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This year’s report (S/2017/249) of the Secretary-General on conflict-related sexual violence was issued after the adoption, last December, of resolution 2331 (2016), the first Security Council resolution on human trafficking in situations of armed conflict. That report condemns all of the aims of human trafficking, including sexual exploitation, which in most cases are being pursued by extremist terrorist groups that seek to terrorize civilians and/or generate revenue by enslaving women and girls, in particular those belonging to ethnic or racial minorities, and by selling those women like goods at the market. In that connection, Egypt would like to make the following points.

First, it is crucial that the reports of the Secretary-General on conflict-related sexual violence respect the limits and duration of the mandates assigned by the Council in conflict and post-conflict situations.