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. 8 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. http://CSNU2015-2016.maec.es 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 DESIGN_ www.nolsom.com 138,500 130