The United Nations:
While the ceasefire becomes more fragile and conflicts are more unpredictable, Pakistan has called to use the rapid range of new expansion technologies to make its peacekeeping missions “more effective”.
“The progress of detection technologies can considerably improve monitoring of the ceasefire at lower costs,” the permanent representative of the United Nations Pakistan’s permanent representative of the United Nations Pakistan.
Speaking during a briefing of a council on military component chiefs (Homc) for the maintenance of United Nations peace, he stressed that progress in detection technology – including drones and satellite imagery – can considerably improve surveillance capacities by providing “awareness of the complete situation in real time”.
Noting that the main original function of peacekeeping – surveillance and observation of ceasefires – endured, Ambassador Asim said he had two first missions – the UN supervision organization (UTSO) and the UN military observers group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) – have been established to this objective and have continued to be relevant to this day.
“Monitoring the ceasefire by the UN played a vital role in peacekeeping in several lightning points such as Jammu and Kashmir, Golan Heights, Cyprus, Lebanon and Western Sahara,” said the Pakistani envoy, stressing that the maintenance of the United Nations was “profitable and deeply impacting”.
The Security Council, he said, must ensure that the environment provided by the cessation of hostilities and respect for the ceasefire has been used strategically to advance global political objectives, and the peace process, including by diplomatic engagement and supported support and support for the implementation of the resolutions of the UN Security Council to guarantee the fair and lasting settlement of these conflicts.
“This is true for all situations on the agenda of the Council, including Jammu-et-Cachemire,” Asim Ambassador told 15 members.
Peacekeeping, he said, remains one of the most effective instruments in the United Nations to help countries transmit the difficult way of conflict to peace. Pakistan is among the greatest troop contributors, peacekeeping missions deployed in hot spots from around the world.
Next week, Pakistan will host a ministerial preparatory meeting on peacekeeping, in partnership with South Korea, in Islamabad.
