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Shahid

lines on the record: 26
first: 2007-04-17
most recent: 2021-11-16
sittings or episodes: 3
sources: un-security-council

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“Under my “Presidency of Hope”, I will continue to engage with Member States as well as with the principal organs of the United Nations to ensure progress in our common endeavours. I hope that same spirit of cooperation will guide our discussions today. I look forward to a wide-ranging and productive debate. I expect that the outcomes will put us in a better position to deliver to our global constituents.”
2021-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8906 (2021) · source
“I call upon the membership to work together to implement General Assembly resolution 75/325, on the revitalization of the work of the General Assembly, which encourages regular interaction and continued coordination among the Presidents of the General Assembly, the Security Council and the Economic and Social Council. Regular coordination meetings among the General Assembly, the Security Council and the Economic and Social Council, as mandated in the resolution, help bridge differences and improve the efficiency of our work. On my part, as President of the General Assembly, I am keen to engage with my peers to synergize our efforts to recover better, improve global governance and strengthen the international security regime.”
2021-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8906 (2021) · source
“The agenda’s commitment to boosting partnerships envisions stronger engagement within the United Nations system and calls for reforms of the Organization’s three principal organs — making the Security Council more representative, revitalizing the work of the General Assembly and strengthening Economic and Social Council. Revitalizing the General Assembly is one the key elements of my “Presidency of Hope”. To that end, I not only want to make it more inclusive of the views and priorities of the membership, but also want to strengthen cooperation between the main United Nations organs to streamline our responses to global challenges, including security challenges.”
2021-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8906 (2021) · source
“In fact, in his 2011 report entitled Preventive Diplomacy: Delivering Results, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon underscored the importance of preventive diplomacy throughout the conflict spectrum. The report noted that, through its norm-setting capacity and deliberative functions, the General Assembly has a central role in contributing to a conducive environment for conflict prevention. The Secretary-General’s report Our Common Agenda also stresses the importance of system- wide cooperation and the need for greater focus on prevention.”
2021-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8906 (2021) · source
“I welcome the call in Our Common Agenda to invest in prevention and strengthened peacebuilding efforts through adequate and predictable financing. And I call upon all United Nations bodies to coordinate to embed peacebuilding and peacekeeping operations more deeply in the global security architecture. Global security will always be within the proper remit of the Security Council. However, work done by the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council to build resilient and prosperous communities facilitates the work of the Security Council. In November 1999, the Security Council adopted presidential statement S/PRST/1999/34, which recognized the importance of building a culture of prevention and the need for all United Nations organs to pursue preventive strategies.”
2021-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8906 (2021) · source
“The critical importance of peacekeeping operations in the Organization’s overall peace and security toolkit has been recognized for decades. However, sustaining peace and peacebuilding today is no longer limited to traditional military peacekeeping but also includes strengthening capacities, institutions and democratic integrity. That dramatically reduces the likelihood of conflict and is one of the most effective strategies to secure durable peace. The Peacebuilding Commission, which is an intergovernmental advisory body of the Security Council and the General Assembly, ensures sustained international attention to countries emerging from conflict, including to the reconstruction and institution-building efforts necessary for recovery from conflict.”
2021-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8906 (2021) · source
“We see those truths borne out in many conflict-ridden places across the world. The global community simply must do more. In addition to humanitarian relief, we must support preventive measures to build resilience and strengthen sustainable development to give people an opportunity to live in dignity and prosperity. Truly, human rights, justice and sustainable development are our greatest tools in both building and maintaining peace and security. Preventive diplomacy today is being conducted by a broader array of actors, using a wider range of tools, than ever before. Those include the development of early-warning systems and targeted funding mechanisms for rapid response, the establishment of dedicated prevention structures and the ongoing use of special envoys.”
2021-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8906 (2021) · source
“Our health, our economic prosperity, our planet’s well-being and our safety and security are all interlinked. Indeed, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has long recognized that peace and sustainable development complement one other. Communities that struggle to meet their most basic needs, or that lack economic and social mobility, are prone to unrest and strife. Climate crises and disasters threaten displacement and force communities into competition over scarce resources. Ineffective institutions rob people of hope and undermine their faith in Governments and justice systems. And the absence of democratic participation, political freedoms and equality deprives entire populations of their human rights. That limits their ability to turn to peaceful recourse in redressing their grievances.”
2021-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8906 (2021) · source
“We understand that peace requires a holistic effort that goes beyond traditional paradigms, one that considers the security, human rights and development priorities of the entire membership; one that empowers all voices in the global security discourse, including women and youth. It is in acknowledgement of that that the membership has been increasingly calling for a more representative Security Council, one that is better equipped to deal with the novel and complex challenges of the twenty- first century; one that works in tandem with other United Nations organs to deliver comprehensive solutions to current and emerging security issues. The coronavirus disease pandemic has exacerbated socioeconomic challenges. It has starkly highlighted the interconnectedness of today’s challenges.”
2021-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8906 (2021) · source
“Mr. Shahid: It is indeed a great honour to speak today at the Security Council open debate on peace and security through preventive diplomacy — my first time as the President of the General Assembly at its seventy-sixth session. I thank you, Mr. President, for the invitation and for your initiative as President of the Security Council to organize this meeting. For 76 years, the United Nations has represented the pinnacle of what concerted diplomacy can achieve in preventing global conflict. In that time, we have learned much about what is required to preserve international peace. We understand better how socioeconomic factors exacerbate conflict, and more keenly appreciate diplomacy’s role in preventing it.”
2021-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8906 (2021) · source
“We need actions that are consistent with the commitments that we have already made. If we do not act, we will extinguish the sparkle in the eyes of Aisha and millions of children like her.”
2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source
“The solutions we seek should also aim to strengthen the capacity of the United Nations system to identify potential climate-related risks in conflicts and to take mitigating measures early on. The Secretariat's briefings to the Council should, in our opinion, include expert analyses of climate-related risks and how such risks are driving conflicts. The countries that are on the front line of impact, such as the Maldives, cannot afford to wait. We cannot wait until we can all agree with the facts on the ground: that climate change is a threat to international peace and security. We cannot wait until the impacts of climate-induced disasters destroy our economies and our livelihoods. We cannot wait for climate change to force us to abandon our identity and lose our homes.”
2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source
“We must drastically reverse the current trends in climate change to ensure that a future exists for little girls like Aisha and her friends. We need solutions that are based on the principles of justice and common but differentiated responsibilities, within respective capabilities, and that are achieved through consensus and national ownership. The solutions we seek should narrow the gap between adaptation and mitigation. A large share of funds must be reserved for adaptation. That will enable countries to build infrastructure to reduce the risks of climate-induced disasters, as envisaged in the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.”
2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source
“While we are still trying to decide which forum of the United Nations must address which aspect of climate change, in our countries across the world lakes are drying up, depriving tens of millions of people of fresh water. Unseasonal droughts are leaving millions of people homeless. Hunger and displacement are leading to conflicts, and entire nations are sinking under water. What is a greater security threat than that? We are encouraged by the Paris Agreement with its aim to combat climate change and to accelerate and intensify the actions and investments needed to that end. We also hope that the Katowice rulebook will help to improve our collective ambition to deliver on our pledges and keep global warming to well below 2Â°C, or if possible 1.5Â°C, above pre-industrial levels. However, for the Maldives, waiting and hoping are not enough.”
2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source
“But, most importantly, climate change is going to take our home away from us. On 17 April 2007, when the Security Council held its first-ever debate on the impact of climate change on peace and security, I spoke in this very Chamber on this very same matter (see S/PV.5663). That day, I reminded the Council that climate change is not only an everyday fact of life for the Maldivians, but also an existential threat. I reminded the Council that a mean sea-level rise of two metres would suffice to virtually submerge the entire Maldives under water. That would indeed be the death of a nation. Yet today, 12 years later, I am still repeating the same message in the Council. The prospects for our future are far worse than we ever imagined.”
2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source
“On my very long flight to New York, I could not stop thinking about the little girl who had embraced me, the bright sparkle in her eyes and the joyous innocence in her smile, unaware of the kind of future that she may have ahead of her. I asked myself: can I really do something meaningful for that little girl? Can we all collectively help her to realize the hopes and dreams that she carries in her young self? Can we deliver her the future to which she aspires and that she deserves - a future that is safe, secure and healthy? Looking at the current state of affairs in the world, I must answer no. Climate change has been destroying our tiny island country for years. It is eroding our beaches, killing the coral reefs that protect our islands and contaminating our fresh water with sea water, and we are losing our fish stock.”
2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source
“I wish to thank the Dominican Republic, which holds the presidency of the Security Council for the month ofJanuary, for convening this important debate. I would also like to thank the eminent experts for providing us with valuable insights in their briefings this morning. Let me also take this opportunity to congratulate the newly elected members of the Council - Belgium, the Dominican Republic, Germany, Indonesia and South Africa, which took up their membership on the Council this month. As I left the Maldives to travel here, I met a 5-year- old little girl, Aisha, at Male' International Airport. She asked me where I was going and I told her that I was travelling to New York to speak about climate change in the Security Council. We had a little chat and she hugged me and waved me goodbye as I walked away to board my flight.”
2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source
“In the 2005 World Summit Outcome Document (General Assembly resolution 60/1) world leaders agreed on the need to act with resolve and urgency in facing the serious and multiple challenges in tackling climate change, promoting clean energy, meeting energy needs and achieving sustainable development. I shall conclude my brief remarks by echoing the sentiments expressed at the 2005 World Summit and by quoting from the address of my President, His Excellency Mr. Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, at the World Summit on Sustainable Development, held in Johannesburg in 2002. "What we need to do is simple: put our words into deeds. The only question that has to be answered is, 'Do we have the will?' I put the question to you once again: Do we have the will?"”
2007-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5663 (2007) · source
“Substantial financial resources are urgently required for speedy implementation of adaptation projects by countries, such as Maldives, that are among the most vulnerable. Maldives favours and calls for a meaningful commitment on emissions reductions for a post-2012 regime. Negotiations in that regard should be accelerated, with a tangible commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to pre-industrial-era levels. Not only is it imperative that the rich nations demonstrate leadership; it is also moral to safeguard from harm the vulnerable poor countries which are confronting aggravated climate change.”
2007-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5663 (2007) · source
“It is not an issue surrounded by scientific uncertainties. The best scientific knowledge has clearly and decisively stated the magnitude of the threat faced by humankind. The Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is sufficient in that respect, and the review undertaken by Sir Nicholas Stern has shown the economic challenges of climate change and its threat to world output. The consequences of inaction would be enormous for the developing world. Maldives has recently developed its first adaptation programme of action in the context of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and has incorporated climate change adaptation into its national development plans and the Government's annual budgets.”
2007-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5663 (2007) · source
“My country reaffirms the key role of energy in achieving the goals of sustainable development, poverty eradication and achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. Maldives has already attained a number of the Goals and is clearly on track to achieve many of the rest. However, ensuring environmental sustainability is a challenge that we cannot meet on our own. Next year we will embark on a three-year transition period, after which we will graduate from the list of least developed countries. Despite that achievement, however, our inherent vulnerabilities will remain. It is ironic that the tsunami of 2004 washed away 20 years of development work only six days after the General Assembly adopted its resolution 59/210, on the graduation of Maldives from the list of least developed countries. Climate change is now a fact.”
2007-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5663 (2007) · source
“Maldives joins the Group of 77 and China in supporting the View that it is vital for all Members to promote sustainable development - but by adhering to the Rio principles, especially the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities, and by fully implementing Agenda 21. Furthermore, Maldives stresses the urgent need to fulfil all other commitments related to the provision of financial resources and the transfer of available technologies to developing countries without delay. Capacity-building is essential in order to enable developing countries to form and implement adaptation strategies. I would also like to take this opportunity to call on the States that have not already done so to ratify the Kyoto Protocol.”
2007-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5663 (2007) · source
“Your presence here attests to the importance attached by your Government to this issue. This debate in the Security Council should stress that close cooperation and coordination among all principal organs is indispensable in order to enable the United Nations to remain relevant and capable of meeting existing, new and emerging threats and challenges. The issues of the environment, energy and climate change have been addressed in various United Nations entities such as the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council, their relevant subsidiary bodies, such as the Commission on Social Development, and the United Nations Environment Programme. Moreover, climate change is the subject of a binding multilateral agreement: the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its supportive protocol, the Kyoto Protocol.”
2007-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5663 (2007) · source
“The Maldives is made up of about 1,200 small coral islands, of which about 200 are inhabited. Today, over 60 per cent of those inhabited islands are facing varying degrees of coastal erosion, which is physically threatening the human settlements on them. We are heartened by the increased attention that has recently been given to the issue of environmental degradation and climate change. We are also encouraged by the increasing awareness of the issue and are optimistic that those positive developments will lead to a greater commitment from the international community to deal with the matter. I wish to thank the United Kingdom, in its capacity as president of the Security Council, for promoting today's debate. I wish also to pay a special tribute to you, Madam President.”
2007-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5663 (2007) · source
“Almost 20 years on from that address and as we begin another vital debate - this time in the Security Council - I think it is important to recall the efforts made by small countries like the Maldives to draw the world's attention to the urgency of climate change and its consequences. The tsunami of December 2004 was a wake-up call for Asia and for the rest of the world. The tsunami provided a snapshot of what the long-term impact of climate change and sea-level rise will be for small, vulnerable countries like the Maldives. For the people of the Maldives, dealing with climate change and its consequences is already an everyday fact of life. Over the past two decades we have seen, first-hand, the real, practical reality of climate change and sea-level rise.”
2007-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5663 (2007) · source
“For the Maldives, "a mean sea-level rise of 2 metres would suffice virtually to submerge the entire country of small islands, most of which barely rise over 2 metres above mean sea level. That would be the death of a nation. "We in the Maldives have seen and lived through grim experiences which could be indicators of the dire consequences of global environmental change provoked and exacerbated by man." (A/42/PV.41, p. 23) That is what my President, His Excellency Mr. Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, said in his address to the General Assembly during its special debate on environment and development in October 1987.”
2007-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5663 (2007) · source