NEW YORK: Pakistan has urged the United Nations (UN) to make sure that its peace missions should have a comprehensive and unambiguous mandate and reasonable resources so that they could discharge their obligations to ensure peace and security in conflict-torn regions of the world.
This was said by Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN Maleeha Lodhi while participating in debate on peace operations held in UN Security Council.
She said that the UN peace mission was the most successful enterprise of the world organisation.
Pointing to UN’s successful missions in Liberia, Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone which have been terminated recently, she said that Pakistan peace contingents were deployed therein.
Welcoming the focusing of attention on the performance of peace missions, she said that the Security Council should base its decisions after taking into account the practical review of resources required by the UN Secretariat.
It is worth mentioning that Pakistan has played a vital role in UN Peace missions and has provided 200,000 personnel for 43 peace missions of the UN from 1960 till now. 156 Pakistani personnel have sacrificed their lives in these missions.
Underscoring the need for ensuring transparency between the countries providing their soldiers for peace missions and secretariat, she said that Pakistan will not avoid any debate about performance keeping in view its performance in peace missions.
“We believe we all are shareholders in this endeavour and we have a corporate responsibility,” Maleeha said.
