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BERLIN, May 14 (Xinhua) — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres here on Tuesday stressed the important role of UN peacekeeping operations and called on member countries to provide them with additional support.
Speaking at the 2025 UN Ministerial Meeting on Peacekeeping, he noted that peacekeeping operations help many states and are “the most widely recognized symbol on the planet of the world’s ability to come together to help countries move from conflict to peace.”
The Secretary General also said that over the past decades, 4,400 peacekeepers have died in the line of duty.
A. Guterres pointed to the challenges of modern peacekeeping, including complex conflicts, growing global divisions, disinformation, terrorism and transnational crime.
“We are now facing the highest number of conflicts since the founding of the UN and record numbers of people fleeing across borders in search of safety and refuge,” the head of the world organization said.
He called for work to make peacekeeping operations more adaptive, flexible and resilient, adding that peacekeeping can only be successful with credible mandates and clear, predictable and continuous contributions.
Representatives from some 130 countries are discussing the future of peacekeeping at the current two-day meeting. –0–