|
Amb.
Johan Ludvik Løvald of Norway Speaking on Peace Efforts to Stop Hutu-Tutsi
Violence in Burundi (MaximsNews.com,
U.N.)
13
September 2007. UN Photo# 151364/Evan Schneider
•••
UN:
BOLSTERED EFFORTS CRUCIAL TO CONSOLIDATE PEACE AND STABILITY IN BURUNDI:
13/09/2007
(MaximsNews.com, U.N.)
UNITED NATIONS - / www.MaximsNews.com@
U.N./
- 13 September 2007 –Intensified
efforts are crucial to consolidate peace in Burundi and thwart a relapse into
violence and chaos, the leader of a United Nations Peacebuilding Commission (PBC)
fact-finding mission to the small Central African nation, which suffered decades
of ethnic conflict pitting the Hutu majority against the Tutsi minority, said
today.
Ambassador
Johan L. Løvald, Permanent Representative of Norway, visited Burundi for the
fourth time in less than a year from 5-7 September on behalf of the PBC, which
was created to prevent countries emerging from civil war and other conflicts
from sliding back into bloodshed.
He told
reporters in New York that his latest mission had three objectives: to see
first-hand the political and security situation, to identify how the PBC’s
work can aid both national and regional groups; and to meet with Government
officials and others on a strategic framework devised by the Burundian
Government in May to mobilize financial and political support to overcome the
internal challenges threatening the country’s long-term recovery.
Mr. Løvald
voiced concern that there is a “general sense of uncertainty” on issues
including the deadlock in the country’s Parliament, a troubling budgetary
situation and the suspension of the work of the Joint Verification and
Monitoring Mechanism of the 2006 ceasefire between the Government and the
Palipehutu- FNL.
“However,
I left Bujumbura with a sense that the Government and national partners are
determined to deal with the issues that are causing the current political
crisis, with the support of the international community,” the Ambassador
noted.
Established
in 2005 by parallel General Assembly and Security Council resolutions, the PBC
focuses on reconstruction, institution-building and the promotion of sustainable
development in post-conflict countries.
The
31-member body, which operates in conjunction with several of the UN’s
principal organs – namely the GA, the Council and the Economic and Social
Council (ECOSOC) – also recognizes the importance of individual countries
spearheading efforts to consolidate peace within their own borders.
Burundi,
which has been the victim of violent coups and political instability since
gaining independence in 1962, was the first country to receive financial support
from the Peacebuilding Fund, established from voluntary contributions to aid
countries which have recently emerged from war from slipping back into conflict.
Launched
last year, it is a multi-year standing trust fund that has an initial funding
target of $250 million and thus far has collected deposits worth $143.9 million
from dozens of donor countries.
Labels: United
Nations, U.N.,
~~~~~
MaximsNews.com, An Independent Voice from the
U.N., provides commentary and analysis from
leading world figures: King Abdullah II
(Jordan), HRH Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid Al-Hussein
(Jordan), Sir Brian Urquhart, Hans Blix, Amb.
Richard Holbrooke, Anwar Ibrahim, Bianca Jagger,
Dr. Nafis Sadik, Shashi Tharoor, Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, Noeleen Heyzer, Kerry
Kennedy, Ian Williams, Stephen Schlesinger, Sen.
Timothy E. Wirth, Marc Morial, Amb. Jayantha
Dhanapala (Sri Lanka), Amb. Pierre Schori
(Sweden), Amb. William H. Luers, Susan Roosevelt
Weld, Rory Kennedy, Mehri
Madarshahi, J. Michael Adams, Gloria Feldt,
Jeffrey Laurenti, Rodney D. Smith, Ashley
Bommer, Rory
O'Connor, Genevieve Stamper, Max Stamper and
others.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
MaximsNews Network® LLC is a Global News Network reaching over 30,000 in the International Community. It is associated with MediaChannel.org and Globalvision News Network, global news and media information services with more than 350 news affiliates in 135 countries.
MaximsNews®LLC is in partnership with the United Nations Foundation and the Better World Fund.
Established in 1999.
The views expressed are the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of MaximsNews®
LLC.
MaximsNews.com
U.N. ® LLC News for the United Nations and the International Community -
www.MaximsNews.com
| MaximsNews@MaximsNews.com |
Please
contact us about Republishing:
Syndication@MaximsNews.com ©Copyrights 1999 - 2007, MaximsNews® LLC. All rights
reserved.
|
