The potential of such relapses has grown in the proportion that conflicts have multiplied.

Also, studies had shown that men who had committed acts of violence were prone to relapses.

When we talk about such a sequence, we have to think about harmonious transitions to avoid any gaps or relapses.

Yesterday the Council took up, in the frame of an inspired Danish initiative, the issues of peacebuilding and preventing relapses into conflict.

United Nations peace support activities are aimed at promoting a peaceful environment and the rule of law to help prevent relapses into conflict.

It is much better and much cheaper to invest in post conflict peacebuilding, which is also preventive in nature, than to expend scarce resources on relapses that can be prevented.

Against that backdrop of an imperative need for concrete peacebuilding measures in contemporary peace operations so as to mitigate costly relapses into cycles of conflict, my delegation associates itself with the emerging consensus within this Organization to effectively and coherently put in place an institutional remedy to assist in ensuring a seamless transition from war to lasting peace.