Triangular Partnership Programme Closing Ceremony

Triangular Partnership Programme Closing Ceremony 

Heavy Engineering Equipment Operators’ Intermediate-level Course / Explosive Hazard Awareness Training / Field Medical Assistants Course 

Training School for Multinational Peacekeeping Forces (PKO)

Your Excellency, Mr. PRAK Sokhonn, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia, 

Representatives of the Governments of Australia, Japan, and the Republic of Korea, 

Excellencies, delegates, TPP trainers and trainees,

I am pleased to join you today, although virtually, at the closing ceremony of the Triangular Partnership Programme’s (TPP) Heavy Engineering Equipment (HEE) Operators’ Intermediate-level Course, Explosive Hazard Awareness Training (EHAT), and Field Medical Assistants Course (FMAC).  

This multinational cross-pillar integrated course reflects the UN’s commitment to building capacities through innovative training partnerships, such as the Triangular Partnership Programme (TPP). It integrates multiple capacity development priorities, building on cooperation among numerous Member States represented here. 

Cambodia holds strong ties with the United Nations, which continue to strengthen and contribute to the promotion of international peace, development, and cooperation. As we successfully conclude this course, I thank Cambodia and the National Center for Peacekeeping Force Mine and ERW Clearance (NPMEC) for hosting and broadening the UN’s efforts to leverage ASEAN peacekeeping knowledge and build a more impactful peacekeeping cohort. 

This course is also a direct outcome of the great efforts and contribution by the former NPMEC Director, the late General Sem Sovanny, who was an ardent supporter of my Department and its TPP and the opportunities that peacekeeping training partnerships can offer the UN and Member States alike.  

I also thank Australia, Japan, and the Republic of Korea for their vital contributions to UN peacekeeping. 

This training represents an achievement for all participating Member States-

With Australia, providing its first international training team following its earlier financial contributions to our training in this region and telemedicine efforts; 

Japan, a long-standing foundational TPP supporter, providing engineering trainers and providing support in all four pillars of the TPP;

And the Republic of Korea, which championed this course’s multi-pillar training approach, sharing its expertise across all course pillars, and donating heavy engineering equipment to Cambodia. 

Lastly, I wish to commend the trainees. Representing Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Indonesia, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka. 

Your tireless work and efforts to embrace new knowledge and skills, will certainly contribute to enhancing national, regional, and future UN peacekeeping capacities.

Excellencies,

The cross-pillar training which ends today is an added opportunity for UN capacity building efforts to draw from lessons learnt from UN peacekeeping missions and apply these for future deployments. 

Capacity-building partnerships, as demonstrated recently in ‘The Future of Peackeeping Study’, remain fundamental in preparing UN peacekeepers for the evolving challenges they will face in mission environments. 

This course has brought the UN, through all present here today, closer to meeting these challenges. 

But the work does not end today. We must continue investing in capacity-building partnerships and match these to peace operations’ demands. 

Peacekeeping, after all, is not a ‘one for all’ effort but an ‘all for all’ effort’.

Let me conclude by congratulating everyone present today on this extraordinary achievement and thank our hosts, trainers, trainees and their Member States for your commitment to deploy under the UN flag.

Thank you. Orkurn chran.