General Women, Peace and Security

No peace can be complete without the dimension of women and peace and security, and Kazakhstan will spare no effort to fully implement resolution 1325 (2000) and, most importantly, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (General Assembly resolution 70/1) in the region.

My delegation will do everything in its power to support Africa in implementing the recommendations of the three related 2015 United Nations reviews — of peacekeeping operations, the peacebuilding architecture and resolution 1325 (2000) on women and peace and security.

Encouragingly, various debates at the United Nations, including the high-level thematic debate on peace and security that took place earlier this month, reflect widespread general agreement and enthusiasm for the key messages that came out of the recent three major reviews — of United Nations peace operations, the United Nations peacebuilding architecture and the implementation of resolution 1325 (2000), on women and peace and security. 

In line with those important developments at the level of Africa and in the broader context of the United Nations, the three reviews — on the United Nations peacebuilding architecture, peacekeeping operations and the implementation of resolution 1325 (2000), on women and peace and security — came to encompass all the changes in the nature and scope of conflicts and international crises. 

Now, more than ever, it is imperative that the United Nations and the AU continue to foster a stronger and deeper partnership, as recommended in the 2015 United Nations high-level reviews on peace operations, peacebuilding, and women and peace and security. 

The three recent reviews on peacekeeping operations, on the peacebuilding architecture and on women and peace and security provided us with a singular opportunity to discuss peace and security in Africa.