UN Security Council urged not to use peace-keeping as political pressure card
Egypt, Politics, 11/18/2000

Egypt rejects that the UN Security Council, as represented especially by the five permanent member states, should use the decision to end or slim down peace-keeping operations as a political pressure card on a given party for the benefit of one or more states.

Egypt's UN permanent delegate Ahmad Abul Gheit made the statement as he addressed a Security Council meeting last night on peace-keeping operations.

Strategies for terminating peace-keeping operations should be coordinated between the Security Council and other UN agencies, notably the General Assembly, Abul-Gheit said, adding that for the Security Council to decide peace-keeping operations, a number of elements should be taken into consideration, with emphasis on the political will of the Council's members and coordination with regional organizations concerned, in order to ensure the interest of the region concerned or the host country.

The Netherlands, the current Security Council President, had proposed the discussion of the subject.

Several participant delegations concurred on the necessity that ending peace-keeping operations should not be linked to a definite timetable, but rather to a clear vision and definitive steps, in view of the fact that such operations were not just aimed at keeping peace but at building peace as well.

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