Post-conflict countries are often faced with numerous tasks and difficulties....

Post-conflict countries are often faced with numerous tasks and difficulties. The international community should provide them with generous financial and technical support and should help them to enhance capacity-building. While providing external support, the international community and donors should respect the will of recipient countries, rely on local governments, fully put to use the enthusiasm of local women and girls and encourage them to engage in the peacebuilding process as owners of their countries. The Security Council has just adopted resolution 1889 (2009). I appreciate the efforts made by the Vietnamese delegation in drafting the resolution and during the consultations on it. Resolution 1889 (2009) requests the Secretary-General to submit to the Security Council two reports in 2010, one on the implementation of resolution 1325 (2000) and the other on the needs of women and girls in post-conflict situations.