{"id":290102,"date":"2025-10-28T15:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T19:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/80\/?p=290102"},"modified":"2025-10-28T15:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T19:03:07","slug":"pga-remarks-at-the-high-level-event-women-at-the-table-advancing-inclusive-decision-making-in-peace-and-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/80\/2025\/10\/28\/pga-remarks-at-the-high-level-event-women-at-the-table-advancing-inclusive-decision-making-in-peace-and-security\/","title":{"rendered":"PGA Remarks at the High-Level Event \u201cWomen at the Table: Advancing Inclusive Decision-Making in Peace and Security\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remarks by the President of the General Assembly
\nH.E. Ms. Annalena Baerbock
\n<\/strong>at the High-Level Event \u201cWomen at the Table: Advancing Inclusive Decision-Making in Peace and Security\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

27 October<\/strong> 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Your Excellency, Dr. Emma Kantema, Minister of Gender Equality and Child Welfare of Namibia,<\/p>\n

Madame Deputy Secretary-General,<\/p>\n

Madame Executive Director of Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Women,<\/p>\n

Special Envoy of the African Union,<\/p>\n

Excellencies,<\/p>\n

Ladies and Gentlemen,<\/p>\n

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Thank you for the opportunity to join you today in celebrating Women, Peace and Security, and 25-years of Resolution 1325.<\/p>\n

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Allow me to offer my sincere appreciation to Namibia for both organizing the discussion, as well as for leading on the launch of the Women, Peace and Security and Humanitarian Action (WPS-HA) Accountability Compact Report.<\/p>\n

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Decades ago, it was Namibia and its partners, including civil society, that advocated and lobbied for women to play a leading role in peace and security.<\/p>\n

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Their message was clear: women cannot and will not be cast exclusively as victims in conflict. Women are peacekeepers. Decision makers. Legislators. Arbitrators and mediators. Healers and storytellers.<\/p>\n

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Including them is not just a matter of principle; it is about recognizing the practical reality that, without the full, equal, safe and meaningful participation of women, peace is neither comprehensive nor sustainable.<\/p>\n

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It was this concerted advocacy effort \u2013 in Beijing at the Fourth World Conference on Women and in Namibia, with the Windhoek Declaration \u2013 that helped usher in Resolution 1325, a landmark moment not only for women\u2019s equality but for peacemaking, peacebuilding and peacekeeping.<\/p>\n

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1325 represents a tacit acknowledgement that women have a vital role to play in fostering, building, and preserving peace.<\/p>\n

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That women are not only entitled to an equal role in peace and security, but that peace and security are better off because of it.<\/p>\n

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More practically, Resolution 1325 has helped to lift the barriers to meaningful participation for women and girls in this sector.<\/p>\n

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