37. 主管政治事务副秘书长在开幕词中强调了特别政治任务在预防冲突方面发挥的关键作用，并指出特别政治任务的广度、灵活性和敏捷性使其成为这一领域的重要工具。她强调了对确保特别政治任务取得成功，尤其是其预防冲突努力取得成功至关重要的四个政策问题：特别政治任务与其他行为体，特别是区域组织的伙伴关系；特别政治任务在联合国应对冲突所涉区域层面问题方面所发挥的平台作用；特别政治任务对加强预防冲突活动的地方自主权的贡献；最后，特别政治任务与联合国其他机制和工具密切合作，创建更广泛有利环境的重要性。她表示相信，正在进行的改革和加强联合国系统的工作，特别是和平与安全架构的重组，将支持特别政治任务更好地完成任务，同时也将建设和平更紧密地纳入其工作。
37. In her opening remarks, the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs highlighted the critical role played by special political missions in conflict prevention, noting that their breadth, flexibility and nimbleness made them important tools in that area. She emphasized four policy issues that were critical to ensuring the success of special political missions, notably in their conflict prevention efforts: partnerships with other actors, particularly regional organizations; their role as a platform for the United Nations to address the regional dimensions of conflict; their contribution to strengthening local ownership of conflict prevention activities; and finally, the importance of a broader enabling environment, with close collaboration between the special political missions and other United Nations mechanisms and tools. She expressed her confidence that the ongoing reform and strengthening of the United Nations system, particularly the restructuring of the peace and security architecture, would support special political missions in better delivering on their mandates, while also integrating peacebuilding more closely into their work.