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2004-01-20
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  1. “UNICEF is working at the country level and with partners at the global level to promote the peaceful resolution of conflicts. As stated by many delegations, our future is our children. UNICEF will continue to intensify its work with all members here and to strengthen the protection of children in armed conflict.”

    2004-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4898Resumption1 (2004) · source

  2. “UNICEF is also engaged in extensive dialogue with our partners, and with partners to conflict, to ensure the release of children from combat as quickly as possible. We are pleased that a very large number of representatives supported the list of countries - including an updated list and an expanded list - on an annual basis, including parties to conflicts who recruit child soldiers. It is an important tool for advocacy and an important tool at the field level that we can use when we return to the country level. Finally, we are very pleased with the strong support for action to prevent conflict. It is only when we prevent conflict that we can truly protect children against the recruitment, exploitation and abuse linked to armed conflict.”

    2004-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4898Resumption1 (2004) · source

  3. “We work with non-governmental organizations and other agencies of the United Nations system on the ground, and we shall strengthen our efforts to protect children, to prevent their recruitment and to support their reintegration once they have been demobilized. There is also a need to ensure that the lessons learned and the principles that come out of the DDR process are endorsed once and for all. In that sense, we believe that the demobilization of soldiers - as we said this morning - should not wait for peace, for formal DDR or for the required resources to be made available. We would also underline that we recognize that girls are particularly vulnerable and that they are also recruited as child soldiers. They need specific attention and assistance to be reintegrated.”

    2004-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4898Resumption1 (2004) · source

  4. “In addition, they allow the situation of children to be addressed within the complete peacekeeping operation itself and report back to Council meetings. As Ms. Bellamy mentioned, we would support deploying child protection advisers in all peacekeeping missions. Moreover, we were very pleased with the strong support for efforts to support disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR). We are encouraged by the Council's interest in more sustained DDR programmes. It is important that the DDR process be automatically included in peacekeeping mandates. As I mentioned, we are an operational agency.”

    2004-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4898Resumption1 (2004) · source

  5. “I would also underline - as did the Special Representative of the Secretary-General - that it is important to note the various kinds of monitoring and reporting that take place. Our aim is to feed into existing human rights and other mechanisms to ensure that children's rights and particular information on those rights are reflected. That is the mandate of UNICEF, and that is what we shall continue to do. UNICEF is also very pleased to hear of the strong support for child protection advisers. We strongly support their work in the four peacekeeping missions where they are deployed. They serve an important function in relation to, first, capacity-building within the missions themselves, and secondly, monitoring reporting within the mandates of peacekeeping missions.”

    2004-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4898Resumption1 (2004) · source

  6. “We were very pleased by the strong support for a strengthened system of monitoring and reporting, as requested even this morning in Ms. Bellamy's briefing. The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) currently documents and reports on the situation of women and children in all countries where we work, so to add the issue of children and armed conflict has been a major priority for us for the past 10 years. We appreciate the interest of the Security Council in this area, and we shall continue to do more in that regard. Together with our partners, we shall develop monitoring mechanisms at the country and field levels, and we are also examining effective structures in order to feed into appropriate forums such as the Security Council, but also regional forums in which members take part elsewhere.”

    2004-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4898Resumption1 (2004) · source

  7. “Mr. Toole: On behalf of Ms. Carol Bellamy, let me join others in thanking you, Mr. President, your Foreign Minister and your delegation for the expert way in which you have handled these deliberations. In addition, I thank the delegation of France for its preparation of the draft resolution. We welcome today's action-oriented discussion and support very warmly the era of application about which members have spoken. As the Special Representative of the Secretary-General said, he is the person here; we are the people on the ground. As Ms. Bellamy noted in her briefing, we are on the ground before, during and after conflicts, and it is partly our job to make sure that some of the comments and observations that have been made today are followed up on the ground.”

    2004-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4898Resumption1 (2004) · source