Security Council
United Nations Peacekeeping Operations: Police Commissioners - Security Council, 10102nd meeting
Against the backdrop of budget cuts and a severe liquidity crisis, United Nations peace operations and their police contingents are making hard choices — often in very difficult conditions — to deliver on their mandates, the Security Council heard today in a briefing by senior officers.
“Let us be clear: efficiency is essential,” said Jean-Pierre Lacroix, UN Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, who addressed the 15-member organ at the meeting’s outset. “However, the pursuit of efficiency cannot substitute predictable and sustainable financing.”
Stressing that the joint responsibility for peacekeeping is all the more crucial at a time when multilateralism is facing unprecedented pressure, he said today’s meeting also comes as the Pact for the Future’s mandated review of peace operations is entering its final phase — “a decisive opportunity to rethink how we deploy, finance and support our missions in an increasingly complex security environment”.
- Briefer: Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations
- Briefer: Mr. Faisal Shahkar, United Nations Police Adviser
- Briefer: Ms. Mamouna Ouédraogo, Police Commissioner, United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO)
- Briefer: Mr. Meinolf Schlotmann, Police Commissioner, United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS)
- Statements: All Council members, with Liberia speaking on behalf of: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Somalia





