MEDIA SUBSCRIBE AUDIO HUB ‘Save peace while it lasts,’ says General Assembly President, ahead of UN summit on sustaining peace

"By preventing conflict, we save human lives and we also save billions of dollars," said Assembly President Miroslav Lajčák, in a recent interview with UN News. "Therefore, we have to focus on prevention of conflicts rather than consequences of conflicts. We have to save peace while it lasts, not to deal with the situation once peace is lost."

"There is no development, there is no protection of human rights, if there is no peace," Mr.  Lajčák stressed, recalling the UN was created to achieve peace and the first sentence of the UN Charter is about saving succeeding generations from the scourge of war.

The High-Level Meeting on Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace will take place at UN Headquarters in New York on 24 and 25 April, bringing together leaders of countries, UN entities and civil society.

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