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Ronaldo Costa Filho

lines on the record: 92
first: 2020-07-07
most recent: 2021-10-21
sittings or episodes: 12
sources: un-security-council

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“In our upcoming mandate, we look forward to working with like-minded countries to promote the political participation of women as an integral part of the women and peace and security agenda.”
2021-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/886 (2021) · source
“All Member States, including those that first supported the women and peace and security agenda in the year 2000, must bridge the gap between rhetoric and action when it comes to women’s full, equal and meaningful participation in peace processes they lead or promote. Afghan, Haitian, Yemeni women and others rightfully demand to be heard in matters related to their fundamental rights. In 2022 and 2023, Brazil hopes to contribute to the advancement of the women and peace and security agenda in civil life — before, during and after conflicts. The inclusion of women in the whole of the peace continuum — conflict prevention and resolution, peacekeeping and peacebuilding — is consistent with Brazil’s staunch support for peaceful settlements, as well as with our long-standing position that development and security are intrinsically linked.”
2021-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/886 (2021) · source
“We welcome the incorporation of a gender perspective in programmes financed by the Peacebuilding Fund. The collaboration between the Fund and the Department of Peace Operations with regard to resources for gender-responsive security sector reform strikes us a promising way forward. In the 21 years since the adoption of resolution 1325 (2000), women across the globe have helped wage peace, when given a fair chance. There are important lessons to be learned from their engagement in peace processes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Guinea-Bissau and Colombia, where gender- responsive disarmament, demobilization and reintegration is a reality. However, recent examples of the dire consequences of negotiating processes that exclude women are a humbling reminder of just how much is left for the Council to do.”
2021-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/886 (2021) · source
“Brazil proudly holds two consecutive United Nations Military Gender Advocate of the Year Awards. In 2019, Commander Marcia Braga received the Award for her work in the Central African Republic. In 2020, Commander Carla Araujo shared the Award with India’s Major Suman Gawani, renewing our pride in the excellence of our contribution to United Nations peacekeeping. Brazil’s national action plan includes a women and peace and security perspective in our cooperation in post-conflict contexts. That guideline helps frame our engagement, for instance, in the Peacebuilding Commission’s country- specific configuration for Guinea-Bissau. Brazil therefore values the integration of the women and peace and security agenda into United Nations peacebuilding efforts in the field, as the Commission’s Gender Strategy puts forth.”
2021-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/886 (2021) · source
“In fact, Brazil’s decision to launch a national action plan in 2017 arose from our traditional role as a police- and troop-contributing country. The plan, renewed in 2019 for another four years, has guided us in the challenge, shared by many a police- and troop-contributing country, to increase the participation of female officers in peacekeeping missions in order to meet the targets established in the 2018-2028 Uniformed Gender Parity Strategy. Reflecting on prevention and gender-sensitive community violence reduction — as proposed by the Kenyan presidency — we see it fitting to emphasize that women peacekeepers are in many cases the only ones with access to the local female population. Their enhanced participation is therefore fundamental to the United Nations ability to, among other tasks, protect civilians more efficiently.”
2021-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/886 (2021) · source
“In our previous term serving on the Council, Brazil was already a staunch supporter of the women and peace and security agenda. In 2010, we co-sponsored resolution 1960 (2010)and supported presidential statements on the topic. In 2011, Brazil chaired the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1533 (2004) concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo when it received the first briefing by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict. As a result, the Committee included rape and sexual violence in its listing criteria. More recently, Brazil joined the co-sponsors of resolution 2538 (2020), the first stand-alone resolution of women in peacekeeping operations.”
2021-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/886 (2021) · source
“As Brazil prepares for its eleventh term as a non-permanent member of the Security Council, we commend Kenya, Ireland and Mexico for the initiative of promoting the women and peace and security agenda as a shared priority of their respective presidencies and look forward to the outcome recommendations emerging from this exercise. Brazil has also included the agenda as one of the priorities of its next term as a member of the Council. Building on the legacy of Dr. Bertha Lutz, one of only five women plenipotentiary delegates in San Francisco in 1945, Brazil’s participation in the United Nations is intertwined with its historic defence of women’s participation in decision-making, including that related to international peace and security.”
2021-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/886 (2021) · source
“The Peacebuilding Commission and its members should be consulted – and its advice be taken into consideration – whenever the Council is set on determining the withdrawal of a given peacekeeping operation, in line with Security Council presidential statement S/PRST/2017/27. The multilateral peace and security architecture is a work in progress – and perhaps it will always be. Perfecting transitions of peacekeeping operations into other forms of multilateral presence favouring the consolidation of peace in a post-conflict situation is a task that the Security Council must take on.”
2021-09-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/783 (2021) · source
“As an incoming Council member, Brazil has set fostering a stronger coordination between the Council and the Peacebuilding Commission as one of its top priorities in our next term as a non-permanent member. It is our understanding that the Peacebuilding Commission is uniquely positioned to advise the Council on tackling the root causes of conflicts – especially extreme poverty, lack of human development, and humanitarian crisis – as a means to create the conditions for the guns to silence and political stability and enduring peace to speak louder. During the transitions from peacekeeping to a more civilian presence of the United Nations on the ground, this role is even more latent.”
2021-09-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/783 (2021) · source
“It must be borne in mind, however, that a hasty transition – from peacekeeping operations to special political missions or from peacekeeping operations to a lighter presence in the form of United Nations country teams – whereby the conditions are not yet ripe for a full withdrawal of blue helmets might prove counterproductive. This scenario is one which the Security Council must be permanently attentive to and anticipate whenever possible. Natural limitations as to the types of mandates that can be attributed to special political missions and shortcomings in their financial mechanism make it imperative that transitions are not triggered prematurely. Brazil remains a strong advocate of closer dialogue between the Security Council and the Peacebuilding Commission.”
2021-09-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/783 (2021) · source
“Generally authorized under the purview of Chapter VI of the Charter of the United Nations, special political missions offer a roster of peaceful solutions to assist with peacemaking, peacebuilding and sustaining peace activities, spanning from mediation and the offer of good offices to providing advice to national authorities and strengthening State institutions. There are contemporarily positive examples of such modality being deploy ed in the aftermath of the termination of peacekeeping operations: Haiti (United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti) and the Sudan (United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in the Sudan) are two such cases, having left somewhat of a blueprint for future transitions from complex peacekeeping to a more purely peacebuilding presence elsewhere.”
2021-09-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/783 (2021) · source
“An interim arrangement by definition – conceived to help a given society out of armed conflict and transition into a situation whereby armed conflicts subside and political stability starts to take root – peacekeeping operations ought to transition themselves into forms of multilateral engagement more suitable to post-conflict situations. In that light, the United Nations must be endowed with both the tools and the political animus to know how to be a catalyst for peacekeeping to evolve into peacebuilding and, eventually, for peacebuilding to bring about sustainable peace. One such instrument is special political missions, whose ultimate objective is to avoid the resumption of armed conflict.”
2021-09-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/783 (2021) · source
“I commend the President for bringing to the fore of the Security Council such a fresh perspective to the debate on United Nations peacekeeping operations. Brazil recognizes Ireland’s solid credentials and ample experience on the matter, attributes that will unquestionably prove instrumental as you shepherd the Council’s discussion on peacekeeping reform through the lens of transition. Peacekeeping operations are a valuable instrument at the service of the United Nations – and the international community writ large – in its goal of maintaining and preserving international peace and security. However, peacekeeping operations were not designed to last indefinitely.”
2021-09-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/783 (2021) · source
“A case in point: the use of unmanned aircraft merits close attention by all involved stakeholders – Secretariat, field missions, host nations and troop- and police-contributing countries – both in the light of its legitimate possibilities and the potential added risks the mishandling of new technologies might bring about. With that in mind, it is highly important that the Secretariat keeps member States up to date on the use of new technologies in peacekeeping operations. One other aspect that should be taken into consideration by the Council is that the use of new technologies does not entail the undesirable diversion of resources from other critical areas pertaining to the safety and security of peacekeepers.”
2021-08-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/732 (2021) · source
“There are tasks that can be safely delegated to technological instruments while sparing casualties and suffering on the part of military and police officers as well as civilian staff in the context of a peacekeeping mission. However, as it has been proven time and again, technological advancement is oftentimes a double-edged sword. Therefore, the use of new technologies must be the object of careful regulation, scrutiny and oversight in order to avoid the creation of the kind of situations the deployment of peacekeeping operations seeks to circumvent in the first place, including violations of national sovereignty and disrespect to the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations.”
2021-08-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/732 (2021) · source
“As the operational environment peacekeepers encounter in the field grows increasingly more challenging – characterized by regional conflicts, ethnic strife, terrorism, the use of improvised explosive devices, not to mention the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic – it is only fitting that the Security Council steps up to the plate in order to minimize the risks peacekeepers are exposed to in carrying out the mandates handed to them by this very organ. There is no mistake that innovation and the use of new technologies can be a powerful tool to counter the threats against peacekeepers and also to assist in the implementation of the mandates of United Nations peacekeeping operations, especially the protection of civilians.”
2021-08-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/732 (2021) · source
“As one of the Co-Chairs of the newly established Group of Friends on the Safety and Security of United Nations Peacekeepers (alongside my colleagues from China, Indonesia and Rwanda), it fell on me the high honour of addressing the Security Council on 25 May to highlight the Group's concern about the recent increase in the number of blue helmets killed by malicious acts in recent years. The concern is not unwarranted.”
2021-08-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/732 (2021) · source
“First and foremost, please allow me to commend the Indian presidency of the United Nations Security Council for the month of August for convening such a critical debate on the use of new technologies to enhance the safety and security of United Nations peacekeepers on the ground. Peacekeeping has been – and remains – an absolute priority for the Brazilian Government. As an incoming Council member, Brazil is committed to maintaining all aspects of peacekeeping front and centre in the Security Council’s agenda. In that context, the safety and security of blue helmets is a priority that requires the Security Council to remain vigilant and actively engaged on the matter.”
2021-08-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/732 (2021) · source
“The co-Chairs are grateful to the more than 50 Member States that answered the call and accepted the invitation to join the Group of Friends. The broad and diverse composition of that newly established Group of Friends, including several troop- and police-contributing countries, financial contributors, host nations and key stakeholders from every continent, is testimony to the relevance of the Group of Friends and an important asset going forward.”
2021-05-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/501 (2021) · source
“Brazil is also proud of the mobile training team specializing in jungle warfare that is deployed to the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a case in point of how the provision of adequate training can strengthen the safety and security of uniformed personnel. Brazil is a strong supporter of the Secretary-General’s Action for Peacekeeping initiative — as well as the Action for Peacekeeping Plus follow-up initiative — which we view as a constructive approach to dealing with peacekeeping in all its aspects, not least the safety and security of Blue Helmets. Recently, Brazil proudly joined China, Indonesia and Rwanda in establishing the new Group of Friends on the Safety and Security of United Nations Peacekeepers.”
2021-05-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/501 (2021) · source
“Providing well-trained troops is an indispensable factor in improving performance, enhancing safety and security and ensuring the successful implementation of mandates. Blue Helmets should not be deployed without specific preparation that is tailor-made for the operating environment they will be deployed to. We are especially proud of the work done by the Brazilian Peace Operations Joint Training Centre and the Naval Peace Operations Training Centre, both of which offer training predeployment partnerships for a broad range of international partners.”
2021-05-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/501 (2021) · source
“We commend the efforts undertaken by all stakeholders to fully implement resolution 2518 (2020) — the first-ever resolution dedicated exclusively to the safety and security of peacekeepers. Brazil has a long-standing tradition of contributing to peacekeeping operations, spanning more than 70 years. As many as 46,000 Brazilian civilians, military and police personnel have been deployed to 40 of the 72 peacekeeping operations ever created under the United Nations flag. Brazil is proud of the track record of its Blue Helmets for their professionalism and commitment to the mission, as well as to United Nations principles, in spite of the insurmountable risks they often face as they perform their duties.”
2021-05-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/501 (2021) · source
“We are also disheartened by the deaths of peacekeepers as a result of the coronavirus disease, while recognizing the commendable job done jointly by troop- and police- contributing countries, host nations, the Secretariat, field missions and other key stakeholders in avoiding the spread of the disease in conflict-affected areas. Brazil is especially concerned about the use of improvised explosive devices against peacekeepers. We must persevere relentlessly in mitigating that threat, including through the United Nations Mine Action Service. Brazil encourages the Secretariat to sustain its efforts to ensure the implementation of the Action Plan to Improve the Security of United Nations Peacekeepers.”
2021-05-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/501 (2021) · source
“The contribution of United Nations peacekeeping operations to the maintenance of international peace and security is beyond dispute. Similarly, it is hard to deny that the targeting of Blue Helmets amounts to attacking what peacekeeping and the flag of the United Nations stand for. While the number of fatalities among peacekeepers has dropped steadily in the past few years, we witnessed a worrisome uptick in 2020, which should prompt us to reflect on measures to avoid that unacceptable statistic repeating itself. As we approach the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, the Brazilian Government mourns every single loss of life sustained by peacekeeping operations and offers its most sincere condolences to the families of the fallen.”
2021-05-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/501 (2021) · source
“The Group of Friends on the Safety and Security of United Nations Peacekeepers is keen to work with the Secretariat and all Member States to make contributions to that effect, including through the Action for Peacekeeping initiative.”
2021-05-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/501 (2021) · source
“We welcome the progress achieved so far by Member States, the Secretariat and field missions in enhancing the safety and security of peacekeepers in a comprehensive manner and recall resolution 2518 (2020) and all relevant Security Council resolutions on the matter, as well as the Secretary-General’s Action Plan to Improve the Security of United Nations Peacekeepers. It is the collective duty of all stakeholders involved to translate that global awareness into concrete actions. The time is ripe to enhance our joint efforts and undertake the shared responsibility to ensure the safety and security of peacekeepers.”
2021-05-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/501 (2021) · source
“It is our collective goal to build a platform with a view to strengthening information-sharing, policy coordination and capacity-building so as to support the achievement of substantive progress in enhancing the safety and security of peacekeepers in the field on the basis of a multidimensional approach. The Group of Friends highlights the importance of the inclusion of a gender perspective at all stages of the deployment of peacekeepers, that is, planning, training and evaluation, with a view to mitigating the risks to their safety and security on the ground.”
2021-05-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/501 (2021) · source
“In that context, Brazil, China, Indonesia and Rwanda jointly established the Group of Friends on the Safety and Security of United Nations Peacekeepers, which started off with more than 50 members, coming from every geographic group. The members of the new Group of Friends are major stakeholders in peacekeeping, including troop- and police-contributing countries members of the Security Council and the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations and current, as well as former, host nations. The broad diversity of the Group, reflected in its original composition, demonstrates the commitment to inclusiveness and cross-regional representation shown by its members.”
2021-05-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/501 (2021) · source
“Meanwhile, threats stemming from regional conflicts, ethnic strife, terrorism and the use of improvised explosive devices, compounded by the coronavirus disease pandemic, pose greater risks to Blue Helmets in the 12 peacekeeping operations that are currently deployed. In the past 70-plus years, more than 4,000 peacekeepers from over 120 countries lost their lives in the line of duty. While there has been a discernible downward trend since 2018, we saw with concern an alarming spike in the number of fatalities among peacekeepers last year and in the opening months of 2021. Ensuring the safety and security of the men and women in uniform who risk their lives serving under the United Nations flag is crucial and must be a collective priority.”
2021-05-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/501 (2021) · source
“I am grateful for the opportunity to address the Security Council as co-Chair of the Group of Friends on the Safety and Security of United Nations Peacekeepers. Let me also thank Under-Secretaries-General Lacroix, Khare and Michaud for their informative and insightful briefings. United Nations peacekeeping operations are a major instrument for maintaining international peace and security at the disposal of the international community. They have played an important role in promoting political processes, monitoring the implementation of ceasefires, protecting civilians, promoting human rights, assisting in humanitarian relief and bringing hope to people in areas affected by conflict around the world.”
2021-05-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/501 (2021) · source
“Brazil is especially proud of the contributions of two of its women peacekeepers — Commander Márcia Braga and Commander Carla Araújo — distinguished with the United Nations Military Gender Award, in 2018 and 2019, respectively, for promoting mixed teams in patrols of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic, which have helped reduce sexual violence in that country. Brazil remains deeply committed to the advancement of the women and peace and security agenda. It is our view that the Security Council ought to remain engaged and mobilized to fulfil without delay the promise of eliminating sexual violence in conflict.”
2021-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/375 (2021) · source
“The presence of women Blue Helmets on the ground can encourage the reporting of cases of sexual violence and forge stronger ties between the peacekeeping operations and the communities. Hence, it is essential that the Uniformed Gender Parity Strategy 2018-2028 be fully implemented, leading to the significant expansion of the number and proportion of uniformed women deployed in peacekeeping operations. Another valuable instrument in preventing sexual violence in conflict is the deployment of gender advisers in peacekeeping operations.”
2021-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/375 (2021) · source
“We are proud of the overall track record of Brazilian Blue Helmets in their performance, especially of their strict observance of conduct and discipline protocols. Brazilian predeployment practices are widely considered to be exemplary in the prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse in the operational environments of peacekeeping operations. If predeployment training plays an important role in inhibiting sexual violence in the context of peacekeeping, the deployment of women peacekeepers is also a major factor in deterring and combating such crimes. Women peacekeepers tend to be able to reach out to more segments of the local population than their male counterparts.”
2021-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/375 (2021) · source
“Brazil lends its support to the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, established in 2009 with the goal of raising awareness and coordinating a system-wide response to the issue. It is only fitting that Special Envoy Pramila Patten addresses the Council in this debate, and we thank her for her insight, as well as her efforts. Brazil also applauds various initiatives aimed at advancing standard procedures in the fight against conflict-related sexual violence, such as the Murad code. Moreover, Brazil fully endorses the Secretary-General’s zero-tolerance policy, which provides a coherent framework to deal with sexual violence in the context of peacekeeping operations.”
2021-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/375 (2021) · source
“In its written statement presented on the occasion of the debate on the issue in July last year (S/2020/727, annex 18), Brazil pointed out that, among the manifold impacts on international peace and security, the coronavirus disease pandemic creates a challenging environment for survivors of sexual violence in conflict, including the risk of impunity for potential perpetrators. While resolution 2467 (2019) demands concrete progress in fighting conflict- related sexual violence, resolution 2532 (2020) has paved the way for a necessary global ceasefire and the humanitarian pause during the efforts to combat the pandemic. It is imperative that their prescriptions be entirely followed through by all involved actors.”
2021-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/375 (2021) · source
“While the United Nations has set up a working architecture to fight sexual violence in conflict, it is urgent that words uttered in the Security Council Chamber be translated into action on the ground. It is therefore incumbent on the organ tasked with maintaining international peace and security to use the toolkit at its disposal to prevent, avert and fight sexual violence in conflict. It is our hope that today’s debate helps to identify gaps and loopholes where the Security Council can step in to prevent and combat sexual violence in conflict.”
2021-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/375 (2021) · source
“First, allow me to congratulate the Vietnamese presidency of the Security Council on convening this important debate on sexual violence in conflict in the broader context of the women and peace and security agenda. It is important to reiterate the message of unity of the international community against sexual violence in conflict and also to update the efforts undertaken by the Security Council to that effect since the last time this body met to address this pressing issue (see S/2020/727). Sexual violence is a scourge regardless of where and when it takes place, but it is especially repulsive when used as a tactic and a weapon of war in conflict and post-conflict situations, whereby victims are generally more vulnerable and impunity tends to run amok.”
2021-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/375 (2021) · source
“Climate change requires simultaneous political, economic and social approaches rather than security responses. The energy diverted by developed countries to securitize the climate agenda would be better spent in fostering financial mechanisms aimed at supporting enhanced climate action. As proposed by some Member States at the previous debate in July 2020, the Security Council should address climate change issues only on a case-by-case basis in the context of concrete threats to international peace and security. As a principle, it should refrain from seeking comprehensive one-size-fits-all formulas on the proposed topic.”
2021-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/198 (2021) · source
“If we are to achieve sustainable development, its environmental dimension must be analysed in conjunction with its other two dimensions, namely, its social and economic pillars. I would like to point out that the four-page concept note for today’s event (S/2021/155, annex), transmitted as an annex to the letter dated 17 February, fails to mention the expression “sustainable development”. Although some acknowledgements of socioeconomic pressures and other related terms are present, the omission of such S/2021/198 an underpinning concept of this debate conveys the precise point that the security lens is not the most suited to looking at climate change issues. Rather, climate change should be handled with development tools in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals.”
2021-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/198 (2021) · source
“Discussions on that subject at times offer flawed causal links between climate and conflict. The use of controversial terms such as “climate-security nexus” and “climate-related security risks” can counterproductively reinforce a mistaken assumption that climate change automatically leads to conflict, neglecting the context-specific, complex and interdependent origin that conflict often has. The conditions that lead a society to the path of conflict require an in-depth understanding of the various socioeconomic and cultural fabrics, with their unique specificities. We should therefore proceed with the utmost caution before branding environmental challenges as outright threats to peace and security. Sustainable development must be addressed holistically.”
2021-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/198 (2021) · source
“A reallocation of the climate agenda to the Security Council would curb representativeness regarding a topic that interests the whole United Nations membership and has its own, more representative, dedicated multilateral regime. The international regime formed by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change outlines the discussions on this subject, based on the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and the respective capabilities of States. A securitization shift of the climate agenda would result in an unwanted diversion of attention and resources from initiatives developed over decades that, by making use of more suitable approaches, are more likely to generate positive outcomes.”
2021-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/198 (2021) · source
“At a security-centred discussion, key social and economic aspects tend to be sidelined by military components. As a result, environmental challenges would be in constant risk of being addressed with inappropriate tools, such as military or coercive measures. Military tools can neither tackle environmental challenges nor achieve sustainable development. Furthermore, they would waste multilateral effort and resources on a problem that cannot be solved by force. In the spirit of streamlining and rationalizing the multilateral agenda, we must strive to avoid duplication of work and ensure that specific mandates and responsibilities are respected.”
2021-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/198 (2021) · source
“I would like to thank the United Kingdom for the initiative of convening this debate and providing us with the opportunity to further advance our exchange of views on the ongoing debate on climate and security. It allows us to build on previous discussions on the subject, such as the debate held on 24 July 2020 (see S/2020/751). As Brazil highlighted on that occasion (see S/2020/751, annex 22) and now reiterates, while open debates are welcome and constructive, we must be careful not to frame the climate change issue in security terms. Environmental challenges should not be detached from sustainable development discussions, where they can be better assessed in conjunction with related social and economic issues. A securitization of the climate agenda would be both undesirable and counterproductive.”
2021-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/198 (2021) · source
“Brazil is also engaged in the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator, the Solidarity Trial and the Solidarity Call to Action and has been working closely with a host of stakeholders, including the Pan American Health Organization and neighbouring countries, to strengthen national health systems with a view to making vaccination universal with due brevity. We call on the Security Council to remain vigilant about threats to international peace and security, all the more so as the pandemic continues to affect the lives and livelihoods of people, their families and communities around the world, most notably where peace and development are in short supply.”
2021-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/157 (2021) · source
“Nevertheless, there is much work to be done in terms of conflict prevention and peacebuilding in order to ensure compliance with the terms of resolution 2532 (2020). It is remarkable that the world’s scientific community has managed to come up with several types of effective vaccines in less than a year’s time, raising hopes that the days of the pandemic may be numbered. Brazil is currently developing 15 national vaccine projects, in addition to having signed agreements with pharmaceutical companies AstraZeneca and Sinovac to carry out clinical trials and eventually manufacture their COVID-19 vaccines locally.”
2021-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/157 (2021) · source
“Brazil is proud to have endorsed the Secretary-General’s call, as one of 170 signatories to the declaration in support of his appeal for a global ceasefire and as a member of the Group of Friends on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict, which has lent its support to the global ceasefire in its own right. Silencing the guns is an even more pressing matter in the midst of a global and deadly pandemic. Almost one year after the Secretary-General’s pioneering call, we are encouraged by the progress achieved in dossiers that appeared otherwise intractable. The situation in Libya is a case in point. The United Nations-mediated ceasefire surfaced on the heels of the appeal, paving the way for the political understanding taking shape in the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum.”
2021-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/157 (2021) · source
“For that we commend the relentless efforts undertaken by France and Tunisia, whose determination was instrumental in rallying the Council around the goal of containing this deadly virus. However, we would also add a note of warning that the competence of the Security Council vis-à-vis the implications of pandemics should be limited to its relationship to threats to international peace and security, as we must avoid the temptation of extending the Council’s purview to every aspect of international life. We support the full implementation of resolution 2532 (2020), including for laying the foundation for a humanitarian pause, and we echo the Secretary-General’s call for an immediate global ceasefire, which inspired its adoption in the first place.”
2021-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/157 (2021) · source
“Brazil congratulates the British presidency of the Security Council on convening this debate on the implications of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in the realm of international peace and security — the fourth of its kind since the adoption of resolution 2532 (2020). As the second wave of the pandemic strikes around the globe, we also applaud the decision to consider in the Security Council the issue of vaccination in conflict and post-conflict situations. As a general observation, Brazil is pleased to see the Security Council rise up to the occasion and step up to the plate, thus fulfilling its constitutional authority of preserving international peace and security when called upon. The pandemic has impacted global peace, and the Council has not shied away from its responsibilities.”
2021-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/157 (2021) · source
“In that regard, we congratulate the efforts of the Women and Peace and Security Focal Points Network under the Canadian and Uruguayan presidency and highlight our determination to continue working with our regional partners to advance the agenda in the Americas. This occasion is also auspicious for the international community, and the Security Council in particular, to reflect on the accomplishments attained over the past two decades and on the obstacles that the women and peace and security agenda still faces as we plough ahead. Member States can count on Brazil as one the staunchest advocates of that agenda.”
2020-10-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1084 (2020) · source
“Moreover, we must consider that, among its various impacts on international peace and security, the coronavirus disease pandemic creates an ever-more challenging environment for survivors of sexual violence. The Council must remain ever vigilant regarding the fight against sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict situations, especially in these troubled times. As we continue the celebrations for the twentieth anniversary of resolution 1325 (2000), Brazil would like to commend its neighbours in the Americas for the past year’s efforts to develop a regional perspective on women and peace and security.”
2020-10-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1084 (2020) · source