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2014-10-23
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2022-12-14
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  1. “Gonsalves of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, who profoundly captured our raison d’être: “we must construct the best possible partnership between all nations, whatever our differences, to take care of yesterday’s heritage, to accommodate and reasonably address today’s interests and to pursue effectively, in peace and security, tomorrow’s hopes.” (A/77/PV.12, p.13)”

    2022-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9220Resumption1 (2022) · source

  2. “At the margins of the seventy-seventh session of the General Assembly, 35 like-minded Member States issued a call to action for reform of the Security Council in which they renewed their commitment to effective multilateralism and recognized the need for comprehensive reform of the Security Council, including through its enhanced representativeness and legitimacy. This call to action was echoed at the general debate of the seventy-seventh session of the General Assembly by one of the leaders of our Caribbean region, Prime Minister Ralph E.”

    2022-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9220Resumption1 (2022) · source

  3. “Additionally, in order for the Security Council to be fit for purpose, it is imperative that, through periodic evaluation, its working methods remain relevant. Council members must therefore continue to engage constructively within the Informal Working Group on Documentation and Other Procedural Questions to secure an efficient effective and transparent Council. Finally, we need political will. Exceptionalism of States comes not from subterfuge or their ability to wage wars, including proxy wars, but from their willingness to prioritize multilateralism in the most harrowing of times. The necessity of this commitment was recognized in the Declaration on the Commemoration of the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the United Nations.”

    2022-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9220Resumption1 (2022) · source

  4. “Today the fissures in our multilateral architecture have been entrenched through division and mistrust. We must revert to the peaceful settlement of disputes based on the principles of sovereignty and equality, recognizing the need for mutual respect for differences while refraining from unilateralism. Secondly, we need to make progress on the issue of Security Council reform. This is a sentiment that was expressed by over 70 world leaders at this year’s general debate at the General Assembly. It is impossible to safeguard multilateralism when the voices of peoples from regions across the globe are being excluded from decisions on their futures and deliberations on shared challenges.”

    2022-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9220Resumption1 (2022) · source

  5. “However, a fractured Security Council at the helm of the peace and security pillar challenges the ability of the Organization to discharge its mandate. The United Nations nevertheless remains our best chance at peace. Its existence still represents our greatest multilateral feat. Today’s meeting is convened at a time when our world is assailed by traditional threats to international peace and security and rapidly evolving risks that have transcended our original understanding of peace and security. The only way to address these common challenges is through strengthened and enduring multilateralism. We therefore welcome the notion of a new orientation for reformed multilateralism, which we believe requires three key elements. First, we need to rebuild trust among States.”

    2022-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9220Resumption1 (2022) · source

  6. “I have the honour to deliver today’s statement on behalf of the following like-minded States: Bahamas, Barbados, Bhutan, Brazil, Cabo Verde, Grenada, Guyana, India, Jamaica, Malawi, Mauritius, Micronesia, Mongolia, Nauru, Nigeria, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, South Africa, the Gambia, Timor- Leste and Vanuatu. We wish to thank India in its capacity as President of the Security Council for convening today’s open debate and welcome the remarks made by the Secretary-General and the President of the General Assembly. Article 1 of the Charter of the United Nations sets out the purposes of the Organization, which capture the objectives of multilateralism.”

    2022-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9220Resumption1 (2022) · source

  7. “Now is the time for collective stock-taking of this institution in which all Member States have reposed their collective trust.”

    2014-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7285 (2014) · source

  8. “It is our considered belief that cosmetic changes to the working methods alone will not help. Real improvements require change in both process and approach, which as a first step require reform in the composition of the Council. In conclusion, let me reiterate our considered view that genuine reform in the working methods of the Security Council requires a comprehensive reform in the membership of the Council, with expansion in both the permanent and non-permanent categories, not only improvements in its working procedures. That is essential both for the credibility and continued confidence of the international community in this institution. The seventieth anniversary of the United Nations provides us a historic opportunity to address this long-standing historical anomaly.”

    2014-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7285 (2014) · source

  9. “We therefore all have an equal stake in its effective functioning and working methods. Fifthly, the Council must also improve its cooperation with regional organizations, particularly with the African Union, since a large portion of the Council's work concerns the African continent. Such cooperation must be serious and include providing assistance to the African region, as per their requirements, not only when some permanent members deem it in their interest. Sixthly, some very useful suggestions on overall improvements in the working methods were made at the sixty-eighth session of the General Assembly in section 4 of the non-paper circulated on 10 December 2013 by the President of the Assembly at that session. We believe that the Council may find its contents useful throughout this process.”

    2014-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7285 (2014) · source

  10. “Fourthly, with regard to working methods, we have often been told in the context of the intergovernmental negotiations that permanent members, being permanent, are masters of the Council's working methods and have the sole right to determine them. We humbly beg to differ. The Council is mandated by the United Nations Charter with the primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security. What the Council does to discharge its responsibility and how it does it is thus of interest to the entire international community, not only to Council members, let alone only the permanent members. Article 24(1) of the Charter clearly prescribes that in carrying out its duties under its responsibility, the Security Council acts on behalf of the wider membership of the United Nations.”

    2014-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7285 (2014) · source

  11. “This is further exemplified by the fact that the Council has demonstrated little interest in consulting with those affected most by its decisions, or even in adopting transparent and inclusive rules of procedure. Thirdly, it is apparent by now that the Council has not acted to harness fully the capabilities of the wider United Nations membership. That is particularly evident in the manner in which it applies coercive measures under Chapter VII, to the neglect of provisions under Chapters VI and VIII, which have proved to be counter- productive in resolving international crises, even as it has sought to expand the definition of peace and security with a view to encroaching upon the Charter- mandated roles of other United Nations organs.”

    2014-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7285 (2014) · source

  12. “General Assembly decision 62/557, adopted by consensus, mandated that the question of working methods be one of the five pillars of Security Council reform and be discussed as part ofthe overall question of Security Council reforms, not in isolation. Secondly, we should not assume that working methods are divorced from the members that use them. If the membership of the Security Council continues to reflect the post-Second World War architecture of 1945 even in 2014, obviously not much can be expected in terms of improvement in the working methods except to acknowledge with disappointment that the rules of procedure continue to be provisional even 70 years after the Council's creation.”

    2014-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7285 (2014) · source

  13. “With you at the helm of the Council this month, we are confident that on matters as important as the Council's working methods there will not just be discussion, but that concrete steps will also be taken to ensure that our agreement on the subject today translates into visible action in the Security Council. I would like to make the following assertions on behalfofthe L.69 group for the Council's consideration. First, it would be unfortunate on our part if we were to treat the issue of improvement in working methods as a stand-alone issue distinct from the subject of overall reforms of the Security Council.”

    2014-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7285 (2014) · source

  14. “I have the honour today to take the floor on behalf of the group of supporters of General Assembly draft resolution A/6l/L.69, a diverse group of 42 developing countries from Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Asia and the Pacific that are united by a common cause - to achieve lasting and comprehensive reform of the Security Council, including of its working methods. At the outset, on behalf of the L.69 group, let me thank you, Madam President, for convening today's open debate on the working methods of the Security Council and for outlining the broad parameters of the subject through your letter and concept note of 8 October 2014 (S/2014/725, annex).”

    2014-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7285 (2014) · source