DIALOGUE SOLIDARITY COMMITMENT

10 REASONS
WHY SPAIN IS A
RELIABLE PARTNER
1
We will contribute effectively to the maintenance
of international peace and security, sustainable
development, and to the promotion and protection of
human rights.
2
We will be committed to conflict prevention,
understanding between cultures, mediation, and nonproliferation and disarmament.
3
Dialogue will be our priority in the Security Council,
as well as in our relations with other Member States,
especially with the smallest ones.
4
We will work for a more effective and transparent
Council, more coordinated with the General Assembly
as well as with the rest of the UN’s system and
Member States of the Organization.
5
We will combat terrorism in all its forms, and we will
give voice to its victims.
6
We will promote the post-2015 development
agenda, the fight against poverty and sustainable
development. There is no peace without solidarity.
7
We will defend human rights, gender equality, and
women’s full participation in peacebuilding. There is no
peace without respect for human dignity.
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9
10
We will promote humanitarian assistance wherever it
is needed.
We will remain faithful to our history as a crossroads
country between North and South, a bridge between
East and West, respectful of tradition and committed
to modernity.
We offer our commitment to achieving a fairer and
safer world; a world with greater solidarity.
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DIALOGUE
SOLIDARITY
COMMITMENT
SPAIN IN
THE UNITED
NATIONS
SOLIDARITY AND EFFORTS
TO COMBAT POVERTY
Spain has served on the United Nations Security Council once every
decade. In the year 2005, we announced our candidacy for the 2015-2016
period, with the aim of continuing to contribute to world peace and
security.
6th
donor to the UN
system
$900
Participating
20
$1
actively in the
Working Group on
the SDGs
million to the
UNDP/Spain MDG
Achievement Fund
$40
million in 2014 to bridge
the gap between the
MDGs and the SDGs
Ever since we joined the United Nations, we have proved our multilateral
commitment. We have worked for a more secure, prosperous and fairer
world. Our primary goal is sustainable development and the fight against
poverty. We are whole-heartedly committed to promoting and protecting
human rights.
Spain is a country with a global presence and capacity to engage in
dialogue, given its history and its longstanding commitments.
INTERNATIONAL PEACE
AND SECURITY
members of Spanish
forces in peacekeeping
operations since 1989
28
UN peacekeeping
missions
19
EU peacekeeping
missions/operations
6
NATO peacekeeping
operations
programmes in 50
countries benefitting
20 million people
through the
UNDP/Spain MDG
Fund
$500
million, between 2004
and 2011, to gender
equality through
multilateral
development
organisations
Strengthening
€25
million invested in
the UN Support Base
in Quart de Poblet
(Spain)
Member
of the Peacebuilding
Commission and
leading donor to the
Peacebuilding Fund and
to the Democracy Fund
Staunch
advocate of the total
elimination of
anti-personnel mines
100.000
UN staff using secure
communications
provided by the Quart
de Poblet Support Base
1st
to ratify the
UN multilateral
conventions against
terrorism currently
in force
Currently
implementing
the UN Action Plan on
Small Arms and Light
Weapons, and among
the first to ratify the
Arms Trade Treaty
Member
Co-Sponsor
of the Group of Friends
of Mediation and
co-sponsor of the
Initiative for Mediation
in the Mediterranean
of the Alliance of
Civilizations
System-Wide
Coherence
to improve
coordination at the UN
years of experience in
food security (one of
the world's top 10
donors
billion since 2008 to
the Cooperation Fund
for Water and
Sanitation
Top
$1.3
Top
donor to UN Women
since 2010 in
aggregate figures
Agreement
contributor in
aggregate figures
since 2009 to the
Fund for Gender
Equality
billion allocated to
humanitarian action
since 2007
$200
Combating
Investing
climate
change
in developing and
implementing
renewable energy
million to improve
the effectiveness
of the UN through
the Delivering
as One initiative
between Spain and the
WFP for the
Humanitarian
Assistance Hub in the
Canary Islands (Spain)
DEFENCE
OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Driving force
Commitment
behind the UN Global
Counter-Terrorism
Strategy and leader in
supporting victims of
terrorism
to the fight
against piracy
Working
Cooperating
towards the
universalisation of
non-proliferation of
nuclear weapons, the
comprehensive nuclear
test ban, and the
prohibition of chemical
weapons
on the application of
Resolution 1540 on
Preventing the
Proliferation of
Weapons of Mass
Destruction
Signing
Protection
Support
Fostering
most of the Treaties
on human rights, and
up-to-date in the
submission of reports
of children. Among the
first countries to ratify
the Third Optional
Protocol to the
Convention on the
Rights of the Child
for the Office
of the UN High
Commissioner
for Human Rights
the recognition
of the human right
to water
and sanitation
Promoting
Innovators
Leaders
the rights of persons
with disabilities. 2012
Franklin D. Roosevelt
International Disability
Rights Award
in the defence of
human rights in
business. Largest
local network
of the Global
Compact
in the worldwide
fight for the abolition
of the death penalty.
Venue of the Fifth
World Congress
(Madrid)
Active
defence
of women's
rights
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