Australia
H.E. Mr. Robert Hill, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
SCR 1325 reaffirms the role of
women in preventing and resolving conflicts and encourages making
women central to negotiating peace agreements, peacekeeping operations
and reconstructing societies stricken by war. It makes a gender
perspective and gender equality relevant to all Security Council
actions.
Bangladesh
H.E. Dr. Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Canada
H.E. Mr. John McNee, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
The Security Council's direct
role in ensuring that women participate in all levels of peace
consolidation and that gender equality is integrated throughout
all peace and security activities is now well-established.
China
H.E. Mr. Liu Zhenmin, Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Colombia
H.E. Mrs Maria Angela Holguin, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Comoros
H.E. Mr. Mohamed El-Amine Souef, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Congo
H.E. Mr. Basile Ikouebe, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Croatia
H.E. Mrs. Mirjana Mladineo, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Denmark
H.E. Mrs. Ellen Margrethe Loj, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Egypt
H.E. Mr. Majed Abdelaziz, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
El Salvador
H.E. Mrs Carmen Maria Gallardo Hernadez, Ambassador and Permanent
Representative
No reference to theme
Fiji
Mr Filimone Kau, Charge d'affaires of Fiji to the United Nations
For six years, the Security Council
has been seized with the issue and despite sore milestones, which
include the formulation of the Plan, we believe more could be
achieved. The options for a focal point and an expert level working
group to ensure effective integration of SCR 1325 into the Council's
work are propositions that Fiji continues to advocate.
Finland (EU)
H.E. Minister Ms. Elisabeth Rehn
The resolution demands protection
of women and girls in conflicts, but also calls for giving women
a voice and an active peacebuilding role during and in the aftermaths
of armed conflict. Foremost, the resolution places the issue of
gender firmly on the agenda of the Security Council itself.
Incorporating SCR 1325 into the
Security Council's work in order to ensure a gender-sensitive
approach in all its work is crucial, but there is often a lack
of understanding of the concept of gender mainstreaming. The EU
therefore welcomes the current efforts by the UN and Member States
to train permanent missions and SC members on how to translate
SCR1325 in to concrete action.
France
H.E. Mr. Jean-Marc de la Sabliere, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
The area where SCR 1325 has changed
the course of things the most is that of peacekeeping operations.
We can see in it the result of several factors coming together:
- the integration on a more systematic basis now of the problem
of "women, peace and security" in mandates given by
the Security Council;
- the relatively clear distribution of the roles of various actors
in the framework of peacekeeping operations, a guarantee of better
coordination;
Germany
H.E. Mr. von Ungern-Sternberg, Deputy Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Ghana
H.E. Mr. Nana Effah-Apenteng, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
Member States and partners must
continue to give the needed financial support to the implementation
of 1325. An effective and robust accountability, monitoring and
reporting system should be developed.
SCR 1325 holds us all to a new
standard of accountability both during and after conflict. What
we should do is to reinforce the political momentum and start
more conscious initiatives and activities to intensify the implementation
of the resolution. This is the surest way that we can turn gender
equality commitment into reality.
Greece
Mrs Alexandra Papadopoulou, Minister Counselor, Deputy Permanent
Representative
No reference to theme
Guatemala
H.E. Mr. Jorge Skinner Klee, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
It is regrettable that, as the
report reveals, six years after the adoption of the Security Council
resolution and 61 years after the establishment of the United
Nations, only 26.07 per cent of the Council’s resolutions
include language relating to women or gender. That shows us that
our level of compliance with the commitments undertaken in the
area of women’s advancement still falls well below expectations.
More support is needed in this area, where it is most lacking.
Guinea
H.E Mr. Alpha Ibrahima Sow, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Iceland
H.E. Mr. Hjalmar W. Hamesson, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Indonesia
H.E. Mrs. Adiyatwidi Adiwoso Asmady, Ambassador and Deputy Permanent
Representative
Indonesia believes that the implementation of
the action plan represents the first phase in achieving a well-coordinated,
results-based, system-wide strategy. To succeed, this strategy
will require committed, sensitive leadership throughout the United
Nations system actively supported by women in decision-making
positions whose actions will help to consolidate peace. And it
would also be good protocol for the Council to interact more closely
with other major United Nations organs to enrich its insights
for action and achieve better decision-making.
Israel
Ms. Meirav Eilon Shahar, Counsellor
No reference to theme
Japan
H.E. Mr. Kenzo Oshima, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Kenya
H.E. Mr. Z.D. Muburi Muita, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
It is our sincere hope that beyond 2007, the Action Plan will
be re-conceptualized to strengthen its accountability, monitoring
and reporting system and to ensure enhanced coordination across
the United Nations system. Establishing a Security Council working
group, or designating a focal point on women, peace and security
issues, as recommended by the Secretary-General, would ensure
systematic integration and implementation of resolution 1325.
Lesotho (SADC)
H.E. Mr. Lebohang F. Maema KC, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Liechtenstein
H.E. Mr. Christian Wenaweser, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
The Security Council could assume leadership
in such efforts by giving the right example and increasingly listening
to the voices of local women's groups as well. This would be a
clear sign of its commitment to the implementation of SCR 1325.
While we commend the Security Council for its measures to further
mainstream SCR 1325, we are concerned that six years after the
adoption of this historic resolution the Council still has no
systematic way to ensure the integration of a gender perspective
in its work. We therefore wish to join other delegabtions in calling
on the Council to establish a focal point or an expert level working
group on women, peace and security to ensure systematic implementation
and integration of SCR 1325 within its work, including in all
resolutions that establish or extend peacekeeping missions and
in terms of references for Security Council mission trips and
mission reports.
Myanmar
H.E. Mr. U Kyaw Tint Swe, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
The Netherlands
H.E. Mr. Frank Majoor, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
In conclusion, I would specifically like to underline the need
for the Security Council to more systematically integrate resolution
1325 in its work. This could start by including a gender perspective
and a reference to Resolution 1325 in all its resolutions that
establish or extend mandates for peacekeeping missions.
Norway
Mr. Johan L. Lovald, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Papua New Guinea (Pacific Islands Forum)
H.E. Mr Robert G. Aisia, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Qatar
Dr. Mutlaq Majid al-Qahtani, Minister Plenipotentiary
No reference to theme
Russia
Ilya Rogachev, Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Slovakia
H.E. Mr. Peter Burian, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Slovenia (Human Security Network)
H.E. Mr. Roman Kirn, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
Both the Security Council and the newly established
Peacebuilding Commission needs to pay special and full attention
to integrating women equally in formal peace processes.
Insufficient gender mainstreaming and gender
empowerment is true of the international community as a whole
when dealing with conflict resolution and peacebuilding. We call
on both the Security Council and the new Peacebuilding Commission
to take the lead towards a genuinely gender-blind culture, which
will provide benefits to the individuals in the society and to
society as a whole!
South Africa
H.E. Mr. Dumasani S. Kumalo, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Spain
H.E. Mrs. Silvia Escobar, Special Mission Ambassador Special Mission
for Human Rights
The importance of the resolution must transcend
the necessary and thought-provoking celebration of the anniversary
on 31 October of the unanimous adoption of the resolution. Since
2000, only 39 of the Security Council’s 261 resolutions
or texts have contained any reference to gender issues. Only five
of the 59 resolutions adopted in 2004 dealt with the issue of
violence against women, and only eight made reference to resolution
1325 (2000). Spain attaches great importance to the effective
implementation of resolution 1325 (2000). In 2004, the then Minister
of Foreign Affairs of Sweden and the Minister for Foreign Affairs
and Cooperation of Spain jointly signed an article entitled “Women,
peace and security”, which, inter alia, deplored the lack
of participation of women in peace processes. In that same year,
in the Security Council, Spain highlighted the importance of the
Council’s giving serious consideration to the establishment
of a permanent mechanism for the effective follow-up of the implementation
of resolution 1325 (2000) in the context of the various conflict
situations that it deals with on an ongoing basis.
Sweden
H.E. Mr. Anders Lidén, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Tanzania
H.E. Mr. Tuvako N. Manongi, Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Uganda
H.E. Mr Francis K. Butagira, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
United Kingdom
H.E. Sir Emyr Jones Parry, Ambassador and Permanent representative
No reference to theme
United States
Molly Phee, Deputy Political Counselor
No reference to theme
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Gender
perspectives in resolutions, mission terms of reference, mandates
& reports
Argentina
H.E. Mr. Cesar Mayoral, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
From the United Nations perspective
it is necessary to assure a systematic implementation of Resolution
1325 in all spheres of its work, starting with the inclusion of
the gender perspective in all resolutions of this Council, including
resolutions that establish or extend a peace operation and in
the terms of reference of the missions undertaken by the Security
Council.
Australia
H.E. Mr Robert Hill, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Bangladesh
H.E. Dr. Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Canada
H.E. Mr. John McNee, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
Canada will continue to monitor
the implementation by the Council of its commitments, including
in country specific contexts, and to support work that enhances
Council and wider international efforts in this area. This includes
ensuring that gender equality concerns are integrated into Council
resolutions establishing or extending peacekeeping missions and
terms of reference for Council mission trips and mission reports.
China
H.E. Mr. Liu Zhenmin, Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative
Having deliberated on composite
women-related issues over the years, the General Assembly and
the Economic and Social Council possess vast experience and systematic
agendas of work. For this reason, the Security Council should
coordinate with them in its work and focus on questions within
its own terms of reference in order to achieve the overall result
of clear division of labour and emphasis on key issues.
Colombia
H.E. Mrs Maria Angela Holguin, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Comoros
H.E. Mr. Mohamed El-Amine Souef, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Congo
H.E. Mr. Basile Ikouebe, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Croatia
H.E. Mrs. Mirjana Mladineo, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Denmark
H.E. Mrs. Ellen Margrethe Loj, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
El Salvador
H.E. Mrs Carmen Maria Gallardo Hernadez, Ambassador and Permanent
Representative
No reference to theme
Egypt
H.E. Mr. Majed Abdelaziz, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Fiji
Mr Filimone Kau, Charge d'affaires of Fiji to the United Nations
No reference to theme
Finland (EU)
H.E. Minister Ms. Elisabeth Rehn
No reference to theme
France
H.E. Mr. Jean-Marc de la Sabliere, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Germany
H.E. Mr. von Ungern-Sternberg, Deputy Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Ghana
H.E. Mr. Nana Effah-Apenteng, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Greece
Mrs Alexandra Papadopoulou, Minister Counselor, Deputy Permanent
Representative
No reference to theme
Guatemala
H.E. Mr. Jorge Skinner Klee, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Guinea
H.E Mr. Alpha Ibrahima Sow, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Iceland
H.E. Mr. Hjalmar W. Hamesson, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Indonesia
H.E. Mrs. Adiyatwidi Adiwoso Asmady, Ambassador and Deputy Permanent
Representative
No reference to theme
Israel
Ms. Meirav Eilon Shahar, Counsellor
No reference to theme
Japan
H.E. Mr. Kenzo Oshima, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Kenya
H.E. Mr. Z.D. Muburi Muita, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Lesotho (SADC)
H.E. Mr. Lebohang F. Maema KC, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Liechtenstein
H.E. Mr. Christian Wenaweser, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
We therefore wish to join other
delegations in calling on the Council to establish a focal point
or an expert level working group on women, peace and security
to ensure systematic implementation and integration of SCR 1325
within its work, including in all resolutions that establish or
extend peacekeeping missions and in terms of references for Security
Council mission trips and mission reports.
Myanmar
H.E. Mr. U Kyaw Tint Swe, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
The Netherlands
H.E. Mr. Frank Majoor, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
In conclusion, I would specifically
like to underline the need for the Security Council to more systematically
integrate resolution 1325 in its work. This could start by including
a gender perspective and a reference to Resolution 1325 in all
its resolutions that establish or extend mandates for peacekeeping
missions.
Norway
Mr. Johan L. Lovald, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Papua New Guinea (Pacific
Islands Forum)
H.E. Mr Robert G. Aisia, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Peru
H.E. Mr Oswaldo Rivero, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Qatar
Dr. Mutlaq Majid al-Qahtani, Minister Plenipotentiary
No reference to theme
Russia
Ilya Rogachev, Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Slovakia
H.E. Mr. Peter Burian, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Slovenia (Human Security
Network)
H.E. Mr. Roman Kirn, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
South Africa
H.E. Mr. Dumasani S. Kumalo, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Spain
H.E. Mrs. Silvia Escobar, Special Mission Ambassador Special Mission
for Human Rights
Since 2000, only 39 of the Security
Council’s 261 resolutions or texts have contained any reference
to gender issues. Only five of the 59 resolutions adopted in 2004
dealt with the issue of violence against women, and only eight
made reference to resolution 1325 (2000). Spain attaches great
importance to the effective implementation of resolution 1325
(2000). In 2004, the then Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden
and the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Spain
jointly signed an article entitled “Women, peace and security”,
which, inter alia, deplored the lack of participation of women
in peace processes. In that same year, in the Security Council,
Spain highlighted the importance of the Council’s giving
serious consideration to the establishment of a permanent mechanism
for the effective follow-up of the implementation of resolution
1325 (2000) in the context of the various conflict situations
that it deals with on an ongoing basis.
Sweden
H.E. Mr. Anders Lidén, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Tanzania
H.E. Mr. Tuvako N. Manongi, Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Uganda
H.E. Mr Francis K. Butagira, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
United Kingdom
H.E. Sir Emyr Jones Parry, Ambassador and Permanent representative
No reference to theme
United States
Molly Phee, Deputy Political Counselor
No reference to theme
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Focal point
or working group on women, peace and security
Argentina
H.E. Mr. Cesar Mayoral, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Australia
H.E. Mr Robert Hill, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Bangladesh
H.E. Dr. Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Canada
H.E. Mr. John McNee, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
China
H.E. Mr. Liu Zhenmin, Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Colombia
H.E. Mrs Maria Angela Holguin, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Comoros
H.E. Mr. Mohamed El-Amine Souef, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Congo
H.E. Mr. Basile Ikouebe, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Croatia
H.E. Mrs. Mirjana Mladineo, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Denmark
H.E. Mrs. Ellen Margrethe Loj, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Egypt
H.E. Mr. Majed Abdelaziz, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
El Salvador
H.E. Mrs Carmen Maria Gallardo Hernadez, Ambassador and Permanent
Representative
No reference to theme
Fiji
Mr Filimone Kau, Charge d'affaires of Fiji to the United Nations
For six years, the Security Council
has been seized with the issue and despite sore milestones, which
include the formulation of the Plan, we believe more could be
achieved. The options for a focal point and an expert level working
group to ensure effective integration of SCR 1325 into the Council's
work are propositions that Fiji continues to advocate.
Finland (EU)
H.E. Minister Ms. Elisabeth Rehn
Additional measures to include
SCR1325 in the work of the Security Council should also be considered,
such as establishing a working group or focal point to assist
in the mainstreaming of SCR 1325.
France
H.E. Mr. Jean-Marc de la Sabliere, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Germany
H.E. Mr. von Ungern-Sternberg, Deputy Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Ghana
H.E. Mr. Nana Effah-Apenteng, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
The only mechanism developed
by the Security Council to track its own implementation has been
the annual open debate and the Arria Formula style meeting on
women, peace and security. The Council should play a more proactive
role by setting up a mechanism for a more systematic, effective
and coordinated implementation of resolution 1325 in its work
by designating a SC member to serve a s a focal point and an expert
level working group on women, peace and security consisting of
Council members.
Greece
Mrs Alexandra Papadopoulou, Minister Counselor, Deputy Permanent
Representative
No reference to theme
Guatemala
H.E. Mr. Jorge Skinner Klee, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Guinea
H.E Mr. Alpha Ibrahima Sow, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Iceland
H.E. Mr. Hjalmar W. Hamesson, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Indonesia
H.E. Mrs. Adiyatwidi Adiwoso Asmady, Ambassador and Deputy Permanent
Representative
At the international level, the
establishment of a working group or focal point on women, peace
and security within the Security Council, in keeping with a recommendation
of the report, should also have our lull consideration. But it
would be equally beneficial, as proposed in the report, if the
Council were to permit wider participation by the United Nations
membership in its work. This will increase sensitivity to the
issue of women's actual and potential contributions to peace and
security and strengthen commitment in that regard.
Israel
Ms. Meirav Eilon Shahar, Counsellor
No reference to theme
Japan
H.E. Mr. Kenzo Oshima, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Kenya
H.E. Mr. Z.D. Muburi Muita, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
It is our sincere hope that beyond
2007, the Action Plan will be re-conceptualized to strengthen
its accountability, monitoring and reporting system and to ensure
enhanced coordination across the United Nations system. Establishing
a Security Council working group, or designating a focal point
on women, peace and security issues, as recommended by the Secretary-General,
would ensure systematic integration and implementation of resolution
1325.
Lesotho (SADC)
H.E. Mr. Lebohang F. Maema KC, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Liechtenstein
H.E. Mr. Christian Wenaweser, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
We therefore wish to join other
delegations in calling on the Council to establish a focal point
or an expert level working group on women, peace and security
to ensure systematic implementation and integration of SCR 1325
within its work, including in all resolutions that establish or
extend peacekeeping missions and in terms of references for Security
Council mission trips and mission reports.
Myanmar
H.E. Mr. U Kyaw Tint Swe, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
The Netherlands
H.E. Mr. Frank Majoor, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Norway
Mr. Johan L. Lovald, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Papua New Guinea (Pacific
Islands Forum)
H.E. Mr Robert G. Aisia, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Peru
H.E. Mr Oswaldo Rivero, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Qatar
Dr. Mutlaq Majid al-Qahtani, Minister Plenipotentiary
No reference to theme
Russia
Ilya Rogachev, Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Slovakia
H.E. Mr. Peter Burian, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Slovenia (Human Security
Network)
H.E. Mr. Roman Kirn, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
South Africa
H.E. Mr. Dumasani S. Kumalo, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Spain
H.E. Mrs. Silvia Escobar, Special Mission Ambassador Special Mission
for Human Rights
The Security Council should consider
the possibility of creating a focal point responsible for gender
issues and other issues relating to the effective implementation
of resolution 1325 (2000).
Sweden
H.E. Mr. Anders Lidén, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Sudan
No reference to theme
Tanzania
H.E. Mr. Tuvako N. Manongi, Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
Uganda
H.E. Mr Francis K. Butagira, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
No reference to theme
United Kingdom
H.E. Sir Emyr Jones Parry, Ambassador and Permanent representative
No reference to theme
United States
Molly Phee, Deputy Political Counselor
No reference to theme
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