Pakistan’s remarks express gratitude to the organizers and acknowledge updates from ASG Elizabeth Spehar, with appreciation for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sierra Leone for illustrating the Peacebuilding Fund’s tangible on-the-ground benefits. Pakistan reinforces unwavering support for the PBF, highlighting its flexibility, catalytic role, and responsiveness to nationally identified priorities as essential to UN peacebuilding. The speech notes the Fund’s expanding operational footprint and its relevance across diverse contexts, while commending a more focused disbursement approach aimed at delivering larger, sustainable impacts in select countries. Emphasizing a peace continuum, Pakistan argues that prevention, peacekeeping, peacebuilding, and development must be coherently linked, and it points to financing negotiations within C34 as indicative of ongoing challenges to core peacebuilding principles. The statement calls for predictable financing to ensure the PBF’s continued success and stresses that durable peace is achieved when communities experience tangible benefits, such as stronger institutions and livelihoods, not merely through signatures. Looking ahead to 2026 programming and the next strategy cycle, Pakistan urges prioritization of national ownership, maintained flexibility, and responsiveness to transitions, while also stressing the imperative that funds are released to the PBF. The country welcomes impact evaluations from Sudan and Guatemala and advocates for more assessments, including an independent evaluation of the current PBF strategy. Pakistan concludes by affirming its readiness to engage constructively to enhance the Fund’s impact and translate peacebuilding into lasting stability on the ground.
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