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  1. “In conclusion, let me reiterate that India’s contribution to United Nations peacekeeping missions and our partnership with Africa are based on building instruments of empowerment that would enable Africa to find African solutions to African problems. India has committed concessional loans of more than $12 billion to various projects in Africa since 2015. India will continue to be a force multiplier for all peacebuilding efforts, particularly for our brothers in Africa. I thank Ghana for its leadership on this subject.”

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  2. “Nearly 5,800 Indian military and police personnel are today deployed as peacekeepers in 9 out of 12 active United Nations peacekeeping missions. We have also been an active member of the Peacebuilding Commission since its inception. We have always played a constructive and significant role in the context of peacebuilding through our extensive development partnership with countries of the global South, including in Africa. In the short span of the past five years, the India-United Nations Development Partnership Fund, which was established in 2017, has grown to a portfolio of 66 development projects in partnership with 51 developing countries, including 17 Member States from Africa.”

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  3. “We should strengthen the capabilities of the security forces of host States, join hands in preventing terrorist forces from gaining access to financial resources and collectively call out those who provide safe havens to terrorists, as well as those who stand with them and come to their defence, including in the context of Security Council sanctions regimes. In each of the areas that we have presented today, India has made significant contributions. We have been a bridge-builder and a facilitator of consensus on many of the contentious files that the Council has dealt with in the past two years. We have strongly advocated for ensuring that peacekeeping mandates remain objective, well-defined and focused.”

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  4. “Sixth, gender sensitivity and inclusivity in governance and the security sector strengthen nation-building. Similarly, creating an environment that provides opportunities for young people to grow out of conflict cannot be overstressed. Seventh, there is an urgent need for predictable and sustainable financing for peacebuilding efforts to be more effective. Inadequate financing for peacebuilding activities continues to remain a stumbling block. Last, but not least, the threat posed by terrorism, as also highlighted in the presidency’s concept note for this open debate (see S/2022/799, annex), needs a unified voice from the international community.”

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  5. “Fourth, India recognizes the primacy of national Governments and authorities in identifying and driving priorities, strategies and activities with regard to sustaining peace. What is needed is to work with Member States, in line with their national requirements and needs, rather than to advocate prescriptions or solutions from outside. Fifth, as the world’s largest democracy, we are convinced that representative and inclusive governance structures will help to stabilize peace, safeguard fundamental rights, protect the rule of law and make governance representative, transparent, responsive and people-centric. We must encourage nurturing such governance structures in countries in conflict settings. That also requires giving them both the time and the space that they need to deliver efficiently.”

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  6. “First, in contemporary conflicts, solutions often lie in the political and social domains, not just on the security front. As such, peace operations can create the conditions for political and social processes to take hold, but they cannot replace them. Secondly, we believe that peacekeeping and peacebuilding are mutually exclusive. Attempts to extend the role of peacekeeping missions to peacebuilding tasks will strengthen neither and in fact will weaken both. The military component of peacekeeping can play only an enabling role but cannot bring about peacebuilding on its own A realistic assessment in that regard is the need of the hour. Third, in relation to peacekeeping in Africa, solutions anchored in African regional organizations are given priority and are a good path to follow for the resolution of many contemporary armed conflicts.”

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  7. “United Nations peace operations now handle multidimensional tasks that include building the capacity of host Governments in the security sector, providing humanitarian assistance, monitoring human rights violations and ensuring the inclusive participation of women and marginalized sections in political processes. That ever-expanding basket of responsibilities for many United Nations peacekeeping missions often ignores the underlying causes of conflict and insecurity. The need of the hour is therefore a holistic approach, coordinated action and a clear strategy that addresses the challenges to peacekeeping operations and peacebuilding. In that context, let me offer the following submissions for the Council’s consideration.”

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  8. “Terrorist and radical extremist groups have unprecedented access to various techno- logical tools to incite, spread propaganda and under- take recruitment, as well as to purchase weapons and conduct illegal money transfers. Theatres of conflict are often characterized by breakdowns in the rule of law, the absence of effective State institutions, the pro- liferation of illicit economic activities and the illegal exploitation of natural resources. Those factors are also manipulated by terrorists and radical groups to serve their nefarious objectives. In such a complex setting, United Nations peace operations are often burdened with objectives that go beyond the traditional mandates of peacekeeping.”

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  9. “United Nations peacekeeping operations com- menced seven decades ago as relatively simple, largely one-dimensional missions, designed to keep the peace and to facilitate political processes aimed at finding lasting solutions to conflicts. That context has changed profoundly over the years. Today both the political and security environments, as well as the nature of conflict, have undergone paradigm shifts. Today’s environment has become more complex, uncertain, volatile and am- biguous. Conflicts are far more fragmented, with the participation of non-State actors, including armed mili- tias, terrorists and organized criminal groups, in many instances with political support. Technological advanc- es have also contributed to the changing nature of such conflict in many ways.”

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  10. “Let me begin by conveying my best wishes and greetings to you, Madam President, on Ghana’s presidency of the Security Council this month. We also thank you for organizing today’s open debate on the extremely important issue of peacebuilding and sustaining peace, especially in the context of United Nations peacekeeping operations. We hope that your initiative today will help us all better understand the linkages between peacekeeping and peacebuilding and the role of related stakeholders. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General, His Excellency Mr. António Guterres, for his insights, and the other briefers for their useful and important statements.”

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