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under which they are called upon to operate, including relevant customs and
traditions in the host country, and the standards that they are required to meet,
including those contained in relevant domestic and international law, and that
adequate training in security, human rights and international humanitarian law is
provided so as to enhance their security and effectiveness in accomplishing their
functions, and reaffirms the necessity for all other humanitarian organizations to
provide their personnel with similar support;
19. Also requests the Secretary-General to take the necessary measures to
ensure that United Nations and other personnel carrying out activities in fulfilment
of the mandate of a United Nations humanitarian assistance operation are properly
informed about and operate in conformity with the minimum operating security
standards and relevant codes of conduct;
20. Further requests the Secretary-General to take the necessary measures,
falling within his responsibilities, to promote and enhance the security
consciousness within the organizational culture of the Secretariat and the United
Nations agencies, funds and programmes, including by disseminating and enhancing
the security procedures and regulations, to create awareness and consciousness by
the United Nations personnel of those procedures and regulations and the need to
follow them, and to ensure that security matters are an integral part of the planning
for existing and newly mandated United Nations operations and that such
precautions extend to all United Nations and its associated personnel;
21. Welcomes the ongoing efforts of the Secretary-General to further enhance
the security management system of the United Nations, and in this regard invites the
United Nations and other humanitarian organizations to strengthen the analysis of
threats to their safety and security in order to minimize security risks and to
facilitate informed decisions on the maintenance of an effective presence in the
field, inter alia, to fulfil their humanitarian mandate;
22. Emphasizes the need to give further consideration to the safety and
security of locally recruited humanitarian personnel, who account for the majority of
casualties;
23. Also emphasizes the importance of paying special attention to the safety
and security of United Nations and its associated personnel engaged in United
Nations peacekeeping and peace-building operations;
24. Stresses the need to ensure that all United Nations staff members receive
adequate security training, including physical and psychological training, prior to
their deployment to the field, the need to attach a high priority to the improvement
of stress and trauma counselling services available to United Nations staff members,
including through the implementation of a comprehensive security and stress and
trauma management training, support and assistance programme for United Nations
staff throughout the system, before, during and after missions, and the need to make
available to the Secretary-General the means for that purpose;
25. Recognizes the need for a strengthened and unified security management
system for the United Nations, both at the headquarters and the field levels, and
requests the United Nations system, as well as Member States, to take all
appropriate measures to that end;
26. Requests the Office of the United Nations Security Coordinator to
continue to play a central role in promoting increased cooperation and collaboration
among agencies, funds and programmes in the planning and implementation of
measures aimed at improving staff security training and awareness and in
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