United Nations Peace Operations - Security Council, 9969th meeting

Robust diplomacy, adaptable peacekeeping missions key to foster peace in increasingly complex security environment, fragmented world, speakers tell Security Council.

• Categories: Meetings & Events / Security Council
• Video Length: 02:29:08
• Production Date: 29 July 2025
• Asset Language: Arabic; English; French; Russian; Spanish; Chinese; Original
• Personal Subject: JEAN-PIERRE LACROIX; MARTHA AMA AKYAA POBEE; ZEID RA'AD ZEID AL-HUSSEIN
• Corporate Name: DEPARTMENT OF PEACE OPERATIONS - DPO
• Subject Topical: COOPERATION; PEACE AND SECURITY; PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS; PEACEBUILDING; DIPLOMACY; MULTILATERALISM; REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
• MAMS Id: 3432328
• Parent Id: 3431523
• Alternate Title: MTG SC 9969 PEACE OPERATIONS 29 JUL 2025 AM

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Revitalizing UN peace operations requires bold diplomacy, sustained political support and renewed trust in the Organization’s ability to foster peace in an increasingly fragmented world, several high-level UN officials told the Security Council today, as Member States echoed calls for adaptable, inclusive and politically grounded missions.

Speakers drew attention to the Pact for the Future, the outcome document of the 2024 Summit of the Future, which underscores the urgent need for peace operations to adapt to an increasingly complex security environment. That Pact asked the Secretary-General to carry out a review on the future of all forms of UN peace operations and encourage him to convene regular high-level meetings with relevant regional organizations to discuss matters pertaining to peace operations, peacebuilding and conflicts.

“This review, as requested by the Pact for the Future, is a timely opportunity to modernize the UN’s peace toolbox,” Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, told the 15-member Council.

• Briefer: Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations (via video-teleconference)
• Briefer: Ms. Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee, Assistant Secretary-General for Africa in the Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations
• Briefer: Mr. Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al Hussein, President and Chief Executive Officer, International Peace Institute
• Statement: His Excellency Ioannis-Michail Loverdos, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Greece
• Statements: Denmark, Republic of Korea, Panama, China, Russian Federation, Somalia, Algeria, United States of America, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Guyana, Sierra Leone, France, Slovenia, Pakistan
   

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