ISLAMABAD – Pakistan has underscored the need for realistic mandates forU.N. peacekeeping operations, with adequate resources, to face challengesin the world’s troubled regions.
First Secretary at Pakistan’s Mission to the UN, Rajeel Mohsin said this ina meeting held to review action to improve peacekeeping performance at alllevels, both at Headquarters in New York and in the field.
He said rather than focusing just on cutting costs and troop numbers,operations must dictate logistics, and not the other way around.
On his part, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he welcomesopportunities to review effectiveness of world body’s peacekeeping.
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Pakistan is one of the largest contributors to UN peacekeeping, with overfive thousand troops serving in missions in hotspots around the world.
