Today, the Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, announced that Pam Damoff, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Consular Affairs), will represent Canada at the United Nations Peacekeeping Ministerial (UNPKM) meeting on December 5 and 6, 2023, in Accra, Ghana...

“UN peacekeeping operations are a key means by which the international community responds to conflict. It is important that member states continue to innovate so that UN operations are fit for purpose, given the complex security issues they are mandated to address. Canada is proud to work with its peacekeeping partners to champion reform.”

- Pam Damoff, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs

• The objective of the UNPKM is to strengthen UN peacekeeping, including by improving the performance and impact of UN peacekeeping operations in line with the UN Secretary-General’s Initiative on Action for Peacekeeping. This includes filling capability gaps through concrete pledges and facilitating new and sustainable partnerships while strengthening existing ones.

• The contributions Canada makes to UN peace operations are part of its broader military, police, civilian and foreign policy support for global peace and security, which include peacekeeping, peacebuilding, conflict prevention and stabilization.

• Canada is the eighth-largest financial donor to UN peace operations through assessed contributions and one of the largest voluntary funders.

• Through the Peace and Stabilization Operations Program, Canada has provided more than $90 million since the 2017 UNPKM in voluntary contributions to the UN and its training institutions and to international non-profit and non-governmental organizations with the goal of making peace operations more effective and inclusive. Canada has also consistently been a top supporter of the UN Secretary-General’s Peacebuilding Fund.

• Currently, Canadian military, police and civilian personnel continue to serve in 5 UN operations: United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) in the Middle East, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), and the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP). Since 1989, more than 4,000 Canadian police officers participated in over 60 peace operations abroad.

Associated links

• Peace and Stabilization Operations Program
• Operation PRESENCE
• Elsie Initiative for Women in Peace Operations
• Vancouver Principles on Peacekeeping and the Prevention of the Recruitment and Use of Child Soldiers
• Canada’s National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security International Police Peacekeeping and Peace Operations Program Current operations: Royal Canadian Mounted Police Police Peacekeeping Operations

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