Statement by the Permanent Representative of Brazil to the United Nations, Ambassador Sérgio França Danese, at the UNGA/UNSC meeting on the Peacebuilding Architecture review - May 8th, 2025

I thank the presidents of the General Assembly and of the Security Council for organizing this interactive dialogue and the PRs of Egypt and Slovenia for their work as cofacilitators to the PBAR.

The "elements paper" recently circulated incorporates many of the aspects that in Brazil’s view are crucial for strengthening the Peacebuilding Commission and better articulating it with the PBSO and the PBF.

Indeed, the PBAR is an opportunity to reflect on past progress, address persistent flaws, and renew our collective political commitment to strengthening the UN peacebuilding architecture in its entirety.

A more effective and impactful Peacebuilding Commission is central to this goal. We welcome the focus on enhancing the PBC’s bridging and advisory roles across the UN system. The PBC is a proper forum to connect the GA, the Security Council and the ECOSOC through a predictable engagement. But there is much more.

The Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO), the Secretariat's backbone for peacebuilding, must be adequately resourced to provide the institutional support to the PBC and the PBF and to fulfill its mandate. And it must help the PBC to promote a more intense and adequate use of UN Resident Coordinators when dealing with specific countries.

The Peacebuilding Fund must enhance its crucial role with increased coordination with the PBC. Yet, the PBF continues to face chronic underfunding. Even with assessed contributions, the PBF depends primarily on voluntary contributions. The PBAR must help mobilizing predictable, diversified and sustained funding for the PBF.

Practical and symbolic measures must strengthen the standing and visibility of the PBC within the UN system — including through the allocation of a designated and properly equipped meeting room.

For Brazil, peacebuilding is a long-term, inclusive process rooted in national ownership, supported by international cooperation and aiming to institution-building, sustainable development, and respect for human rights, with women and youth at the center of this effort. The PBAR must uphold these principles and reflect them in the architecture.

The joint position paper subscribed by several former PBC chairs, circulated this week by Brazil, offers input for this exercise.

Brazil will keep contributing constructively to the review and calls on all Member States to seize this moment to reaffirm their commitment to a more effective, better-supported, and more coherent UN peacebuilding architecture.

Thank you.