It is necessary to strengthen existing tools and develop new ones to maintain peace, Greece’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Evangelos Sekeris, said on Tuesday speaking at the Security Council’s open debate on peacekeeping operations.
“From conflict prevention and root cause identification to mediation, peacekeeping and peacebuilding,” he added.
“The world faces both old and emerging strategic risks, threats and challenges, which create increasingly complex and insecure conditions,” he noted.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, in his New Agenda for Peace, presented a vision of how the international community can more effectively prevent conflict and maintain peace at a time when the world is experiencing unprecedented and overlapping crises.
With reference to the “New Agenda for Peace”, Sekeris emphasized that the actions included in it, with the aim of strengthening and updating the system of peace actions, offer a very useful guidance for achieving the best possible result. He cited the UN Secretary General’s proposal that peacekeeping missions are a mechanism of “effective and applicable multilateral diplomacy”, but also a “fundamental tool of the Charter of the United Nations.”
The “New Agenda for Peace” highlights the urgent need to rekindle multilateralism and advocates for states to prioritize cooperation over competition, underlines the centrality of international law and the United Nations Charter, while urging member states to take measures to prevent conflicts and promote peace. In addition, countries are reminded that international cooperation does not require them to renounce their national interests and encourages them to recognize that they have common goals.
The Permanent Representative of Greece to the United Nations reassured that as a future member of the Security Council for the period 2025-2026, Greece is committed to work to strengthen political unity within the Council in the matter of peace operations.
SOURCE; ANA-MPA
