Pakistan supports the expansion of the Peacebuilding Fund through all possible means” said Ambassador Munir Akram, Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations, at the Annual Session of the Peacebuilding Commission on Financing for Peacebuilding in the United Nations here today.
He mentioned, larger contributions from existing donors; contributions from new donor countries especially countries which have a national security interest in stabilizing a particular country coming out of conflict; and contributions from institutions, especially the IFIs/Multilateral Development Banks as possible means for the expansion of Peacebuilding Fund in this regard, says a press release received here today from New York.
Ambassador Munir Akram, while recalling the original concept and the scope of peacebuilding said that “once peace is restored” Peace building Commission “should be supported by peacebuilding actions and the peacebuilding assistance should be provided in response to the needs as identified by the local government by the national governments concerned”.
“These should remain the Peacebuilding Commission’s guiding principles” he said.
He insisted that “the programmatic funding earmarked for peacebuilding activities in several peacekeeping Missions must not disappear”.
“It should, in fact, be enlarged through the Security Council’s legislation of the appropriate mandates and the resources for appropriate mandates which should cover this peacebuilding aspect as well” he suggested.—APP
