NIGERIA SELECTED 45TH TIME TO LEAD UNITED NATIONS.

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Nigeria has been elected again, making it the 45th period, to chairman the United Nations Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations, referred to as UN’s primary strategic agency.

The United Nation Correspondent of NAN declared that Nigeria was re-elected despite facing a number of hesitations by certain nations to permit Nigeria go on leading the chiefly important committee.

Nigeria has headed the special committee on peacekeeping operations from 1972 till now.
Over time, certain associate countries have covertly articulated their reservations about the rare privilegde accorded Nigeria.

The apppointment  was presided over by the Under-Secretary-General for the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, Mr Herve Ladsous and the Chef de Cabinet of the UN Secretary-General, Ms Maria Viotti.

Nigeria was chosen by approval.

Others approved are: Argentina, First Vice Chair; Canada, Second Vice Chair; Japan, Third Vice Chair; Poland, Fourth Vice-Chair; and Egypt, Rapporteur.

Nigeria is the 14th largest troops contributing nation to UN Peacekeeping operations and eighth in Africa, coming from the most recent data in print by the UN Peacekeeping Department.

The data revealed that Nigeria produced 2,170 peacekeeping personnel in 2016, consisting of 403 policemen, 46 military experts and 1, 721 troops, among which 232 were females.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, after the election, congratulated Nigeria on its re-election as well as other members of the committee.

“I offer best wishes to all the members of the Committee as you identify a way forward at this critical time for international peace and security.

“Peacekeeping is a partnership in which Member States deploy their political will, financial resources, military and police capabilities.

“Above all, Member States put the lives of their citizens on the line to transform conflict into sustainable peace,” Guterres, represented by Viotti, said.

“As the nature of conflict changes and we face new challenges such as asymmetric threats, transnational crime and the expanding reach of terrorists and extremists, the structures and practices designed even 10 years ago are not always keeping pace.

“The United Nations has to be more nimble, pragmatic and flexible in its ability to plan, launch and manage a more diverse range of operations,” the Secretary-General added.

He implored the committee to review painstakingly the recommendation of the 2015 peace and security review, echoed in Security Council resolution 2242, to go beyond the present three percent involvment of female peacekeepers.

Meanwhile, Ladsous, the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, emphasised the importance of adapting peacekeeping operations to the changing international context.

In lieu of the re-election, Nigeria brought up two pristine paragraphs for adoption into the 2017 account.

The leading was on the influence of illicit fiscal flows on resource mobilization and sustainable development, with a clamour for a return of gains of flows like that to their nations of origin.

The latter took congnizance of the Donald Kaberuka recount on ideas for funding AU peace support operations authorized by the Security Council.

The two texts were adopted in addition to other chief ideas.

The Special Committee was Started by General Assembly resolution 2006 (XIX) of Feb. 18, 1965, to conduct a comprehensive review of all matters associating to peacekeeping.

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