India has been re-elected to the UN Peacebuilding Fee for 2025–2026.
India’s present time period on the Fee was expiring on December 31.
“India has been re-elected to the UN Peacebuilding Fee (PBC) for 2025–2026. As a founding member and main contributor to @UNPeacekeeping, India is dedicated to persevering with its engagement with the PBC to work in the direction of world peace and stability,” the Everlasting Mission of India to the United Nations mentioned in a submit on X on Thursday.
The Peacebuilding Fee is an intergovernmental advisory physique that helps peace efforts in conflict-affected nations and is a key addition to the capability of the Worldwide Group within the broad peace agenda, based on its web site.
The PBC consists of 31 Member States, elected from the Normal Meeting, the Safety Council, and the Financial and Social Council. The highest monetary contributing nations and the highest troop-contributing nations to the United Nations system are additionally members.
The Fee is remitted to carry collectively all related actors to marshal sources and to advise on and suggest built-in methods for post-conflict peacebuilding and restoration; to focus consideration on the reconstruction and institution-building efforts needed for restoration from battle and to assist the event of built-in methods as a way to lay the inspiration for sustainable growth.
Additionally it is mandated to offer suggestions and knowledge to enhance the coordination of all related actors inside and out of doors the United Nations, to develop finest practices, to assist to make sure predictable financing for early restoration actions and to increase the interval of consideration given by the worldwide group to post-conflict restoration, the Fee mentioned.
The Fee additionally focuses on selling an built-in, strategic and coherent strategy to peacebuilding, noting that safety, growth and human rights are intently interlinked and mutually reinforcing; serving a bridging position among the many principal organs and related entities of the United Nations by sharing recommendation on peacebuilding wants and priorities, in keeping with the respective competencies and duties of those our bodies.
India is among the many largest contributors of uniformed personnel to UN Peacekeeping.
It presently deploys about 6,000 navy and police personnel to UN operations in Abyei, the Central African Republic, Cyprus, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lebanon, the Center East, Somalia, South Sudan, and Western Sahara.
Practically 180 Indian peacekeepers have made the supreme sacrifice within the line of responsibility, the best quantity by removed from any troop-contributing nation.
