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  1. “Indeed, while the United States views inter-mission cooperation as an important mechanism to address the challenges faced by United Nations missions, the Council has a continuing responsibility to ensure that each mission can stand fully on its own. Our challenge then is to uphold that responsibility while also accruing benefits from the types of inter-mission cooperation highlighted here today.”

    2012-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6886 (2012) · source

  2. “We therefore look forward to the full implementation of all aspects of the strategy in coming years. In closing, as inter-mission cooperation becomes an increasingly important tool for United Nations field operations, we strongly urge the Secretariat to explore lessons learned and develop standard practices to enhance the speed of response, improve performance, account for costs in advance and capture efficiencies. Of course, inter-mission cooperation is neither a substitute for ensuring that each and every mission has the resources it needs to carry out its own mandates, nor a solution for addressing long-standing capacity gaps.”

    2012-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6886 (2012) · source

  3. “UNMISS would not have been able to get to the remote areas of Jonglei, where security was rapidly deteriorating, if not for a reinforcement of helicopters obtained from MONUSCO. But many of those helicopters arrived only after the worst phases of the crisis had passed. The ad hoc nature of the system was not equipped to respond rapidly enough. We appreciate the Secretary-General's intention to take a more strategic and predictable approach through the provision of common administrative and logistic support to missions through his global field support strategy. The strategy has already dramatically improved the effective and efficient sharing of scarce assets, such as aircraft, and has standardized and streamlined routine administrative functions across missions.”

    2012-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6886 (2012) · source

  4. “The United Nations has made headway in countering the threat posed by the Lord's Resistance Army because the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS), United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa and the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in the Central African Republic are working together to address this threat that plagues the entire Great Lakes region. These missions would have made far less progress if they had worked in isolation. The scope and benefits of inter-mission cooperation are plainly evident, but the system is far from perfect, as we saw earlier in this year.”

    2012-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6886 (2012) · source

  5. “The missions in Cote d'Ivoire, Liberia and Sierra Leone have undertaken joint patrols and shared information to address common threats posed by rebel groups freely crossing borders. These missions have reinforced each other in times of crisis. For example, as we have heard, because of rapid reinforcements drawn from the United Nations Mission in Liberia, the United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire was able to respond to the extremely precarious security situation that arose following the first round of Cote d'Ivoire's 2010 presidential elections.”

    2012-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6886 (2012) · source

  6. “For all these reasons, the United States is convinced of the need for greater inter-mission cooperation. But this is on the understanding that much work remains to be done to ensure that we do not help one mission by hurting another, we do not commit troop-contributing countries to one task when they had signed up for another, and we do not allow stop-gap measures to become substitutes for long-term planning and preparedness. Fortunately, there are positive examples to build on, but also hard lessons to be learned. The United Nations peacekeeping missions in West Africa have been among its most successful in recent memory. Part ofthat success stems from the cooperation among them.”

    2012-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6886 (2012) · source

  7. “First, in some cases, the only way for the United Nations to respond rapidly to an unexpected crisis or to establish a critical new mission is by drawing on resources from another existing mission. It is untenable to wait several months to generate fresh forces and procure essential equipment if thousands of lives and the credibility of the United Nations may hang in the balance. Secondly, there are certain threats that affect more than one mission in a subregion. It therefore stands to reason that they should cooperate to tackle that common threat. Thirdly, it simply does not make sense for each mission to create its own administrative and logistics support structure if economies of scale and efficiencies can be achieved through common services across several missions.”

    2012-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6886 (2012) · source

  8. “As the leading voice on United Nations peacekeeping operations and a long-standing troop-contributing country, Morocco is ideally placed to organize this debate. We are grateful that you have taken this initiative during your presidency, Sir. We also appreciate the participation of top troop- and police-contributing countries in this debate today. The successes of peacekeeping rely on the contributions and sacrifices of peacekeepers, to whom the United States takes this opportunity to express our gratitude. We thank Under-Secretaries-General Ladsous and Haq for their briefings and for the tireless efforts of their departments. Turning to the subject before us, the United States supports greater inter-mission cooperation for three main reasons.”

    2012-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6886 (2012) · source