Bangladesh has called for strong collaboration—among the UN secretariat, member states, troops, and police-contributing countries—to achieve comprehensive training for peacekeepers.
Bangladesh’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Masud Bin Momen, said this at an open debate titled “Peacekeeping Training and Capacity-Building” at the UN Security Council on Wednesday, reports UNB.
Among the troop-and-police-contributing countries, Bangladesh stood in fifth place for the number of female peacekeepers contributed in 2018.
The envoy said: “The UN peacekeepers, working in a complex cultural and political situation in a foreign country, require comprehensive management of training needs.”
He underscored three aspects of training and capacity-building, namely, priorities for training needs, partnership, and practices.
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Source: Dhaka Tribune