UN / PEACEKEEPING MINISTERIAL MEETING PRESSER
22-Sep-2023
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The United Nations Secretariat and the Republic of Ghana announced that the 2023 UN Peacekeeping Ministerial meeting will take place in Accra, Ghana on 5-6 December. UNIFEED
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STORY: UN / PEACEKEEPING MINISTERIAL MEETING PRESSER
TRT: 02:48
SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLI SH / NATS
DATELINE: 22 SEPTEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
TRT: 02:48
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLI SH / NATS
DATELINE: 22 SEPTEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
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FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, flags outside UN headquarters
22 SEPTEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press room dais
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Operational Support, United Nations:
“Peacekeeping operations are facing a number of challenges. The biggest challenge of all is the division across our Member States and the fact that this division creates a different political environment where those peacekeeping operations have less political support, and more importantly the political processes that are associated to each and every one of these missions are being less supported, and certainly less unanimously supported.”
4. Med shot, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Operational Support, United Nations:
“We also face other challenges resulting from the evolution of conflict, new kinds of threats, the use of misinformation, disinformation, the use or the impact of the negative use of digital technology, new forms of attacks against our peacekeepers, and so on so forth. And so, we need more than ever partnership.”
6. Wide shot, press room dais
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration of Ghana:
“African countries, including ECOWAS, have said that we want assistance to be able to enforce the peace by pushing these people out. So, we're not asking for the men in boots. We're not asking for boots on the ground. We're asking for assistance and that is where the assets contributions have come in where we're looking at predictable sources of funding. And so, this is a conversation that still continues, and we're hoping that we'll be able to make some headway with the United Nations and the countries that matter.”
8. Wide shot, press room dais
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Operational Support, United Nations:
“This meeting will have essentially two key objectives. One is to discuss the key challenges that are being faced by peacekeeping operations and to look at the efforts that are being made to overcome these challenges and to adapt peacekeeping to the new environment, new political environment and security environment in which it operates. And the second objective, which is related to the first one, is to register pledge announcements by troop and police contributing countries by participants, so that we can have - our peacekeeping operation can have - the capacities that they need to continue performing the duties.”
10. Wide shot, end of presser
1. Wide shot, exterior, flags outside UN headquarters
22 SEPTEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press room dais
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Operational Support, United Nations:
“Peacekeeping operations are facing a number of challenges. The biggest challenge of all is the division across our Member States and the fact that this division creates a different political environment where those peacekeeping operations have less political support, and more importantly the political processes that are associated to each and every one of these missions are being less supported, and certainly less unanimously supported.”
4. Med shot, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Operational Support, United Nations:
“We also face other challenges resulting from the evolution of conflict, new kinds of threats, the use of misinformation, disinformation, the use or the impact of the negative use of digital technology, new forms of attacks against our peacekeepers, and so on so forth. And so, we need more than ever partnership.”
6. Wide shot, press room dais
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration of Ghana:
“African countries, including ECOWAS, have said that we want assistance to be able to enforce the peace by pushing these people out. So, we're not asking for the men in boots. We're not asking for boots on the ground. We're asking for assistance and that is where the assets contributions have come in where we're looking at predictable sources of funding. And so, this is a conversation that still continues, and we're hoping that we'll be able to make some headway with the United Nations and the countries that matter.”
8. Wide shot, press room dais
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Operational Support, United Nations:
“This meeting will have essentially two key objectives. One is to discuss the key challenges that are being faced by peacekeeping operations and to look at the efforts that are being made to overcome these challenges and to adapt peacekeeping to the new environment, new political environment and security environment in which it operates. And the second objective, which is related to the first one, is to register pledge announcements by troop and police contributing countries by participants, so that we can have - our peacekeeping operation can have - the capacities that they need to continue performing the duties.”
10. Wide shot, end of presser
STORYLINE
The United Nations Secretariat and the Republic of Ghana today (22 Sep) announced that the 2023 UN Peacekeeping Ministerial meeting will take place in Accra, Ghana on 5-6 December.
At a press conference in New York, peacekeeping Chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix said, “peacekeeping operations are facing a number of challenges. The biggest challenge of all is the division across our Member States and the fact that this division creates a different political environment where those peacekeeping operations have less political support, and more importantly the political processes that are associated to each and every one of these missions are being less supported, and certainly less unanimously supported.”
Lacroix said, “we also face other challenges resulting from the evolution of conflict, new kinds of threats, the use of misinformation, disinformation, the use or the impact of the negative use of digital technology, new forms of attacks against our peacekeepers, and so on so forth. And so, we need more than ever partnership.”
Ghana's Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, for her part spoke about the role of peace-enforcement troops in the African continent. She said, “African countries, including ECOWAS, have said that we want assistance to be able to enforce the peace by pushing these people out. So, we're not asking for the men in boots. We're not asking for boots on the ground. We're asking for assistance and that is where the assets contributions have come in where we're looking at predictable sources of funding. And so, this is a conversation that still continues, and we're hoping that we'll be able to make some headway with the United Nations and the countries that matter.”
Lacroix said the objective of the Ministerial meeting will be to “discuss the key challenges that are being faced by peacekeeping operations and to look at the efforts that are being made to overcome these challenges and to adapt peacekeeping to the new environment, new political environment and security environment in which it operates.”
Another objective, he said, will be “to register pledge announcements by troop and police contributing countries by participants, so that we can have - our peacekeeping operation can have - the capacities that they need to continue performing the duties.”
UN Peacekeeping Ministerial meetings focus on securing concrete commitments from Member States to fill critical gaps, leverage new technologies, and address key priorities to improve the operational effectiveness of peacekeeping missions.
Since 1948, more than two million peacekeepers from 158 countries have served in 71 operations. Today, over 87,000 women and men from over 120 countries work to build peace in conflict hotspots across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. More than 4,200 peacekeepers have given their lives while serving under the United Nations flag.
At a press conference in New York, peacekeeping Chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix said, “peacekeeping operations are facing a number of challenges. The biggest challenge of all is the division across our Member States and the fact that this division creates a different political environment where those peacekeeping operations have less political support, and more importantly the political processes that are associated to each and every one of these missions are being less supported, and certainly less unanimously supported.”
Lacroix said, “we also face other challenges resulting from the evolution of conflict, new kinds of threats, the use of misinformation, disinformation, the use or the impact of the negative use of digital technology, new forms of attacks against our peacekeepers, and so on so forth. And so, we need more than ever partnership.”
Ghana's Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, for her part spoke about the role of peace-enforcement troops in the African continent. She said, “African countries, including ECOWAS, have said that we want assistance to be able to enforce the peace by pushing these people out. So, we're not asking for the men in boots. We're not asking for boots on the ground. We're asking for assistance and that is where the assets contributions have come in where we're looking at predictable sources of funding. And so, this is a conversation that still continues, and we're hoping that we'll be able to make some headway with the United Nations and the countries that matter.”
Lacroix said the objective of the Ministerial meeting will be to “discuss the key challenges that are being faced by peacekeeping operations and to look at the efforts that are being made to overcome these challenges and to adapt peacekeeping to the new environment, new political environment and security environment in which it operates.”
Another objective, he said, will be “to register pledge announcements by troop and police contributing countries by participants, so that we can have - our peacekeeping operation can have - the capacities that they need to continue performing the duties.”
UN Peacekeeping Ministerial meetings focus on securing concrete commitments from Member States to fill critical gaps, leverage new technologies, and address key priorities to improve the operational effectiveness of peacekeeping missions.
Since 1948, more than two million peacekeepers from 158 countries have served in 71 operations. Today, over 87,000 women and men from over 120 countries work to build peace in conflict hotspots across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. More than 4,200 peacekeepers have given their lives while serving under the United Nations flag.
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