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PM for lasting global peace

Reminds UN members to their commitments

BSS, New York
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called upon UN members to reaffirm their political and financial commitments for the sake of sustainable international peace and security.
She also underscored the need for reenergising SEE PAGE 6 COL 3 FROM PAGE 1 financial and political commitments to resource mobilisation for delivering most efficient and cost-effective support to post-conflict societies.
The premier was addressing as the chair of a high-level meeting on "Peace Building: A way forward towards sustainable peace and security" at the UN Headquarters in New York onTuesday.
Hasina said in the postcold war period of the 1990s, half of the emerging countries lapsed into violence within a few years. To help them build solid foundations for sustainable peace and development, the Peace Building Commission (PBC) was established.
"Almost 1.5 billion people are still living in conflict-ridden countries. The World Development Report 2011 states that none of the low-income countries emerging from or affected by conflict has achieved a single MDG," she observed.
Hasina said as a nation committed to sustainable peace and development, Bangladesh has always stood by the United Nations in all its peace ventures.
"From 1988 till now, we have participated in 37 UN peacekeeping missions with 113,181 peacekeepers, 118 of whom died and 125 were injured while on duty," she told her audience.
The premier said the primary responsibility for establishing sustainable peace and security lay with the national authorities themselves. "I believe that we should support national ownership as a core principle at the heart of postconflict peace building for sustainable peace."
Hasina pointed out that lack of political cohesion, shattered institutions, absence of the rule of law and justice, marginalisation of certain communities, and political and development process were behind the conflicts.
She also emphasised strengthening coordination and coherence of bilateral, regional and multilateral engagements of the PBC and enhancing South-South and Triangular Cooperation in post-conflict countries.
The premier extended her thanks to all for electing Bangladesh as chair of the commission, saying "It is a recognition of our commitment to the PBC."
Despite many constraints as an LDC, she said, Bangladesh had continued to demonstrate its commitment to the Peace Building Fund with its annual contributions.
Bangladesh peacekeepers are contributing significantly by delivering scaled-up services in health, education, business development and livelihood support, Hasina said.
"Today, as current chair of the PBC, Bangladesh has organised the high-level event of the PBC to renew its political resolve of2005, and rededicate to PBC's original mission of pursuing sustainable peace and security," she told her audience.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic, East Timor Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao and Zambian President Michael Sata also spoke at the meeting.
At a book launching ceremony in New York yesterday, Hasina stressed the need for immediate drafting of a legally-binding deal by all countries to face climate change challenges.
Reaffirming Bangladesh's commitment for never exceeding the average per capita carbon emission, Hasina said, “This is our commitment to low carbon development.”
The premier also said “Our inaction and inadequate response are causing loss of lives and livelihoods of our people."
Maldives President Mohamed Waheed, Ethiopian President Girma Wolde Giorgis, among others, were present at the ceremony.