平和構築委員会(PBC)の年間作業プログラムに関するPBC大使級会合における山﨑大使ステートメント

 
Thank you, Madam. Chair, for convening this meeting and your warm words.
 
Japan welcomes the adoption of the Annual Programme of Work.
 
As we proceed with this Programme of Work this year, and as we approach the 2025 Peacebuilding Architecture Review (PBAR), Japan wishes to contribute to the PBC on the following four points.
 
First, strengthening resilience through institution-building and investment in people is an essential element of peacebuilding.
 
The PBC should be encouraged to advance discussions on this topic, including in the PBAR resolution, recognizing that institution- building is considered as one of the main purposes of the commission. We are looking forward to learning further about good practices on this front that will be presented in the PBC, including by countries in Asia-Pacific Group (APG).
 
Second, Japan underscores the role of the PBC to realize and implement a comprehensive approach in peacebuilding and sustaining peace, ensuring the humanitarian-development-peace (HDP) nexus. This includes supporting the activities of the UN Resident Coordinators (RCs) in this regard, as well as strengthening the link between peacekeeping missions and peacebuilding activities, as newly added to our Annual PoW.
 
Thirdly, the Peacebuilding Architecture (PBA) should enhance effectiveness not only in stopping escalation and building peace when armed conflicts occur, but also in preventing spread of armed conflicts and their resurgence, based on national ownership, including through early recovery and early warning.
 
Fourth, as a means to efficiently and effectively advance a comprehensive approach across the UN system, Japan will continue to maintain and enhance coordination between the PBC and other UN organs, as we did last year as informal coordinator with the Security Council. This year as informal coordinator with the General Assembly, Japan believes that the PBC should actively seek opportunities to brief and advise the GA’s mandated meetings where relevant, including at the occasion of the C34, as well as to hold any possible GA-PBC joint meeting on peacebuilding and sustaining peace, in addition to the Informal Interactive Dialogue between two on PBAR.
 
Madam Chair,
 
These four priorities are not new- rather the PBC have already been working on these points especially for the past five years.
 
As a new vice chair, Japan reiterates its commitment to serve the PBC members and the UN Member States to further advance the work of the PBC this year, including at the occasion of the PBAR and beyond.
 
I thank you.