The new peacekeeping model requires that the Department of Peacekeeping Operations be able to

To help those people build peace must be our common cause.

The benefits of peace, for both sides, would be enormous.

Austria firmly believes that women must be able to participate fully in peace negotiations, peace agreements and the development of a stable society.

Such a mandate must be able to ensure that peace, once established in a region or a country, becomes irreversible.

I would have hoped that we could have now agreed to make the new Peacebuilding Commission operational.

With these achievements, Bougainville has reached a major milestone in its peace process.

The new United Nations must be equipped with a better peacebuilding capacity.

As peacekeeping assessments are issued throughout the year, on any given date there tend to be fewer Member States that have paid their assessments for peacekeeping operations in full.

The Peacebuilding Commission should be advisory in nature.

In assuring peace and development, Europe will have served humanity well.

Any mandate for peacekeeping forces should be clear and precise.

It is fitting that the issue of children has been linked to the issue of a culture of peace.

To respond to these demands, the Department must have the capacity to rapidly deploy experienced, trained and capable civilian peacekeepers in adequate numbers to support peacekeeping operations.

Of course, the mandates of peacekeeping operations need to be more ambitious.

It is essential that the Peacebuilding Commission be made accountable to the General Assembly.

By endorsing a false peace justice tradeoff, instead of insisting on the more politically difficult option of a settlement freeze, or on the removal of preconditions, the US has jettisoned legality from the peace process.

Colombia may be on the cusp of achieving a long cherished but oft postponed dream domestic peace and diminishing tension with its neighbors.

It is our assessment that the efforts of the international community in this area perhaps hold the key to lasting peace.

The economy and population had grown steadily as subsistence populations tend to when there is an extended period of relative peace (most of the time).

We urge them to conclude compromises  difficult ones, perhaps, but inevitable and necessary to move the peace process forward.

These topics must have the same priority in our Organization's agenda as the challenges of ensuring lasting peace and of eradicating terrorism.

The instruments of peacebuilding and the emphasis on rule of law and human rights can also be directly relevant to pre conflict situations.

That would go a long way towards ensuring that women's needs, priorities and roles in peace processes are duly taken into account in the work of the Peacebuilding Commission.

The United Nations must be the focal point of reliance, hope and participation for all peoples and Governments, and a forum for dialogue, understanding and cooperation to achieve peace and tranquillity throughout the globe.

This is particularly valuable when consolidating peace and making sure that the national budget is allocated in a manner that allows for the implementation of peace agreements, including those components that may be of particular importance to women.

The Peacebuilding Commission should ensure, as part of its mandate, that women and women's groups are represented in peace processes, thus enabling them to play a meaningful role.

Full throated bellicosity often has more popular appeal than the thoughtful and patient exploration of opportunities for peace.

Even after establishing peace, the probability that these countries will relapse into conflict is high.

Europe's military means may be limited, but it has important experience in peacekeeping and state building that can be brought to bear.

If the negotiations succeed, he will be remembered for his historic role in bringing peace, and will likely stand a better chance of realizing his presidential ambition, having gained parliamentary support for revising the constitution from the Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party.

Recognizing the importance of the United Nations being able to respond and deploy rapidly to a peacekeeping operation upon adoption of a relevant resolution of the Security Council, within thirty days for traditional peacekeeping operations and ninety days for complex peacekeeping operations,

This could serve both to show support and to provide direct and candid feedback on how a peace operation was faring and what unforeseen obstacles it might be facing.

In that context, the Meeting noted that DPKO was carrying out a peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and could provide satellite images and cartographic type data that could be useful for water resource management.

What, then, might be the prospects of a negotiated peace between two peoples with claims to the same land?

In any conflict, neighboring countries participation and commitment are indispensable to the achievement of peace.

It should be a home to all nations of the world inclusive, just and working to foster peace between peoples.

The US, for example, should be made welcome to participate or continue to participate in peacekeeping and security cooperation.

He trusted that the same principle would apply to all peacekeeping missions and that no attempt would be made to convert national staff into international staff.

That process, now as before, must culminate in an independent and democratic Palestine alongside a safe and secure Israel.

In the Middle East, we must break the stalemate. Palestinians deserve a state.

Peacemaking and peacebuilding strategies should be proactive and address poverty, health, education, gender inequality and all forms of discrimination as well as other causes of fear, in a comprehensive manner.

The United Nations partnerships with the African Union and such African subregional organizations as the Economic Community of West African States, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development and the Southern Africa Development Community have been quite exemplary in the areas of peacemaking and peacekeeping.

Compromise can be anathema for purists, but it has always been the stuff of which peace is made.

It is neither realistic nor desirable for the United Nations to be the only provider of technical expertise to broad peacebuilding operations.