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FOREIGN MINISTER OPENS WORKSHOP ON POST-CONFLICT PEACE BUILDING
Jakarta, March 29 (ANTARA) - Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Marty Natalegawa and his counterpart from Slovakia, Miroslav Lajcak, opened an international workshop on post-conflict peace building activity here on Monday.
Entitled "The Role of United Nations in Multidimensional Peacekeeping Operations and Post-Conflict Peace building; Towards an ASEAN Perspective", the workshop is a joint project that has been prepared as a direct follow up to the close cooperation between Indonesia and Slovakia during their joint non-permanent membership in the UN Security Council in 2006 and 2007.
"Various instances and experiences show that the global work of the United Nations succeeds best - may even succeed only - if it has strong support at the regional level and robust participation of nations that are regionally organized," Minister Natalegawa said here on Monday during the opening ceremony of the workshop.
The workshop would discuss how ASEAN can contribute to the UN multidimensional peacekeeping and peace building and how to strengthen concrete partnership between the two organizations, he said.
Natalegawa said since ASEAN was founded some 33 years ago, its members had enjoyed relative peace. There were some periods of armed conflict, but the conflict could be resolved through constructive engagements from all ASEAN members, he said.
The minister took examples of peace process in Aceh which has been brought to an end after three decades of separatist rebellion, the peace process in Cambodia and the 1996 peace agreement in southern Philippines.
"Ours is therefore a region with huge wealth of experience, not only in peacekeeping and post-conflict building but also in other ways of working for peace, including confidence-building, preventive diplomacy and conflict resolution," he said.
However, the minister noted there were a great deal of capacity building needs for ASEAN to ensure the strengthening of its contribution to peacekeeping and peace building process namely for concerted action and coordination, coherence of strategies and policies, the mastery of the multidimensionality of UN peacekeeping principles and capacity for devising exit strategies that leave behind strong, nationally-owned post conflict development programs.
Meanwhile, Slovakia's Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak said it was important for the UN and regional organization such as ASEAN to work together to make sure that the post-conflict management in a conflicted area was running successfully.
"Today workshop will discuss about how to make sure that UN and ASEAN are able to manage post conflict situation while also ensure that after the departure of international personnel all sectors in the conflicted country, such as economy, political and social, will be stable," he said.
The two-day workshop is the third event ever carried out by the Slovakian government with partner countries in key global regions. The two previous workshops were held in Cape Town, South Africa, last November 2007 and in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in September 2009. (T.A051/A/f001)
Entitled "The Role of United Nations in Multidimensional Peacekeeping Operations and Post-Conflict Peace building; Towards an ASEAN Perspective", the workshop is a joint project that has been prepared as a direct follow up to the close cooperation between Indonesia and Slovakia during their joint non-permanent membership in the UN Security Council in 2006 and 2007.
"Various instances and experiences show that the global work of the United Nations succeeds best - may even succeed only - if it has strong support at the regional level and robust participation of nations that are regionally organized," Minister Natalegawa said here on Monday during the opening ceremony of the workshop.
The workshop would discuss how ASEAN can contribute to the UN multidimensional peacekeeping and peace building and how to strengthen concrete partnership between the two organizations, he said.
Natalegawa said since ASEAN was founded some 33 years ago, its members had enjoyed relative peace. There were some periods of armed conflict, but the conflict could be resolved through constructive engagements from all ASEAN members, he said.
The minister took examples of peace process in Aceh which has been brought to an end after three decades of separatist rebellion, the peace process in Cambodia and the 1996 peace agreement in southern Philippines.
"Ours is therefore a region with huge wealth of experience, not only in peacekeeping and post-conflict building but also in other ways of working for peace, including confidence-building, preventive diplomacy and conflict resolution," he said.
However, the minister noted there were a great deal of capacity building needs for ASEAN to ensure the strengthening of its contribution to peacekeeping and peace building process namely for concerted action and coordination, coherence of strategies and policies, the mastery of the multidimensionality of UN peacekeeping principles and capacity for devising exit strategies that leave behind strong, nationally-owned post conflict development programs.
Meanwhile, Slovakia's Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak said it was important for the UN and regional organization such as ASEAN to work together to make sure that the post-conflict management in a conflicted area was running successfully.
"Today workshop will discuss about how to make sure that UN and ASEAN are able to manage post conflict situation while also ensure that after the departure of international personnel all sectors in the conflicted country, such as economy, political and social, will be stable," he said.
The two-day workshop is the third event ever carried out by the Slovakian government with partner countries in key global regions. The two previous workshops were held in Cape Town, South Africa, last November 2007 and in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in September 2009. (T.A051/A/f001)
