Estonia's action plan is a common commitment taken by a broad range of stakeholders, including governmental institutions and civil society organisations. Its implementation will be jointly monitored on the basis of a set of indicators.
Estonia welcomes the steps to increase the coherence and accountability in implementing resolution 1325, including taking forward the set of indicators to track its implementation, and calls for their swift operationalisation.
Estonia strongly condemns grave violations of the rights of women and girls, including targeted sexual violence and supports measures to combat impunity for these crimes. We support the call to include sexual violence as a priority element in resolutions mandating the SC Sanctions Committees, which should include sexual violence as a criterion for the designation of individuals for targeted measures.
Estonia is committed to the implementation of resolution 1325 and its follow-up resolutions. My delegation would like to align itself with the comments and commitments to be made on behalf of the European Union and offer the following remarks in our national capacity.
Third, gender equality and the promotion of the situation of women and girls continue to be one of the priorities of Estonia's development cooperation and humanitarian activities. In Afghanistan, for instance, our projects have been aimcd at supporting women's acccss to healthcare and education. This focus will be accompanied i.a. by support to the participation ofwomen's organisations in peace processes.
To conclude, allow me to share the following thoughts with Council members. In our view, the tenth anniversary of the adoption of resolution 1325 (2000) presents a valuable opportunity to establish a bridge between the Security Council and the General Assembly in terms of the participation and inclusion of women in conflict prevention and resolution and in peacebuilding.
The Government of El Salvador acknowledges and values the progress made thus far, both by the international community as a whole and by Member States in particular, in reaffirming the important role of women in conflict prevention and resolution and in peacebuilding.
In addition, through the El Salvador Institute for the Advancement of Women, we are promoting a strategic re-alignment, as of 1 June 2009, to bring about a society with full gender equality by reducing the gender gap and by combating all forms of violence against women.
El Salvador, as a troop-contributing country, is making a significant contribution, relatively speaking, to peacekeeping operations in terms of members of its armed forces and the national civil police force. At the same time, we are also endeavouring to promote the gender perspective and the implementation of resolution 1325 (2000) within those national institutions.
El Salvador welcomes the evolution of this historic resolution and the subsequent adoption by the Council of resolutions 1820 (2008) and 1882 (2009) on the prevention and response to sexual violence in conflicts an resolution 1888 (2009) on the participation of women in peacebuilding.
