Kweon Ki-hwan, the deputy foreign minister for multilateral and global affairs, speaks during a session of the 2023 UN Peacekeeping Ministerial, in Accra, Ghana, on Dec. 5-6, 2023, in this photo provided by Seoul’s foreign ministry on Dec. 7. (Image courtesy of Yonhap)
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has attended a United Nations peacekeeping ministerial forum and pledged its support for the global community’s commitment to strengthen peacekeeping operations (PKO), Seoul’s foreign ministry said Thursday.
The South Korean delegation led by Kweon Ki-hwan, the deputy foreign minister for multilateral and global affairs, attended the two-day “2023 UN Peacekeeping Ministerial” that kicked off Tuesday in Accra, Ghana, where over 80 member nations discussed ways to enhance PKO missions, according to the ministry.
Kweon affirmed South Korea’s support for PKO missions and pledged to provide medical training to peacekeeping personnel as a follow-up to an initiative Seoul announced while hosting the 2021 forum to capitalize on new technologies and boost medical capacity, it added.
Separately, Kweon paid a courtesy call on Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, the foreign minister of Ghana, and discussed Ghana’s experiences in the U.N. Security Council (UNSC) as a nonpermanent member in 2022-2023.
The meeting came as South Korea prepares to assume a two-year term as a nonpermanent UNSC member in 2024-25.
(Yonhap)
