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25th IAPTC Conference Executive Committee preliminary meeting - Lima

From the 19th to the 22nd February 2019, in Lima (Peru), the CoESPU Director, Brig. Gen. Giovanni Barbano,
in his capacity of Chairman of the Police Board of the IAPTC Executive Committee, took part in the preliminary
meeting for the preparation of the 25th Conference of the International Association of Peacekeeping Training
Centers - scheduled to be held in Lima from the 6th to the 11th October 2019 - to set its goals and themes,
and to define the program.
The IAPTC, that comprises military several prominent military, civil and police training centers, is an open asso-
ciation founded on the voluntary adhesion of centers, institutions and programs that deal with research, edu-
cation and training on peace operations, whose membership is obtained thanks to the periodical participation
to the annual Conferences organized in turn in different continents and hosted - on an voluntary basis - by the
participating countries.
The works were chaired by the Deputy Chief of New Zealand Army, Col. Helen Cooper, assisted by a presiden-
tial committee composed of the Egyptian past President, Minister Plenipotentiary Ashraf Swelam, Director of
the Cairo International Center for Conflict Resolution, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding (CCCPA), and by the
HOST, Lt. Gen. (res.) Hernan Felipe Flores Ayala, Deputy Minister of Defense of Peru.
The Lima Conference will embody the 25th edition of the symposium, established in 1995 on the initiative of
the “Canadian Pearson Peacekeeping Center”. It will fall under the Presidency of New Zealand that hosted the
2018 edition, with the logistical support of the Peruvian Ministry of Defense which will take over the Presidency
in 2020, when the conference should take place in Europe. For this purpose Peru, which holds the current pre-
sidency of the Latin American “Asociación de Centros de Entrenamiento para Operaciones de Paz” (ALCOPAZ),
has engaged its Centro de Entrenamiento y Capacitacion Para Operaciones de Paz (CECOPAZ), directed by
Col. Jaime A. Cisneros, also active member of the executive Committee.
The activities have begun with the recognition of the contributions previously provided by various members of
the Executive Committee, as well as by other external stakeholders. At the end of the discussion, the participants
indicated - as the main theme of the conference - the support for the implementation of the objectives pointed
out by the “UN Action for Peacekeeping” (A4P Declaration) on shared commitments for peace operations, pro-
posed by the UN Secretary General on August 16, 2018, and shared by 150 member countries, including Italy.

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