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UN:
STRENGTHENED UN CRUCIAL FOR RESOLVING GLOBAL CONFLICTS, IRELAND TELLS
ASSEMBLY: 02/10/2007 (MaximsNews Network)
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UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network /
- 02 October 2007 -Ireland's
Foreign Minister has advocated strengthening United Nations efforts in the field
of conflict prevention and resolution, as well as sharing lessons learned, as
key factors to achieving peace in today’s strife-ridden world.
“Today,
despite all our efforts, violence conflict remains all too common,” Dermot
Ahern told the annual high-level debate of the General Assembly.
Urging
nations to make use of the full array of instruments available to resolve
conflict, he stressed that “in making peace, we must be as creative and
determined as those who wage war.”
Mr.
Ahern said it is vital to ensure that the UN Peacebuilding Commission – set up
last year to help countries emerging from conflict consolidate their gains and
not slide back into war – and the accompanying Peacebuilding Fund are
organized and resourced to fulfil their important mandates.
He also
urged continued support for UN peacekeeping operations, which are currently at
an all-time high in terms of their size, scope and complexity, and for
strengthening the Organization’s capacities for conflict prevention and
resolution.
The
sharing of experiences, particularly lessons learned, from enduring and complex
conflicts such as that in Northern Ireland, could also prove useful, he noted.
While he
did not believe the success of Northern Ireland, where an historic power-sharing
accord has led to the resolution of a decades-long conflict, offers a
“universally transferable formula,” its experience provides insights and
lessons worth sharing.
“First,
in the end, those who are part of the problem must be part of the solution –
not because we approve of their actions or beliefs, but because without them it
is all too easy for an agreement among others to be destroyed,” he stated.
Among
the other lessons is the need for inclusive dialogue on the basis of clear and
guaranteed principles, to take risks for peace and to address all issues
comprehensively.
“Working
with a strengthened UN and sharing lessons with one another, I passionately hope
we can advance the day when political leaders from other regions of the world
blighted by conflict can announce in this forum that peace has come to them
too,” Mr. Ahern stated.
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