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Zamora Zumbado

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2023-09-05
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  1. “Working methods are the sinews and the vessels that connect the Council with other vital organs, helping them to function with greater synergy, but also with greater confidence. Working methods can mean the difference between lamenting a child’s illness and bringing the child to the doctor, between preventing conflict and deploring genocide, between claiming an institutional mandate and fulfilling it. We cannot afford to lack the proper sense of responsibility and political will to ensure the effectiveness of the Council.”

    2023-09-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9410Resumption1 (2023) · source

  2. “That practice will promote greater participation of all Council members in decision-making, in particular those countries from the region in question, those willing to increase their level of participation or those with a special interest in it, for example, the Chairs of Sanctions Committees or subsidiary bodies directly related to a given situation. Thirdly, Costa Rica calls for more regular interaction between the subsidiary bodies and the Member States, as well as with other actors, such as United Nations agencies and regional and subregional organizations. It is also important for Costa Rica to continue to consider the criteria for the selection of experts of the subsidiary bodies of the Security Council, in accordance with the note by the President contained in document S/2006/997.”

    2023-09-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9410Resumption1 (2023) · source

  3. “For that reason, Costa Rica calls on the presidency of the Council to prepare a working document that addresses the recommendations of the membership and moves forward on the issue of the provisional nature of its rules of procedure. That will promote greater stability, transparency and legal certainty and will also strengthen the relationship between the General Assembly and the Security Council. Secondly, Costa Rica underscores the importance of maintaining a balanced distribution of penholders on the Council’s agenda items, which promotes cooperation and collective responsibility among the permanent and elected members. However, joint drafting or co-authorship should be established as a rule for initiating and leading the drafting process.”

    2023-09-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9410Resumption1 (2023) · source

  4. “By focusing solely on responding to crises rather than proactively preventing them, the Security Council will find itself perpetually unable to intervene proactively to prevent the loss of countless lives. As a result, millions of people will continue to suffer from violent conflict, and the Council will remain unable to offer effective solutions. In other words, weaknesses in its working methods have a very high human cost. Allow me to underscore three aspects in that regard. First, Costa Rica reiterates the importance of open debates since they allow the Council to listen to the entire membership at the highest level. They have become a regular feature of the Council’s monthly programme of work. However, as a State’s place on the list of speakers drops, so does the level of representation of those seated at this table.”

    2023-09-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9410Resumption1 (2023) · source

  5. “Ms. Zamora Zumbado (Costa Rica) (spoke in Spanish): I would like to begin by thanking Albania, in its capacity as Chair of the Informal Working Group on Documentation and Other Procedural Questions, for organizing this timely debate. We wish it success in presiding over the Security Council during this month of September. Costa Rica also associates itself with the statements delivered by Norway on behalf of the Accountability, Coherence and Transparency group and by Ireland on behalf of the Group of Like-Minded States on Targeted Sanctions. There is an undeniable connection between conflict prevention and the working methods of the Security Council.”

    2023-09-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9410Resumption1 (2023) · source