Key goals for the multinational force are to develop increasingly capable Iraqi security forces and to transfer more and more security responsibilities to them.

All this would make for a more effective Security Council.

Linking the Minimum Operating Security Standards more closely with the security risk management model has produced a more flexible and proportional approach to establishing country specific standards and has the added benefit of providing a more compelling presentation for the funding of security requirements.

Addressing security related concerns more effectively

Security involves more than tangible, preventive measures, and in that spirit the Organization funded and implemented training for 40 designated senior officers responsible for security at their duty stations and their security management teams.

The difficult security conditions made it more and more difficult for the United Nations and other humanitarian organizations to provide protection and assistance.

Reaffirming that any expansion of the Security Council should make it more democratic, more equitably representative, more transparent, more effective and more accountable,

Improving the prospects for peace and security in the region would offer a more solid ground for restoring normalcy in Lebanon.

Reform of the Security Council has been discussed for more than a decade now, and the time is ripe for action.

This programme prepares newly recruited field security coordination officers for assignment and enables them to provide more effective support to their designated official and security management team.

The Security Council has to become not only more effective and more representative, but also more transparent and more inclusive in its working methods.

More importantly, it also provides for a more representative Council that is effective in discharging its primary responsibility for addressing the security concerns of all countries, and particularly those of smaller States.

Tuvalu believes that the time is ripe for us to decide on a more equitable and representative Security Council.

Concerning the Security Council, Nigeria supports the proposals for expanding its membership to make it more representative and more democratic and an efficient organ of the United Nations.

It made their feeling of security more match the reality.

We need a more democratic and more representative Security Council that better reflects today's new geopolitical situation.

Yet we must remind ourselves that Security Council reform has been debated and discussed for more than a decade now.

The need for a more representative Security Council was emphasized, including through an increased presence and weight of African countries.

Against this background, my long standing efforts to reinforce the Organization's security structure were realized through the establishment of the Department of Safety and Security, responsible for the safety and security of more than 100,000 United Nations staff members and an estimated 300,000 dependants serving at more than 150 duty stations worldwide.

This is particularly disturbing at a time when globalization makes weapons and weapon technologies more and more accessible and security problems more and more interconnected globally.

For the IPU, then, it is more than ever urgent to ensure that more women be included in all processes and forums promoting disarmament, arms control and international security.

In considering the nature of the expansion of the Security Council, our overriding concern is to ensure that the Security Council is more effective and representative for the twenty first century.

We need a reformed Security Council that is more democratically representative.

Now more than ever, the world needs stability, peace and security.

Finally, we fully endorse the need for an expanded Security Council that is more representative of the realities of today's world.

Improving the prospects of peace and security in the region would offer a more solid ground for restoring normalcy in Lebanon.

On that occasion, they made a strong call for global security issues to be tackled more vigorously at the United Nations.

And NATO is the most solid security insurance that the world has. Underwritten by 28 members, it has delivered security benefits to all Allies, year after year, for more than six decades.

That trend will continue and increase in the near term as Iraqi security forces become more and more capable.

Yet much more is required, particularly in regard to security sector reform.

Concerning security, there have been successes, but more needs to be done.

We believe that the draft resolution before us will allow for a framework not only for an expanded Security Council, but also for one that will be more responsive and responsible to the security concerns of all nations a Council that will also take account of and include environmental security on its agenda.

All this striving for security, in fact, has made you much more insecure because now you have to watch out all the time.

He invited more partners to provide further support for the launching of a multi year programme in the area of peace and security.

Let me stress once more that the group of four proposal for Security Council reform contains, as a vital element, a review clause.

This is a step forward in the training for Public Security professionals that guarantee a more welcome approach to women in violent situations.

Organized crime and illicit drugs trafficking provided supportive mechanisms for terrorist groups and made it more difficult for States to address urgent issues of security and development.

Thirdly, the Security Council needs to be more representative of the entire membership.

The Government's democratic security' strategy is determined more by security considerations than by a concern for democracy. Against this backdrop, the commitments laid down in the Beijing Platform for Action seem to have no place in the current Government's agenda.

However, we must recall that in reforming the Security Council, we are seeking to make it not only more representative but also more democratic and more effective.

Proposals for financing more robust security management structures for special situations were outlined in paragraphs 42 and 43 of the report of the Secretary General (A 59 365).

The issue of Security Council reform has been before us for more than a decade, and discussions on it have been intense and difficult.

Surveillance strategies, for example, are often more expensive than necessary, owing to poor communication. Information sharing among Europe s navies would also help to identify and fill existing gaps, thus paving the way for a more efficient European maritime security infrastructure.

Why has all this focus on security made me feel so much more insecure?

The African Union is taking an ever more active role in peace and security.