联合国文件/part0327

Sexual abuse and exploitation constituted violations of human rights and damaged the credibility of United Nations missions.

A policy of zero tolerance towards such acts must be pursued.

He welcomed the deployment of national investigation officers under the authority of the Office of Internal Oversight Services but urged the Department to ensure that members of missions received appropriate training with regard to the prevention of sexual abuse and exploitation.

Basic training on human rights and international humanitarian law should become a mandatory part of the national training given to all peacekeeping personnel, and he hoped that the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations would support that recommendation.

There was a general shift from peacekeeping operations to more comprehensive peacebuilding missions.

The peacekeeping process involved close interaction between peacebuilding operations and personnel, on the one hand, and key policy domains and actors in the field, on the other.

To be successful, therefore, the process had to be led by the national authorities.

The Peacebuilding Commission could foster mutual understanding among all actors in the field by clarifying concepts, developing joint strategies, and thus facilitating coordination and greater synergies.

The Commission should be a purely advisory body, competent to advise all relevant United Nations entities whenever necessary, while the Department of Peacekeeping Operations would play a crucial role in making the Commission's recommendations operational and implementing them.

To perform that role adequately the Department might require additional capacities, as well as improved know-how on civil-military cooperation.

The latest session of the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations had been disappointing in terms of both substance and procedure.

The Bureau and the members of the Committee should consider ways to improve its working methods.

There should be a clear distinction between formal and informal debates, with facilitators elected to facilitate informal discussions on controversial issues.

Consideration should also be given to updating the agenda and the structure of the report.

Mr. Kitaoka (Japan) noted that the budgetary burden of peacekeeping operations on Member States had increased dramatically owing to the expanding number of operations as well as unplanned changes such as extended duration of operations.

His country was contributing to both peacekeeping operations and peacebuilding.

As one of the largest contributors of financial resources, it urged more effective and efficient performance and vigorous implementation of management reform in the area.

Peacekeeping operations were also changing in qualitative terms, for example in their association with peacebuilding.

Member States should consider how an effective proposal could be developed from the various options for enhancing rapidly deployable capacities.

One option was to enhance cooperation between missions.

Under the chairmanship of Japan, the Security Council Working Group on Peacekeeping had held a joint meeting with troop-contributing countries and Combined Joint Task Forces.

Potential problems concerning the implementation of inter-mission cooperation had been identified, and it would certainly be possible to resolve some of them.

The United Nations could support the rapid deployment arrangements of regional organizations by providing training, equipment and other capacity-building assistance to the troops of their member States.

It would thus become increasingly possible to deploy regional troops in emergencies.