United Nations S/ PV.8241 Security Council Provisional Seventy-third year 8241st meeting Monday, 23 April 2018, 10.10 a.m. New York President: Mr. Meza-Cuadra/Mr. Tenya ....................... (Peru) Members: Bolivia (Plurinational State of) ..................... Mr. Inchauste Jordán China ......................................... Mr. Wu Haitao Côte d’Ivoire ................................... Mr. Dah Equatorial Guinea ............................... Mrs. Mele Colifa Ethiopia ....................................... Ms. Guadey France ........................................ Mrs. Gueguen Kazakhstan .................................... Mr. Umarov Kuwait ........................................ Mr. Alotaibi Netherlands .................................... Mrs. Gregoire Van Haaren Poland ........................................ Mr. Czaputowicz Russian Federation ............................... Mr. Polyanskiy Sweden ....................................... Ms. Schoulgin Nyoni United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland .. Ms. Pierce United States of America .......................... Ms. Eckels-Currie Agenda Maintenance of international peace and security Youth, peace and security Identical letters dated 2 March 2018 from the Secretary-General addressed to the President of the General Assembly and the President of the Security Council (S/2018/86) Letter dated 6 April 2018 from the Permanent Representative of Peru to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General (S/2018/324) This record contains the text of speeches delivered in English and of the translation of speeches delivered in other languages. The final text will be printed in the Official Records of the Security Council. Corrections should be submitted to the original languages only. They should be incorporated in a copy of the record and sent under the signature of a member of the delegation concerned to the Chief of the Verbatim Reporting Service, room U-0506 ([email protected]). Corrected records will be reissued electronically on the Official Document System of the United Nations (http://documents.un.org). 18-11894 (E) *1811894* S/PV.8241 Maintenance of international peace and security 23/04/2018 The meeting was called to order at 10.10 a.m. General for Economic and Social Issues, European External Action Service of the European Union; Her Adoption of the agenda Excellency Ms. Fatima Kyari Mohammed, Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations; The agenda was adopted. and His Excellency Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, High Representative for the United Nations Alliance Maintenance of international peace and security of Civilizations. Youth, peace and security The Security Council will now begin its consideration Identical letters dated 2 March 2018 from the of the item on its agenda. Secretary-General addressed to the President I wish to draw the attention of Council members to of the General Assembly and the President of document S/2018/86, which contains the text of identical the Security Council (see S/2018/86) letters dated 2 March 2018 from the Secretary-General Letter dated 6 April 2018 from the Permanent addressed to the President of the General Assembly and Representative of Peru to the United Nations the President of the Security Council. addressed to the Secretary-General (S/2018/324) I also wish to draw the attention of Council The President (spoke in Spanish): In accordance members to document S/2018/324, which contains the with rule 37 of the Council’s provisional rules of text of a letter dated 6 April 2018 from the Permanent procedure, I invite the representatives of Argentina, Representative of Peru to the United Nations addressed Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belgium, Botswana, to the Secretary-General, transmitting a concept note Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, on the item under consideration. Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, I now give the floor to Ms. Wickramanayake. Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Guatemala, Iceland, Indonesia, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq, Ms. Wickramanayake: “One day I will become Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, President and I will bring a law that will stop people Luxembourg, Maldives, Mexico, Monaco, Montenegro, from fighting and stop using guns and bombs”, my best Morocco, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Portugal, Qatar, friend told me when we were in sixth grade. Unlike most Slovakia, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, sixth graders around the world, we were not having that Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, the United conversation in a classroom or a playground. Instead, Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan and Yemen to participate we were whispering into each other’s ears in a safety in this meeting. bunker in the corner of our school grounds. There were bombings and suicide attacks in the capital of Sri In accordance with rule 39 of the Council’s Lanka, Colombo, and running to the safety bunker was provisional rules of procedure, I invite the following a regular activity during our school days. briefers to participate in this meeting: Ms. Jayathma Wickramanayake, Secretary-General’s Envoy on Many years later, as the Secretary-General’s Youth; Mr. Graeme Simpson, lead author of the Envoy on Youth, I had an opportunity to meet and progress study on youth, peace and security; Ms. Sophia hold hands with hundreds of young people in conflict- Pierre-Antoine, Member of the Advisory Council of affected areas around the world and share their the World Young Women Christian Association; and heart-wrenching stories. But the difference was that Ms. Kessy Ekomo-Soignet, Executive Director of the some of them — without waiting to be President and Organisation URU, Central African Republic. without resources or institutional support — were already leading exceptional peacebuilding initiatives In accordance with rule 39 of the Council’s in their communities, schools, townships and even provisional rules of procedure, I also invite the refugee camps. Today we celebrate those fearless following to participate in this meeting: His Excellency young peacebuilders. Mr. Dan Neculăescu, State Secretary for Regional Affairs and Multilateral Global Affairs in the Ministry Allow me to thank the Government of Peru for of Foreign Affairs of Romania, in his capacity as Chair its leadership in convening this historic open debate. of the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission; His Around this table today, in addition to Government Excellency Mr. Christian Leffler, Deputy Secretary representatives, we are three young people — young 2/86 18-11894 23/04/2018 Maintenance of international peace and security S/PV.8241 women — about to brief the Security Council, which A little more than two years after the adoption of I believe is a first in the history of the Council and a resolution 2250 (2015), much has happened already. fair reflection of how young people, especially young Coalitions on youth, peace and security have been formed women, are turning tables and leading change on in a number of countries. Dedicated programmes, with the ground. young people at their heart, are being designed. Civil society partners have mobilized to support the work led I would like to thank Mr. Graeme Simpson, by young people. United Nations country teams have independent lead author of the progress study on experimented with ambitious programmes. Donors are youth, peace and security, appointed by the Secretary- General, as well as the Expert Advisory Group for its rethinking their funding streams. Now we have the support extended to guide Mr. Simpson’s work. I would progress study, which gives us unique insights on how also like to acknowledge the work of the United Nations young people see and experience the world we live in, Population Fund and the Peacebuilding Support Office, their hopes for peace and security and their demands which acted as secretariat for that independent report, of Governments and the multilateral system. It echoes as well as the United Nations Development Programme what I have heard from young people around the world. and other United Nations agencies for co-convening This all points to two key issues that need regional consultations with young people and the immediate attention: the growing mistrust among numerous partners from civil society and others. young generations towards formal political institutions It is not every day that the Security Council has and the exclusion of young people from political, civic an opportunity to gather around an independent report and economic life. Allow me to highlight a number of carrying the voices of over 4,000 young people from all key takeaways. regions of the world, who represented the aspirations The progress study is a critical contribution to of millions more. It was one of the most participatory the discussions on building and sustaining peace. processes ever undertaken with the United Nations This debate, on the eve of the high-level meeting on support. Those young people entrusted us to carry sustaining peace to be convened by the President of to the Security Council their hopes and unfiltered the General Assembly, shows that we are starting perspectives for a more peaceful world. Today we to see young people as the missing peace. That is will hear directly from two of them: Kessy Ekomo- directly related to the Secretary-General’s priority of Soignet from the Central African Republic and Sophia preventing conflict and violence. The youth, peace Pierre-Antoine from Haiti. and security agenda is at the