南非高度重视妇女与和平与安全问题，在拜读主席的报告（见S/2019/622）时，我们注意到，为实现工作人员中的性别平等做了大量工作。尽管全部工作人员中只有45%为女性令人遗憾，但是自上次报告所述期间以来，余留机制中的女性专业工作人员增加了2%，这尤为令人鼓舞。这给实现全体员工性别平等带来良好的兆头。南非还欢迎最近在联合国系统的活动中通过防止骚扰、包括性骚扰的行为守则，并且就一项专用于余留机制的骚扰政策继续开展工作。
SouthAfrica places great emphasis on women, peace and security, and when we read the report of the President (see S/2019/622), our attention was drawn to the significant work that has been done to achieve gender parity among the personnel. While it is regrettable that only 45 per cent of the staff overall are female, it is particularly encouraging that there has been a 2 per cent increase in the members of the female professional staff of the Mechanism since the previous reporting period. That bodes well for achieving gender parity across all staff. South Africa also welcomes the recent adoption of a code of conduct for preventing harassment, including sexual harassment, at United Nations system events, as well as the continued work on a Mechanism-specific policy on harassment.