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India on Sunday highlighted its constructive and significant
role in human-centric globalization at the United Nations General
Assembly and said that it had provided nearly USD 4 billion in food
and financial assistance to Sri Lanka, Trend reports citing Business
Standard.
At a UNGA Annual Joint Debate on the Reports of Peacebuilding
Commission (PBC) and Peacebuilding Fund (PBF), India’s Permanent
Representative to the UN, Ruchira Kamboj said, “In our immediate
neighbourhood, we are continuing to help our good friend and
neighbour Sri Lanka to ensure food security by providing nearly USD
4 billion in food and financial assistance during the past few
months.”
Speaking about the India-UN Development Partnership Fund which
was established in 2017, she said that in a short span of five
years, the Fund has developed a portfolio of 66 development
projects in partnership with 51 developing countries, including 17
countries in Africa, focusing on South-owned, South-led,
demand-driven Sustainable Development Projects (SDGs).
Since the beginning of the Ukraine conflict, in order to
mitigate the adverse effects of the destruction of food and
commodity supply chains, India has also been providing financial
and food assistance to countries in need.
India has always played a constructive and significant role in
the context of peacebuilding through its extensive development
partnership with countries of the Global South.
“We continue to assist countries through bilateral and
multilateral fora in post-conflict situations by providing
substantial grants and soft loans. Even during the COVID-19
pandemic, India stood in solidarity with the Global South, further
strengthening existing developmental partnerships guided by Kampala
Principles enunciated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in July 2018
during his address to the Ugandan Parliament. A total of 204 line
of credit (LoC’s) to the tune of more than USD 12 billion have been
extended by India to 42 African countries,” said the Indian
Ambassador to the UN.
Talking about PBC, she said that the world today has come to a
better grasp of complex and interlinked facets of
peacebuilding.
The world today has come to a better grasp of complex and
interlinked facets of peacebuilding. The global perspective on
addressing conflicts has undergone a massive shift from resolution,
reconciliation, and recovery to prevention and reconstruction,
thereby making peacebuilding a critical pillar in our collective
response to conflict situations.
India, as one of the leading troop and police-contributing
countries to UN Peacekeeping Missions, has been an active member of
PBC since its inception.
Speaking on Indian contributions to peacebuilding efforts,
Kamboj said, “We have more than 5, 500 personnel deployed across 9
Missions, serving under the blue flag, 177 gallant Indian soldiers
have made the supreme sacrifice, the largest number among the
troops contributing and police-contributing countries.”
She also congratulated Bangladesh for Chairing the Peacebuilding
Commissions (PBC) since February and thanked Egypt for its
contribution to PBC initiatives.
Kamboj further presented three submissions to enhance support
and increased focus from member-states in fulfilling PBC and PBF
mandates.
“1) we continue to underscore the importance of the cardinal
principle of inclusivity in order to advance national peacebuilding
objectives. Thus, an exclusively donor-driven approach to
peacebuilding would not be the most prudent part to follow, 2) the
ongoing discourse on enhanced financial support for peacebuilding
activities through sources other than voluntary contributions
merits an in-depth and careful study of its ramifications on the UN
ecosystem, any decision to that effect must be consensus-based.
Furthermore, the PBC should exercise its convening role more
effectively, 3) it is important to set clear benchmarks and
criteria for an exit-strategy in the country under consideration,
peacebuilding advocacy by PBC needs to draw down when such criteria
are met,” said the Indian envoy.
Kamboj also reiterated that India will continue to be a
force-multiplier in all peacebuilding efforts, driven very much by
this human-centric approach.
Quoting PM Modi, she said, “Let us pledge to reform the global
multilateral system to enhance its relevance, to improve its
effectiveness, to make it a basis for a new type of human-centric
globalization.
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