The Security Council selected Argentina as a member of the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission (PCB), the advisory body that supports peace efforts in countries emerging from conflict. The Permanent Representative of Argentina to the United Nations, Ambassador María Cristina Perceval, will be a member of the Organizational Committee of the Peacebuilding Commission for 2014.
Argentina’s participation in the Peacebuilding Commission reaffirms the country’s commitment with peaceful conflict resolutions and with seeking a sustainable peace in countries that have gone through armed conflicts. This commitment has been already at the center of Argentina’s actions at the Security Council. They are directed towards sustainable development, the protection of sectors in vulnerable situation, justice and institutional reconstruction as bases for a durable peace.
The UN Peacebuilding Commission, currently presided by Brazil, is a crucial protagonist in the global broad peace agenda. It periodically revises the peace efforts developed worldwide. Currently, the countries on the PBC agenda are Burundi, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, and the Central African Republic.
Argentina –a non permanent member of the Security Council for 2013 and 2014- actively participates in the Council’s efforts to guarantee international peace and security, by reasserting in all cases the call to conflicts’ pacific resolution, the priority of humanitarian aid, the protection to sectors in vulnerable situations, the multilateral dialogue, and the search for forms of sustainable economic, social and cultural development.
Argentina was elected to participate in the PBC along with Chad, also a non-permanent member of the Security Council. There are 31 Member States that are part of the Organizational Committee of PBC: Seven selected by the General Assembly, seven by the Security Council (the five permament members plus two of the non-permanent members), seven by the Economic and Security Council, the five top providers of military personnel and civilian police to United Nations missions, and the five top providers of assessed contributions to United Nations budgets.
New York, 30 January 2014
