United Nations Peacekeeping Operations: Police Commissioners - Security Council, 10102nd meeting

‘Effective policing central to peacekeeping amid liquidity crisis’, UN senior official tells Security Council as budget cuts force hard choices.

• Categories: Meetings & Events / Security Council
• Video Length: 01:55:10
• Production Date: 5 February 2026
• Asset Language: Arabic; English; French; Russian; Spanish; Chinese; Original
• Personal Subject: JEAN-PIERRE LACROIX
• Corporate Name: DEPARTMENT OF PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS - DPKO; UNITED NATIONS MISSION IN SOUTH SUDAN – UNMISS; UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION STABILIZATION MISSION IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO - MONUSCO
• Subject Topical: BUDGET; FINANCIAL CRISIS; PEACE AND SECURITY; PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS; CIVILIAN PROTECTION; POLICE
• MAMS Id: 3533159
• Parent Id: 3532735
• Alternate Title: MTG SC 10102 PEACEKEEPING POLICE COMMISSIONERS 05 FEB 2026 PM

Description

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

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