Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations Ambassador Muhammad Abdul Muhith called upon United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to resolve the Rohingya crisis.
He made the call while speaking at the Security Council open debate on “Futureproofing Trust for Sustaining Peace” held at the United Nations Headquarters on Wednesday.
Ambassador Muhammad Abdul Muhith said almost six years have passed since the Rohingya minorities were expelled from their ancestral land in Myanmar. No effective action was taken by the Security Council to remedy the situation.
To build trust, the Security Council must reverse the course of inactions, he added.
In his statement, Muhith referred to the critical role of peacekeepers in building trust among communities and called for strengthening the peacebuilding mandates of the peacekeeping missions.
He also called upon the Security Council to leverage the complementary role of the UN Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) in addressing non-traditional security threats, such as climate change.
“As the Chair of the PBC for two terms, Bangladesh made sincere efforts to unbound the potentials of the Commission,” added the Ambassador.
He also stressed the importance of full equal and meaningful participation of women in building sustainable peace and emphasized promoting the Women's Peace and Security agenda in broader peace and security contexts including in addressing climate change, disaster risk reduction and humanitarian action.
The Foreign Minister of Switzerland Ignazio Cassis presided over the meeting.
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