UNITED NATIONS, August 21 (RIA Novosti) - Acknowledging failures of the UN Security Council to prevent or address conflicts such as in Gaza, where the most recent ceasefire has broken down, the Council on Thursday unanimously adopted a resolution on conflict prevention.
"I firmly believe that greater responsiveness by this Council would have saved 100,000s of lives," outgoing UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said Thursday speaking in the Security Council before the vote.
Pillay listed not only Syria and five conflicts in Africa, but also Iraq, Libya, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Afghanistan and Ukraine.
“These crises hammer home the full cost of the international community's failure to prevent conflict. They combine massive bloodshed and devastation of infrastructure with acutely destabilizing transnational phenomena including terrorism, the proliferation of prohibited weaponry, organized crime, and the spoliation of natural resources,” she said.
Pillay ends her term as High Commissioner for Human Rights on September 1, passing the baton to Jordan's Prince Zeid Raad Zeid Hussein.
In Africa, Pillay named the conflicts in Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan. There are peacekeeping missions in each of these countries but, according to Pillay, there is no peace.
