I would like to thank China for having convened this public debate. I would also like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), my friend Ms. Sandra Honoré Braithwaite, for her briefing, and especially for h…
We thank your Government, Sir, for its initiative to convene today’s timely open debate to address one of the most important challenges to the maintenance of international peace and security — the use of sexual violence as a tactic of war and by terrorist groups.
The unprecedented increase in sexua…
This annual debate has been held since 2010, but I believe, Sir, that today bears particular symbolic importance as we celebrate the tenth anniversary of presidential note S/2006/507, on the working methods of the Security Council, also under the leadership of your country, Japan.
The 2006 presiden…
