UN General Assembly
2010

in its work with great commitment and are doing our best to promote effectiveness and transparency. Significant efforts are under way to ensure and sustain United Nations peacekeeping as an essential tool for achieving the goals of the United Nations. Confronted with limited financial and human resources and the increasing complexity of peacekeeping operations, the United Nations has started a review of the whole United Nations peacekeeping system with a view to adjusting it to the needs of the twenty-first century. It is of vital importance for the Council to effectively monitor and oversee the implementation of peacekeeping mandates, in close cooperation with troop and police contributors, the Secretariat and United Nations missions. Austria fully supports the ongoing peacekeeping reform and stands ready to play its part in a renewed global peacekeeping partnership. We also have to work on making peace consolidation irreversible. The United Nations Peacebuilding Commission, together with integrated peacebuilding support offices, has a key role in fostering sustainable peace. If we use the peacebuilding architecture optimally, lasting peace can