国際の平和と安全の維持：排他、不公平及び紛争に関する安保理公開討論における石兼大使ステートメント
令和3年11月9日
(As delivered)
Mr. President,I would like to express my appreciation to Your Excellency, Mr. Andrés Manuel López Obrador, President of Mexico, for convening this open debate and giving us the opportunity to renew our commitment to addressing root causes of conflict, namely, exclusion, inequality and poverty.
Today, the world remains beset by multiple conflicts. The scourge of conflicts is exacerbated by the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic and climate change. We must ask ourselves why we are still far from achieving the aim of this organization.
The international community still heavily focuses on responding to conflicts, rather than preventing them. This approach is costing people their lives, livelihood and dignity. We must shift our focus to prevention and effectively address root causes of conflict.
In this regard, I would like to make four points.
First, trust is key to building peaceful societies. By trust, I mean that people must have confidence both in their government and in each other. Systematic exclusion and widening inequality fuel people’s resentment against the government, create tensions between communities, and aggravate human insecurity.
This leads to my second point. In order to cultivate trust, it is essential to build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at the national and local levels to ensure equal opportunity and human security for all segments of society. Effective and impartial institutions in the security and judicial sectors are indispensable for the rule of law, fight against impunity and tackling corruption. Institutions to ensure equal access to basic social services reduces grievance and mitigates intercommunal tensions. Building the capacity of personnel in charge of managing the institutions is an integral part of institution-building.
Third, voices of women, youth and marginalized groups must be heard. We will never be able to achieve just, peaceful and inclusive societies without their full, equal and meaningful participation. We have to empower them and promote their critical role.
Lastly, when it comes to the role of the United Nations, a holistic and coordinated approach is essential. Its interventions must be coherent across the nexus of peace and security, development, humanitarian issues and human rights. Such approach should extend beyond the UN system to build partnerships with diverse international, regional and national actors with a view to promoting a coordinated and coherent actions.
Mr. President,
We are encouraged to see the Security Council, especially in recent years, actively incorporating human security perspectives, such as protection of civilians with particular attention to vulnerable groups and gender equality, in its resolutions for the renewal of mandates of PKO missions and SPMs.
The Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) has also evolved into an accelerator of these important efforts and a platform for broad partnerships between various actors. The Commission’s bottom-up approach, engaging with local women and youth peacebuilders, provides invaluable insights to its advice to the Council. The Council should seek PBC’s advice more actively to ensure coherent system-wide efforts and to better incorporate the local perspectives into its work.
Thank you very much.