Ban: Post-conflict countries need more support

United Nations, New York, 13 July 2009 The immediate post-conflict period offers a window of opportunity to deliver peace dividends that is too often missed, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, calling for greater efforts to help countries as they emerge from war and seek to rebuild.

If peace is to be sustainable, the international community must make the most of these make-or-break moments and provide the right support at the right time, Mr. Ban told the UN Peacebuilding Commission, as he presented his latest report on peacebuilding in the immediate aftermath of conflict.

The report focuses on the challenges that post-conflict countries and the international community face in the immediate aftermath of conflict defined as the first two years after the main conflict in a country has ended.

Secretary-General's remarks to the formal meeting of the Organizational Committee of the Peacebuilding Commission:
http://www.un.org/apps/sg/sgstats.asp?nid=3973

Watch Ban Ki-moon's entire speech at the 5th meeting of the Peacebuilding Commission/ Organizational Committee/ Third session (Real media, 46 minutes):
http://webcast.un.org/ramgen/ondemand/specialevents/2009/se090713pm.rm

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