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Zaki Nusseibeh, Minister of State, has urged UN agencies and member states to take collective action to identify countries that support and finance terrorism, and hold them accountable, reaffirming the UAE commitment to peacebuilding in the Middle East and beyond.
The minister made the remarks on the sidelines of his participation in the two-day United Nations’ high-level meeting convened by President of 72nd Session of UN General Assembly Miroslav Lajcak, on peacebuilding and sustaining peace.
“This meeting has come at a critical time when our world is marred by violence, extremism, and catastrophic losses of life. This makes it all the more critical to explore new approaches to sustaining peace and preventing conflict,†said Minister Nusseibeh, who headed the UAE delegation to the meeting. He stressed, “Peacebuilding is not a one-time action, but a continuous effort to combine and deploy the tools of prevention, sustainable development, humanitarian assistance, peacekeeping, and recons- truction in crisis-affected and conflict-riven countries, as well as maintaining those efforts post-conflict.â€
During the meeting, Nusseibeh also engaged in bilateral meet-ings with various heads of delegations on strengthening the UN’s efforts to sustain peace and counter extremism.