The United Nations (UN) peace operations should increase their rapid response capability and shorten the cycle of their deployment, a Chinese envoy said here Monday.
Wang Min, China's deputy permanent representative to the UN, made the appeal at a General Assembly meeting on UN peace operations.
Wang said that the UN peace operations should also speed up the rate of deployment and improve the efficiency of implementing the Security Council decisions.
"China welcomes the new peacekeeping standby mechanism put forward by the United Nations, and calls upon other member states to participate in it," he said.
Noting that over half of the UN peacekeeping operations are deployed in the continent of Africa, Wang also called for greater support for Africa in the field of peacekeeping.
The UN and the international community should coordinate and cooperate better with regional and sub-regional organizations, including the African Union (AU), in safeguarding peace and security across Africa, he said.
At a peacekeeping summit held in the UN headquarters on Sept. 28, China has pledged to set up a permanent peacekeeping police squad and will build a peacekeeping standby force of 8,000 troops.
Among other commitments, China has also pledged to provide a total of 100 million U.S. dollars in free military aid for the AU to support the establishment of the African Standby Force and the African Capacity for Immediate Response to Crisis in the next five years.
In this regard, Wang said China will seriously implement these commitments.
"We are ready to work together with the UN Secretariat, countries where peacekeeping operations are deployed, troop-contributing countries as well as stakeholders like the AU to make tireless efforts for and greater contributions to safeguarding world peace and security," he said.
