I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Police Commissioner Christophe Bizimungu, and Police Advisor Faisal Shahkar for their briefings. I am particularly pleased to welcome the participation and briefing of Senior Police Advisor Ms. Mingzhu Xu, a female peacekeeper from China. 

UN Police is an important component of UN PKOs. China commends UN Police for its positive contributions to the maintenance of international peace and stability and supports its continued endeavors. I wish to share three points.

First, constantly optimizing mandates for UN Police based on specific needs of PKOs. The Security Council should continue to incorporate the tasks of UN Police into mission mandates, give full play to UN Police's functional advantages in protecting civilians, maintaining order, preventing conflicts, and rebuilding local law enforcement capabilities, among others. UN Police mandates should be continuously optimized based on early experience to meet the local conditions of host countries, the needs of peace processes, and the capacities of PCCs, and strive to be clear, feasible, and focused on priorities. 

Second, constantly upgrading capacity building of UN Police. As new technologies are continuously emerging, training provided by PCCs and missions should keep pace with the times to ensure that the expertise and skill set of every police officer can effectively respond to circumstances. On the one hand, dividends of science and technology should be harnessed to enhance the abilities for information collection and analysis, situation assessment, and early warning of risks. On the other hand, measures should be taken to guard against information leak, data misuse, and other security risks of science and technology. 

Third, constantly, strengthening the safety and security of UN Police. Given UN Police's complex working environment and highly risky tasks, the Secretariat should draw up detailed and thorough safety and security rules to meet the challenges. Coordination with PCCs and countries concerned should be strengthened to enhance early warning capabilities and internal information sharing and to ensure materials and measures for safety and security protection and medical purposes are in place, so as to comprehensively improve safety and security. PCCs should be encouraged to use new technologies and equipment to enhance their safety and security capabilities. The Statement of Unit Requirement (SUR) should adapt to changing circumstances and missions. 

Colleagues, 

2025 marks the 25th anniversary of Chinese police participation in UN PKOs. Over the past 25 years, we have successfully sent more than 2,700 police officers to 18 UN PKOs and UN Headquarters, making important contributions to restoring peace and stability in host countries and regions, protecting local population, and advancing reconstruction of justice. In this process, 8 Chinese police officers have made the ultimate sacrifice for UN peacekeeping. China took the lead to create the standby peacekeeping police force in 2016. The unit has been continuously listed at the Rapid Deployment Level (RDL) by the UN Peacekeeping Capability Readiness System (PCRS). Chinese police have actively carried out training of foreign police and technical exchanges with them. It has provided training in policing skills to nearly 2,000 police officers from 76 countries and regions, and helped PCCs and host countries strengthen their law enforcement capacity building. China has provided sustained funding support for UN Police-related projects through the China-UN Peace and Development Trust Fund. 

Going forward, China will actively implement the Global Security Initiative put forward by President Xi Jinping, support the UN in strengthening the work of UN Police, and continue to play an important role in maintaining international peace and security.