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NEW YORK, 27 May — The United Nations has announced the 2024 recipients of the Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award and the Woman Police Officer of the Year Award. Squadron Leader Sharon Mwinsote Syme of Ghana will receive the Military Gender Advocate Award and Chief Superintendent Zainab Gbla of Sierra Leone will receive the Woman Police Officer of the Year Award during a ceremony marking the International Day of UN Peacekeepers on 29 May. The awards will be presented at United Nations Headquarters in New York by UN Secretary-General António Guterres.

The United Nations Peacekeeping Ministerial 2025 Berlin concluded today. More than 130 Member States and international partners – over a thousand participants in total - came together to reaffirm their support for UN peacekeeping and to announce concrete pledges aimed at enhancing the effectiveness and adaptability of peace operations in the face of evolving global challenges. 

[Bilingual, as delivered]   Dear Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defence Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany, our generous hosts.   Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen,   My thanks to Germany for bringing us together at this consequential moment.   This year marks the 80th anniversary of the United Nations.   Our organization was founded on the conviction that peace is possible if we work as one united human family.   That is what our peace operations are about.