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STORY: UN / PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS
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SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / RUSSIAN / NATS
DATELINE: 06 APRIL 2017, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
06 APRIL 2017, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Med shot, delegates
4. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Peace operations are at a crossroads. Our task is to keep them relevant with clear and achievable mandates, and the right strategies and support.”
5. Med shot, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“United Nations peacekeeping is an investment in global peace, security, and prosperity. Around the world, the Blue Helmets are the concrete expression of the Charter’s determination “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.” The achievements of peace operations are a source of great pride to us all. When they fail, it causes us pain and drives us to improve.”
7. Med shot, delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“That is our objective for every peacekeeping mission: to do the job entrusted to it; to save lives; to prevent mass atrocities; to set the stage for stability and sustainable peace; and to close, and, from start to finish, to be cost-effective. Today’s peacekeeping budget is less than one half of one percent of global military spending.”
9. Med shot, delegates
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Nikki Haley, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“We need to work smarter. We need to show results. We need to find value, and not just financial value. We need to focus on what the original intent was. Are we actually on track and accomplishing that intent? And, are we meeting the needs of the people. Because we cannot continue these massive missions forever, we need to focus on the people that we are supposed to be lifting up; the peacekeepers who lack the support or the direction they need, and the taxpayers who pay the bills.”
11. Med shot, delegates
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Petr V. Iliichev, First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations:
“We don’t support the view that has often been expressed that protection of civilians is the main goal of peacekeeping operations overall. I would like to recall once again that the need to protect civilians is a consequence of conflict, not the reason of a conflict. To effectively guarantee security of civilians can only be by dealing with the root causes of conflict.”
13. Zoom out, Council
Opening the Security Council's peacekeeping operations review, Secretary-General António Guterres today (6 Mar) said that “peace operations are at a crossroads” and “our task is to keep them relevant with clear and achievable mandates, and the right strategies and support.”
The Secretary-General underscored that “United Nations peacekeeping is an investment in global peace, security, and prosperity.”
He said that “the achievements of peace operations are a source of great pride to us all” and “when they fail, it causes us pain and drives us to improve.”
Guterres said that the objective for every peacekeeping mission is “to do the job entrusted to it; to save lives; to prevent mass atrocities; to set the stage for stability and sustainable peace; and to close, and, from start to finish, to be cost-effective.”
He pointed out that “today’s peacekeeping budget is less than one half of one percent of global military spending.”
In his remarks, he called on the 193-member General Assembly for political support and in on the troop- and police-contributing countries for professional and committed personnel. He also urged the countries that border conflict zones for their support and underlined that having the backing of the host countries themselves is vital.
Guterres outlined specific areas of improvement, including the need for clear, realistic and up-to-date mandates for peace operations from the Security Council; greater and more active role for women in peace operations; and stepping up troop contributions.
In her address to the Council, United States Ambassador Nikki Haley said “we need to work smarter. We need to show results. We need to find value, and not just financial value. We need to focus on what the original intent was. Are we actually on track and accomplishing that intent? And, are we meeting the needs of the people. Because we cannot continue these massive missions forever, we need to focus on the people that we are supposed to be lifting up; the peacekeepers who lack the support or the direction they need, and the taxpayers who pay the bills.”
For his part, Russian Ambasador Petr V. Iliichev said “we don’t support the view that has often been expressed that protection of civilians is the main goal of peacekeeping operations overall. I would like to recall once again that the need to protect civilians is a consequence of conflict, not the reason of a conflict. To effectively guarantee security of civilians can only be by dealing with the root causes of conflict.”
