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Recommendation 20
20
Deferred
UK must continue raising critical files at UNSC despite challenging geopolitical environment.
Conclusion
We recognise that the UK’s Mission to the United Nations is operating in an increasingly fraught and challenging geopolitical environment, but that should not preclude the UK from raising and debating files such as Myanmar and Sudan at the United Nations Security Council. (Conclusion, Paragraph 78)
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The government's response details its extensive work as penholder on the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda, including efforts to implement it across UNSC work, secure language on women's rights in mandates, and ensure women's strategic involvement in peace and security matters. It does not directly address the committee's point about raising and debating specific files like Myanmar and Sudan.
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Government Response
Deferred
HM Government · verbatim extract
Deferred
Partially agree. 33. HMG agrees that we sh cil’s role in maintaining international peace and security, while also positioning the UK as a Member State which engages genuinely and productively, as opposed to states who are content to hinder and obstruct the Council’s work. The function of a penholder at the UN Security Council, while more difficult now than perhaps previously, is to find consensus and to develop outcomes and products which support a sustainable and durable peace.
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