India re-elected to UN Peacebuilding Commission

“India has been re-elected to the UN Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) for 2025–2026. As a founding subordinate and large contributor to @UNPeacekeeping, India is committed to continuing its engagement with the PBC to enactment towards planetary bid and stability,” the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations said successful a station connected X connected Thursday.

The Peacebuilding Commission is an intergovernmental advisory assemblage that supports bid efforts successful conflict-affected countries and is simply a cardinal summation to the capableness of the International Community successful the wide bid agenda, according to its website.

The PBC is composed of 31 Member States, elected from the General Assembly, the Security Council, and the Economic and Social Council. The apical fiscal contributing countries and the apical troop-contributing countries to the United Nations strategy are besides members.

The Commission is mandated to bring unneurotic each applicable actors to marshal resources and to counsel connected and suggest integrated strategies for post-conflict peacebuilding and recovery; to absorption attraction connected the reconstruction and institution-building efforts indispensable for betterment from struggle and to enactment the improvement of integrated strategies successful bid to laic the instauration for sustainable development.

It is besides mandated to supply recommendations and accusation to amended the coordination of each applicable actors wrong and extracurricular the United Nations, to make champion practices, to assistance to guarantee predictable financing for aboriginal betterment activities and to widen the play of attraction fixed by the planetary assemblage to post-conflict recovery, the Commission said.

The Commission besides focuses connected promoting an integrated, strategical and coherent attack to peacebuilding, noting that security, improvement and quality rights are intimately interlinked and mutually reinforcing; serving a bridging relation among the main organs and applicable entities of the United Nations by sharing proposal connected peacebuilding needs and priorities, successful enactment with the respective competencies and responsibilities of these bodies.

India is among the largest contributors of uniformed unit to UN Peacekeeping.

It presently deploys astir 6,000 subject and constabulary unit to UN operations successful Abyei, the Central African Republic, Cyprus, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lebanon, the Middle East, Somalia, South Sudan, and Western Sahara.

Nearly 180 Indian peacekeepers person made the ultimate sacrifice successful the enactment of duty, the highest fig by acold from immoderate troop-contributing country.