Egypt, representing 108 countries, proposes solutions on funding peace-building at UN Security Council

CAIRO – 28 April 2022: Egypt's Permanent Envoy to the United Nations Osama Abdel Khaleq delivered earlier this week before the Security Council a trans-regional statement on "Peace-building Financing," representing 108 states.  

Those are African and European countries as well as some Asian, North American, South American and Caribbean countries, as indicated by a press statement released Thursday.

The ambassador stipulated in the statement the necessity of providing a sufficient, sustainable, and predictable funding to peace-building activities in countries impacted by conflicts. He also stressed the salience of devising a comprehensive solution for the funding challenge by examining all available financing options.

Abdel Khaleq further called for the meeting to formulate a precise process in the form of a United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) resolution. In that context, he noted that this is the first time of its kind where a number of countries belonging to various continents speak in one voice to advocate for investing in peace-building efforts and conflict prevention by securing the suitable funding.

The Egyptian envoy to the United Nations equally delivered another statement, representing Africa, to communicate the continent's ambitions, asserting that financing peace building should not be depending basically and exclusively on voluntarily contributions. That is why peace-building activities must receive regular financing from the United Nations budget, he clarified.

Egypt also encouraged deepening the partnership between the United Nations and the African Union on human and institutional capacity-building. That is in addition to backing the African Union Center for Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development (PCRD), headquartered in Cairo and that was launched in November.