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Headquarters regularly for briefings, comprehensive exchanges, and forward planning. UN officials
visit the Center regularly to discuss operational and strategic collaboration. DPKO Police Adviser
Stefan Feller is actively involved in strengthening cooperation. A notable aspect of our enhanced
partnership was the recent entry of the European Gendarmerie Force into UN peace operations,
through the deployment in Mali of an expert capacity-building team on organized crime. Now, all of
us need to look ahead, as the global demands and challenges remain massive. We need to step up our
overall efforts for crisis prevention, the top priority of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. A
key task for both our Organizations should be to explore what more can be done together to address
organized crime, corruption, counter-terrorism, and addressing the flows of migrants and refugees.
All of this will require a much strengthened concept for formed police units. We need to be more
agile and delivery-oriented in post-conflict settings, so as to rebuild devastated national capacities,
which should be done from the outset of any international intervention. The time has come to ramp
up our joint activities in planning for possible international involvement in Libya, Syria and Yemen.
Across the board, we need to link police activities more closely to the whole range of endeavors in
the rule of law. For the UN, a strong rule-of-law framework provides the basis for well-functioning
government, peace and stability, accountability and effective instruments for sustainable
development. It requires UN officers and international partners to master the full spectrum of non-
traditional skills, from gender issues to project management. And we are obliged to do more to
modernize UN policing both technologically and conceptually.
With that, I am confident that the United Nations, which sustains a major police presence in almost
20 conflict-ridden countries, will bring its vital cooperation with CoESPU to yet another level. This
strategic cooperation has become an indispensable element of the contemporary security architecture.

Dmitry Titov
Former Founding Assistant Secretary-General
United Nations Office for Rule of Law and Security Institutions

Dmitry Titov was appointed by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in July 2007 as
Assistant Secretary-General for the Rule of Law and Security Institutions in the United
Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations and served in this capacity until June 2017.
Assistant Secretary-General Titov has worked in peacekeeping since joining the United Nations in 1991, and served as
Director of the Africa Division in DPKO from 1998. In 2007, Mr. Titov led the United Nations team in negotiations with
the Government of Sudan for a Hybrid African Union-United Nations peacekeeping force in Darfur, leading to the
creation of UNAMID. He oversaw the management of peacekeeping operations in Angola, Burundi, Côte d’Ivoire, the
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia/Eritrea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Western Sahara and elsewhere. In
many United Nations peacekeeping missions in Africa, he helped develop programmes for the establishment of the rule of
law, disarmament, demobilization and reintegration, and security sector reform.

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