UN Official urges Security Council to restore trust in peace operations

A senior United Nations official has called on the Security Council to back peace operations as essential tools of diplomacy, warning that a growing “trust deficit” is hampering conflict resolution efforts across the globe.

Addressing the Council on behalf of the Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Africa, emphasized that without renewed unity among…