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Wensley

lines on the record: 215
first: 1998-06-06
most recent: 2001-07-30
sittings or episodes: 19
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“I have mentioned all of those issues because we see them as giving practical concrete expression to those principles that were spelled out in the Millennium Summit resolutions and decisions. The Millennium Summit and the Millennium Declaration, together with the extensive work undertaken by the United Nations on redefining and modernizing how the Organization operates, provide an opportunity that should not be missed to review United Nations operations so that they can better meet the complex and difficult challenges that the global community faces. This debate has provided us all with an early opportunity to review what we are doing to implement the commitments that we made jointly.”
2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4288 (2001) · source
“The extensive work already undertaken in this area by African countries, as well as in some other regions and subregions, provides us with important building blocks for more concerted and coordinated international action. In our own region, Pacific Island Forum countries are also working actively to address the small arms issue, including through the development of model legislation to facilitate implementation of a common regional approach to weapons control. In the Association of South-East Asian Nations Regional Forum, Australia has also encouraged efforts to develop a coordinated approach to the issue, in particular the adoption of a declaration of responsibilities on small arms and light weapons.”
2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4288 (2001) · source
“We see a real linkage between the Security Council resolution and other decisions coming from the Summit, and maintaining the momentum of the International Criminal Court negotiations. It is a significant element in following up the Millennium Summit. The International Criminal Court will make a significant contribution to the maintenance of international peace and security. This year's United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects will also provide us with another opportunity to follow up on the Millennium Summit and to address the problem of the illicit small arms trade through practical, concrete measures.”
2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4288 (2001) · source
“I would like to say that Australia, like Sweden-whose representative, our colleague, spoke earlier-has always had a strong commitment to the development of international criminal law, in particular as expressed through our support for the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda, as well as for the establishment of the International Criminal Court. The establishment of an International Criminal Court with the capacity to deal with the most serious crimes of concern to the international community has been a longstanding goal of Australia and one which we continue to support strongly, particularly through the current work being undertaken in the Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court.”
2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4288 (2001) · source
“I want to make particular mention of East Timor, because we would argue that the success of the United Nations operations in East Timor has underlined the critical importance, in designing and implementing United Nations operations, of strong support from Member States, and an appropriate, clear and decisive mandate, as well as a clear exit strategy. In this respect, we welcome the useful open Council debate in November last year on exit strategies. We note the major effect on the credibility of the United Nations of how an operation is conducted and concluded, and we hope that in time the operation in East Timor will be a model in this respect. In its resolution, the Council also stressed the need to bring to justice perpetrators of crimes against humanity, genocide, war crimes and other serious violations of humanitarian law.”
2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4288 (2001) · source
“However, in our View, work on implementation is really only in the first phase; much remains to be done to give effect to many worthwhile aspects of the report. Despite differences of opinion on the detail of some of the report's recommendations, we urge all countries to join together in working to address and resolve the problems it identifies, in particular, issues such as rapid force deployment capacity, regular financing mechanisms, post-conflict management, peace-building programmes and the training of personnel.”
2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4288 (2001) · source
“Having demonstrated our own willingness over many years to contribute to United Nations and international peacekeeping, often far from our shores, we believe that, from time to time, we can reasonably look to others to share the burden of peacekeeping in our own immediate region. The Brahimi report on United Nations peace operations provides us all with the opportunity to bring about major and much-needed changes in the way the United Nations carries out its responsibility for maintaining international peace and security. We welcome the action taken to date, including the increase in personnel granted to the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) late last year. We express strong support for the current review of DPKO. It is essential that its strategic and planning capacity can be strengthened.”
2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4288 (2001) · source
“I am referring in particular to the Peace Monitoring Group on Bougainville and the International Peace Monitoring Team in the Solomon Islands, both of which are assisting in a very real way in building confidence and providing the conditions on the ground necessary for bringing the various parties in conflict together to resolve their differences. We keep the United Nations very closely informed about these operations, and we see a real value in continuing dialogue and interaction as we work in the region to deal with these conflicts. We think that this demonstrates very concretely our commitment to burden-sharing.”
2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4288 (2001) · source
“This is reflected in our current contribution to East Timor and our participation in United Nations missions in Africa and the Middle East. However, we believe that our contribution to peacekeeping and to the peaceful resolution of conflicts also extends to regional efforts. These are not United Nations operations, but we consider that they have made a contribution to the efforts of the United Nations with respect to the protection of international peace and security because, by our regional efforts, we have made a United Nations operation unnecessary.”
2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4288 (2001) · source
“We listened carefully to the remarks of our colleagues about this, and see it as a good start to a process that is clearly going to be developed and refined as we continue to have more and more meetings. Secondly, we were very pleased to see last month's open debate on peace-building and the Secretary-General's consultations with regional organizations. Thirdly, we are pleased about the action taken to support the commitment made in the Council declaration on preventing the flow of small arms into areas of conflict. This is a problem of particular resonance in our South Pacific region. Australia is currently the sixth-largest contributor of United Nations peacekeeping personnel and, as I indicated at the outset, has a longstanding commitment to United Nations peacekeeping.”
2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4288 (2001) · source
“It will seek to strengthen action being taken to address this issue in our region. Given the words of the Secretary-General at the beginning of our debate in particular, we see this as a concrete, practical follow-up to the decisions taken at the Millennium Summit. I want to take this opportunity to express Australia's support for the principles, as well as the decisions, contained in last September's summit resolution, and to welcome warmly the recent activities of the Council in moving them forward. Specifically, we are very pleased by the establishment by the Council of a working group on peacekeeping whose mandate includes enhancing consultations with troop- contributing countries.”
2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4288 (2001) · source
“We were also particularly pleased to see the recognition of the ever- growing complexity of the issues that affect international peace and security, including, as spelled out in Security Council resolution 1318 (2000), issues of HIV/AIDS, which are to be taken up this year during the special session of the General Assembly, in which my Government is playing a particular role, as well as the issues of the development of international criminal law and of small-arms trafficking. With regard to HIV/AIDS, I want to draw the attention of members to a forthcoming ministerial meeting on HIV/AIDS and development in the Asia- Pacific region, which will be hosted by Australia in Melbourne in October. This meeting is being organized as a separate but complementary part of the 6th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific.”
2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4288 (2001) · source
“It has participated willingly and, we would like to believe, effectively in more than 30 peacekeeping and peace- monitoring operations in the years since the foundation of the United Nations. Our decision to participate in today's stocktaking debate is a further practical expression of our commitment. We were heartened to see the same commitment expressed by the leaders of the world's nations in the Security Council and General Assembly millennium resolutions, encouraging the United Nations to strengthen and modernize its role in maintaining international peace and security.”
2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4288 (2001) · source
“Thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this open debate, as well as for the gesture of having non-Council members speak before members. As the saying goes, one swallow does not a summer make. But, as we have now had at least two swallows, perhaps, if summer is not with us, then spring in the form of further Security Council reform may be just around the corner. Speaking at the Millennium Summit last year, the Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, observed that for nations, as for individuals, no rights come without responsibility, and no prosperity comes without price. My own country has made its contribution to paying the price of international peace and security.”
2001-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4288 (2001) · source
“But the long-term success of that future depends on continuing commitment to the UNTAET operation and our willingness now to plan, prepare and commit for the period beyond independence. Let me assure the Council and Member States that Australia remains committed to East Timor and ready to do its part, working with the United Nations, the East Timorese and all other international players which share that commitment.”
2001-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4265Resumption1 (2001) · source
“To conclude, I want to underline the two key points of my remarks. First, Australia fully supports the continuing UNTAET operation, including the progressive transfer of authority to the East Timorese, as the path to a fully functioning independent State. Secondly, it is our strong View that it is important that the international community begin now to prepare the groundwork for an appropriate United Nations presence in East Timor after independence. In order to be effective and to preserve all the gains made by UNTAET, the transition from one to the other must be as seamless as possible, in both organizational and financial terms. Many of us here today have already made a significant investment in the future of East Timor.”
2001-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4265Resumption1 (2001) · source
“I note that this morning Sergio Vieira de Mello emphasized this as a foundation stone for the future and that Jose Ramos-Horta laid special emphasis on this and, indeed, indicated that the East Timorese leadership is working very actively on this. Finally, it is fundamental that arrangements across a range of areas, of which financial are particularly important, support the transition to an effective East Timorese Government and do not cease on the formal date of independence. In this context, we endorse the Secretary-General's support for consideration of increasing flexibility in the use of assessed contributions allocated to UNTAET and its post-independence successor. I think in this respect that Mark Malloch Brown's strong call for a funding strategy is particularly relevant.”
2001-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4265Resumption1 (2001) · source
“More broadly, in the area of security, I would make two additional points that might seem obvious but which we feel should not be underestimated. First concerns the need for continued efforts to bring to justice those responsible for crimes and human rights violations in East Timor, and in this regard, like a number of my colleagues, I particularly note and welcome the fact that the Dili District Court has just completed its first successful prosecution of a case related to the violence that took place in 1999. Second is the importance of East Timor working actively to build positive relations with its neighbours, especially Indonesia.”
2001-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4265Resumption1 (2001) · source
“A post-independence United Nations security component should, in our view, take the form of a Blue Helmet operation mandated by the Security Council with a clear end-state. The size of the peacekeeping operation should be based on an assessment of the security situation done much closer to independence. Diversity of troop contributions will remain important, and a wide range of international contributors, including strong regional representation, should be encouraged. In the field of law and order, assessments of the results of police training to date indicate that United Nations civilian police will need to remain beyond independence, and we would welcome any further comments that the Special Representative might be able to offer with respect to the results of the police training to date.”
2001-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4265Resumption1 (2001) · source
“Any post-independence United Nations presence in East Timor will most likely be smaller than UNTAET, and focused on the main task of assisting East Timor with capacity and institution-building, including in the areas of financial management - about which we heard quite a great deal this morning -judiciary, police, defence, health, education and infrastructure. To this end, the mission should be staffed by United Nations personnel with appropriate experience and qualifications, capable of providing skills transfer to accelerate the localization of skills. The mandate for a new mission obviously should be constructed to ensure that it has an appropriate relationship with the new East Timorese Government.”
2001-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4265Resumption1 (2001) · source
“My Government is certainly giving very close consideration to these matters, and we look forward to ongoing dialogue with UNTAET, in turn in the closest of consultation and collaboration with the East Timorese, on the appropriate shape and mandate for a future United Nations presence. East Timorese input on models for post-independence cooperation between the United Nations and East Timor will obviously be critical to the planning and the preparations for the next phase in its transition. Ultimately, as we all recognize, it will be for the East Timorese themselves to determine how they wish the United Nations to assist. To contribute to this process of dialogue and consultation, including with other international actors, Australia offers the following ideas on the future United Nations role.”
2001-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4265Resumption1 (2001) · source
“We should therefore be thinking and planning now not just for the renewal of this mandate, but for the period beyond independence, when it is going to be necessary to ensure that the groundwork laid by UNTAET can be maintained and developed by the new East Timorese Government. The Secretary-General's report recognizes that an independent East Timor will still require substantial international support, including military and civilian police components and support for civilian administration. I reiterate that it is timely now that Member States - and particularly troop-contributing nations - focus on the need for early planning and preparation for such a presence, including possible contributions.”
2001-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4265Resumption1 (2001) · source
“Finally, on this question of the peacekeeping operation, in recognition of the recent important discussions on HIV/AIDS and peacekeeping in the Council, and indeed elsewhere ongoing in the United Nations system, I also want to highlight the importance that Australia attaches to UNTAET peacekeeping operation members being fully briefed on the prevention and control of HIV/AIDS and other communicable diseases. The United Nations role in East Timor is not going to end on the day of independence, although obviously the nature of the Organization's relationship with the East Timorese will change as soon as they achieve a government of their own independent nation.”
2001-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4265Resumption1 (2001) · source
“It is also our firm View - and I note that we share this with a number of other speakers today - that any consideration of a reduction in the military component of UNTAET should be based on an objective military assessment by UNTAET forces. It is the situation and circumstances on the ground that must be the paramount determinant. I would like to take this opportunity to note Australia's appreciation for the outstanding leadership that Thailand is providing to the current UNTAET peacekeeping operation.”
2001-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4265Resumption1 (2001) · source
“Gains have been made, but there is significant distance yet to be travelled to consolidate the good work of UNTAET to date and to build the necessary foundations for an independent East Timor that will take its place in the region and in this United Nations, confident, secure and well- prepared to manage the many challenges of statehood. For all these reasons Australia strongly supports the Secretary-General's recommendation to renew UNTAET's mandate until 31 December 2001. We are looking to the Council to renew the current mandate in terms that will secure continuity of its operation. Given continuing security concerns, maintenance of a strong security component is particularly important. We feel that troop-contributing countries will all need to remain committed to the UNTAET peacekeeping operation over this period.”
2001-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4265Resumption1 (2001) · source
“The establishment of the East Timorese Defence Force will be an important factor enhancing East Timor's capacity for self-reliance in security matters. But we also look forward to progress in the training and development of the Timor Lorosa'e Police Service, as independence approaches. The prompt repatriation of remaining East Timorese refugees in West Timor remains an important and pressing priority for East Timor's future stability and security. An end to militia intimidation, unimpeded access to camps for humanitarian workers and a credible registration process all remain key prerequisites for this to succeed. As I have emphasized at every possible opportunity, Australia considers it crucial that international support for East Timor's transition to independence be maintained.”
2001-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4265Resumption1 (2001) · source
“As a fundamental element of capacity- building, Timorization will remain critical to East Timor's successful transition to independence. Continued capacity and institution-building will be essential to achieving a timely transfer of authority from the United Nations to an effective East Timorese Government and administration. In addition to this key task, UNTAET and the East Timorese face other considerable challenges over the next 12 months. One of these is to build the basis for a transparent, democratic political system, including through the provision of adequate civic education - a point which, I noticed, the Ambassador of Colombia also placed strong emphasis on in his statement earlier. Another is assisting the development of East Timorese capacity to maintain security, law and order.”
2001-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4265Resumption1 (2001) · source
“The work of UNTAET, in close cooperation with the East Timorese, over the past 15 months has set in place many of the building blocks required for East Timor to become a self-reliant independent nation. The renewal of UNTAET's mandate, which Council members will consider following today's substantial debate, will be decisive in determining UNTAET's capacity to continue to build on the work it has done so far and, importantly, to focus on preparations for the next steps, up to independence and beyond. Australia certainly welcomes recent United Nations efforts to accelerate the transfer of authority to the East Timorese. We agree with the emphasis in the Secretary-General's report on maintaining the pace of what has been called "Timorization" over the coming months.”
2001-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4265Resumption1 (2001) · source
“I would like to thank him for his thorough and characteristically candid briefing and to reiterate the Australian Government's appreciation of the excellent work of UNTAET under his skilled guidance as the Secretary- General's Special Representative. We also appreciate the opportunity to hear from the United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the President of the General Assembly and, especially, Jose' Ramos-Horta. These presentations underlined in a very practical and clear way the unique character of international cooperation over East Timor and conveyed an evident commitment to seeing this effort succeed fully.”
2001-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4265Resumption1 (2001) · source
“Let me add Australia's voice to all those which have expressed sympathy to the Governments of India and Pakistan for the deaths and the suffering which have been caused to so many of their citizens by the serious earthquake which struck their region yesterday. I want to thank you warmly, Sir, for arranging this open meeting of the Council, which has given non- members once again the opportunity to hear directly from the Secretary-General's Special Representative, Mr. Vieira de Mello, on developments in the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) over the past six months, and his views on the tasks and the challenges which must be dealt with in East Timor in the coming year and beyond.”
2001-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4265Resumption1 (2001) · source
“We appreciate that speed and the pressure of many competing demands are always constraints on how much the Council can do. And yet the United Nations and Member States' resources are limited, and we should be prepared to make the additional effort to ensure that United Nations operations are as well planned as possible and that the Council does not create operations without an exit strategy.”
2000-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4223Resumption1 (2000) · source
“One of the ways of improving the quality of the Council's decisions - and this is surely what we are all talking about - is to strengthen the capacity of the United Nations Secretariat to assist with planning, including by enhancing the professional military advice available at United Nations Headquarters. From Australia's viewpoint, this is one of the most critical elements identified in the Brahimi report, and one which we have strongly supported in discussions in the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations. Australia has consistently sought greater rigour in the Council's decisions to create new mandates. We certainly hope that today's debate will influence the way the in which the Council conducts its business.”
2000-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4223Resumption1 (2000) · source
“In the spirit of greater transparency and effectiveness in the Council's work, the Council should put a premium on developing exit strategies in consultation with countries most directly affected by its decisions. One obvious group of countries is those contributing troops and police to an operation, particularly where specific timelines are incorporated for planning purposes. There is also, however, an onus on individual contributing countries to give early advice to the United Nations about their own plans for length of deployment. The reality is that some of them will be unable to maintain a presence throughout the life of an operation, and this should also be factored into mission planning.”
2000-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4223Resumption1 (2000) · source
“I suppose that many of the points that I am putting forward can be summarized as an appeal to the Council, often working more closely with other principal organs of the United Nations, to address a strategy of assistance to the country in which the United Nations has mandated an operation for the period after the Blue Helmets have gone. It is of course desirable that "exit" equate successful achievement of the goals set by the Council. But we recognize that this will not always be possible. Sometimes, the Council will have to withdraw an operation because it has not succeeded in its mandated role. In such cases, however, we would argue strongly that the withdrawal of the operation should not be the end of the matter. In such cases, the Council would need to develop new goals or a strategy for reaching the desired end-state by other means.”
2000-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4223Resumption1 (2000) · source
“This will obviously entail the coordination of planning and the implementation of medium-term development assistance projects so that the termination of the formal operation does not result in frustration or, worse, in a renewal of tensions or a sense that the United Nations has suddenly turned its back on the country being assisted. In our view, the Council will necessarily look to the Secretary-General and to other United Nations organs and agencies, as well as to the international community more broadly, to be the agents for planning and implementing this assistance. Again, we do not think there is any one formula to guide the Council; rather, our point is that all of these factors should be integral to exit strategies.”
2000-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4223Resumption1 (2000) · source
“In the short term, the United Nations withdrawal can often mean the loss of a significant source of demand and of income, but, equally, we need to be mindful that a large-scale United Nations presence can create distortions in a local economy, especially if left in place for a long time. In those cases where the United Nations has a major impact on a national economy - for example, because of the size of an operation or because, as in East Timor and Kosovo, it has actually established a transitional administration - those economic factors need to be given weight by the Council. There should be, to the maximum extent possible, a seamless transition from high levels of United Nations- stimulated economic activity and short-term project assistance to medium-term projects that will work to support the economy for the longer haul.”
2000-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4223Resumption1 (2000) · source
“Politically, that might include such factors as the sustainability of political processes once the United Nations presence has gone, and also whether processes of reconciliation between parties in conflict, or the re-establishment of the conditions for an election or other significant national event, are in place. It is only reasonable here that the Council not be expected to set the bar too high; there will rarely be a situation when the United Nations leaves with a completely stable, fully functioning polity achieved. Rather, the benchmark should be that political processes are such that there is no longer a threat to international peace and security. Economically, the impact of the United Nations exit can be negative or positive.”
2000-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4223Resumption1 (2000) · source
“The fact is that once the United Nations has developed a significant role on the ground, its own credibility is in part affected by the terms on which an operation leaves, and the impact that that has on peace and stability in the country concerned. So there is no golden rule for the Council on how it specifies an end- point for an operation, other than the importance that the conditions for ending the operation be anticipated in the original planning, and that the Council avoid open-ended commitments for United Nations operations. In our view, exit strategies should take into account not only the military end-state that the Council wants to see achieved, but also the political and economic implications of a pull-out or of a significant reduction in the numbers of peacekeepers or other United Nations personnel.”
2000-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4223Resumption1 (2000) · source
“There is often a debate about the validity of setting a specific date for the end of a United Nations operation, or tying it to the achievement of a certain event or outcome, such as a referendum or an election. On the one hand, creating the conditions for such an event to take place is in some cases the very rationale of a United Nations operation. On the other hand, experience has shown - for example, with the Angolan election in 1992 - that simply setting the date of an election or of the transfer of authority to a legitimate Government as the trigger for the United Nations departure can be too simple a formula if it is taken without considering the broader political and social context.”
2000-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4223Resumption1 (2000) · source
“Moreover, any subsequent adjustment to the planning of a operation's end date should be timely and transparent, and should, as so many others have said, be the subject of prior consultations with nations contributing troops to that operation. Developing an exit strategy requires a clear view of the objectives of the operation. It seems to us that if the aim, or aims, are clear to Council members, then the conditions that need to be in place before the Council declares the mission has been achieved can be readily identified. Similarly, the operational concepts - what actions are necessary to achieve those conditions - can be developed more readily.”
2000-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4223Resumption1 (2000) · source
“Mr. President, Australia welcomes your initiative in holding this open debate on a topic which is of particular relevance to the way that the Security Council sets mandates for United Nations operations. This should be a debate about considerably more than the terms on which the Council decides to conclude an operation. What my Government wishes to see from the Council is a more consistent approach to planning operations in the first place, one in which planning for the end of an operation is an integral and indispensable aspect of all Council decisions to authorize deployment of peacekeepers and other United Nations personnel. Australia strongly agrees there should be no exit without strategy, but also wants to stress that this is not in itself sufficient. The Council quite simply should not create operations without an exit strategy.”
2000-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4223Resumption1 (2000) · source
“Let us be smart in other ways by factoring women deliberately and decisively into the peace, security and conflict-prevention and conflict- resolution activities of the United Nations. By doing things differently, we can do them better.”
2000-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208Resumption1 (2000) · source
“I have not seen a draft of the resolution that the Council may be planning to adopt, but I hope it will be strong and, above all, that it will be action-oriented and will pick up the practical suggestions that have been put forward today by a number of delegations, such as those listed by the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea and more recently by the Ambassador of New Zealand, speaking on behalf of the South Pacific Forum countries. The resolution should help us all not just to talk the talk, but to walk the walk of women's involvement. Speaking of talk, there is a lot of talk in the United Nations about "smart sanctions". The phrase has taken hold.”
2000-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208Resumption1 (2000) · source
“Australia hopes that it will result in a renewed determination on the part of both the United Nations and its Member States to take the practical steps necessary to make this happen. Frankly, they are all within reach, but they need a good push; not just from Angela King, not just from Noeleen Heyzer and the United Nations Development Fund for Women, whose thoughtful statements today should have inspired everyone present, but also from individual Member States and from this Council in particular.”
2000-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208Resumption1 (2000) · source
“Finally, just on the areas where we might particularly focus, there is a new and growing emphasis, which we are all aware of, in the United Nations peace and security operations on the role of civilian police. Here too there is very real scope to consider and to incorporate a gender perspective. It is obvious that we need more sensitive and more sophisticated resources for gathering evidence, interviewing victims, counselling traumatized persons and interacting with communities in post-conflict situations. Recruitment and training should give appropriate attention to involving women in all these areas. I said at the outset that I felt that this was an important debate. It gives much-needed impetus to a clear trend towards greater involvement of women in managing conflict and in peace processes.”
2000-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208Resumption1 (2000) · source
“Perhaps not everybody has read the fine print and is aware that article 36, paragraph 8, imposes on States parties an obligation to take into account, when selecting Judges, the need for a "fair representation of female and male judges" within the membership of the Court. This requirement is also found in the associated article concerning the staff of the Prosecutor's Office and the Registry. The inclusion of these gender provisions, specifying the need for qualified women to be employed in all organs of the Court, grew in part from the United Nations experience with the two special Tribunals and the report produced by the Secretary-General that accompanied the Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.”
2000-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208Resumption1 (2000) · source
“We hope that other Governments will do likewise. In addition to identifying suitable women for these specialist tasks, or I might call them trouble- shooting tasks, we should all be working to place more women generally in the international legal system - in the Tribunals, in the courts, in the International Law Commission, which I understand has never had a single woman serve on it in its 50-year history. What sort of message does that send about women's participation? We should also be thinking now and preparing actively to be ready to meet the requirement of the Statute of the International Criminal Court (A/CONF.183/9).”
2000-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208Resumption1 (2000) · source
“At the very top of the spectrum, renewed attention should be given to the consideration of qualified women for appointment as special representatives and deputy special representatives of the Secretary-General and as senior field staff for peace support operations. This requires effort on the part of the United Nations and Member States to identify suitably skilled and qualified women, both those already within the United Nations system and those from outside, for leadership positions. Partly as a result of the initiative taken by the women Permanent Representatives described earlier today by Ambassador Claudia Fritsche of Liechtenstein and partly because the United Nations Secretariat wants to update its database, my Government has just completed a lengthy and intensive exercise to do just that: identify suitably qualified women.”
2000-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208Resumption1 (2000) · source
“I do not want to take the time of the Council to go into details here, but we would be happy to share our experience in programmes in Bougainville, Solomon Islands and East Timor, which have been designed to support the role of women in peace processes, all the while operating alongside other programmes to empower women and to provide greater protection for them in situations of armed conflict. But beyond our national efforts, we want to see a more deliberate and concentrated effort at the regional and international levels to increase women's participation in peacemaking and peace-building operations.”
2000-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208Resumption1 (2000) · source
“So the gaps - and the possibilities - in relation to women's participation have been identified; the linkages are becoming more evident and acknowledged by authoritative voices; the lessons learned are being examined and placed before the United Nations system and before Member States; and the calls to action - to factor women into the peace and security equation in new ways - are loud and becoming louder. The question is: how do we, how should we, heed them? Australia believes there are a number of practical steps that can be taken. We are applying these in our own development assistance programmes, in our region in particular.”
2000-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208Resumption1 (2000) · source