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Excerpt from "Ping II" Draft Outcome Document
July 22, 2005
Peacebuilding
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GENERALA/59/2005
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"Ping II" Draft Outcome Document (July 22, 2005)Peacebuilding
59. Emphasizing the need for a coordinated, coherent, comprehensive and integrated approach to conflict resolution and post-conflict peacebuilding with a view to achieving sustainable peace, and recognizing the need for a dedicated institutional mechanism to address the special need of countries emerging from conflicts towards recovering, reintegration and development, and recognizing hrther the vital role of the United Nations in this regard, we hereby establish a Peacebuilding Commission as an intergovernmental advisory body to assist and mobilize support to countries emerging from conflict.
60. Its main purpose is to bring together all relevant actors to marshal resources and advise on and propose comprehensive strategies for peacebuilding and post-conflict recovery. To that end, it will provide necessary information in the immediate aftermath of war and focus attention on development and institution-building efforts necessary for recovery as well as provide recommendation and information to improve coordination of all stakeholders in and outside the United Nations, develop best practices, help to ensure predictable financing for early recovery activities and extend the period of attention by the international community to post-conflict recovery.
61. The Peacebuilding Commission will consider any matter brought before it by the Security Council. Ally Member State of the United Nations in an exceptionally difficult situation on the verge of relapsing into conflict should be able to request through ECOSOC the advice of the Peacebuilding Commission, if the Security Council is not seized of the situation in question. The Peacebuilding Commission's Organizational Committee should consider the relevance of the request.
62. The Peacebuilding Commission should make the outcome of its discussions available to all relevant bodies and actors of the United Nations including the international financial institutions.
63. The Peacebuilding Commission should provide advice on Peacebuilding strategies for countries emerging from conflict to such bodies as are actively seized of the issue, in accordance with the Charter. In the initial stages of conflict recovery, and for as long as the Security Council is actively seized with the situation, the Peacebuilding Commission should provide advice to that body. Thereafter, the Peacebuilding Commission should provide advice to the ECOSOC.
64. The Peacebuilding Commission shall submit an annual report to the General Assembly.
65. The composition of the PBC will vary according to the case at hand, and will include: A. Members of an organizational committee responsible for developing its procedures and for organizational matters, which should be comprised of:
i. The five permanent members of the Security Council;
ii. Five members of the Economic and Social Council, to be selected by ECOSOC on an annual basis;
iii. The five top contributors, assessed (to the United Nations regular budget) and voluntary (to the United Nations' funds, programmes and agencies) to be determined annually on the basis of a list to be provided by the SG;
iv. The five top troop contributors to the United Nations, to be determined annually on the basis of a list to be provided by the SG;
v. Members would be selected in the order indicated above. There will be no double representation of states. Attention will be paid to geographical representation.
B. Additional members, invited to participate when the PBC discusses a country-specific matter, namely:
i. national authorities of the country under consideration, as appropriate; . . 11. countries in the region as well as relevant regional and sub-regional organizations;
iii. the major financial and troop contributors involved in the recovery effort; iv. the senior UN representative in the field, and other relevant UNrepresentatives; v. regional financial institutions as may be relevant;
vi. other parties directly relevant for the country under consideration. 66. Representatives from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund sliould be invited to participate in all meetings of the Peacebuilding Commission in a manner suitable to their governing arrangements, as well as a representative from the Secretary- General.
67. We request the Secretary-General to establish a multi-year standing hnd for postconflict peacebuilding, funded by voluntary contributions, and taking due account of existing instruments.
68. We request the Secretary-General to establish within the Secretariat and within existing resources a small Peacebuilding Support Office to assist and support the PBC.
69. We request the President of the General Assembly, assisted by the Secretary-General, to conduct consultations with Member States in order to develop the necessary modalities for the effective operation of the Peacebuilding Commission including its rules of procedure, financial arrangements for its functioning, and selection of the Chairs, so that the body can begin operations no later than 3 1 December 2005.
70. The arrangements set out above will be kept under review, with a view to ensuring they are appropriate to delivering the agreed functions of the PBC. Future proposals to change the arrangements, hereby agreed, should be forwarded jointly by the Security Council and the ECOSOC for approval by the General Assembly.
"Ping II" Draft Outcome Document (July 22, 2005)
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