Moreover, Egypt strongly believes that any attempt to extend the scope of ap...

Moreover, Egypt strongly believes that any attempt to extend the scope of application of the proposed indicators beyond conflict and post conflict situations, or any attempts to provide a wider defmition for conflict and postconflict situations will be a clear encroachment from the Security Council on the competence of the General Assembly, and would affect negatively the mandate, competence and effectiveness of UN WOMEN, the entity that we all struggled to create to deal effectively with promotion and protection of all women around the world through ensuring gender equality and empowerment of women all around the globe. It will also cause clear duplication to the work and activities by international legally binding instruments such as CEDAW, and contradicts other significant documents and instruments, including Programme of Action of the United Nations International Conference on Population & Development (Cairo, 1994) and Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995) and many other documents I trust that the Security Council supports its activities, and we look forward to the continued cooperation and coordination between the Security Council and the General Assembly dealing with this issue.