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Yánez Loza

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2016-10-19
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2020-01-22
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  1. “Against that backdrop, 120 States members of the General Assembly, including Ecuador, voted on 13 June in favour of resolution ES- 10/20, on the protection of the Palestinian civilian population, motivated by concern about those acts of violence against civilians and the need to implement accountability measures. Ecuador is concerned not only about the ongoing deterioration of the humanitarian situation and the lack of funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. It is also concerned about Israel's adoption of new laws with exclusionary and discriminatory provisions and the demolitions announced in the West Bank that contravene the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and resolution 1322 (2000), on the Conventions' applicability, and that violate resolution 2334 (2016).”

    2018-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8316 (2018) · source

  2. “Everything I have just mentioned shapes our understanding of the situation in Palestine, which we find on the monthly and quarterly agendas of the Security Council, as well as on the agendas of the Economic and Social Council and the Human Rights Council. The prevalence of this issue is a reflection of the seriousness of the situation, which is only getting worse, given the violations of human rights, international humanitarian law, the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.”

    2018-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8316 (2018) · source

  3. “He described the violence, poverty and unemployment that are exacerbating the already tragic humanitarian crisis. The media compel us to watch, almost in real time, the exchanges of fire, which are the heaviest since 2014; air strikes with missiles; and deaths, including the deaths of children. We must ensure that the immediacy of this tragedy does not desensitize us to the violence. On Sunday, we learned from the United Nations Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Mr. James McGoldrick, how the lack of fuel in Gaza, the provision of which has been restored today, endangered the medical care and potentially the lives of 2,000 patients, including newborns.”

    2018-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8316 (2018) · source

  4. “Ms. Yanez Loza (Ecuador) (spoke in Spanish): We would like to thank you, Sir, for convening today's open debate. We thank Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his briefing and for his ongoing efforts to achieve peace in the region. Two weeks ago, we were warned that, in recent months, the situation on the Gaza strip had deteriorated and was now on the brink of conflict. Yesterday, the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People heard from the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr. Zeid Ra'ad Zeid Al Hussein, who referred to the dramatic escalation of tension and the potential for an escalation that would destabilize the region, and warned of the fragility of the situation, despite the agreed ceasefire.”

    2018-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8316 (2018) · source

  5. “We therefore reiterate that the statistics provided to us must call for a comprehensive response from all States by not allowing impunity and providing appropriate political support and funding. We believe that it is important to build and sustain peace, as peace is directly linked to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda. We reaffirm Ecuador's commitment to leaving no one behind on the path to sustainable development, and we want to use this forum to pool efforts aimed at a productive and successful dialogue that highlights the situation of children and armed conflict and its importance for the global agenda. Finally, we call for stronger support for the management ofthe Office ofthe Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict so that it may receive sufficient political support and funding.”

    2018-07-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8305 (2018) · source

  6. “Ecuador expresses its full support for the need to protect students, teachers and educational infrastructure in situations of armed conflict, and stresses the importance of continuing education during armed conflict, as well as the implementation of the Guidelines for Protecting Schools and Universities from Military Use during Armed Conflict. Our Constitution also stipulates that military service for citizens over 18 years of age is voluntary, and prohibits all forms of forced recruitment. Our Constitution also establishes that children and adolescents shall receive priority attention in the event of disasters, armed conflicts and any type ofemergency.”

    2018-07-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8305 (2018) · source

  7. “Similarly, we call for the cessation and prevention of the recruitment and use of children in armed conflict, and stress the importance of adequate funding for gender-sensitive reintegration programmes, taking into account the particular needs of girls who have not been well served through traditional disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programmes. The Secretary-General's report also underscores how schools are used for military purposes and points to the destruction of educational infrastructure.”

    2018-07-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8305 (2018) · source

  8. “In its Constitution, Ecuador recognizes children as a group deserving of special attention, and indicates that it is the State's responsibility to protect and care for them against all forms of violence, ill-treatment, sexual exploitation or exploitation of any other kind, as well as to eradicate all forms of violence to which they may be subjected. That is why we supported resolution 2427 (2018) this morning. As we celebrate 18 years since the signing of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict, we call for universal ratification of the Protocol and encourage States that have not yet done so to ratify it without delay.”

    2018-07-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8305 (2018) · source

  9. “Ecuador expresses its concern at the continuing recruitment and use of children throughout the world. Despite the formal release of more than 10,000 children associated with armed forces or groups in 2017 and the arrangements that have been taken for their reintegration, 56 armed groups and state State forces continued to recruit and use children in conflicts around the world. We believe that the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in particular Sustainable Development Goals 5 and 16, related to gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, as well as the promotion ofjust, peaceful and inclusive societies, can be achieved only when all States fully protect children.”

    2018-07-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8305 (2018) · source

  10. “Ms. Yanez Loza (Ecuador) (spoke in Spanish): I would like to thank the Permanent Mission of Sweden for convening this open debate. We believe it is essential that all States be able to express in the Security Council their concern about the situation of children in armed conflict. Ecuador welcomes the report of the Secretary- General (S/2018/465) and this morning's briefings, as well as the concept note (S/2018/625, annex) that you, Mr. President, provided us with to guide this meeting. The situation of children is becoming increasingly worrisome owing to the number and seriousness of violations in countries in conflict. We see this in the reports submitted, which show that children are victims of State and non-State actors and that there is no collective and comprehensive response to protect them.”

    2018-07-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8305 (2018) · source

  11. “The participation of women and a focus on gender, whose benefits are indisputable, should occupy a special place in these areas, especially peacebuilding. In conclusion, we believe that we should emphasize some initiatives that can prove very helpful, such as the early use of mediation as an effective way to prevent conflicts, and we therefore commend the Secretary- General's initiative establishing a High-level Advisory Board on Mediation, since we support all efforts towards diplomacy for peace, and especially as they accord with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations.”

    2017-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8144 (2017) · source

  12. “Article 99 of the Charter of the United Nations assigns to the Secretary-General the important duty of informing the Council about threats to international peace and security. We believe that together with the appropriate implementation of preventive diplomacy, as Secretary-General Guterres has advocated, he should make use of that function when appropriate. The Secretary-General's proposed reform of the peace and security pillar is currently under discussion in the General Assembly, in accordance with its responsibilities. Once the Assembly has taken a final decision, we hope to see all United Nations bodies working in coordination so that peacekeeping operations, special political missions and peacebuilding efforts are effective and efficient.”

    2017-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8144 (2017) · source

  13. “That is why the General Assembly, the Security Council and the Economic and Social Council, together with the Secretariat, must work in a coordinated manner to meet the objectives and purposes of the Charter, all while respecting the prerogatives of each organ and avoiding the duplication of functions. There is no doubt that these complex interrelationships mean that the maintenance of international peace and security is affected by various issues such as climate change, respect for human rights and, as we have seen very recently, the damage caused by natural disasters. We must nevertheless emphasize how important it is to ensure that the Security Council avoids making security issues out of topics that may be current at any given moment and thereby arrogate to itself functions that come under the purview of other United Nations entities.”

    2017-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8144 (2017) · source

  14. “Article 26 of the Charter expresses the need to maintain international peace and security with the least diversion for armaments of the world's human and economic resources. The relationship between disarmament and development was most clearly expressed at the International Conference on the Relationship between Disarmament and Development, convened by the General Assembly in 1987. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the commitment to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, as well as the vast means required for its implementation, highlight even further the relationship between disarmament and development. Recognizing the complexity of those factors, the Charter envisages a series of organs with different competences, albeit with a certain overlap between them.”

    2017-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8144 (2017) · source

  15. “In order to fulfil that goal and the other objectives outlined in the Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations, the international community has adopted a series of proposals that interlink the maintenance of international peace and security, the peaceful settlement of disputes, the self-determination of peoples, friendly coexistence among all nations and the solution of economic, social, cultural or humanitarian problems through international cooperation. Ever since its foundational document was written, the United Nations has recognized the close interlinkage of those issues. One of the most obvious of these is the relationship between disarmament and development.”

    2017-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8144 (2017) · source

  16. “Ms. Yanez Loza (Ecuador) (spoke in Spanish): I thank you, Mr. President, for convening today's open debate on challenges to international peace and security. There is no doubt that the maintenance of peace and the prevention of conflicts are linked to a series of indubitably complex factors. However, this is not a new reality. The United Nations was created with the objective, among others, of saving future generations from the scourge of war.”

    2017-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8144 (2017) · source

  17. “The function of the armed forces and police is to protect the rights, liberties and guarantees of citizens. Our Constitution also stipulates that girls, boys and teenagers will be given priority in cases of disaster, armed conflict and other types of emergencies. That is why we believe that the figures included in the report cannot become the norm; rather, they call for a comprehensive response on the part of States. That response must in particular include the commitment that those responsible will not go unpunished. The Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary- General, Ms. Virginia Gamba, with whose work we are all familiar, should receive the necessary financial and political support.”

    2017-10-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8082 (2017) · source

  18. “The Secretary-General's report also highlights how schools are used for military purposes and how educational infrastructure is destroyed. As a signatory to the Oslo Safe Schools Declaration of 2015, Ecuador endorses the content of the Declaration presented by the Permanent Mission of Norway. It expresses its full support for the need to protect students, teachers and educational infrastructure in times of armed conflict, and stresses the importance of continuing education during armed conflicts and of implementing the Guidelines for Protecting Schools and Universities from Military Use during Armed Conflict. All of this is linked to Sustainable Development Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning. That is important for my country, which our Constitution defines as a territory of peace.”

    2017-10-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8082 (2017) · source

  19. “As the Secretary-General and Special Representative for Children Armed Conflict, Ms. Virginia Gamba, so eloquently noted, the situation of children is becoming increasingly precarious, not just because of the number and gravity of violations in countries in conflict, both on the Security Council and outside of it, but also because all the atrocities covered in the report highlight the ever-more alarming situation of children who fall prey to State and non-State actors. To protect children, we need a collective and comprehensive response that takes into account their particular circumstances and needs for protection, and that addresses the many reported violations of international law, the denial of access to humanitarian assistance, and the recruitment, kidnapping and sexual violence to which they are subject.”

    2017-10-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8082 (2017) · source

  20. “Ms. Yanez Loza (Ecuador) (spoke in Spanish): My delegation thanks the Permanent Mission of France for convening this open debate. Ecuador believes that it is important that here, within the Security Council, all States be able to express their concern regarding the situation of children in armed conflict, especially given that, in addition to the vulnerability of their situation and the countless abuses they endure, they are deprived of education and, without access to it, further deprived of the possibility of having a future in which they can fully enjoy their human rights. Ecuador thanks the Secretary-General for his report (S/2017/821) and the briefing he delivered this morning. We are thank France for the concept note (S/2017/891,annex) issued as a guide for this meeting.”

    2017-10-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8082 (2017) · source

  21. “We trust that that will be the start of an ongoing and growing participation that can be extended to other branches of our armed forces and police force, as yet another sign that my country is committed to the ideals of peace and security on which the Organization is based.”

    2017-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8079 (2017) · source

  22. “If change is to be permanent, our inclusion efforts must be ongoing and meaningful, but that is a slow process in which we have to contend with glass ceilings, broken ladders and sticky floors. Planning, regularly submitting reports and disaggregating statistics are therefore all-important. In addition, the cross-cutting nature of gender equality increasingly demonstrates the interrelated nature of the various forums and the need to work assiduously to assess the outcome of today's meeting. In conclusion, I would like to underscore that, starting this year, Ecuador has three women in its infantry unit serving as peacekeeping operations observers.”

    2017-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8079 (2017) · source

  23. “Support mechanisms must therefore be established for victims, as well as ongoing educational processes for societies. For many, the face of the United Nations is its peacekeeping operations. Every effort must be made to end the cases of sexual abuse and exploitation in those operations for good, as such abuses undermine the Organization's credibility. The current national challenges in the area of women's participation and leadership are not the result ofa lack of legislation, public policies or administrative structures, but rather of the lack of implementation of such laws, policies and structures. That is because mindsets still have to be changed, and that must be done every day.”

    2017-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8079 (2017) · source

  24. “We agree on the ever-present and genuine need to work to achieve gender equality, the empowerment of women and the protection of their rights, and to raise awareness about the risks they face, including all forms of sexual and gender-based violence. Conflict prevention and resolution, post- conflict reconstruction and lasting peace can be fully achieved only if those intrinsic goals are duly taken into consideration. In that regard, my delegation welcomes the mechanisms that have been established to include a gender perspective in peacekeeping and peacebuilding processes. Gender-based violence and sexual violence in conflict situations will always be unacceptable, which is why it is important for those responsible for such crimes to be held accountable.”

    2017-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8079 (2017) · source

  25. “Ms. Yanez Loza (Ecuador) (spoke in Spanish): My delegation thanks France for convening today's open debate on an issue of increasing importance to the Organization. I believe it is important for all of us here in the Security Council to draw the international community's attention to the need to periodically revisit the issue of the role of women in the area of peace and security. They are simultaneously the victims of conflicts, participants in fulfilling peacekeeping operations' mandates and society's peacebuilders. Ecuador welcomes the report of the Secretary- General (S/2017/861), the concept note (S/2017/889, annex) provided to guide our work and the important briefings we heard today.”

    2017-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8079 (2017) · source

  26. “This legally constituted Organization has a duty to restore hope - and owes a debt - to the Palestinian people and to bring about the establishment of an independent State of Palestine, including joining the United Nations as a fully fledged Member, pursuant to the 1947 partition resolution (General Assembly resolution 181(II)).”

    2016-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7792 (2016) · source

  27. “Ecuador co-sponsored General Assembly resolution 67/19, which granted Palestine the status of a non-member observer State in November 2012. On 24 December 2010, President Rafael Correa was one of the first Heads of State to recognize the State of Palestine within the 1967 borders. As recognized in the Middle East Quarter report (S/2016/595, annex), we believe that a negotiated two-State solution is the sole path to achieve a durable peace that addresses Israel's security needs and the Palestinians' aspirations for sovereignty and independence and puts an end to the occupation that began in 1967. Only then will the Palestinian people be able to enjoy their inalienable rights. Their cultural and heritage rights have also been affected, as recognized just recently by the UNESCO Executive Board.”

    2016-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7792 (2016) · source

  28. “We once again express our concern about the ongoing absence of a decision and the lack of the necessary political will to implement the relevant Council and General Assembly resolutions, circumstances that undermine the international community's initiatives to resolve continuing conflicts in the region, thereby encouraging conduct that leads to systematic practices condemned by international law, including human rights law, international humanitarian law and even the Charter of the United Nations, as we have heard in the briefings presented by the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General and by the Under-Secretary- General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator in this very forum.”

    2016-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7792 (2016) · source

  29. “Ms. Yanez Loza (Ecuador) (spoke in Spanish): At the outset, I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for the invitation to attend this open debate of the Security Council. At the same time, I wish to align myself with the statement delivered by the representative of Venezuela on behalf of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries adopted at its recent Summit held in Margarita Island. My delegation once again strongly reiterates the support of the Government and the people of Ecuador for the legitimate right of the Palestinian people to establish an independent State within the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, as expressed on 12 July in this very Chamber (see S/PV.7736). I would also like to renew our historic commitment to the cause of peace in the Middle East.”

    2016-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7792 (2016) · source