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  1. “There are still a number of speakers remaining on the list for this meeting. Given the lateness of the hour, with the concurrence of the members of the Security Council, I intend to suspend the meeting until 2.15 p.m. The meeting was suspended at 1.10 p.m.”

    2022-05-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9042 (2022) · source

  2. “I wish to remind all speakers to limit their statements to no more than four minutes in order to enable the Council to carry out its work expeditiously. Flashing lights on the collar of the microphone will prompt speakers to bring their remarks to a close after four minutes. I now give the floor to the State Secretary at the Federal Foreign Office of Germany.”

    2022-05-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9042 (2022) · source

  3. “This year’s report (S/2022/381) shines a spotlight on another critical impediment to the protection of civilians: disinformation. For example, in the Central African Republic and Mali, disinformation targeting the United Nations has seriously threatened peacekeepers’ safety and security and undermined the ability of the United Nations to reach civilians and protect them. We must ensure that the United Nations has the capabilities it needs to counter disinformation that impedes the work that it has been charged to do. Every year, this annual debate is sobering, but this year it is especially so. Fortunately, the steps are clear. As our briefers outlined, there are practical steps we can take right now to protect civilians. We know exactly how we can provide humanitarian access and break the cycle of despair. So let us just get it done.”

    2022-05-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9042 (2022) · source

  4. “The Security Council has the power to forge paths for humanitarian access where it is most desperately needed. We did this last year when we unanimously voted to renew the mandate for United Nations cross- border assistance in Syria (resolution 2585 (2021)). That was an important, life-saving decision for millions of people. It demonstrated the best of what we can do when we work together. But now, in 2022, the United Nations estimates that 14.6 million Syrians need humanitarian assistance — a nearly 10 per cent increase over last year. We therefore have to renew the mandate again, and we have to expand it and increase the number of crossing points to meet the rising demands for humanitarian aid in Syria. I look forward to travelling to Bab Al-Hawa crossing soon and seeing the current needs on the ground with my own eyes.”

    2022-05-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9042 (2022) · source

  5. “Our charge — to maintain international peace and security — means that we have an obligation to address all those threats to civilians in armed conflict. States and non-State parties to conflict have obligations with regard to respecting human rights and protecting civilians, including humanitarian workers, as well as equipment and goods that are not for military purposes. But, as the Security Council, we also have a duty to do whatever is in our power to protect civilians caught in the throes of conflict. Perhaps the most immediate, powerful and practical way we can do so is by providing and safeguarding humanitarian access. After all, we can raise all the funds and donate all the food and medical supplies in the world, but it will not matter if it does not get to those in need.”

    2022-05-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9042 (2022) · source

  6. “This month, the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine announced that it has evidence of at least 300 unlawful killings of civilians, including children, since Russian forces withdrew from areas north of Kyiv. Yesterday we saw credible media reports of Russian forces stealing grain from Ukraine, as this war has exacerbated a global food security crisis. The impact has been particularly devastating on children, in the region and across the world. For those reasons, we call on the Secretary-General to add Ukraine as a situation of concern in the upcoming annual report on children and armed conflict. There will be justice, and Russia will be held accountable for those atrocities.”

    2022-05-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9042 (2022) · source

  7. “Every month, Syrian civilians are attacked and killed by the Al-Assad regime and others, and hospitals often do not have the medicine or supplies to help the injured because humanitarian convoys are not able to reach them. The people of Ukraine are also in need of dire humanitarian assistance, as countless civilians continue to be injured or killed by Russia’s brutal war of choice. We have seen images of mass graves. We have seen images of destroyed buildings. We have seen credible reports of individuals executed, bodies showing signs of torture and horrific accounts of sexual violence against women and girls, as well as boys and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex persons.”

    2022-05-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9042 (2022) · source

  8. “Over 10 months in 2021, at least 260 separate incidents directly affected humanitarian workers or supplies. Nearly 60 workers were killed, injured or kidnapped during that period. Similarly, humanitarian workers were attacked in South Sudan, when three aid workers were killed on 24 March as part of a World Food Programme convoy. The killings make it harder to deliver humanitarian aid, and the lack of aid makes it more likely that civilians will remain displaced. The result of that vicious cycle is what we see in Syria, where, after 11 years of the Al-Assad regime’s brutal war, 14 million Syrians rely on humanitarian assistance and 6.6 million Syrian remain internally displaced.”

    2022-05-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9042 (2022) · source

  9. “The reports come from every corner of the globe — from a musician in Mali who, earlier this week, told The Washington Post about the slaughter of at least 300 civilians by the Russian-backed Wagner Group; to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, who, on Monday, told the world that, for the first time, more than 100 million people have been forcibly displaced. To make matters worse, killings, forced displacements and lack of humanitarian access often come together and create a downward spiral. As just one horrific example of that, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, more than 5.6 million Congolese remain displaced. Ms. Boketa reported an even higher number and stressed that that is one of the largest displaced populations in the world. The ceaseless fighting has severely limited humanitarian access.”

    2022-05-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9042 (2022) · source

  10. “Boketa for raising the different ways in which women, girls, men and boys are harmed when humanitarian access is impeded — an issue that is too often ignored. I very much appreciate her sharing the real-life stories of Solange and Cinama and the impact that her programmes are having on their lives. I also want to thank Mr. Mardini for sharing the perspectives of the International Committee of the Red Cross and his recommendations to the Council. The United States greatly appreciates all the work that the United Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross and other non-governmental organizations carry out on the ground in order to protect civilians in armed conflicts. They know that they are all life-savers, and we appreciate them. We hear new reports of civilians under threat every single day.”

    2022-05-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9042 (2022) · source

  11. “I thank Ms. Boketa for her briefing. I would like to draw the attention of speakers to paragraph 22 of presidential note S/2017/507, which encourages all participants in Council meetings to deliver their statements in five minutes or less, in line with the Security Council’s commitment to making more effective use of open meetings. I shall now make a statement in my capacity as the representative of the United States. Let me start by thanking Director Rajasingham and Director-General Mardini for their briefings today. I also express my deep appreciation to our civil society speaker, Ms. Rachel Boketa, from Women for Women International, and Mr. David Miliband, from the International Rescue Committee. I thank Mr. Miliband for his clear and practical list of solutions for providing much-needed humanitarian access, and I thank Ms.”

    2022-05-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9042 (2022) · source

  12. “I propose that the Council invite the Permanent Observer of the Observer State of Palestine to the United Nations to participate in the meeting, in accordance with the provisional rules of procedure and the previous practice in this regard. I propose that the Council invite the observer of the Permanent Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations to participate in the meeting, in accordance with the provisional rules of procedure and the previous practice in this regard. The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. I wish to draw the attention of Council members to document S/2022/381, which contains the report of the Secretary-General on the protection of civilians in armed conflict. I now give the floor to Mr. Rajasingham.”

    2022-05-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9042 (2022) · source

  13. “Ramesh Rajasingham, Director of Coordination in the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs; Mr. Robert Mardini, Director-General of the International Committee of the Red Cross; Mr. David Miliband, President and Chief Executive Officer of the International Rescue Committee; and Ms. Rachel Boketa, Country Director of Women for Women International in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In accordance with rule 39 of the Council’s provisional rules of procedure, I invite His Excellency Mr. Olof Skoog, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations, to participate in this meeting.”

    2022-05-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9042 (2022) · source

  14. “In accordance with rule 37 of the Council’s provisional rules of procedure, I invite the representatives of Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Indonesia, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Morocco, Nepal, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, the Republic of Korea, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, Uruguay, Viet Nam and Yemen to participate in this meeting. In accordance with rule 39 of the Council’s provisional rules of procedure, I invite the following briefers to participate in this meeting: Mr.”

    2022-05-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9042 (2022) · source