We would also like to commend the determined efforts of the Security Council ...

We would also like to commend the determined efforts of the Security Council members aimed at finding effective ways to protect women and to ensure their full participation in endeavours to maintain peace and security. In this regard, we express our support for Security Council resolution 1888 (2009), adopted last month under the presidency of the United States. Ukraine fully aligns itself with the statement delivered earlier by the representative of Sweden on behalf of the European Union, and, in line with the Union, considers gender equality, gender mainstreaming and the empowerment of women not only as important objectives, but also as the means to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and an essential part of the development agenda.