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Courtesy Call on Foreign Minister IWAYA by UN Under Secretary General for Peace Operations Lacroix
On November 22, starting at 18:00 for approximately 15 minutes, Mr. IWAYA Takeshi, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan, received a courtesy call from Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, the United Nations. The overview of the meeting is as follows.
- At the outset, Minister Iwaya stated that Japan supports the role played by UN peacekeeping operations for maintaining international peace and security, and that Japan will continue to contribute to PKO through the deployment of Japan Self Defense Force personnel in South Sudan and capacity-building of peacekeepers in Asia and Africa through the UN Triangular Partnership Programme (TPP).
- In response, Under-Secretary-General Lacroix expressed his appreciation for Japan's contribution to Peacekeeping and stated that he would like to strengthen cooperation with Japan.
- They also exchanged views on the future of Peacekeeping including the discussion in the Peacekeeping Ministerial and its preparatory meetings, peace operations led by regional organizations including the African Union, the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), and the mine action.
The United Nations Triangular Partnership Programme (TPP) is a framework for capacity-building of UN peacekeepers through the cooperation among the United Nations, Supporting Member States, and Troop Contributing Countries. Since former Prime Minister ABE Shinzo announced our support for the rapid deployment of Peacekeeping operations at the first Leaders’ Summit on Peacekeeping held at the UN headquarters in 2014, which triggered the launch of the TPP, Japan has been leading TPP by dispatching instructors for engineering and medical training.