ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has called for comprehensive, strategic and adequately resourced reforms to strengthen UN peacekeeping operations.
Pakistan also highlighted its contribution of more than 170,000 peacekeepers to UN missions over more than six decades, during which 183 personnel have sacrificed their lives in the service of global peace.
Delivering Pakistan’s statement at the UN General Assembly’s Fourth Committee, Ambassador Syed Haider Shah, Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, stressed the need for stronger political commitment, focused mandates, adequate resources and enhanced protection for peacekeepers.
He also highlighted Pakistan’s leadership, alongside Denmark, in securing the unanimous adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 2823 on accountability for crimes against peacekeepers, which received a record 153 co-sponsors.
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