inspirational reminder of how essential it is that the entire international community - the Council, Governments, regional organizations, the United Nations and non-governmental organizations - work collaboratively and actively to combat sexual violence. We support regular briefings to the Council by such experts. The international prohibition on sexual violence in conflict is long-standing, but our plan for combating it has not previously been laid out. That is why the advances last year were so important. Those include the adoption of resolution 2106 (2013), setting out a comprehensive prevention framework, and the Declaration of Commitment to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, signed now by over 140 nations.”
2014-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7160 (2014) · source
“I thank the Secretary- General for his report (S/2014/181) and personal leadership against sexual violence in conflict, and Special Representative Bangura for her fearlessness. Both have been instrumental in driving the unprecedented global commitment we have to ending conflict-related sexual Violence. But the challenge, as we know, simply never ceases. Last week in South Sudan, we witnessed the horror of radio-broadcast hate speech inciting rape and sexual violence against women and girls as a brutal weapon of war. It is very dangerous being a women or a girl when the rule of law fails and insecurity prevails. I also thank Ms.”
2014-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7160 (2014) · source
“Ukraine must be allowed to prepare for these elections without outside interference or any coercion in its domestic affairs. To conclude, the international community has repeatedly urged Russia to actively reduce tensions, stop its destabilization in eastern Ukraine and withdraw its forces from the provocative posture they have assumed on Ukraine's border. Ukraine's own response has been restrained and responsible. The talks scheduled to take place tomorrow in Geneva between Ukraine, Russia, the United States and the European Union are a crucial opportunity, now, for genuine dialogue. The latest combustible events in eastern Ukraine - where, as Ambassador Churkin has said, that the first blood has been shed - make it essential that Russia engage seriously in this dialogue.”
2014-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7157 (2014) · source
“The report does make good proposals, which we should all support, on the protection of minorities, including the recommendation to ensure that minority groups are consulted in developing laws on language and recommendations to ensure that the treatment of those associated with the previous Government is in accordance with the rule of law and not motivated by revenge. We welcome the Government of Ukraine's willingness to ensure a break with past injustices and create a better future for the people of Ukraine. Elections are essential in that regard, and it is crucial that the people of Ukraine be able to decide on the future direction of their own country. We therefore fully support the upcoming elections on 25 May and call on all parties in Ukraine and in the international community to support a free and fair ballot.”
2014-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7157 (2014) · source
“It also emphasizes that independent and impartial reporting on human rights in Crimea would deter violations, stimulate accountability and prevent the spreading of rumours and political manipulation. The report looks carefully at the situation ofRussian minorities across Ukraine and finds nothing to support the claims by Russia about threats to them. Russia's claims on that point simply do not hold. The report clearly notes that although there were some attacks against the ethnic Russian community, in particular those affiliated with the previous Government, "these were neither systematic nor widespread". As Assistant Secretary-General Simonovic' has just told the Council, "they were isolated incidents which were then exaggerated fuelling fear and insecurity among the ethnic Russian community".”
2014-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7157 (2014) · source
“Misinformed reports, however, of harassment of ethnic Russians by Ukrainian extremists served to create a climate of fear. The report notes that since the referendum of 16 March, measures have been taken in Crimea that are of deep concern from a human rights perspective. Those include the introduction of Russian citizenship, making it difficult for those who chose to maintain their Ukrainian citizenship to stay in Crimea and raising concerns about legal residency and the right to work. As we heard at the 31 March Arria formula meeting of the Council, the situation is particularly concerning for Tatars. The report confirms that, noting that the number of displaced Crimean Tatars is estimated to have reached 3,000. The actions of paramilitary groups in Crimea remain outside the law and threatening. The report calls for their disbandment.”
2014-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7157 (2014) · source
“The heavy-handed response from security forces was a catalyst for their escalation. These actions of the security forces came against a backdrop of a long-standing culture of impunity for human rights violations, including by the police. We welcome reports that the new Ukrainian authorities have committed to investigating those violations and to holding perpetrators to account. The report also sheds light on the events in Crimea. Russia has consistently argued that Russian-speaking minorities were threatened with repression. It has used that reasoning to justify its decision to take control of and annex Crimea. The report makes clear that there was no evidence of harassment or attacks on ethnic Russians in Crimea ahead of the referendum.”
2014-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7157 (2014) · source
“The report of the United Nations human rights monitoring mission is what the Council needs to see at this critical point in such an unstable and dangerous environment. It seems to us to provide a balanced and neutral depiction of the human rights situation and a clear picture of the events leading to the Maidan protest, the situation prior to the referendum held on 16 March in Crimea, and the current situation both in Crimea and in eastern Ukraine. Russia has made various assertions about the motivation of the Maidan protestors. The report makes clear that human rights violations were among the root causes of the demonstrations that took place throughout Ukraine and in particular in Kyiv. The protests were not driven by a so-called fascist agenda, but were a push for a more representative and effective Government.”
2014-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7157 (2014) · source
“I thank Assistant Secretary-General Simonovie for the report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and for his briefing. It is obviously very necessary that the Council give such careful focus on the human rights situation in Ukraine. We have heard repeated assertions about threats against particular groups, but we have seen little evidence to substantiate those assertions. Those claims have been used, however, as a justification for continuing interference in Ukraine's affairs, including the threat and use of force, contrary to the Charter of the United Nations. As the Council, we need to be clear-eyed and responsible about the situation on the ground and the true nature of the challenges facing the Ukrainian people.”
2014-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7157 (2014) · source
“That is simply a linear challenge to all of us in the Council and there is no rocket science in understanding that challenge. We have the conceptual frameworks and the toolkits and we see what is happening every day across the world. That is why we are sitting here. What we need to do is work harder, much harder, to match our response and the leadership mandated of us by all the peoples of the world to meet a simple linear challenge.”
2014-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7155 (2014) · source
“Equally, today it takes a lot of effort from us, hard work in the Council, to prevent genocide and mass atrocities. Renewed common resolve, through occasions like this debate, is necessary, but is too easy to give and it is never enough. As Ambassador Colin Keating concluded in his remarks this morning - and Colin's words deserve repeating - if we truly want prevention to work, then we need better political, operational and financial mechanisms for the Council and the wider United Nations system, new mechanisms for improved early warning, better systems for briefing and presenting options to the Council at the early stages of potential crises, enhanced preventive diplomacy, more effective use of Chapter VI tools, quick preventive deployment and, if all else fails, robust deterrence.”
2014-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7155 (2014) · source
“Finally, the Council must continue constantly to support efforts to end impunity, including the efforts made by the ad hoc international criminal courts and tribunals and the International Criminal Court. We are seeing evidence that international criminal justice mechanisms can be a powerful deterrent, but to do that they require strong international support. It should be axiomatic that the Council provides support to the International Criminal Court where the Council has itself referred a situation to the Court. In concluding, I recall that in his book about the Rwandan genocide, entitled Shake Hands with the Devil, United Nations Force Commander General Romeo Dallaire, a hero, chillingly describes the mechanics of genocide - the actual killings every day - as hard work. It takes a lot of effort to murder 1 million people in 100 days.”
2014-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7155 (2014) · source
“We should also support the provision of peacekeeping operations with robust mandates. The protection of civilians must always be at the core ofUnited Nations efforts to secure peace. The recent use of peacekeeping bases in South Sudan to shelter people fleeing Violence shows the type of concrete steps that can make a real difference and save lives on the ground. It also shows what desperate people fleeing atrocity not just need, but rightfully expect from the United Nations. As Dag Hammarskjold said, the United Nations is not here to take people to heaven, but we are here to save people from hell. Humanitarian access itself is a vital component in how we must approach peacekeeping.”
2014-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7155 (2014) · source
“The Secretary-General's Special Advisers on the Prevention of Genocide and on R2P have a dedicated function to look for signs of precursors to mass atrocity crimes, sounding the alarm, when necessary, and working with States and regional organizations to enhance their prevention efforts. The Council should receive more frequent briefings from both Special Advisers. We should schedule regular and serious horizon-scanning sessions that are uncensored by the Council's own political dynamics. The Secretary-General's leadership on that is crucial. The Council should support the vital Rights Up Front initiative, as we now know that human rights Violations are often the canary in the mineshaft. We see that in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and will be briefed by the commission of inquiry on human rights in the Arria format tomorrow.”
2014-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7155 (2014) · source
“Youth unemployment and alienation will be, I believe, the most challenging for us all over the next decades. Prevention also requires a robust civil society and non-governmental organizations, parliaments and media. National legislation can be instrumental and education decisive. The designation of a national R2P focal point within countries can help to integrate an atrocity prevention perspective in national policies. Focal points can form instrumental networks, especially across combustible regions, for helping to prevent atrocity crimes. Australia, together with Ghana, Costa Rica and Denmark, co-facilitate the R2P focal points initiative. We encourage Member States that have not already done so to appoint a national R2P focal point. As others have said and as we all know, effective early warning mechanisms are of course essential.”
2014-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7155 (2014) · source
“As we now understand, the genocide in Rwanda started not with massacres in churches but with hate speech, discrimination and marginalization. That underlines the fact that it is possible to identify and to implement a policy for atrocity prevention so that risk factors are addressed before a situation becomes a crisis that results in mass atrocities. As the Deputy Secretary-General reminded us this morning, just as genocide is systematic and planned, so the work to prevent it must be deliberate and systematic. Prevention requires strengthening the rule of law and respect for human rights, building institutions, ensuring good governance, combating discrimination and ensuring the participation of women and, in particular, young people.”
2014-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7155 (2014) · source
“The unanimous endorsement by Heads of State and Governement of the responsibility to protect (R2P) in 2005 was a resounding ackowledgement that, while States have the primary responsibility to protect their own populations from mass atrocities, we, the international community, and the Council must provide protection where national Governments have manifestly failed. On behalf of the Group Of Friends of R2P, comprising 45 States in total, including 10 members of the Council, we welcome the references to R2P in resolution 2150 (2014), which we have just adopted. While that is an essential normative response to our past failures, the challenge, as always, is implementation. We must do all that we can to operationalize R2P.”
2014-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7155 (2014) · source
“The Council must now act to respond to the mass atrocities being committed in Syria, including the systematic and widespread torture and deliberate targeting of civilians by the regime as part of its military strategy. The referral of the situation to the International Criminal Court is long overdue. In that context, France's proposal for permanent members to voluntarily renounce their veto powers in cases of mass atrocity crimes is very welcome. It should be supported and we should give it serious consideration.”
2014-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7155 (2014) · source
“The Council's authorization last week of a new peacekeeping mission for the Central African Republic, with the protection of civilians at its core, sent a clear message that the savage abuses and atrocities must end. The Council has acted and done the right thing, as have French and African forces. But the situation could so easily have got away from us and descended into even more chaos. Many of the Visible precursors to potential genocide and other atrocities were present. Prevention will always probably be our hardest task. Our diligence must be not only constant but also intrumentalized and quick. We still have lessons to learn.”
2014-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7155 (2014) · source
“Human progress is evolutionary. It is built on failure and the strength of a positive response to it. Failure always contains lessons. The United Nations inaction in the face of the events of 1994 in Rwanda remains one of the Organization's darkest failures. Despite credible forewarning and the frustrated efforts of countries such as New Zealand and some other elected members of the Council that tried to persuade the Council to deploy additional United Nations forces to Rwanda, we all failed. Now, 20 years after we said never again, we witness unspeakable crimes being committed in places such as Syria and the Central African Republic. We should need no other reminders that we still have so much more work to do.”
2014-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7155 (2014) · source
“The only way forward, as we all know, is de-escalation, dialogue and the free elections that are planned for 25 May. And Ukraine must be allowed to prepare for those elections without the interference and coercion we are witnessing. But talks can take place only with genuine commitment and good faith on all sides. The talks between Russia, Ukraine, the European Union and the United States planned for 17 April are an essential step in that direction, but can take place successfully only on that basis. Attempts to change the facts on the ground are completely contrary to dialogue and peaceful resolution. We call on Russia to work immediately to reduce tensions, stop its destabilization and withdraw its forces from the provocative posture they have assumed on Ukraine's border.”
2014-04-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7154 (2014) · source
“General Assembly resolution 68/262 unambiguously condemned the threat and use of force in this manner as contrary to the Charter of the United Nations and to Russia's specific treaty obligations to Ukraine. Many countries, including my own, have imposed unilateral sanctions to register the depth of their concern. Repeated calls for de-escalation have been ignored. Russia's major military build-up along Ukraine's eastern border has been a significant and deliberation provocation that only further escalates tensions and the likelihood of conflict. It deepens Russia's own isolation and also, of course, strengthens the resolve of the international community to stand with and support Ukraine as it seeks to maintain its sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
2014-04-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7154 (2014) · source
“Ukraine's response to those provocations has been one of restraint under intolerable threats to its stability and independence. There is no evidence of actions directed at Russian speakers in eastern Ukraine that could possibly justify an intervention by Russia. Nor is there the generalized anarchy claimed. The ongoing work of the special mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe is all the more important for providing an objective account of the situation in eastern Ukraine, and we welcome the information that the number of monitors will be significantly increased in coming days. International condemnation of Russia's actions against Ukraine in the past six weeks has been resounding.”
2014-04-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7154 (2014) · source
“If all that sounds familiar, it is because we have seen the playbook used by Russia in Crimea. In that case, it became clear that the militias were in fact Russian forces. We condemn any use ofproxy forces. A State cannot seek to avoid responsibility for its actions by attempting to cloak the identity of those working on its behalf. The principles of State responsibility make it very clear that a State bears international responsibility for acts undertaken by informal actors whom it engages on its behalf. We have heard Russia's statement about the crisis taking place in eastern Ukraine, but what we are actually witnessing is Violence and destabilization in an effort to manufacture a sense of crisis and separatism.”
2014-04-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7154 (2014) · source
“Like all of us, Australia has watched the events in eastern Ukraine with mounting concern. What we have seen unfold is a coordinated operation where well-trained and well- armed paramilitary units have moved quickly to lay siege to, occupy and control key institutions in five or six towns in Donetsk province. The violence in Sloviansk has led to one death and nine wounded. The stakes are obviously dangerously high. This has not been a spontaneous, grassroots, broad-based protest movement by local inhabitants; rather it is a pattern of highly orchestrated destabilization by pro-Russian groups. Those groups have included units of highly trained armed men with Russian military equipment, operating without identifying insignia. Those units have used force to storm and besiege local Government buildings and institutions.”
2014-04-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7154 (2014) · source
“I might also note that we will continue to make efforts to try to "de-dry" these reports in the future, but there are certain legal obligations according to which the Committee is required to transmit certain information to the public in an ordinary meeting of the Security Council.”
2014-03-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7146 (2014) · source
“With regard to the obligation of Member States to freeze assets on their territory that are owned or controlled by a person or entity listed by the Council or the Committee and to prevent any assets being made available to such persons or entities, the Committee received one notification from a Member State pursuant to paragraph 15 ofresolution 1737 (2006) and paragraph 4 of resolution 1747 (2007), which allow for payments owed by a listed person or entity under a contract entered into prior to the listing to be made from that person or entity's frozen funds, subject to notification to the Committee. I should note, in concluding, that a slightly more detailed version of this report will be available online.”
2014-03-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7146 (2014) · source
“The Committee must be notified of supplies to Iran of items falling under the exception and, during the reporting period, the Committee received one such notification by a Member State concerning the delivery of items for reactor unit 1 of the Bushehr nuclear power plant.”
2014-03-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7146 (2014) · source
“Finally, the Panel recommended that the Committee address discrepancies in the list where designated individuals no longer hold the positions identified in those designations. The Committee is taking that forward as part of the comprehensive review of the Committee's list mentioned in part 1 ofthe Committee's work programme. Just before concluding, I would like to turn now to conditional exceptions to the ban on supplying nuclear- related items to Iran, notably in relation to items for light water reactors, which the Council considers to be less proliferation-sensitive than heavy water reactors.”
2014-03-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7146 (2014) · source
“Noting that the language identified in the recommendation is used in targeted financial sanctions under other Council resolutions, the Committee has been reluctant to consider the question unilaterally. However, we have begun a process of consultation with other relevant sanctions committees to consider the issue collectively. The Panel's fifth recommendation was for the Committee to provide guidance on the modalities surrounding a State's inspection of cargoes and possible seizing of goods suspected to be in contravention of the resolutions, including such matters as timing and content of reports to the Committee and inviting inspection by the Panel. The Committee is developing text to include in the Committee's Fact Sheet and other relevant Committee documents.”
2014-03-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7146 (2014) · source
“The Committee continues to discuss whether some form of written guidance for Member States on that obligation is necessary. In the meantime, we encourage any Member State with questions concerning the scope of the obligation to contact the Committee. The Panel's third recommendation related to vessels under the control of the Irano Hind Shipping Company, which is a designated entity under sanctions. The company was dissolved by its joint venture partners in the first part of 2013, preventing the Committee from taking up the recommendation. Fourthly, the Panel recommended that the Committee consider providing guidance to States on how to implement aspects of the targeted financial sanctions that extend the application of the measures to agents and affiliates of designated persons and entities.”
2014-03-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7146 (2014) · source
“The Committee stands ready to consider such a designation if and when a Member State puts the designation to the Committee, as required by the Committee's guidelines. Secondly, the Panel recommended that the Committee encourage States to be alert to attempted procurement of any items destined for an end use prohibited by the resolutions. That is a reference to the fact that the obligation to prevent the supply to Iran of all items that could contribute to Iran's prohibited nuclear and missile-related activities applies not only to items included in the lists named in the resolutions and updated by the Committee, but to any further items if the Member State determines that they could contribute to those prohibited activities.”
2014-03-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7146 (2014) · source
“That data will allow the Committee to determine whether any of the individuals were indeed listed individuals travelling in contravention of the travel ban and, in that case, to strengthen the effectiveness of both the ban and targeted financial sanctions by including the new identifying data in the consolidated list. As we are approaching the end of the current mandate of the Panel of Experts and the submission of its final report in May, I thought it would be timely to inform the Council of the outcome of the Committee's deliberations on the Panel's recommendations to the Committee from its report of May 2013. The Panel's first recommendation was to designate an entity the Panel found to be in violation of paragraph 12 of resolution 1929 (2010) for procuring valves for use in the Arak heavy water reactor.”
2014-03-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7146 (2014) · source
“The Committee provided additional identifying information of a listed individual from publicly available sources, including photographs, to assist a Member State in clarifying a possible match. The Committee similarly responded to another State's request for assistance in determining whether particular entities were included in the Committee's consolidated list. The Committee itself received assistance from a Member State, which transmitted to us a list of persons who had travelled through the country with names similar to those of listed individuals and provided additional identifying information for those possible matches that was missing from the Committee's consolidated list, such as birth dates and passport numbers.”
2014-03-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7146 (2014) · source
“The Panel of Experts is separately engaging with the Member State concerned on those reports. During the reporting period, the Committee responded to requests for guidance from Member States covering a range of issues, ranging from notification requirements and engagement with the originating State of seized items to the supply of target-shooting ammunition to Iran for sport shooting purposes, and updated lists of designated individuals, entities and goods to which the sanctions apply. The Committee is also working with an international organization on clarifying whether a particular proposal for technical assistance to Iran is compatible with the sanctions regime. The Committee has also engaged with a number of Member States over the past three months on the implementation of the targeted financial sanctions regime.”
2014-03-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7146 (2014) · source
“Another Member State informed the Committee of the confirmation of the judgement against a person found guilty ofviolating its laws implementing the Council's sanctions on Iran. The Committee continued to consider its response to the report by the Panel of Experts, which had concluded that Iran's attempted procurement of carbon fibre in December 2012 - those goods were intercepted and seized by a Member State - contravened the resolutions. The Permanent Representative of a Member State, named in media reports as having contracted to procure arms from Iran, in contravention of paragraph 5 of resolution 1747 (2007) , called on me in my capacity as Chair of the Committee to deny the reports. The Permanent Mission also sent a note verbale to the Committee in similar terms.”
2014-03-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7146 (2014) · source
“As I mentioned during my last report in December 2013 (see S/PV.7082), the Security Council measures imposed by resolutions 1737 (2006), 1747 (2007), 1803 (2008) and 1929 (2010) remain in effect, and Member States continue to have an obligation to implement them duly. The Committee adopted its programme of work for the period 1 January to 30 June 2014 on 24 January and has already been actively engaged with Member States. The Committee received multiple communications from several Member States, updating the Committee on the outcome of enforcement actions they had taken. One Member State reported on the steps it had taken to prevent multiple attempts in 2011 and 2012 by Iran to procure carbon fibre, suspected of being in violation of relevant Security Council resolutions.”
2014-03-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7146 (2014) · source
“We wrote on 12 April 2013 in relation to the Panel's unanimous conclusion that Iran's launches of the Shahab-l and Shahab-3 missiles during the Great Prophet VII exercises contravened paragraph 9 of resolution 1929 (2010), and on 21 May 2013 in relation to the Panel's conclusion that an intercepted arms shipment in Yemen was at the very least a probable violation by Iran of paragraph 5 of resolution 1747 (2007). Iran has still not replied, and the Committee continues to call on Iran to do so. Although the Committee remains mindful of ongoing talks between the P5+1 and Iran following the joint plan of action agreed in Geneva on 24 November 2013, the work of both the Committee and the Panel of Experts remains unchanged for 2014.”
2014-03-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7146 (2014) · source
“Some of the cases related to violations of national implementation measures investigated by local enforcement authorities; for others, the Member State concerned invited the Panel of Experts to investigate the incident, in particular those that appeared to be a breach by Iran of its obligations under the resolutions. I cannot overstate the importance to the Committee's work of these incident reports and the willingness of Member States to invite the Panel of Experts to participate in the investigation of such incidents. The Committee twice reached out to Iran last year in relation to incidents investigated by the Panel of Experts.”
2014-03-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7146 (2014) · source
“The annual report provides a useful snapshot of the range of activities pursued by the Committee in accordance with its mandate over that year.I would particularly like to highlight the Committee's communications with Member States and international organizations on matters of implementation and compliance. Providing guidance to Member States that request assistance with their implementation of the relevant provisions of the key resolutions is obviously a critical dimension of the Committee's programme of work. I encourage all Member States to take us up on our offer. Another aspect of our work, highlighted in the 2013 annual report, is the reports from Member States themselves of action they have taken to enforce the sanctions measures.”
2014-03-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7146 (2014) · source
“I have the honour to present the report of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006), in accordance with paragraph 18 (h) of that resolution. The present report covers the period from 13 December 2013 to 19 March 2014, during which time the Committee held two informal meetings and one informal informal meeting, and conducted additional work using the no-objection procedure envisaged in paragraph 15 of the guidelines for the conduct of the Committee's work. The Committee presented its annual report to the President of the Council on 27 December last year.”
2014-03-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7146 (2014) · source
“Ongoing human rights monitoring is essential, and we welcome the work of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights team that is already being done and their continued deployment, but such monitoring must also take place in Crimea. In conclusion, we are obviously at a critical point for Ukraine and the region and for the integrity of the rules-based international order itself. All Member States have a direct interest in the preservation of that order. As the Deputy Secretary-General has underlined again today, the crisis must be resolved peacefully through diplomatic means and direct dialogue. Such a resolution must respect Ukraine's unity and territorial integrity. It is up to Russia to commit to finding such a solution.”
2014-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7144 (2014) · source
“Given the allegations raised by Russia about serious infringement of the human rights of Russian speakers in Crimea and elsewhere in Ukraine, it is obviously important that those allegations continue to be independently assessed, especially as the OSCE High Commissioner for National Minorities found no evidence of violations or threats to Russian speakers in Crimea during her recent visit. As Assistant Secretary-General Simonovie has just reported to us, the violations he has learned of are neither widespread nor systematic. On the other hand, Crimea's Tatar community clearly feel threatened. Mr. Simonovic' has noted there are credible reports that a Tatar activist has been tortured and murdered. There are also reports that Ukrainian civil society activists have been abducted. Those violations must cease.”
2014-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7144 (2014) · source
“In addition to measures put in place by others, the Australian Government announced, on 19 March, that it would impose targeted measures against individuals who have been instrumental in the Russian threat to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine. We have not taken those steps lightly and have done so with regret, only after repeatedly urging Russia to de-escalate and engage in diplomatic dialogue to resolve the crisis. An important first step for Russia will be to recognize the need for and support the deployment of monitors on the ground. We encourage Russia to engage constructively in support of an Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) monitoring mission to Ukraine. Such a mission should be deployed as a matter of priority.”
2014-03-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7144 (2014) · source