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Lack of respect for cultural diversity and erroneous racist, discriminatory and xenophobic ideas about the superiority of races, cultures and nations, which only benefit the powerful, have throughout history been among the basic causes of tragic conflicts, whose recurrence we are duty bound to avoid.

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In the same vein, we have been struck by the paucity of literature which identifies ‘best practice’ for IP-related technical assistance.

By the same resolution, the Council decided that the mandate of the Force, in addition to carrying out its mandate under resolutions 425 (1978) and 426 (1978), would include, inter alia, monitoring the cessation of hostilities, accompanying and supporting the deployment of the Lebanese Armed Forces throughout southern Lebanon in parallel with the withdrawal of the Israeli Defense Forces, ensuring respect for the Blue Line and assisting the Lebanese Armed Forces in ensuring that the area between the Blue Line and the Litani River is free of any unauthorized armed personnel, assets and weapons, taking all necessary action within its capabilities to ensure that its area of operations is not utilized for hostile activities, and assisting the Government of Lebanon, at its request, in securing its borders and other entry points in order to prevent the entry into Lebanon without its consent of arms or related materiel.

Several other Member States, while appreciating efforts to focus on cluster needs, questioned the results of strategic formulations undertaken in the recent past, many of which did not, in their opinion, reflect the full range of Member States’ needs or existing regional and subregional coordination mechanisms.

The laws that muzzled the press are now a thing of the past; they have gone the same way as those who created them and used them to curb the freedom of the Libyan people for decades.

The absence of a Criminal Information Analysis Officer in the Police Division limits the capacity to systematically project and implement best practices and lessons learned, and creates the risk that costly mistakes will be repeated.

The Special Rapporteur shares the view of his predecessor that the ethnic or racial dimension of a conflict should be acknowledged and addressed as part of the post-conflict reconstruction of countries emerging from armed conflict to avoid its resurgence.

Such an action also constitutes deliberate Israeli interference in the internal affairs of the Palestinian people, and the pretexts and threats being used by the occupying Power are similar to those used over the years in its long-standing attempts to thwart the two-State solution for the benefit of perpetuating the status quo of its illegitimate occupation, settlements and oppression of the Palestinian people and suppression of their right to selfdetermination and independence.

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A public statement by community leaders on the legal findings of responsibility, followed by an intensive awareness-raising campaign on the judgement and a declaration to the effect that child victims of recruitment should not be held legally or morally responsible for their actions as combatants during the conflict, would be the best guarantee of non-repetition.

The Council is now repeating what it did in 2006, when it gave Israel the leeway to keep killing Lebanese civilians and to destroy Lebanon’s basic infrastructure in order to achieve the aims of certain parties.

In its 2010 Emissions Gap Report, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) concluded that the currently forecast 2020 emission levels were consistent with pathways that would lead to a likely temperature increase of between 2.5 and 5 degrees Celsius by the end of the twenty-first century, putting millions of lives at risk from increased malnutrition, disease or injury in heatwaves and weather-related disasters, and changes in the geographic range of some infectious disease vectors.