India has said that the UN’s peacebuilding work lacks adequate funding and highlighted that it does not represent even 1 per cent of the organisation’s peacekeeping budget.
Gitesh Sarma, Additional Secretary at the Ministry of External Affairs, said sustaining peace required a comprehensive understanding of both challenges and opportunities, as well as serious international efforts to ensure greater peace and prosperity.
“Concrete action would also require a much greater commitment and longer-term political engagement and investment, including financial contributions to activities that helped build and sustain peace,” Sarma said.