Peruvian Foreign Affairs Minister Miguel Angel Rodriguez Mackay on Tuesday affirmed that Peru is a country committed to peace.
His statements were issued during the presentation of the First Latin American and Caribbean Conference on Peacekeeping Operations
to be held in Lima next September.
As he remarked, peace is an obligation for humanity and, for this reason, collective claims have arisen, so that it has correlation with its vital exercise around the world.
The Cabinet member explained that the first peacekeeping operations were intended to secure ceasefire, but they have changed over time, and today they constitute a concomitant part of the exercise of the United Nations and the States of the international community and, of course, Latin America.
"Peru is a country committed to peace, the same peace that Father Felipe Mac Gregor plethorically developed at the (Pontifical) Catholic University of Peru, as a realism embedded in each human being's imaginary; peace becomes a vital exercise," he stated.
Rodriguez Mackay underscored that peacekeeping operations are not of a warlike nature, but preventive in nature to maintain the status quo of living standard practices, in which the tranquility of the planet becomes the rule, not violence.
"Peru is a country of peace," he insisted, noting that this position aligns with the country's multilateral commitments.
The First Latin American and Caribbean Conference on Peacekeeping Operations will be held to promote greater participation of Latin American and Caribbean countries in peacekeeping operations in a bid to generate spaces for the exchange of experiences and the assessment of challenges from their current participation.
Similarly, it will serve to develop new modalities and criteria to increase the number of countries —in the region— contributing to
UN peacekeeping operations.
The conference seeks the need to raise awareness and study in depth the current situation, the obstacles, and the role of women's participation in peace and security processes in the region.
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Published: 8/16/2022