UN Peacekeeping operations - Security Council, 9892nd meeting

Ceasefire monitoring ‘can no longer be just about being present’, senior official tells Security Council, noting new capabilities for real-time observation.

• Categories: Meetings & Events / Security Council
• Video Length: 02:03:47
• Production Date: 7 April 2025
• Asset Language: Arabic; English; French; Russian; Spanish; Chinese; Original
• Personal Subject: JEAN-PIERRE LACROIX
• Corporate Name: DEPARTMENT OF PEACE OPERATIONS - DPO; UNITED NATIONS INTERIM FORCE IN LEBANON - UNIFIL; UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION STABILIZATION MISSION IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO - MONUSCO
• Subject Topical: PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS; CEASEFIRES; PEACE AGREEMENTS; OBSERVER MISSIONS; TECHNOLOGY; DISINFORMATION; CONFLICT
• Geographic Subject: LEBANON; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
• MAMS Id: 3358807
• Parent Id: 3358285

Description

Ahead of the ministerial meeting on peacekeeping that will be held this May in Berlin, speakers in the Security Council today both urged the importance of technological advances to ceasefire monitoring and acknowledged that such efforts alone will not create the sustainable peace that the United Nations seeks to achieve in conflict zones around the world. 

Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, recalled that peacekeeping was originally conceived as a means to monitor a ceasefire or truce. “The original mandate of UN peacekeepers was to provide impartial observation, meticulous reporting and confidence-building support for the political processes aimed at resolving conflicts peacefully,” he said. Then — as now — effective ceasefire monitoring depends on strict adherence to the core peacekeeping principles of consent, impartiality and non-use of force to ensure that peacekeepers are always perceived as credible, unbiased observers who can accurately record and report incidents. 

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