7364th Security Council meeting on the situation in Burundi

Burundi ‘Much Safer and Secure’ than 10 Years Ago, Under-Secretary-General Tells Security Council, Noting Peacebuilding Progress, Remaining Challenges
7364th Meeting (AM)

• Categories: Meetings & Events / Security Council
• Video Length: 01:00:12
• Production Date: 21 January 2015
• Asset Language: Arabic; Chinese; English; French; Russian; Spanish
• Personal Subject: JEFFREY FELTMAN
• Subject Topical: PEACE AND SECURITY
• Geographic Subject: BURUNDI
• MAMS Id: 1286055
• Parent Id: 1286055

Description

Marking the drawdown of the United Nations Office in Burundi (BNUB) at the end of 2014, the Head of the Organization’s political affairs department, in a detailed summary to the Security Council today, underscored the progress made in that country’s peacebuilding over the past decade, as well as the remaining challenges regarding upcoming elections, democracy and development.

“Burundi today is much safer and secure than a decade ago,” said Jeffrey Feltman, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, in a briefing that also heard from Paul Seger (Switzerland), the Chair of the Burundi configuration of the Peacebuilding Commission, and Albert Shingiro, Permanent Representative of Burundi to the United Nations.

Introducing the final report of the Secretary-General on BNUB (document S/2015/36), Feltman said that Burundi had made substantial progress, overcoming formidable challenges since the end of the civil war. The country had adopted power-sharing as a system of governance, established ethnically-balanced institutions, held regular elections and remained committed to national reconciliation.

The meeting began at 11:05 a.m. and ended at 11:50 a.m.