国連平和活動の適応性向上に関する安保理公開討論における御巫大使ステートメント

 

Thank you, Madam President.

I thank the Secretary-General for his briefing.

UN peace operations remain indispensable tools for responding to diverse challenges for the maintenance of international peace and security.

Japan reiterates its commitment to support UN peace operations and calls for the Security Council to consider the following four points, to make peace operations more effective and adaptable to current and future challenges.

First, the Security Council should recognize the importance of a whole of the UN approach ensuring comprehensiveness and coherence in achieving sustainable peace and conflict prevention, based on the concept of HDP nexus. This approach is important in addressing root causes of conflict, which is a key to prevent relapse into conflict and to sustain peace. In this regard, the Council needs to define appropriate mandate and ensure that exit strategies and viable transition plans are developed from the earliest stage possible, in close coordination with host countries and other relevant UN entities, including the UN Country Teams, and Resident Coordinators.

Second, the Security Council must make sure that peace operations closely engage with host communities. Japan emphasizes the importance of the inclusion and engagement of all segments of society, including women and youth, in the implementation of peacekeeping mandates and, where mandated, in enhancing national capacities for peacebuilding and conflict prevention.

Third, the Security Council should more actively utilize the PBC. The Council can utilize the PBC by requesting and drawing upon its advice more actively and systematically to inform the Council’s decisions, including mandate renewals, transitions and withdrawals. The importance of this coordination was also highlighted in Presidential Note 507, and we welcome that the PBC provided its advice for today’s open debate.

Finally, for UN peace operations to be more adaptable to evolving challenges, the Council needs to maintain close communication with TCCs, PCCs, and missions on the ground, to understand their capabilities and challenges. Japan continues to support training and capacity building of peacekeepers, in partnership with the UN and Member States. Close cooperation with regional organizations, continues to be important, and Japan supports training of AU-led peace support operations personnel through the UN Triangular Partnership Programme (TPP).

Madam President,

We look forward to the Peacekeeping Ministerial, the Peacebuilding Architecture Review (PBAR) and the review of future peace operations. We hope that the views of all Member States will be reflected in these processes to enhance UN’s role for the maintenance of international peace and security.

I thank you, Madam President.