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Vitorino

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2022-04-19

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2023-03-30

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1. “In conclusion, I believe that, for the international community to help countries to transition out of crisis and situations of fragility, humanitarian, development and peace assistance should be channelled in specific ways that promote national ownership and accountability through Government-led and, above all, community-owned processes, with the meaningful inclusion of women and youth.”

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2. “In that regard, we stand ready to assist the newly established African humanitarian mechanism and the Africa Multi-Hazard Early Warning and Early Action System, established by the African Union. We support the efforts of national and regional authorities to include migrants, internally displaced persons and refugees in peace and development planning processes, as their marginalization hinders long-term peace and stability and constitutes a major obstacle to achieving the SDGs. At the United Nations level, meaningfully including migration and displacement within the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework is critical.”

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3. “Understanding why people are on the move, their preferred solution to end their displacement and the obstacles to their reintegration are essential elements to sustain peace and preserve the gains achieved towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The capacities of national and regional authorities to prevent and resolve forced displacements need to be strengthened in order to identify the root causes and monitor conflict trends. A more holistic and timely understanding of such dynamics will enable all stakeholders to find more comprehensive solutions that enable the safer migration of persons, transhumance and other-cross border movements.”

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4. “Well-managed migration can be a powerful driver to mitigate the combined impacts of conflicts, climate change and development gaps in order to achieve the empowerment of migrants and displaced persons and contribute to the stability and economic prosperity of their host communities and countries. We can all agree on the fact that, in order to prevent conflicts and build peace, we must link early-warning systems to inclusive conflict resolution mechanisms. We, the International Organization for Migration, advocate for the inclusion of human mobility data in all conflict and context analyses.”

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5. “Violent extremist groups have been contesting State presence and legitimacy across the continent, often in remote and underdeveloped areas where institutions have been weak or absent, allowing them to conduct illegal activities and, above all, exploit the civilian population. As has already been said, climate change multiplies pre-existing conflict risks and reduces the ability of communities in conflict to achieve sustainable peace, thereby jeopardizing realizing the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the African Union Agenda 2063.”

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6. “Mr. Vitorino: I begin by thanking you, Sir, and the Mozambican presidency of the Security Council for facilitating this important debate. Conflicts and violence are the dominant forces behind protracted displacement, and the number of people living in conflict or violence-induced displacement reached 53.2 million people at the end of 2021, marking a new historic record. Forced displacements can also be a driver of conflict when the influx of populations leads to competition over scarce resources, land, access to services or governance, or force different groups into areas traditionally occupied by other groups.”

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7. “I also want to reiterate and strongly echo the Secretary-General’s repeated and extremely urgent call for a humanitarian ceasefire, and above all for peace.”

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8. “For those who have left the country, it will be crucial to plan ahead and invest in order to ensure that all have access to adequate support and services and to facilitate their full inclusion in education and health systems and the labour market, provide language opportunities and social housing and other necessary support. We welcome the decision by the European Union to offer temporary protection to people fleeing Ukraine, and I reiterate our readiness to support the implementation of that directive. Let me conclude by reaffirming our commitment to staying and delivering in Ukraine and the neighbouring countries and to supporting and providing assistance to the Ukrainian people and third-country nationals who have been so severely affected by the war.”

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9. “Clements just mentioned, preparations are under way to scale up that assistance in close coordination with UNHCR, the World Food Programme, the Government of Ukraine and local authorities. However, funding is desperately needed for that. Moving forward, we need to seek to better understand the intentions of those who are fleeing, those forced to leave their homes and those who have been separated from their families due to the ongoing conflict. Many people, particularly those displaced to neighbouring countries, are willing to return to Ukraine as soon as possible, but their return must of course be safe. We are working with the Government and local authorities to support the internally displaced and identify safe and stable solutions for them.”

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10. “We are seeing that internally displaced people tend to move to urban areas in search of potential employment opportunities and social services. There will be an urgent need to scale up services and assistance to meet the needs of an increased population in those areas, as we are doing in close cooperation with Ukraine’s Ministry of Social Policy. The situation in eastern Ukraine in terms of access to food and water is particularly concerning. Since the response to the crisis began we have identified cash-based interventions as one of the most feasible, efficient and effective ways to reach people in need, both inside Ukraine and in neighbouring countries. The IOM has already started providing multi-purpose cash assistance in Ukraine and in some of its neighbours. As Ms.”

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11. “Discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, nationality or migration status is, in my view, not acceptable. I therefore call on all States to ensure that protection and immediate assistance is provided in a non-discriminatory manner, particularly at border crossing points. For our part, we have set up information and support hotlines for the populations affected in Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Lithuania and Slovakia. We have also established a referral mechanism to facilitate contact between third-country nationals and the relevant consulates, as well as to ensure safe, dignified and non-discriminatory support, information-sharing and advice, transportation, medical aid and assistance in their return to their countries of origin.”

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12. “I urge neighbouring countries and those that have been affected in this crisis to ensure the immediate identification and registration of unaccompanied and separated children fleeing Ukraine. Effective international cooperation is urgently required to reunite children with their caregivers and families. We applaud all of Ukraine’s neighbours for the solidarity and openness they have shown and the enormous efforts that their Governments, civil-society organizations and private individuals have undertaken to support the Ukrainians and the more than 218,000 third-country nationals arriving at their borders. But despite the overwhelmingly positive response, we have unfortunately witnessed cases of discrimination, violence and xenophobia against third-country nationals fleeing Ukraine.”

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13. “As has been observed in past crises, large-scale displacement, family separation and the disruption of civil protections and community networks render populations vulnerable to violence, exploitation and abuse. I think it is therefore a matter of enormous concern that instances of gender-based violence, including conflict-related sexual violence, have been reported and in increasing numbers. Setting up referral mechanisms and developing close cooperation with law-enforcement agencies is essential to preventing the operation of criminal networks, trafficking and abuse. We know that more than half of the children in Ukraine have been displaced. Unaccompanied and separated children are particularly vulnerable, and measures to protect them must be strengthened.”

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14. “However, as the war continues and even intensifies, psychosocial needs will undoubtedly increase. We are scaling up our efforts to address them in Ukraine and its neighbours, through activities ranging from training front-line responders in psychosocial first aid to increasing the capacity of our established hotlines, which provide psychosocial support. To that end, we are benefiting from the mobilization of the Ukrainian diaspora worldwide. Secondly, we remain particularly concerned about the situation of women and children who have fled Ukraine and are internally displaced. Unfortunately, trafficking in persons was already a known phenomenon in the region.”

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15. “When I visited some of the neighbouring countries recently, I saw at first-hand the price that civilians are paying as a result of the conflict. Women and children, the elderly and people with disabilities have been disproportionately affected, as they all represent a highly vulnerable group of people. From our assessment and work with all of the United Nations agencies in Ukraine and our non-governmental partners, we have identified specific risks for internally displaced people, refugees and third-country nationals. I would like to highlight a few of them today. First, in situations of mass displacement, we should always expect around 30 per cent of the population to experience, a negative psychological impact and mental health problems to some degree.”

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16. “Through our displacement tool, I hope that by the end of this week I can provide the Council with updated overall statistics on new displacements, secondary movements and stranded populations, as well as the increasing numbers of people returning to Ukraine and of those inside the country returning to their regions of origin. However, we remain deeply concerned about the continued deterioration of the humanitarian situation in Ukraine, as we anticipate an increase in the number of people displaced, internally and externally. I therefore appeal to the parties to the conflict to honour all their obligations under international humanitarian law to protect civilians, their homes and civilian infrastructure.”

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17. “Mr. Vitorino: I thank the Council for giving the International Organization for Migration (IOM) the opportunity to address it today. As Ms. Clements has just said, more than 12 million Ukrainians and third-country nationals have already been forced to leave their homes since the beginning of the war. According to data collected by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), approximately 5 million people have fled the country. According to the most recent assessment by IOM’s displacement tracking matrix, another 7.1 million people have been displaced inside Ukraine.”

    2022-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9018 (2022) · source