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United Nations peacekeeping operations are central to multilateralism, speakers told the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations at its first meeting of the 2021 session, expressing their commitment to further spur collective action through the Action for Peacekeeping initiative launched in 2018.
The Special Committee was created by the General Assembly in 1965 to conduct a comprehensive review of all issues relating to United Nations peacekeeping. The three-week session will focus on some of the pressing issues facing roughly 90,000 military, police and civilian personnel currently serving in 12 operations around the world.
During the opening segment, Volkan Bozkir (Turkey), President of the General Assembly, emphasized that peacekeeping operations are central to the United Nations and multilateralism. Â âWe cannot fulfil the peace and security mandate of the Organization without wellâtrained, wellâequipped and wel
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