Q FM Africa's Modern Radio
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called for stronger support from UN member states in financing and contributing troops for peace missions.
Mr. Ban says despite modernizing its operations and strengthening partnerships with other regional organizations, the UN still needs developed countries to resume their influential role of contributing troops.
He says the UN needs better funding, training and equipment as it adapts to the new global realities that include asymmetric threats in some of the world’s most challenging environments.
Mr Ban adds that UN troops and Police must carry out their ever more complex mandate while being held in the highest standards of conduct.
The UN Secretary General said this today in a statement read for him by UN system representative in Zambia Rakhi Sahi during the prayer service for the International Peace Keepers Day held at Lusaka’s Anglican Cathedral of the Holy Cross.
And Lands Deputy Minister Davis Mwango who graced the prayer service has pledged the Zambian government’s readiness to accept peace missions whenever the country is called upon to provide troops.
Mr. Mwango says this is especially that the Zambian government is aware of the existence of insurgents of terrorist groupings such as Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram and Al Shabab that are terrorizing the world and Africa in particular.
He says it is thus incumbent upon the country’s men and women in uniform to upgrade their knowledge, skills and tactics in order to help combat such insurgents that may also attack Zambia.