Germany’s candidature for a non-permanent seat on the Security Council in 2011/ 2012
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Germany actively supports the work of the world organization in all its aspects. Ever since joining the United Nations in 1973, Germany has demonstrated a strong and continuously growing commitment to the UN system. Membership in the United Nations is a central pillar of Germany’s policy of promoting peace, security and human rights as well as development. read more
Like my predecessor, Ambassador Munoz of Chile, I find the informal briefing as an opportunity for the PBC Chair to engage the broader membership, the TCCs and the PCCs, as well as the Secretariat, on issues of mutual interest and of great importance to the future of the UN’s response to post-conflict situations. It also represents a very practical forum to engage the General Assembly on the interlinkages between peacekeeping and peacebuilding. I recognize that there has been a great deal of interest generated around this topic within the general membership. I hope that our exchange today could situate this discussion in a broader framework of how the UN should strive towards more effective and coherent response in post-conflict situations.
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First of all allow me to congratulate the three facilitators for holding the Informal Consultations on the Peacebuilding Commission’s 2010 Review. As the Chairperson of the Peacebuilding Commission, let me pledge my full support and cooperation throughout the process.
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May I recall that a core mandate of the Peacebuilding Commission is to promote coherence among all relevant actors. This is all the more important for peacekeeping and peacebuilding actors on the ground in order to ensure an integrated, sustainable and consistent approach to post-conflict response.
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Martin Weiss and his eight brothers and sisters grew up in a Jewish family in the village of Polana in Slovakia. When he and his family were deported to the extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944, he was 15 years old. He later recounted their arrival: “If you ever saw bedlam, or if you could imagine hell, that must have been it. Because everybody was trying to hold on to their children; they tried to hold on to each other.”
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The Peacebuilding Commission is an essential component of the programme of reform and revitalization of the United Nations set in train by the World Summit of 2005. From the very start Germany supported the establishment of the PBC. And the experience of the last three and a half years confirms that the Commission certainly has the potential to fulfil its role as entrusted to it by the General Assembly and the Security Council. The PBC is the central pillar of the UN's peacebuilding architecture and its success will likely define, in many ways, the success of the United Nations as a whole. By helping societies emerging from conflict and laying the foundations for sustainable peace and development, the PBC is indeed entrusted with a crucial contribution to international peace and security.
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The informal Group of Like-minded States (Belgium, Costa Rica, Denmark, Germany, Finland, Liechtenstein, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland) warmly welcomes the adoption of Security Council resolution 1904 (2009).
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