I’m off to Ghana today for the United Nations (UN) Peacekeeping Ministerial Meeting.
Exclusive : Inside Scoop on the UN Peacekeeping Ministerial Meeting in Ghana.I am looking forward to meeting with ministerial counterparts and delivering Australia’s National Statement during two days of negotiations.
The biennial gathering brings together foreign and defence ministers, as well as top officials from UN member countries, to explore measures to improve the efficacy of the peacekeeping system.
Australia is dedicated to bolstering UN peacekeeping missions. Australia will provide more peacekeeping training and capacity development efforts for regional partners. Building on our current peacekeeping alliances.
Australia advocates for women’s full, equitable, and meaningful engagement in security, military, peacekeeping, and peacemaking activities.
Australia is one of the top three donors to the Elsie Initiative for Women in Peacekeeping. Having previously contributed roughly $6.5 million to programs. That aimed at removing barriers to female involvement in peacekeeping.
I will also explore how to make peace operations more environmentally friendly and to establish a positive environmental legacy.
Australia is the 12th largest financial donor to the United Nations peacekeeping budget and a top ten supplier of extra-budgetary support to the Department of Peace Operations.
Quotes attributed to the Hon Matt Thistlethwaite MP, Assistant Minister for Defence:
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