Vietnam’s representative at the United Nations has spoken highly of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC)’s efforts in implementing missions stipulated by relevant Resolutions of the UN General Assembly and the UN Security Council.

Ambassador Hoang Chi Trung, Deputy Permanent Representative, was speaking at the Plenary of the 64 th Session at the UN General Assembly on the report of the PBC and report of the Secretary-General on the Peacebuilding Fund in New York on Nov. 20.

He welcomed preliminary achievements in the national reconciliation, reconstruction and reintegration made by PBC recipient countries - Sierra Leone , Guinea Bissau, the Central African Republic , Burundi and other countries.

“Now that the United Nations peacebuilding architecture is in place and mounting an extensive workload, the challenge is how to consolidate the achievements made thus far and generate added values in the period ahead,” Ambassador Trung said.

As the PBC enters its fourth year of operation, much remains to be done in enabling the Commission to truly become one of the key international instruments of coordination of peacebuilding activities.

According to the diplomat, the Commission should redouble its efforts to improve working methods and provisional rules of procedures, as well as rationalise the institutional relationship with other United Nations bodies and non-United Nations entities.

It should ensure that its work is closely linked to and driven by the best interests of recipient countries, including those most affected by protracted conflicts, underdevelopment or marginalisation.

In view of the current global resource constraints, the Peacebuilding Fund has the difficult task of bridging the funding gaps, expanding the pool of donors and recipients, accommodating the local governments’ financial and institutional absorptive capability, he said.

He expressed his hoped for the review of arrangements set out in the founding resolutions of the PBC by the General Assemby and the Security Council next year.

“Member States will have an opportunity to deepen their interactions with the Commission and valuable lessons, practices and synergies will be developed, thus helping not only to prevent the concerned countries from relapsing into conflicts, but also to reinforce the early-warning capacity to anticipate potential conflicts and engage the international community in addressing them in a timely and more effective manner,” he added./.