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UN Peacekeeping operations - Security Council, 10137th meeting
Funding Shortfalls Creating ‘Blind Spots’ Peacekeeping Chief Warns, Appeals to Security Council for ‘Unequivocal’ Political Support
Deputy Permanent Representative Suma Sameer Abdulkarim Alalaiwat of Bahrain, Council President for April chairs the Security Council's 10137th meeting.
The Security Council hears briefings by the heads of military components of UN peacekeeping operations.
Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix is expected to brief, followed by the heads of military components of two UN peacekeeping operations: Lieutenant General Humphrey Nyone, Force Commander of the Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), and Major General Ganesh Kumar Shrestha, Acting Head of Mission and Force Commander of the UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA).
Amid a review of United Nations peacekeeping operations, the Security Council hears that the challenging conditions in which these missions carry out the UN’s core purpose of helping to “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war” are being made more complex due to severe financial constraints. While the last similar meeting centred largely on ceasefire monitoring, today’s focused largely on the impact that the Organization’s ongoing liquidity crisis is having on the UN’s flagship enterprise, and how peacekeeping mandates should be adjusted as a result.
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