NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 3 – Addressing a Security Council debate on integrating effective resilience-building in peace operations for sustainable peace, Italy stressed three lines of action to make peace operations more resilient and sustainable including considering peacebuilding and peacekeeping as complementary.
“Peace processes do not end when the last soldier leaves the ground. Before, during and after a peacekeeping mission, we must take full advantage of our peace toolbox such as smaller, civilian-only peacebuilding missions; police-focused rule of law missions; special political missions designed to support political processes; regionally-based special envoys”, the Italian Permanent Representative to the UN, Maurizio Massari, told the Council.
Italy is the first contributor of Blue Helmets among Western countries. Massari stressed also the need to enforce strategic transition of peacekeeping operations and to make UN peacekeeping missions essential components of a peace process.
“Making peace sustainable over time is our greatest challenge. It requires political solutions, inclusive peace processes, conflict prevention and solid after-conflict peacebuilding. And a strong belief in multilateralism“, said the Italian Ambassador.
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