At the United Nations, Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad has said peacekeeping without peacebuilding cannot sustain peace.
Taking part in the UN General Assembly Debate on Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace, he said the transition from peacekeeping to peacebuilding and ultimately to nationally led development, requires sustained political commitment, adequate resources, and coherent support from the international community.
Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad said it was twenty years that the Peacebuilding Commission was established to help countries emerge from conflict by consolidating peace and preventing relapse.
He said it seems that now, there is less peace to keep, and lesser even to build. And there is a scramble for resources that are becoming scarce. We must therefore assess the whole situation seriously and holistically to deliver the promise of peacebuilding.
