Bangladesh has made 26 pledges to the United Nations Peacekeeping Operations at the 2019 United Nations Peacekeeping Ministerial meeting.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo meet the UN requirement, Bangladesh has pledged 26 PCRS components to UN including 09 components from Army, 06 from Navy, 03 from Air force and 08 from Police,\u201d State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam said at the UN on Friday, according to a message received here today.<\/p>\n
While sharing \u2018Peacekeeping Capability Readiness System (PCRS)\u2019 of Bangladesh, he said, in addition, Bangladesh has also pledged a unit for operational-level Unmanned Aerial Surveillance (UAS) in partnership with the United States.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have also demonstrated our commitment by contributing to the norms setting part of the peacekeeping including through our active participation in Action for Peacekeeping Agenda and in other parallel processes like C-34\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n
Mentioning the atrocity crimes committed against civilians during Bangladesh\u2019s Liberation War in 1971, the state minister said, \u201cWe have endorsed the Kigali Principles on Protection of Civilians (PoC). We have incorporated a strong and comprehensive PoC component in our peacekeeping training with in-built demonstration and tabletop exercises.\u201d<\/p>\n
He mentioned Bangladesh\u2019s \u201czero tolerance\u201d policy to sexual exploitation and abuse in the UN Peacekeeping and reaffirmed Bangladesh\u2019s commitment for increasing the number of female peacekeepers to achieve the target set by the UN.<\/p>\n
The state minister said Bangladesh has been supportive to the women, peace and security agenda of the UN since leading the adoption of the Security Council resolution 1325.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are currently developing a national action plan to empower women in playing their natural role as peacemakers,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
The state minister stressed on the importance of adequate resources and critical enablers to ensure the safety and security and also the performances of the peacekeepers. He enumerated Bangladesh\u2019s recent supplies of modern vehicles and other peacekeeping equipments in several UN missions.<\/p>\n
He also highlighted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina\u2019s commitment to UN\u2019s Peacekeeping Operation which comes from the foreign policy guidelines as enshrined in the Constitution and the vision of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman for a peaceful world. The Bangladesh delegation to the Peacekeeping Ministerial is composed of senior officials from Bangladesh\u2019s armed forces, Bangladesh\u2019s police and Ministry of Foreign Affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bangladesh has made 26 pledges to the United Nations Peacekeeping Operations at the 2019 United Nations Peacekeeping Ministerial meeting. \u201cTo meet the UN requirement, Bangladesh has pledged 26 PCRS components to UN including 09 components from Army, 06 from Navy, 03 from Air force and 08 from Police,\u201d State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4","category-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5033,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032\/revisions\/5033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}