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I would also like to pay tribute to the Spanish delegation for bringing resolution 2331 (2016) forward, and to the analytical clarity with which Ms. Zainab Bangura in particular, and the Spanish Government in drafting the resolution, has brought to our analysis this problem, by which I mean specifically the ways in which, in paragraphs 8 and 9, we focused on the mechanics of human trafficking in conflict — on the ways in which it is used for recruitment, for financing, for destroying communities, for displacing communities, for gathering intelligence, for advancing ideology; the ways in which this violence can be perpetrated through rape, through sexual slavery, through forced prostitution and pregnancy.