The Rwandan peacekeeping mission, like UN peacekeeping in general, suffered from having a very narrow mandate.
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Success in peacekeeping is hard to achieve in part due to the challenging environments where peacekeeping is deployed.
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The US is the biggest contributor to UN peacekeeping, though Haley has focused on cutting costs of UN peacekeeping since taking office.
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Peacekeeping missions run by the Department for Peacekeeping Operations can only occur when the world's great powers agree on what to do.
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"The camp is quiet and under full control of MONUSCO (the peacekeeping mission)," U.N. peacekeeping spokeswoman Ismini Palla said at the United Nations.
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A 10,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping force in Mali, the most dangerous active peacekeeping mission in the world, late last month reported 28 attacks since September.
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On peacekeeping, the State Department would have to work with partner countries receiving peacekeeping training assistance to prioritize training, integrating, deploying and employing female peacekeepers.
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Trump wants to cap America's peacekeeping contribution at 25 percent, and the U.S. is reviewing all 85033 U.N. peacekeeping missions in a bid to cut costs.
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This compares with a total of six allegations in the 53 other U.N. peacekeeping missions in the first two months of this year, the U.N. peacekeeping department said.
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This compares with a total of six allegations in the 25 other U.N. peacekeeping missions, in the first two months of this year, the U.N. peacekeeping department said.
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Also, according to the United Nations, women make up 3 percent of total military forces deployed to peacekeeping missions and 9 percent of total police forces deployed to peacekeeping missions.
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In contrast to public perception, scholars agree U.N. peacekeeping is effective in ensuring peace and security and reducing civilian casualties when operations are equipped with larger numbers of peacekeeping troops.
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Lacroix said the peacekeeping mission in Ivory Coast had been closed, troop deployment in Sudan's Darfur was being reduced, and next year the peacekeeping operation in Liberia would be closed down.
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While it's true that the US contributes more than any other developed country to the UN Peacekeeping budget, it's also true that UN Peacekeeping from an American perspective, is cost-effective.
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The peacekeeping mission's disorganized response also laid bare the unwillingness, or inability, of its troops to protect civilians in South Sudan, further eroding the already tarnished credibility of United Nations peacekeeping.
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After the Security Council briefing Wednesday, Hervé Ladsous, the U.N. under-secretary-general for peacekeeping operations, promised that peacekeeping units that failed to respond effectively to the Malakal violence would be repatriated.
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Gunmen attacked a U.N. peacekeeping base in Mali's northern city of Timbuktu on Monday, the peacekeeping mission said, adding that it had deployed a rapid response force with helicopters to the scene.
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Yet President Trump has slashed assistance for U.N. peacekeeping, and his ambassador to the U.N., Nikki Haley, boasted in a tweet that the administration was "only getting started" cutting back on peacekeeping.
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This week's clashes in Bria were the worst instance of ethnic killing since France ended its peacekeeping mission last month, leaving security largely in the hands of the 13,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping force.
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Vehicles from Mali's United Nations peacekeeping mission were also visible.
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It is the only U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Americas.
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The UN peacekeeping force packed up its bags and left.
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UN peacekeeping missions need a host government's permission to operate.
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The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Kosovo appealed for calm.
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They are now part of an African Union peacekeeping force.
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"Peacekeeping" is animated by an interest in wealth and poverty.
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A United Nations peacekeeping force still patrols the demarcation line.
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They now form part of an African Union peacekeeping force.
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His postings have included force commander of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, known by its acronym Monusco, the organization's largest peacekeeping operation and one of its most hazardous.
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Edith Blais and Luca Tacchetto, who went missing in December 2018, were found by peacekeeping troops near the northern Malian city of Kidal on Friday, a spokesman for the U.N. peacekeeping mission MINUSMA said.
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The United States, the biggest single financial contributor to United Nations peacekeeping operations, has been seeking to cut their costs and had resisted proposals to commit peacekeeping resources to the five-nation Sahel force.
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It does specify that it will cap its contributions to UN peacekeeping costs at 25 percent, which would be a decline from its current contribution of 28 percent of the roughly $8 billion peacekeeping budget.
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China will contribute a tenth of the budget for U.N. peacekeeping operations between 2016 and 2018, slightly behind the United States, the U.N.'s peacekeeping chief told the country's official Xinhua news agency on Sunday.
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It also owes more than $2.6 billion for active peacekeeping missions.
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A small UN "peacekeeping" force in the capital, Kigali, stood by.
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Haley's not alone in targeting peacekeeping missions on the African continent.
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The ISS has acted like a peacekeeping force in the past.
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U.N. peacekeeping missions have been beset by accusations of sexual abuse.
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The United Nations established its peacekeeping mission in Mali that year.
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UN peacekeeping helicopters sometimes keep a watchful eye on it, too.
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Mexico had also been considering participating in United Nations peacekeeping missions.
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The United Nations also maintains a peacekeeping force on the border.
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Both contribute troops to an African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia.
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A 10,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping force is also present in Mali.
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Late Wednesday, Ms. Haley celebrated the peacekeeping budget cuts on Twitter.
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NATO's relationship with Bosnia evolved from that of peacekeeping to partnership.
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A U.N. peacekeeping force is based on the Lebanon-Israel border.
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Various countries contribute forces to U.N. peacekeeping missions around the world.
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"There are a full range of audit and independent oversight systems that are in place to protect against such risks once individual units deploy to peacekeeping operations," Nick Birnback, a spokesman for United Nations peacekeeping, said.
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Mr. Lacroix also is contending with a legacy of sexual abuse allegations against some peacekeeping units in Africa and pressure from the United States, the biggest single funder of peacekeeping operations, for less spending and more efficiency.
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The issue received fresh scrutiny with the International Peacekeeping study, based on interviews with more than 2,000 Haitians living near U.N. bases about the experiences of women and girls during the peacekeeping mission, which ended in 2017.
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Commits the two countries to working together on peacekeeping and military training.
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It will also have to coordinate with MINUSMA, Mali's U.N. peacekeeping mission.
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There is a U.N. peacekeeping force deployed in the Golan called UNDOF.
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The peacekeeping mission in eastern Congo is the largest in the world.
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Instead, they require comprehensive intervention across sectors, from peacekeeping to economic development.
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Haley has focused on cutting the UN peacekeeping budget since taking office.
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U.S. intervention, in August 1990, a peacekeeping force known as the Economic
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He said one option might be a joint OSCE-UN peacekeeping force.
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It's true that not all peacekeeping operations are equal in creating peace.
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All she does is work hard for these movies — deferring, apologizing, peacekeeping.
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It was the only peacekeeping mission to receive increased funding this year.
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The United States, after all, shoulders many of the West's peacekeeping duties.
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"KFOR has some 4,000 troops here," he said of the peacekeeping force.
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And more women police and soldiers should be included in peacekeeping forces.
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The U.N. deployed a peacekeeping force between the two sides in 1974.
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Peacekeeping reform is badly needed and should be part of that discussion.
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Mali has now become the deadliest of the United Nations peacekeeping missions.
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A spokesman for U.N. Peacekeeping said it took the issues raised seriously.
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At least 200,000 South Sudanese are sheltering at United Nations peacekeeping bases.
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Even more than money, the United Nations needed American support for peacekeeping operations.
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Mr. Clinton had taken office trumpeting enthusiasm for multinational humanitarian and peacekeeping operations.
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Includes cooperation on military training, peacekeeping and efforts to counter terrorism and piracy.
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Of course, other militaries with extensive peacekeeping experience have played positive domestic roles.
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The UN peacekeeping mission there is considered the most dangerous in the world.
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The U.N. peacekeeping mission, MINUSMA, has 13,000 staff from 123 nations in Mali.
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An 11,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping mission of other nationalities will remain in place.
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The council unanimously agreed Tuesday to extend the peacekeeping mission until mid-November.
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The military head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission was fired over the incident.
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The Kenyan troops are now part of an African Union peacekeeping force there.
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The United States is the biggest donor to the U.N.'s peacekeeping operations.
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But the South African peacekeeping contingent in Congo has repeatedly faced such allegations.
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The group's mandate is limited to peace monitoring, not peacekeeping — an important distinction.
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Violence spiked when former colonial power France ended its peacekeeping mission in 2016.
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This could include autonomy backed by international peacekeeping forces once ISIS is gone.
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The head of the peacekeeping mission was fired over the issue in August.
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In 1999, his lawyer said, he deployed on a peacekeeping mission to Kosovo.
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As a result, stabilization and peacekeeping tasks could require more than 450,000 troops.
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United Nations peacekeeping operations are funded by a budget that is calculated separately.
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It took two days before MONUSCO (the UN peacekeeping mission in Congo) came.
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The PLA has been part of the United Nations' peacekeeping operations since 2000.
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Xi in 2015 promised the UN that China would deploy 8,000 peacekeeping troops.
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For now, the money will not come from the United Nations peacekeeping budget.
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"She's asking the right questions in terms of U.N. peacekeeping operations," he said.
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N. peacekeeping mission UNAMID in Sudan's Darfur region for four months until Oct.
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In response to a 2015 call by then-US President Barack Obama for a "peacekeeping surge," the British military committed troops to Somalia and South Sudan for peacekeeping operations in hopes of stemming the tide of migrants coming to Europe.
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The U.N. mission in Central African Republic is one of the deadliest peacekeeping missions.
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Al Shabaab was pushed out of Mogadishu by African Union peacekeeping forces in 2011.
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It is a blemish on the reputation of UN peacekeeping and the Organization worldwide.
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The United States has also been pushing for major cuts to U.N. peacekeeping operations.
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His four-year stint as head of peacekeeping operations was marred by bloody failures.
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Op-Ed Contributors Over decades, several truths have emerged about United Nations peacekeeping forces.
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Many others had taken shelter at the U.N. peacekeeping mission's nearby base, she added.
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Still, peacekeeping efforts are under fire for their perceived failures ahead of the vote.
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Even as conflicts spread, the peacekeeping mission is being cut back, to save money.
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But in Peacekeeping, Mischa Berlinski gives Haitian electoral intrigue the full Raymond Chandler treatment.
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There are 124,746 personnel serving in 16 peacekeeping operations, according to the United Nations.
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The United Nations currently has 106,000 troops and police serving in 16 peacekeeping missions.
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Washington pays more than 28 percent of the $7.3 billion annual U.N. peacekeeping budget.
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This post has been updated to reflect the UN's permanent peacekeeping force in Yei.
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Washington is the largest contributor, paying 28.5 percent of the $7.9 billion peacekeeping budget.
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LONDON — It is home to the longest-serving peacekeeping mission in United Nations history.
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Congo's government and U.N. peacekeeping missions blamed almost all the killings on the ADF.
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The U.N. has thousands of troops in Mali as part of its peacekeeping mission.
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He also worked with the United Nations on peacekeeping operations and climate change issues.
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The country is the focus of the most expensive peacekeeping operation in the world.
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The U.N. peacekeeping mission currently has some 13,000 troops and police on the ground.
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The General Assembly is expected to vote on the new peacekeeping budget on Friday.
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One country should not shoulder more than one-quarter of the U.N. peacekeeping budget.
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And U.N. officials have criticized Trump's proposed $1 billion cuts to U.N. peacekeeping programs.
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But he made clear they would not operate under a United Nations peacekeeping mandate.
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"Peacekeeping missions must support a political solution; have the consent of the host country; its mandates must be realistic and achievable; every mission must have an exit strategy; and the United Nations peacekeeping missions must adjust to progress and failure," Pence said.
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"Just 5 months into our time here, we've cut over half a billion $$$ from the UN peacekeeping budget & we're only getting started," Haley tweeted on Wednesday, referencing a deal that cuts $600 million from the annual peacekeeping budget of more than $7.5 billion.
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations is ready to work with east African bloc IGAD to refine the group's proposal for an intervention force within the U.N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, U.N. peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous told the Security Council on Wednesday.
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"Our peacekeeping colleagues tell us that six peacekeepers from Malawi and one from Tanzania who are part of the U.N. peacekeeping operation in the DRC ... were killed yesterday, in Beni territory, in North Kivu," U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters in New York.
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NATO-led peacekeeping mission to Kosovo still has around 4,000 troops in the landlocked country.
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"Peacekeeping Infantry Battalion", a television show, celebrates China's role as a provider of blue helmets.
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Though U.N. peacekeeping forces were stationed in Rwanda, the U.N. did not stop the killing.
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Its base-building efforts are to support peacekeeping, anti-piracy and humanitarian missions, it says.
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The peacekeeping mission was halted in 2014 amid the violence in Syrian&aposs civil war.
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U.N. peacekeeping forces are facing their highest demands since the end of the Cold War.
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Shearer, who heads a U.N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, confirmed that was the case.
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U.N. peacekeeping forces are facing the pinch of the United States pushing to reduce costs.
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Ban called the abuses "a cancer in our system" after firing the mission's peacekeeping chief.
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The peace plan provided for no peacekeeping forces and only a handful of unarmed monitors.
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Budgets for peacekeeping and other missions, he complained, were sloppily drawn up and poorly supervised.
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It now has only 74 military personnel involved in peacekeeping, only half of them soldiers.
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Bastion, a peacekeeping robot, is apparently the last of his kind following the Omnic Crisis.
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In her statement, Boxer said more women in peacekeeping missions could curb alleged sexual abuse.
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Soldiers from Haiti's U.N. peacekeeping mission patrolled the streets in white armored vehicles at sundown.
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The Kenyan military maintains several bases throughout Somalia as part of a regional peacekeeping mission.
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The United Nations deployment to Rwanda seemed like a straightforward peacekeeping mission back in 1993.
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N. peacekeeping operation, known as UNAMID, has been on the ground for the past decade.
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For decades, China's presence in Africa has largely focused on economic, commercial and peacekeeping activities.
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Studies have traced the outbreak to faulty sanitation practices by a United Nations peacekeeping force.
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Contributions to UN peacekeeping, which is a proven method of reducing conflict, are dialed back.
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Since 2013, at least 195 United Nations peacekeeping personnel have been killed in violent acts.
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It was the deadliest assault on the organization's peacekeeping forces in nearly a quarter century.
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He supported China's contribution to United Nations peacekeeping efforts in Libya and other troubled areas.
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The budget would also starve the United Nations and its peacekeeping operations of essential support.
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She had sought a $1 billion reduction in the $7.87 billion United Nations peacekeeping budget.
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One country should not shoulder more than one quarter of the UN peacekeeping budget. pic.twitter.
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The peacekeeping efforts focus on areas rife with conflict by deploying troops and other resources.
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The United Nations' peacekeeping mission in Mali is considered the most dangerous in the world.
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William Nash, a veteran of Vietnam, the Gulf War and peacekeeping operations in the Balkans.
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On the heels of the High-level Independent Panel on Peace Operations (HIPPO) report and the U.S.-led Peacekeeping Summit in 2015, high-level U.N. officials have repeatedly emphasized that peacekeeping performance matters and that the failure to protect civilians will not be tolerated.
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This brings up three key questions that were not asked of the nominee: During Ambassador Haley's tenure, over $1 billion was cut from the peacekeeping budget and the subsequent closure of the peacekeeping mission in Darfur is on track to reduce the budget further.
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The United States pays the largest share of the peacekeeping budget — about 28 percent — but provides virtually no soldiers The threats to cut funding come as China has stepped up its role at the United Nations, increasing its support for peacekeeping and development aid.
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The government says the base will be used to support peacekeeping and humanitarian projects in Africa.
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The U.N. Security Council is due to be briefed on the U.N. peacekeeping mission on Thursday.
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There are currently 15 U.N. peacekeeping missions, costing more than $7.3 billion for the next year.
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Right now the US pays for about 30% of the UN's nearly $8 billion peacekeeping budget.
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The accord includes provisions for training and cooperation on peacekeeping and counter-terrorism and piracy efforts.
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He has beefed up Japan's "self-defence forces", and sent troops to join UN peacekeeping missions.
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The peacekeeping mission established in 2013, known as MINUSMA, is by far the UN's most dangerous.
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"We are committed in our peacekeeping operations as a credible and well-trained force," he said.
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Duda stressed "in the strongest terms" to reporters Thursday the importance of deploying a peacekeeping mission.
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More than 80 members have been killed since 2013, making Mali the world's deadliest peacekeeping operation.
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It's value for money -- cents on the dollar compared to U.S. military assistance or UN peacekeeping.
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The United States currently funds more than a quarter of the $7.3 billion U.N. peacekeeping budget.
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Malian and U.N. peacekeeping forces responded and eventually retook the base, he said early Friday afternoon.
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Under former President Barack Obama, the US paid for about 30% of the UN's peacekeeping budget.
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On some pretense, such as a peacekeeping mission, thousands of troops would gather on the border.
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Others retort that peacekeeping was always perilous: more than 130 Canadians have died on UN missions.
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In February the EU, AMISOM's main funder, cut 20% from allowances paid for peacekeeping in Somalia.
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Then there are UN peacekeeping missions, to which the region is becoming a more frequent contributor.
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The challenge in South Sudan is part of a broader identity crisis for United Nations peacekeeping.
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Brazilian soldiers were a large part of the United Nations peacekeeping force helping to police Haiti.
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Seven people were killed when unidentified gunmen attacked a U.N. peacekeeping base in Timbuktu this week.
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The head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo, Maman Sidikou, said CENI was badly underfunded.
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The ability of peacekeeping operations to provide security is at least partially dependent upon insecurity elsewhere.
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There is today a chief of staff in a large peacekeeping mission who is manifestly incompetent.
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As recent scandals involving sexual abuse in the peacekeeping missions show, the United Nations needs reforming.
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The outpost will apparently be used for peacekeeping and aid work, as well as military training.
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In that particular hypothetical scenario, individuals were discussing the best ways to kill NATO peacekeeping forces.
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It is home to the largest UN peacekeeping mission in the world, with about 20,000 troops.
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Only by doing that will it be able to establish stronger safeguards for future peacekeeping operations.
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The United Nations peacekeeping regularly conducts operations with the Congolese army to neutralize the Ugandan rebels.
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The U.N. peacekeeping force on the frontier said calm had returned to the region at night.
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China is now one of the leading contributors to the United Nations budget and peacekeeping operations.
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The U.N. Security Council then deployed a peacekeeping mission - known as MINUSMA - in Mali in 2013.
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Russia also maintains independent "peacekeeping patrols" in Rojava in areas of operation shared with US forces.
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All sides back a UN peacekeeping mission in eastern Ukraine, but they disagree on its mandate.
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With the peacekeeping warriors gone, Palpatine was able to let the Dark Side rule the galaxy.
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The note prepared by Ms. Haley's office asks fundamental questions about the value of peacekeeping operations.
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United Nations peacekeeping missions were originally designed to make sure warring parties kept a negotiated peace.
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Much of this funding currently goes to international peacekeeping operations and other core United Nations missions.
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South Sudan rejects new peacekeeping troops even as citizens continue to flee South Sudan rejects new peacekeeping troops even as citizens continue to flee South Sudan has rejected the deployment of a further 4,000 United Nation (UN) peacekeepers, insisting that the situation in the country is improving.
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Even so, it is not clear how exactly such an addition to a peacekeeping unit might operate.
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These safe havens were to be protected by a UN peacekeeping presence and, if necessary, air power.
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Last year 350 SDF personnel were dispatched to South Sudan as part of a UN peacekeeping force.
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Russian news outlets speculated that troops from Brazil and India may also play a role in peacekeeping.
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Syria wants the return of the territory, which has been monitored by U.N. peacekeeping forces for decades.
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A U.N. peacekeeping official in New York said the OIOS had interviewed some 435 complainants and witnesses.
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The growing resistance to peacekeeping efforts comes at a particularly precarious moment for civilians in the DRC.
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You criticised the UN's peacekeeping operations for failing to stop atrocities ("Looking the other way", October 28th).
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U.N. peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous briefed the 15-nation Security Council on Thursday on the MINURSO discussions.
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Angelina Jolie delivered a rousing speech advocating for more women to join the United Nations' peacekeeping force.
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Haley has been campaigning to cut U.N. peacekeeping costs, since the United States is the largest contributor.
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Koh Coulibaly, who liaises with communities for the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mali, said people fear revenge.
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The UN leader is under considerable pressure by the US to reduce peacekeeping operations and slash spending.
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Mali's U.N. peacekeeping mission, MINUSMA, said its camp in Kidal came under fire early on Thursday morning.
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The Tanzanian contingent is part of the U.N. peacekeeping mission's Force Intervention Brigade, tasked with offensive operations.
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The UN pays countries $1,330 a month per soldier, meaning that peacekeeping is lucrative for poor nations.
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He has modernised the UN by strengthening peacekeeping operations, streamlining the bureaucracy and overhauling its IT systems.
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It manufactures and sells custom-designed vehicles to governments, the defense industry, peacekeeping forces and aid organizations.
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The service members were on a peacekeeping mission in Lebanon at the time of the truck bombing.
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There are precedents for reauthorizing existing U.N. peacekeeping mandates under Chapter VII to address deteriorating security conditions.
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The UN spends over $2 billion per year on the peacekeeping missions in these two countries alone.
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The United States is already Africa's largest supplier of military assistance and biggest supporter of peacekeeping operations.
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But State oversees many other security assistance accounts to support military education, peacekeeping, counterterrorism and other efforts.
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This peacekeeping role has allowed Russian troops to return to the borders of the former Soviet Union.
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At the time, Prayut called the coup a peacekeeping effort aimed at ending months of political unrest.
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The Kenyan soldiers are there as part of a 22,000-strong peacekeeping force to back the government.
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The head of the UN peacekeeping force in CAR, Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, has publicly supported Russia's role.
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Numerous high-profile abuses in overseas peacekeeping UN missions have shocked both the public and UN staff.
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"Further clashes cannot be ruled out," said Hervé Ladsous, the United Nations under secretary general for peacekeeping.
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" The United Nations peacekeeping mission in south Lebanon, UNIFIL, told CNN it was "aware of the reports.
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Mr. Kiir opposes this, arguing that the 12,000 United Nations peacekeeping troops already stationed here are enough.
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Among U.N. peacekeeping missions, however, the number of reported incidents dropped to 54 from 62 in 2017.
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That will require Western engagement, likely including a long-term deployment of a peacekeeping force in Libya.
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Both Kenya and Ethiopia have troops in Somalia as part of an African Union-led peacekeeping force.
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Mali remains in turmoil, a scene of terrorist suicide bombings and attacks on United Nations peacekeeping forces.
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Disturbed by the United Nations' dwindling effectiveness, he sought to revitalize the world body's faulty peacekeeping machinery.
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Their release was confirmed on Saturday by a spokesman for the United Nations' peacekeeping mission in Mali.
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The outline specifically asks the committee to examine U.S. funding for peacekeeping operations abroad, the Times said.
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Washington pays 22 percent of the United Nations' core budget and 28 percent of its peacekeeping budget.
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A security vacuum arose when United Nations peacekeeping forces withdrew from Haiti in 2017 after 15 years.
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In 2017, the UN established a global "Victim Rights Advocate" and embedded victim advocates within peacekeeping missions.
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India even suggested deploying an Afro-Asian peacekeeping force between the two Vietnams, in advance of negotiations.
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However, Graham praised Trump Thursday for the decision to leave some troops behind as a peacekeeping force.
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MONUSCO and other peacekeeping missions should be adequately resourced and equipped to respond to threats against civilians.
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The United States is by far the largest financial contributor to the UN budget and peacekeeping budget.
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Peacekeeping is the organization's most costly undertaking, but it is still relatively inexpensive for the United States.
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Europe has been "the greatest peacekeeping arrangement that we've had for a very long time," he said.
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"We have U.N. peacekeeping missions on the ground, why not have them on the ocean?" she said.
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And Burundi continues to receive critical international funding through its contributions to U.N. peacekeeping missions in Africa.
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There have been many reports of sexual misconduct by United Nations peacekeeping forces, in Haiti and elsewhere.
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"With an international peacekeeping force in Mali, it makes what you do much more visible," Karlsrud said.
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The 15-member U.N. Security Council is also reviewing peacekeeping missions as their mandates come up for renewal.
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The core annual United Nations budget is some $2.7 billion, while the peacekeeping budget is nearly $8 billion.
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And so on Tuesday, Lee hovered outside a late-night, closed-door hearing on the U.N. peacekeeping budget.
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And within the State Department's remit, "the US would not contribute more than 25% for UN peacekeeping costs".
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Fortunately, Jupiter is still touring peacekeeping Libra until October 10, which will keep a semblance of harmony afoot.
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More Americans seemed to want the United States to become involved in international peacekeeping than several years ago.
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For example, America would not contribute more than 25% to UN peacekeeping costs, down from almost 29% today.
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Outside UN-sanctioned peacekeeping missions, it is difficult to see circumstances in which British troops would be deployed.
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She said they are currently at the U.N. peacekeeping base in Nyunzu and will be transferred to Kalemie.
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So Japan found a workaround: sending its troops to participate in United Nations and other peacekeeping missions abroad.
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Let's say we were a peacekeeping force in some small country that most people had never heard of.
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In 2006, Gardner, a U.S. Army Military Police Officer at the time, was injured during a peacekeeping mission.
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The UN pays countries $1,330 a month per soldier, meaning that peacekeeping can be lucrative for poor nations.
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The U.N. Security Council heard a briefing from the U.N. peacekeeping department on Thursday on the latest allegations.
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The State Department would have five years to double the number of qualified women deployed to peacekeeping operations.
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"When women are deployed on peacekeeping missions, there are fewer allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation," she said.
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Congo's U.N. peacekeeping mission, MONUSCO, has pledged to track down those responsible for the attack on its base.
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A UN peacekeeping force with a large Nigerian contingent disarmed former combatants and put their weapons beyond use.
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Syria necessitates a different approach from recent conflict, not least in the absence of an international peacekeeping force.
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The Moroccan government responded by ejecting dozens of United Nations staff members, effectively kneecapping the peacekeeping mission there.
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Her aides attribute the country's woes to the unwillingness of its new leaders to accept a peacekeeping force.
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The UN recently ended its peacekeeping mission in the country, proclaiming a new era of peace and stability.
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Such widespread humanitarian complexities have precipitated the largest and most expensive United Nations (UN) peacekeeping operation in history.
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We can better understand these variations in peacekeeping by understanding how the U.N. chooses where to deploy missions.
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This region is home to many rebel groups and hosts the largest U.N. peacekeeping contingent in the world.
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Thousands of people displaced during the latest flare-up of violence gathered around the United Nations peacekeeping base.
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The United Nations has deployed a peacekeeping force -- MINUSCA -- charged with protecting civilians caught up in the conflict.
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This is one reason senior military leaders, for decades, have deemed UN peacekeeping manifestly in our national interest.
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The United Nations peacekeeping mission said its troops exchanged fire with rebels in the Mayangose area of Beni.
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European troops have replaced American soldiers in peacekeeping missions in Bosnia and contribute the large majority in Kosovo.
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Washington pleaded for the United Nations to reinforce its small peacekeeping force in Rwanda to end the slaughter.
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Just before becoming secretary-general, Annan served as UN peacekeeping chief and a special envoy to then-Yugoslavia.
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Demonstrators stormed the airport — which is secured by MINUSMA, the UN's peacekeeping mission in Mali — clashing with peacekeepers.
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A French-led intervention ousted the groups in early 2013, and the United Nations established a peacekeeping mission.
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I will always remember his 2006 visit to the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Liberia, where I served.
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Separately, in Mali, Islamist militants killed at least nine people in two attacks on United Nations peacekeeping forces.
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The United Nations peacekeeping mission sent two planes and a helicopter to join the search for plane debris.
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By February, the United Nations was ready to send in 10,000 peacekeeping troops to reassert law and order.
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Elements of this force are also trained for counter-terrorism, securing key infrastructure, disaster relief and international peacekeeping.
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The United Nations says its peacekeeping operations cost less than half of 1 percent of world military expenditures.
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"We are now seeing China being a responsible nation, with peacekeeping forces in Darfur and Mali," he says.
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Security is improving, says Leila Zerrougui, the head of MONUSCO, the 16,000-strong UN peacekeeping mission in Congo.
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Trump's budget would slash U.S. contributions to U.N. peacekeeping operations, more than half of which are in Africa.
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The group had previously relied on military-grade explosives captured during assaults on an African Union peacekeeping force.
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He is currently an adviser with the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations and Thomson Reuters Foundation, London.
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These would appear to be the minimum steps to take, given the history of abuses by peacekeeping forces.
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Burundi said there was no need for a peacekeeping mission in its borders and has maintained that position.
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Let's also eliminate US consulates, embassies, military assistance to allies, aid to developing nations, and international peacekeeping efforts.
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The United Nations and African Union led peacekeeping missions to have invaluable contributions in stabilizing conflict in Africa.
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In March America made the renewal of MINURSO, the UN peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara, conditional on political progress.
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council extended a peacekeeping mission in South Sudan on Friday until Aug.
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The U.N., which has a large peacekeeping force in the East African nation, confirmed the latest outbreak of violence.
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It has deployed 12,000 blue helmets, but its peacekeeping mission, known as MINUSMA, is easily its most dangerous anywhere.
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In 2018, the US was responsible for 22% of the UN's regular budget and 28% of its peacekeeping budget.
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The Kenyan soldiers make up a large contingent of the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia, known as AMISOM.
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The United Nations has been endeavoring to stabilize Libya since 2011 but has no peacekeeping troops on the ground.
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Jolie also called for a new approach to peacekeeping that took into account the rights and protection of women.
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An Al-Shabaab spokesman said the group was targeting the peacekeeping mission UNISOM (United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia).
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From there, it will supply ships taking part in humanitarian and peacekeeping missions in Yemen and Somalia, it said.
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The peacekeeping mission was halted back in 2014 amid the violence in Syrian&aposs civil war over security concerns.
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The president has rejected the deployment of an African peacekeeping force, saying the troops would constitute "an invading force".
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There are 16 peacekeeping operations currently underway, mostly the result of sustained conflicts in the Middle East and Africa.
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The new security assistance will strengthen maritime security, develop humanitarian assistance, peacekeeping capabilities and counter "transnational threats", he added.
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The UN's first peacekeeping mission, which started in 1948, was to keep a truce after the creation of Israel.
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THE UN's first peacekeeping mission, which started in 1948, was to keep a truce after the creation of Israel.
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The UN divvies up the cost of peacekeeping among its members using a complicated formula that includes economic heft.
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The Conservatives, who form the official opposition, say the Liberals are indulging in nostalgia: traditional peacekeeping no longer exists.
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That usually takes the form of humanitarian assistance, facilitating a political process and, when necessary, providing a peacekeeping force.
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Often they are devilishly hard, as in Congo, where peacekeeping is undercut by local politics and corruption (see article).
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The Security Council's handling of the expulsions was under scrutiny by other nations where peacekeeping missions have been deployed.
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In 2018, according to the UN peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan, 3,804 civilians were killed in conflict, including 927 children.
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In fact, other nations pay 78 percent of the U.N. regular budget and 72 percent of U.N. peacekeeping budget.
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This includes cutting some $1 billion from U.N. peacekeeping funding and a steep cut to funding for international organizations.
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The Trump administration has been extremely critical of the costs of foreign aid, peacekeeping missions, and refugee resettlement/response.
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Troops from Chad and Equatorial Guinea, representing the African Union peacekeeping mission, were also accused of sexually abusing children.
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The 31-year-old previously worked as a translator in a peacekeeping mission in her home country of Lebanon.
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A recent sticking point is whether and how the United Nations should send a peacekeeping force to the region.
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Her work has resulted in savings of $600 million by avoiding wasteful and duplicative spending in UN peacekeeping missions.
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To really reduce innocent deaths and violence, Trump could add United Nations peacekeeping, and democracy support to his tutorial.
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But that prohibition came directly from the Security Council, which always defines the robustness of each peacekeeping mission's engagement.
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"We also ask that every peacekeeping mission have clearly defined goals and metrics for evaluating success," Trump said Monday.
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"Peacekeeping" is a politically sophisticated novel that plants, like pushpins, a handful of memorable characters into Haiti's arid soil.
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But the administration's fiscal 2018 budget promises precisely that, implying massive cuts in funding U.N. peacekeeping and humanitarian relief.
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The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali has more than 13,000 troops, according to the figures released this month.
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The U.N. Security Council decided recently to close down the peacekeeping mission it has maintained in Haiti since 2004.
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There was no immediate response from the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations or other offices overseeing the issue.
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U.S. military forces have remained stationed in Kosovo since then as part of a broader NATO-led peacekeeping force.
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It is also testimony to the immense value of UN peacekeeping and the international solidarity that underpins effective operations.
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Local residents have accused the Congolese army and peacekeeping units of complicity with the ADF, charges both forces deny.
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We could start by reading the UN peacekeeping proposal put forth by President Petro Poroshenko over two years ago.
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U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley has also said she'd consider cutting U.S. dollars for the peacekeeping missions.
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Others have called out instances of misconduct by troops and police during UN peacekeeping missions, including sexual abuse cases.
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The U.S. invaded in 1994, hoping to enforce stability, and ten years later the U.N. sent in peacekeeping troops.
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Both "Peacekeeping" and "The Heart of the Matter" feature dramatic descriptions of maritime disasters and the subsequent mass casualties.
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The AU peacekeeping force, in Somalia since 2007, has been gradually withdrawing its forces over the past several years.
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Russia similarly timed its peacekeeping proposal in central Syria to coincide with escalated regime air raids on the zone.
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The final part of the video involves a discussion of nuclear proliferation, disarmament efforts, and the efficacy of peacekeeping initiatives.
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U.N. peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous briefed the 15-member council on South Sudan at the request of the United States.
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The Moroccan government, however, reversed a previously announced decision to withdraw all of its troops from U.N. peacekeeping missions worldwide.
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About a third of child soldiers in the groups are girls, according to the United Nations' peacekeeping mission in DRC.
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The helicopter crashed while flying a peacekeeping mission in the West African nation's desert north, killing the two crew members.
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For the current fiscal year, the United Nations budgeted more than $8 billion to keep roughly 120,000 peacekeeping personnel deployed.
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Finally, regimes can use their peacekeeping contributions to replace aid packages from international donors while resisting pressure for domestic reforms.
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Soldiers from a United Nations peacekeeping mission were working to stabilize the country amid clashes between rival militias, but inadequately.
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But just a year earlier, Haley fought for and won major reductions in funding for peacekeeping troops, including MONUSCO's forces.
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The group regularly stages attacks against the Somali military and against troops from the African Union-mandated peacekeeping force AMISOM.
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Rather than bringing the sides closer to resolution, the knotty details of peacekeeping merely underline how far apart they remain.
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JEAN-PIERRE LACROIXUndersecretary-general for peacekeeping operationsJEFFREY FELTMANUndersecretary-general for political affairsUnited NationsNew York Mr Guterres's proposed reforms are bold.
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Britain will also push for peacekeeping missions to include more women, and support efforts to end sexual abuse by peacekeepers.
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The NATO peacekeeping force in Kosovo (KFOR) said it was ready to intervene if necessary and also appealed for calm.
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In just her first week as US ambassador, Haley made reform of the United Nations' peacekeeping operations a top priority.
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The United Nations has maintained a peacekeeping mission, the Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA), in the area since 2011.
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One protest leader said they were demanding a U.N. peacekeeping force and that Myanmar face charges in an international court.
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The political objectives and efficiency of almost all of the U.N's 15 peacekeeping operations worldwide were under review, Lacroix said.
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However, the case could still set an international legal precedent for states' liability when they contribute troops to peacekeeping operations.
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The Islamist militants also claim to have captured some Kenyan soldiers belonging to an African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia.
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Everyone is responsible for planning and setting up the event – scouting the location, cooking, providing first-aid supplies and peacekeeping.
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In August, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that sexual abuse is "a cancer" in the U.N. peacekeeping system.
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A UN peacekeeping mission was established in 1991 to count voters, but otherwise outsiders have largely looked the other way.
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Japan ended its participation in the peacekeeping operation in May but said the withdrawal was not related to security concerns.
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South Sudan and the DRC are home to the most expensive UN peacekeeping missions, costing more than $1 billion annually.
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The new film, "Star Trek: Beyond", opens with Kirk on one such mission, eye-rolling through a boring peacekeeping gig.
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They are more interested in barricading their nations from the fallout of conflict than in investing in peacekeeping and stability.
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The United Nations has spent a billion dollars a year since 2014 on a 603,000-strong peacekeeping force in Mali.
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The Canadian troops' "adoption" of Rwandan orphanages highlights a third factor that can make peacekeeping missions more successful: community engagement.
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Troops with the peacekeeping mission in northern Mali, for instance, have frequently been targeted by insurgents affiliated with Al Qaeda.
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The United Nations has spent a billion dollars a year since 20183 on a 15,000-strong peacekeeping force in Mali.
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Earlier in the year, the UN reduced its peacekeeping role in Darfur, which caused concern among some human rights activists.
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The military school will be located in eastern Bolivia, on the site of a former United Nations peacekeeping training center.
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The news magazine said the State Department was warned that it will reduce its U.N. peacekeeping budget by 6900 percent.
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She knows it will lead her back to the Balkans, where she was part of the United Nations peacekeeping force.
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Of the 31 cases, 12 involve military personnel from peacekeeping operations including those in the Central African Republic and Mali.
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As a result, staff members keep quiet even when they observe the horrors of sexual abuse in the peacekeeping missions.
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The Moroccan order threatened to paralyze the work of the mission, which has played a peacekeeping role for 25 years.
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G5 Sahel, whose command base is in Sevare in central Mali, will also coordinate with MINUSMA, Mali's U.N. peacekeeping mission.
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U.S. funding for international peacekeeping would fall to about $1.5 billion, a cut of over 50 percent from 2017 levels.
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Thursday's attack comes at a time when the African Union is finalizing plans to trim its peacekeeping mission called AMISOM.
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The 15,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping mission, which has a base in Wau, has not been able to stop the killing.
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"It doesn't mean that just because you are looking to make savings that you abandon these peacekeeping missions," he said.
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A cholera outbreak that killed thousands of Haitians was traced to United Nations peacekeeping troops sent in after the earthquake.
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The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), the U.N. peacekeeping force on the frontier, was seen patrolling the border.
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Two months ago, the group carried out multiple coordinated attacks against African Union peacekeeping forces, killing dozens of Ugandan soldiers.
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A small detachment of international peacekeeping troops, mostly Egyptian and American, is stationed on Tiran (the islands are otherwise uninhabited).
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Mr. Hook differentiated between forces that are actively at war and those that are largely in peacekeeping or deterrent roles.
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Twenty-eight percent of the United Nations' peacekeeping budget of nearly $8 billion has been paid by the United States.
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"It's a way to create stability if hostilities cease, because we are talking about peacekeeping, not peace-creating," he said.
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The resolution is part of a larger effort, led by the Trump administration, to reduce the United Nations peacekeeping budget.
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There are no U.N. peacekeeping missions in the United States, and the vehicles are not used inside the United States.
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For years the task of fighting Al-Shabaab in Somalia had fallen to the African Union-led peacekeeping mission, AMISOM.
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He also said the U.S. will deploy its training teams to peacekeeping operations for short durations to help identify gaps.
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"The delivery of weapons to a conflict zone doesn't help peacekeeping efforts, but only worsens the situation," Putin said Tuesday.
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Then-President Ronald Reagan sent the Marines to Beirut in 85033 on a peacekeeping mission during the Lebanese civil war.
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According to a new UN report, the majority of those allegations — 69 in all — involved personnel in 10 peacekeeping missions.
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The breakdown in the peacekeeping effort began when the Russians withdrew from the Joint Center for Ceasefire Control and Coordination.
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The main focus of the security forum is a proposal to deploy a United Nations peacekeeping force to Eastern Ukraine.
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According to a new UN report, the majority of those allegations — 20133 in all — involved personnel in 10 peacekeeping missions.
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The full damage done by these men, members of the United Nations peacekeeping forces in Haiti, is still being reckoned.
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Dennis B. Ross, a veteran Middle East expert at the National Security Council, had argued unsuccessfully for an outside peacekeeping force.
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But its peacekeeping contribution ranks just ahead of neighbouring Uruguay's, whose population is smaller than that of nine different Brazilian cities.
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Japan's navy has the ability to move troops and hardware around the world, as evidenced by its role in UN peacekeeping.
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The 15-member council discussed how to improve peacekeeping operations during the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations.
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"The U.N. peacekeeping mission is mandated to partner with the government," Haley told the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
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I was in Kenya last summer as UN peacekeeping troops received new training, since peacekeepers have been part of the problem.
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Mr. Olweny said soldiers in the African Union peacekeeping mission, known as Amisom, had killed 30 Shabab militants during the attacks.
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The report calls for the integration of INTERPOL officers in peacekeeping missions, and for greater information sharing among agencies and governments.
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It also leads to endless debates about whether it is legitimate for Japan to participate in international peacekeeping missions, for example.
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Days later, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called for a U.N. peacekeeping mission with a mandate over the entire Ukraine-Russia border.
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The peacekeeping, political and peacebuilding departments would be reorganised, enabling mediators and diplomats to work more effectively with the blue helmets.
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The peacekeeping department -- which has been rocked by sex abuse cases and often unending missions -- was a clear target for slashing.
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But just like families everywhere, these businesses fight—and there isn't always a peacekeeping matriarch or sibling to make things right.
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"The U.N. peacekeeping mission is mandated to partner with the government," she told the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
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He also recognized the 4,000 Kenyan troops fighting al-Shabaab in Somalia as part of the African Union peacekeeping mission AMISOM.
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But its fighters frequently carry out attacks in Somalia and neighboring Kenya, whose troops form part of an African peacekeeping force.
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Of the 2628 UN Peacekeeping missions currently underway, the majority operate in regions where terrorists are angling to gain new ground.
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Today the country retains the largest peacekeeping mission on the continent, the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the DR Congo (MONUSCO).
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But when Kosatka is invaded by a "peacekeeping force," he'll have to decide whether or not to stand with the Kosatkans.
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That request was denied — supposedly because there was no United Nations peacekeeping resolution with a mandate authorizing him to enforce peace.
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The U.S. currently provides fewer than 100 soldiers, military advisors, and police officers to U.N. peacekeeping operations — accounting for less than .
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They promote regional peace and security by being one of the top troop contributors to UN peacekeeping missions around the world.
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The total reportedly includes some $2202 billion scrapped for U.N. peacekeeping funds and a steep cut to funding for international organizations.
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The union runs several peacekeeping operations, mostly in Africa, as well as an antipiracy mission off of the coast of Somalia.
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"It's terrible and dangerous," said an official assigned to the UN peacekeeping mission that controls the border between Israel and Lebanon.
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In conjunction with the SAR, the Secretary of the Army has recommended eliminating the Army's venerable Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute.
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"The Netherlands has indicated its intention to withdraw its attack and military utility helicopter units," U.N. peacekeeping spokesman Nick Birnback said.
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Besides Islamist attacks, social unrest linked to dissatisfaction with a peace deal signed a year ago is also undermining peacekeeping efforts.
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It has also been awarded to troops who have deployed to Bosnia, Haiti and West Africa on humanitarian or peacekeeping missions.
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His power is derived not only from his influence over millions of Shia Iraqis but also from his genuine peacekeeping efforts.
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The resolution also calls for an arms embargo, but only if the government does not cooperate with the expanded peacekeeping force.
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The UN Security Council also recently extended its peacekeeping mandate in the country, with a specific focus on fighting drug trafficking.
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He said the U.N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, known as UNMISS, was also investigating the incidents, including its own response.
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I am hardly the first to warn that the United Nations bureaucracy is getting in the way of its peacekeeping efforts.
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Peacekeeping reform: The administration also seems prepared to make common cause with secretary-general on the UN's flagship enterprise -- peace operations.
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Kenyan troops are part of a 22,000-strong African Union peacekeeping force fighting in neighboring Somalia against al-Shabaab Islamist militants.
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Indeed, she has already delivered them some relief, negotiating a more than $500 million cut to the annual U.N. peacekeeping budget.
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To date, 149 peacekeepers have been killed in Mali, making it one of the most dangerous peacekeeping missions in the world.
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At the time, Kofi Annan, who later became the secretary general of the United Nations, was in charge of peacekeeping operations.
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The military already was stretched thin, with thousands of troops tied up in peacekeeping operations in Somalia, Sudan and South Sudan.
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He projected himself and his organization as the world's conscience despite bloody debacles that left indelible stains on his peacekeeping record.
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American leaders have noted for years that no country has done more to finance peacekeeping missions and international war crimes tribunals.
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In 2016, China stepped up its commitment to crack down on fentanyl precursors, support United Nations peacekeeping and strengthen nuclear security.
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Though the US remains the largest donor to the UN, it has been seeking to reduce its contribution to peacekeeping operations.
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Thus far, fighting has not hampered the response, said Florence Marchal, spokeswoman for the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the region.
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Last year she took credit for reductions of more than $500 million to achieve this year's peacekeeping budget of $7.3 billion.
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He also called Soleimani "the world's top terrorist," and referenced the Iran deal, JCPOA, as a "very effective" measure for peacekeeping.
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Somali government troops, supported by a 21,000-strong African Union peacekeeping force, launched a limited offensive against al Shabaab last year.
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U.N. peacekeeping and French forces are stationed in Mali to combat jihadist groups seen as threatening security across Africa's Sahel region.
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A peacekeeping force has been in Congo since 1999, but it has little to show for the billions it has cost.
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They were later absorbed into an African Union peacekeeping force, now 21,000-strong, that supports the shaky, Western-backed Somali government.
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But Ms. Haley has called for spending less on peacekeeping, inveighing against what she has called "fat" in United Nations operations.
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China has expanded trade and infrastructure projects, increased its commitment to peacekeeping missions and strengthened its military presence on the continent.
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Morgan Vina, another Heritage alumnus and a Senate Committee on Foreign Relations aide, is involved in the review of peacekeeping missions.
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It costs $7.87 billion to fund 16 peacekeeping missions worldwide, from Cyprus to Mali to a tiny observer mission in Kashmir.
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The drive to revamp peacekeeping represents Ms. Haley's first foray into the changes she says she wants at the United Nations.
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The regular budget is separate from the body's budget for its sprawling peacekeeping operations, which totaled $7.8 billion for 2017 alone.
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The Clinton administration, scarred by the chaotic failure of the peacekeeping mission in Somalia, had no desire for a similar entanglement.
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The United States would cut back financing for international peacekeeping missions, humanitarian assistance, cultural exchanges, refugee assistance and third world development.
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A UN experts' report in July said several groups were violating the accord; some had even attacked the UN peacekeeping mission.
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U.S. peacekeeping monitors would help constrain Iran's role, keep Russia and Assad honest, and bring Syria one step closer to peace.
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The United Nations' largest peacekeeping force, Monusco, is deployed in Congo, helping to protect the government from repeated attempts at rebellion.
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Kenya has been a leading power in the regional peacekeeping operation supporting Somalia's government in its fight against the Islamist group.
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An unarmed black teenager killed by police; France's far-right candidate accused of plagiarism; Trump and Putin talk Syria peacekeeping efforts.
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"Across the years and across the globe, fifty-five peacekeeping operations have successfully completed their mandate," Guterres told the council on Wednesday.
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Reacting to the violence in Juba, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on the Security Council to fortify the peacekeeping mission.
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BAMAKO, Mali – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is visiting the world&aposs deadliest U.N. peacekeeping mission on a trip to Mali.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa will withdraw its troops from peacekeeping operations in Sudan's Darfur region, President Jacob Zuma's office said on Wednesday.
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Al Shabaab aims to topple Somalia's government, drive out African Union peacekeeping troops and impose its own harsh interpretation of Islamic law.
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Sudan&aposs government, stressing the reduction in fighting, has called for the Darfur peacekeeping mission, known as UNAMID, to be wrapped up.
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The case was highly unusual in that states participating in U.N. peacekeeping operations have rarely faced legal action because of their performance.
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"The fight is still ongoing as I write," Gabriel said, calling on the U.N. peacekeeping mission and cease-fire monitors to investigate.
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Another good idea is to pay for a hefty peacekeeping force, which can provide the security needed for all else to develop.
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For better or worse, peacekeeping training and combat experience provide tools that can be used for internal security (or repression) back home.
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Burkina Faso, which has just experienced back-to-back military coups, deploys roughly a quarter of its army on peacekeeping missions annually.
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"Lieutenant Emma Higashi of the US Navy, seconded to the Brunei Accords Peacekeeping Force and, now, to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department."
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At present, Cyprus's two main ethnic groups are separated by a United Nations peacekeeping force, one of the oldest in the world.
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Rather than take on the difficult task of improving peacekeeping operations, Mr Ban tried to encourage reporting of abuses of human rights.
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Bangladesh is the world's second-biggest contributor to U.N. peacekeeping operations with some 7,000 uniformed personnel deployed to missions around the world.
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However three female international aid workers were left behind and the inquiry said the peacekeeping mission was quickly made aware of this.
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In 1993, Rice returned to Washington to take a position with the National Security Council as director of international organizations and peacekeeping.
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The group aims to topple Somalia's government, drive out African Union peacekeeping troops and impose its own harsh interpretation of Islamic law.
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If foreign diplomats take them less seriously, it makes any discussion on issues from peacekeeping to trade to nuclear disarmament less productive.
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While the U.N. has identified cases of suspected abuse in many peacekeeping missions, the numbers are particularly alarming in Central African Republic.
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MONUSCO, the French acronym by which the mission is known, is the longest and most expensive peacekeeping operation in the organisation's history.
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Additionally, since Trump took office, the US has cut back UN funding, including slashing the budgets for the United Nations' peacekeeping operations.
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Mongolian officials approached the US military for help starting a mobile training team to prepare its forces for United Nations peacekeeping missions.
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Peacekeeping forces from the United Nations have monitored the cease-fire since then, but efforts to reach a political settlement have failed.
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On the military front, the two countries agreed last year to conduct joint operations between their navies and cooperate in global peacekeeping.
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Alexandra Lamarche is an advocate for sub-Saharan Africa at Refugees International, where her work focuses on conflict, displacement crises, and peacekeeping.
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Congress should ask, what sort of changes in relation to U.N. peacekeeping budgets would the ambassador expect over the next four years?
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These security risks could quite quickly ricochet across the region, including areas like Mali where the U.N. has a large peacekeeping operation.
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Florence Marchal, spokeswoman for the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo, said security forces had shot dead at least seven people in Kinshasa.
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The United Nations beefed up its southern Lebanon peacekeeping force, which since 1978 had been a fairly ineffective presence along the border.
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That money would ultimately come from member states, including the United States, which pays about a quarter of the organization's peacekeeping budget.
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Established in 2010, MONUSCO is the United Nations' largest peacekeeping mission and had recorded 93 fatalities of military, police and civilian personnel.
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The roughly 11,000 peacekeepers in Central African Republic had the most sexual misconduct allegations - 139- of any UN peacekeeping mission in 2016.
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The UN has about 15,000 soldiers and police in the country at present, one of its biggest peacekeeping forces in the world.
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The African Union peacekeeping force, paid for mostly by Western governments, features troops from Uganda, Burundi, Kenya, Djibouti and other African nations.
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When we took over peacekeeping responsibilities from the African Union there in 2014, we had the choice of which troops to accept.
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"The delivery of weapons to a conflict zone doesn't help peacekeeping efforts, but only worsens the situation," Putin told a news briefing.
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The militants frequently launch attacks in neighboring Kenya to pressure it to withdraw its troops which form part of the peacekeeping force.
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U.N. states struck a deal on Wednesday on a $7.3 billion annual peacekeeping budget, diplomats said, cutting $600 million from current costs.
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Further measures should include the demilitarization of the Palestinian state, and a possible peacekeeping force under the auspices of the United Nations.
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Vehicles of aid organizations and the peacekeeping mission were pelted with stones, Radio Okapi, which is supported by the United Nations, reported.
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Bipin Rawat, served together in a United Nations peacekeeping mission in Congo about a decade ago and get along well, diplomats say.
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Ambassador Haley, please understand that without peacekeeping, you're sentencing civilians to be raped and shot — and boys like Frederick Pandowan to starve.
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That assault was the single deadliest against any United Nations peacekeeping force since 22 Pakistani soldiers were killed in Somalia in 1993.
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The fighting has never entirely abated, and a series of truces have failed, despite the presence of 14,000 United Nations peacekeeping troops.
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On the agenda: panels on peacekeeping, rape as a weapon of war, (the lack of) women in technology, maternal mortality, sexual harassment.
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Some of those meetings are about classic UN issues like peacekeeping in conflict-ravaged countries in sub-Saharan Africa or tackling famine.
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European powers opposed airstrikes to halt the advancing Bosnian Serbs, who overran Srebrenica despite the presence of peacekeeping troops from the Netherlands.
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Reports emerged last month the administration is considering a proposed $85033 billion reduction in funding for U.N. peacekeeping, children's and poverty programs.
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The group aims to topple the government, drive out African Union peacekeeping troops and impose its own harsh interpretation of Islamic law.
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The Kenyans were later absorbed into an African Union peacekeeping force, now 21,000-strong, which supports the shaky, Western-backed Somali government.
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And on a single day in September, the Shabab targeted an American base in Somalia and a group of Italian peacekeeping troops.
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While leading the UN's peacekeeping operations, Annan was involved in decisions that were potentially career-ending but which he managed to survive.
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He also served as operations chief of the Brazilian-led United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti when it was under Heleno's command.
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South Sudan's government has said it will allow a 4,000-strong regional protection force to bolster the U.N.'s existing peacekeeping mission.
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In New York, the United Nations deployed over 10,85033 troops to Darfur, launching one of its largest peacekeeping missions at the time.
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The tragedy of peacekeeping, he reflected, was that you are inevitably on the wrong side of someone who is in the right.
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Mr. Trump would also cut funding to the United Nations for its climate change efforts, and curb contributions to its peacekeeping efforts.
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Mr Abe has already brought in legislation that allows Japan to play a bigger, though still limited, role in international peacekeeping missions.
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In addition to CAR, the allegations involved peacekeeping missions in places like Haiti, Mali, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Ivory Coast.
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Days later in Mali, JNIM, the North African franchise of Al Qaeda, targeted peacekeeping soldiers from Chad, killing 10 and wounding 25.
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The failure of the peacekeeping proposal comes at a time of increasing worry about the country's stability and risk of increased violence.
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"The Blue Helmets" offers an exclusive look inside the U.N.'s most dangerous active peacekeeping operation in the African country of Mali.
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Al Shabaab was also behind deadly attacks in Kenya and Uganda, which both contribute troops to an African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia.
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Museveni also receives diplomatic support from Washington for his deployment of troops in international peacekeeping missions including the fight against militants in Somalia.
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Aid group Medicins Sans Frontieres accused the U.N. peacekeeping mission, known as UNMISS, on Tuesday of taking up to 16 hours to act.
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U.N. peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous and head of field support Atul Khare will brief the Security Council on Wednesday on the Malakal incident.
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Suicide bombers attacked the main peacekeeping base in Somalia's capital on Monday, killing at least three Somali security officers, police said.
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French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Nouakchott Monday to discuss the battle against Islamic extremism and ways to finance counterterrorism and peacekeeping operations.
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In recent years the anti-government rebels have gone from attacks on the Congolese army and UN peacekeeping troops, to indiscriminately abducting citizens.
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The group has increasingly targeted Kenya, which intervened in Somalia in 2011 in support of the government and the African Union peacekeeping mission.
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Increased study and attention for peacekeeping veterans also seems not only prudent but ethical, perhaps accompanied by medical or other post-deployment support.
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Aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres accused the U.N. peacekeeping mission, known as UNMISS, on Tuesday of taking up to 16 hours to act.
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Haley's move to cut peacekeeping funding before calling on MONUSCO to support the electoral process strikes some experts as contradictory, if not reckless.
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A UN mission, whether a multi-agency presence as in Myanmar or one of its 15 peacekeeping operations, can be a thankless task.
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An estimated 83,000 people are seeking refuge in churches, schools and outside the peacekeeping base of the U.N. mission, according to the organization.
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"United Nations forces don't do counterterrorism, they do peacekeeping operations," Waldhauser added, reflecting U.S. unease at the United Nations funding the prospective force.
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The army and U.N. peacekeeping mission blamed the raids on the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan Islamist group active near the border.
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Millions of people have been displaced by ongoing violence, with U.N. peacekeeping missions deployed in both, each costing more than $1 billion annually.
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It was an honor to work with him in his efforts to reform the UN, strengthen global health and peacekeeping, and reduce poverty.
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They still call her "Miss Sangaris," a reference to the name of the French peacekeeping mission that implies she is the soldiers' girlfriend.
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It helps the United States stabilize insecure regions through the legitimating and cost-sharing systems of peacekeeping, conflict resolution and counter-terrorism cooperation.
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Last year Tony Stark, the billionaire military industrialist and inventor also known as Iron Man, attempted to create an automated international peacekeeping system.
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Serbian forces had also kidnapped 30 Dutch peacekeepers, a blunt instrument of blackmail and leverage over the Dutch peacekeeping force guarding the enclave.
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Al Shabaab is waging an insurgency to overthrow the U.N.-backed government and drive out the African Union peacekeeping force that supports it.
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The scandal also prompted him, for the first time, to throw out of peacekeeping an entire battalion from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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The investigation found that the peacekeeping force, composed of troops from China, Ethiopia, Nepal and India, did not operate under a unified command.
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"You have MINUSMA (the U.N. peacekeeping mission) in Mali ... so why another regional group to fight terror in the Sahel?" the source said.
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"Just 5 months into our time here, we've cut over half a billion $$$ from the UN peacekeeping budget & we're only getting started." pic.twitter.
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The spokesman, Stéphane Dujarric, told reporters at a daily briefing that the peacekeeping mission in the country had received the allegations on Friday.
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Late last month, the United Nations renewed its peacekeeping mission in the country, which currently counts nearly 17,000 soldiers deployed on the ground.
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The country had its first multi-party elections in decades in 1993 after years of bloody war, thanks to a U.N. peacekeeping mission.
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Yet according to Weir, if safe zones are created in Myanmar, they will require protection that only a U.N. peacekeeping force could provide.
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Ten days later, First Tank Battalion left the capital; our vehicles were "too aggressive" of a posture for the peacekeeping mission to come.
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A cholera outbreak that killed thousands of people in Haiti was traced to peacekeeping troops sent by the United Nations after the earthquake.
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" Rather than defaulting to a defensive posture, his report said, peacekeeping missions "should go where the threat is, in order to neutralize it.
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Serb forces withdrew from Kosovo, and under the watch of a NATO peacekeeping force, 1.4 million displaced Albanians eventually returned to their homes.
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He specialized in sober analyses of North Korea, tensions over the South China Sea, China's involvement in international peacekeeping and other diplomatic issues.
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Human rights advocates said such cuts, if accepted, would severely hurt United Nations peacekeeping operations covering some of the world's most vulnerable countries.
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Roughly 450 jobs are devoted to the protection of human rights and the deterrence of sexual abuse in the peacekeeping system, diplomats said.
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Of the roughly 97,000 soldiers and police officers serving on United Nations peacekeeping missions, 74 are American, according to figures released in June.
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Al Shabaab has been fighting for years to topple Somalia's central government, which the African Union-mandated peacekeeping force AMISOM helps to defend.
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"The video shows shocking footage of killings and executions of civilians by uniformed personnel," said a statement by the United Nations peacekeeping department.
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It is a vastly different deployment to anything on the mainland almost akin to something they might experience on peacekeeping duties in Africa.
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These areas are places where even well-armed UN peacekeeping forces decline to engage for fear of violence and recent killings of peacekeepers.
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In 2016, the U.S. gave about $2.2 billion through the State Department to the U.N. to help run the 85033,000-strong peacekeeping force.
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The cruelest cuts may be a reported $1 billion reduction for the United Nations' peacekeeping operations and programs that care for needy children.
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Related: Security Forces Allegedly Buried Bodies in Mass Graves in Burundi Burundi contributes more than 1,200 soldiers and police to UN peacekeeping missions.
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As head of U.N. peacekeeping operations, Annan was criticized for the world body's failure to halt the genocide in Rwanda in the 1990s.
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The new Liberal government, Trudeau added, was determined to revitalize what he called Canada's historic role as a key contributor to U.N. peacekeeping.
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What does his selection mean for a UN beset by peacekeeping scandals abroad and a failed effort to stop the carnage in Syria?
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"(The U.N. peacekeeping mission) MONUSCO is developing contingency plans in the event of widespread violence in the context of the electoral process," Ban said.
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Whether in response to war, viruses, refugee crises, or other urgent situations, the agency's peacekeeping and humanitarian aid efforts are ongoing worldwide almost constantly.
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N. peacekeeping mission in Darfur to hand over its premises to Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) as part of the mission's withdrawal in 2020.
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Al-Shabaab has seen its power wane in recent years, thanks in part to an African Union coalition dedicated to peacekeeping in the country.
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France maintains an anti-militant force in West Africa's vast, arid Sahel region, and the United Nations has deployed a peacekeeping mission in Mali.
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Washington also has a financial interest at stake as it tries to cut U.N. peacekeeping costs, for which it pays more than a quarter.
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Al Shabaab has seized control of several towns in central Somalia after they were abandoned by Ethiopian contingents in the Africa Union peacekeeping force.
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The first contingent of what will become a 4,103 strong UN "regional protection force" arrived in South Sudan to bolster a peacekeeping mission there.
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The cost includes money spent on the military, on private security in areas of violent conflict and on UN peacekeeping forces among other things.
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This may hint that peacekeeping experience can be a stabilizing force, even as payments for the peacekeepers' services help a president cling to power.
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In 2015 he pushed through legislation reinterpreting the constitution to allow the SDF to play a more forceful role in missions such as peacekeeping.
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The other 2800 beds are being constructed under the Department of State's Africa Peacekeeping Program, according to one contractor with knowledge of the project.
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All these groups agreed to allow the UN to deploy a huge peacekeeping force, hold an election and help establish a new, democratic government.
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Capuano's leadership with that caucus, I have played a pivotal role in ensuring the countries have humanitarian assistance and that peacekeeping efforts have improved.
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Every time a Japanese government tries to do more to help its allies, or to contribute more to UN peacekeeping operations, pacifists cry "unconstitutional".
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It will be used to resupply navy ships taking part in peacekeeping and humanitarian missions off the coasts of Yemen and Somalia, in particular.
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Morocco then ordered the United Nations to pull out dozens of civilian staffers and close a military liaison office for the MINURSO peacekeeping mission.
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His personal contribution to building the UN's peacekeeping potential, as well as in the settlement of a number of regional conflicts, was particularly significant.
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In 2011, then Uruguayan President Jose Mujica apologized for the alleged rape of an 18-year-old Haitian man by Uruguayan U.N. peacekeeping troops.
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The group has also been behind deadly attacks in Kenya and Uganda, which both contribute troops to the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia.
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Al Shabaab has also been behind deadly attacks in Kenya and Uganda, which both contribute troops to an African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia.
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The president's budget outline proposed deep cuts in the U.S. contribution to the UN, which could dramatically impair its peacekeeping functions around the world.
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That operation paved the way for the United Nations to deploy its more than 10,000-strong MINUSMA peacekeeping force to the West African state.
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Seven decades later, that mission continues, and the total number of peacekeeping operations worldwide has grown to 16, deploying more than 100,000 military personnel.
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Seven decades later, that mission continues, and the total number of peacekeeping operations worldwide has grown to 16, deploying more than 100,163 military personnel.
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The proposed peacekeeping force will join the UN's 12,000-strong mission already on the ground to maintain a tenuous peace deal signed last year.
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Last year, The Independent, a newspaper in England, credited him with reporting a finding that diplomats from Africa had sold positions on peacekeeping missions.
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The United States is the largest single donor to peacekeeping operations, though not many of its soldiers and police serve under United Nations command.
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An estimated 2000,22 people are seeking refuge in churches, schools and outside the peacekeeping base of the U.N. mission, according to the United Nations.
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The country directed by Obama under the guise of peacekeeping operations spark new wars and bloody internal conflicts, in which die millions of people.
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Last month, the Security Council authorized thousands of additional peacekeeping soldiers to be assigned to South Sudan to protect civilians, despite the government's objections.
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His peacekeeping division partnered with an orphanage near Butare, Rwanda, in June 1994, successfully protecting resident children through the final weeks of the genocide.
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David Gressly, currently deputy chief of the U.N.'s MONUSCO peacekeeping mission in Congo, has been appointed to the new post, the statement said.
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A U.N. peacekeeping mission and French forces are active in the impoverished country whose resources of cotton, gold, diamonds and uranium are under-exploited.
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The response should include not only public health care assistance but support for the United Nations peacekeeping mission in that part of the Congo.
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Thomas Waldhauser expressed support for the G5 Sahel effort but suggested the United States was opposed to funding it through the UN peacekeeping budget.
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He directed a Caribbean operation to rescue Americans at risk in Grenada, but opposed using American troops in a multinational peacekeeping force in Lebanon.
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A RAND study analyzing U.S. and UN missions from the 1960s through 2005 found that two-thirds of those UN peacekeeping missions were successful.
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"We're going to be quite confined to the town of Beni where there's quite strong national Army and [United Nations peacekeeping] presence," Salama said.
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Policy implications of this may be limited, as no serious policymaker would suggest increasing insecurity in member-states to increase contributions to peacekeeping missions.
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The military has been operating four Tigers and four NH-90 transport helicopters in Mali this year in support of a U.N. peacekeeping mission.
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The joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur, Sudan, had two allegations and the mission in East Timor, now closed, had one.
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U.N. peacekeeping and French forces are stationed in northern Mali to combat well-armed jihadist groups seen as threatening security across Africa's Sahel region.
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While Trump's initial budget proposal envisioned halving US contributions to UN peacekeeping, the administration has since agreed to more modest, but still significant, reductions.
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I mean, my father-in-law refused to serve in ... He flew peacekeeping ... He flew food aid missions because he refused to drop bombs.
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In 2017, Nikki Haley, President Trump's new ambassador to the U.N., pushed for and won major reductions in funding for peacekeeping troops, including MONUSCO.
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"Defense spending also goes into U.N. peacekeeping missions, into our European missions, and into our contribution to the fight against IS terrorism," she said.
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In a statement, the United Nations mission in Mali said that a peacekeeping base had come under attack in the northeastern village of Aguelhok.
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The indicator which improved the most in the last year was funding for UN peacekeeping operations, which reached record highs in 2016, IEP said.
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"The fight is still ongoing as I write," Mr. Gabriel said, calling on the United Nations peacekeeping mission and cease-fire monitors to investigate.
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On May 22000, 21967, President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt evicted United Nations peacekeeping forces along the Israeli border and remilitarized the Sinai Peninsula.
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The fake officer was exposed after having joined Sweden&aposs UN peacekeeping force in Mali as Chief of Staff with the rank of major.
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He welcomed thousands of Syrian refugees, he included Canada in the fight against climate change, and he offered troops for United Nations peacekeeping forces.
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The city of Beni, where residents outraged by repeated rebel attacks stormed the local United Nations peacekeeping base, has been the site of unrest.
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The newspaper added the U.S. provides roughly a quarter of all funding to U.N. peacekeeping operations, of which there are more than a dozen.
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One area that is likely to draw scrutiny from the Trump administration, judging from what Ms. Haley said during her confirmation hearing, is peacekeeping.
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The pieces seem like they will never fit back together until, after years or decades of peacekeeping missions and power-sharing deals, they do.
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The United Nations has experience in managing airports in countries where it has deployed peacekeeping contingents, but there is no such force in Yemen.
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Among those killed were 15 women, the commander of the Pakistani battalion of the United Nations peacekeeping mission, Waquara Yunusi, told The Associated Press.
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We had deployed to the island and quashed the Cuban-inspired Communist uprising, and then stayed as an Organization of American States peacekeeping force.
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" One of the few sunny spots was Trump's praise for the U.N. peacekeeping missions that have made "invaluable contributions in stabilizing conflicts in Africa.
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The African Union peacekeeping operation has been active in Somalia since 2007, but Somali forces are set to assume responsibility for security in May.
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JEFFREY D. FELTMAN JEAN-PIERRE LACROIX, NEW YORK The writers are United Nations under secretaries general for political affairs and for peacekeeping operations, respectively.
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That's because such vehicles are transported in the U.S. to places where they can be shipped to U.N. peacekeeping missions, where they are used.
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In 2015, Mr. Ban fired the head of a peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic, where some of the most serious allegations had emerged.
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The indicator which improved the most in the last year was funding for U.N. peacekeeping operations, which reached record highs in 2016, IEP said.
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He later said in an interview that Pakistan should send troops across the border or convince the United Nations to send peacekeeping troops there.
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Radhia Achouri, spokeswoman for the 10,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping mission (MINUSMA), confirmed an agreement had been reached, adding that U.N. officials had helped mediate.
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The U.S. is the U.N.'s largest contributor, providing about $3.3 billion a year between the body's core budget and its international peacekeeping efforts.
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The protesters then marched to the offices of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo (MONUSCO), said Teddy Kataliko, a civil society leader in Beni.
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A decades-old peacekeeping operation may be threatened thanks to a raft of violence caused by Islamic State-linked groups in the Sinai Peninsula.
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"They are peacekeepers in what is generally not a peacekeeping mission," said Andrew Lebovich, a visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations.
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The militants aim to topple Somalia's government, to drive out African Union peacekeeping troops and to impose the group's own strict interpretation of Islamic law.
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Violence has escalated since former colonial power France ended its peacekeeping mission in the country last year that once had as many as 2,000 soldiers.
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan, Haiti and the Central African Republic were the peacekeeping missions with the highest rates of alleged abuse.
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The army has dispatched some troops, as has the UN peacekeeping force in Congo, but most are pinned down by conflicts elsewhere in the country.
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But Tillerson warned there was still a "significant difference between the mandate that a peacekeeping force would be given and the scope of their mandate".
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Trump has also criticized America's contributions to UN institutions as disproportionate — not only 22% of the UN's regular budget but also 28% of its peacekeeping.
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To date, China has sent over 30,000 officers and soldiers to 24 UN peacekeeping missions, and 13 have lost their lives, according to state media.
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U.S. Ambassador to NATO Kay Bailey Hutchison described the German plan as involving a European group that would be part of an international peacekeeping force.
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Yet even amid this simmering conflict a bold experiment is taking place that may change the future of state-building and peacekeeping across the world.
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The U.N. mission in Central African Republic is one of the deadliest current peacekeeping missions, with 63 peacekeepers killed as of the end of April.
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Islamist militants frequently target the U.N. peacekeeping mission, and more than 100 peacekeepers have been killed, making it the most deadly U.N. mission to date.
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The new initiative falls far short of the African Union's plan announced in December to send a 5,000-strong peacekeeping force, which Nkurunziza's government rejected.
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The three ambassadors asked for clarifications regarding the Trump administration's position on the work of UNDOF, the peacekeeping team of UN observers in the Golan.
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The United Nations, which has a peacekeeping force in the country, reported 131 soldiers killed over the past year versus 49 in the previous year.
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The commander said it is now a matter of time before the U.N. peacekeeping force redeploys and civilians can once more start using the crossing.
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Hun Sen was beholden to the Western aid donors who funded the massive peacekeeping and nation-building U.N. mission to rehabilitate Cambodia in 1992-1993.
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"It will be part of the existing mandate that Mr Griffiths has ... This is not a peacekeeping mission, they will not be armed," Dujarric said.
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East African regional trade bloc IGAD pushed for the protection force, which will fall under the command of the U.N peacekeeping force known as UNMISS.
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"A small peacekeeping group of about 200 will remain in Syria for a period of time," White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said in a statement.
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It is also a contributor of troops to the African Union (AU)-backed peacekeeping force AMISOM that helps defend Somalia's central government from al Shabaab.
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Burundi has rejected African Union peacekeeping attempts even as its crisis escalates, with dead bodies in the streets and mass graves uncovered by Amnesty International.
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Suddenly, the plan is to seize and use "the amounts that were not spent in the previous (peacekeeping) mission in Haiti" from 2004, Guterres said.
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But it's raising the prospect that the approximately 700 U.S. troops in the Sinai Peninsula could get an additional mission to their current peacekeeping duties.
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France poured in hundreds of troops to push back the insurgents in 2013, but attacks have been spreading further south, despite the U.N. peacekeeping mission.
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Last month, a U.N. investigation claimed that "the credibility of the U.N. and peacekeeping operations are in jeopardy" because abuse reporting policies haven't been enforced.
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U.N. member states are required to pay assessed contributions to the world body's regular and peacekeeping budgets, as well as a budget for international tribunals.
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A resolution requires a complex multination peacekeeping operation and coordination between the United States, Russia and France to be joint guarantors of a peace deal.
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Parallel discussions take place among different officials about peacekeeping, counter-narcotics, counterterrorism and other programs, each with its own planning processes and congressional reporting requirements.
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Earlier disclosures in the sex abuse scandal led to a high-level shake-up last year at the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the country.
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Since these zones will need military protection, Europe would then have to back up its diplomatic initiative by contributing troops to an international peacekeeping mission.
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Al-Shabaab has been waging a war with the Somali government for more than 10 years, prompting the African Union to send in peacekeeping troops.
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What are her views of Congressional action to increase funding for U.N. peacekeeping (at a time when the Administration has been calling for greater cuts)?
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Twenty-five years after genocide occurred in Rwanda on the United Nations' watch, 102,736 military and civilian personnel serve in 14 active peacekeeping missions worldwide.
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DAKAR, Senegal — The peacekeeping missions in the Central African Republic have been tainted by allegations that troops from several countries sexually abused children and adults.
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The rebel presence in the area had declined in recent months, there are UN peacekeeping patrols in the area, and the military operates in Sibut.
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The United Nations peacekeeping operations have been troubled in recent years by allegations that its soldiers have sexually abused civilians in the Central African Republic.
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U.S. Ambassador the United Nations Nikki Haley tweeted out a message celebrating cutting funds to U.N. peacekeeping missions that left many on social media bewildered.
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The Trump administration is weighing a proposed $28500 billion cut in funding for United Nations peacekeeping, children's and poverty programs, according to a new report.
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African Union peacekeeping troops clawed back control of the capital in 2011 and the new Western-backed Somali government reopened the venue the following year.
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They are also cheap: In 2005, the UN's 17 peacekeeping operations, involving 70,000 troops, cost less than one month of U.S. led operations in Iraq.
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The force is part of the U.N. peacekeeping mission known as UNMISS, which has been in South Sudan since its independence from Sudan in 2011.
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Among his complaints: glacial personnel decisions in the face of fast-moving crises like Ebola, and cynical deployments of peacekeeping units with histories of abuse.
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But he is right to point to management failures in the crimes committed by peacekeeping forces from the two Congos in the Central African Republic.
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Moussa Faki Mahamat, African Union Commission Chairman, questioned the international community's position over peacekeeping in Africa, where there was no mechanism to ensure consistent funding.
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He announced that the UN are "exhausting" peacekeeping cash reserves and warned that the organization may not be able to pay some staff next month.
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U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said two U.N. peacekeeping patrols had been sent to the area on Monday and more were expected to patrol on Tuesday.
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To establish a peacekeeping operation, the U.N. Security Council needs to adopt a resolution, but such a move lacks consensus among major powers, observers say.
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The bride's father retired as a director of mission support for the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping and Field Support in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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The Mexican military has increased activity in international forums, developing the groundwork for potential future external military missions, including contributions to United Nations peacekeeping operations.
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But MONUSCO was hampered by funding cuts in the months before violence broke out and the peacekeeping mission was forced to shutter bases in Ituri.
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In light of the uncertainty in the country, the UN continues to support planning efforts for the deployment of MAPROBU, the African Union's peacekeeping force.
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It is the fourth time that a Security Council delegation has visited the country since United Nations peacekeeping forces were deployed to Mali in 2013.
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Kacou Houadja Léon Adom, Ivory Coast's ambassador to the United Nations, said the visit was essential before the peacekeeping mission's mandate was renewed this summer.
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At a weekly cabinet meeting on Friday, Tshisekedi said the United Nations peacekeeping force had asked him to conduct an independent investigation into Kahimbi's death.
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The United States should work with Russia on a compromise for the Donbas, which should be demilitarized and secured by a United Nations peacekeeping force.
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That same year, the National People's Congress passed a revised national security law that expanded the PLA's peacekeeping responsibilities, international rescue operations and escort missions.
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The group carries out frequent bombings to try to undermine Somalia's central government, which is backed by the United Nations and African Union peacekeeping troops.
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United Nations peacekeeping forces are already operating in Mali, which has been racked by a domestic ethnic rebellion and by groups linked to Al Qaeda.
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While helmeted riot police looked on, protesters held signs calling on Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and the United Nations MINUSMA peacekeeping mission to leave.
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The note, seen by The New York Times, poses existential questions that are raising concerns among world powers, like France, that advocate robust peacekeeping operations.
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The Defense Department works closely with the State Department on the peacekeeping missions, training and equipping in 56 countries, almost half of them in Africa.
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"The Israelis did not present any information" at Wednesday's meeting with the Lebanese army and the UNIFIL peacekeeping force, a statement from Berri's office said.
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Like Roosevelt, he initially favored a multinational peacekeeping organization, though the one they envisioned consisted of a great-power directorate keeping lesser troublemakers in line.
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Here is a man dismissive of the arts, the environment, the humanities, diplomacy, peacekeeping, science, public education and civilian national service — in short, civilization itself.
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Al Shabaab frequently carries out bombings to try to undermine Somalia's central government, which is backed by the United Nations and African Union peacekeeping troops.
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The African Union has threatened to send a well-armed peacekeeping force to re-establish order in Bujumbura, a proposal that Mr. Nkurunziza has also opposed.
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"I hope this gives a new injection into the thinking of how we provide development aid and also how we do peacekeeping and peacebuilding," Lövin said.
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Canada's international cooperation on such things as peacekeeping may be more difficult to achieve and that could end up leaving Canada diminished on the world stage.
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Residents said earlier in the day that government and African Union peacekeeping troops (AMISOM) had conducted an operation in the area near where the blast occurred.
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Until recently, the Mexican military, which did not participate in international peacekeeping operations, was "a big enigma, a big mystery" to the US, retired Lt. Gen.
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Jihadists have rendered almost all of north and central Mali unsafe by continually targeting foreign and local interests, taking hostages and attacking security and peacekeeping forces.
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At the same time, the U.N. is still under critical fire for continuing cases of sexual exploitation and abuse, both in its peacekeeping operations and elsewhere.
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The Malakal site shelters 47,791 people out of a total 198,440 that live in six of UNMISS bases throughout South Sudan, according to the peacekeeping mission.
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It would be better still for the alliance if Japan used its army like any other mature democracy, contributing fully to peacekeeping and joint-security operations.
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Ugandan soldiers form a large part of the 22,000-strong African Union (AU) peacekeeping force that defends Somalia's weak Western-backed government against the Islamist insurgents.
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"Many if not all of these allegations result from what appears to a systematic effort to initiate false accusations against peacekeeping personnel in Dekoa," she said.
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Since then Germany has expanded its role in Afghanistan, started arming Kurdish Peshmerga fighters in northern Iraq and increased its peacekeeping role alongside France in Mali.
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This month, for the first time, Japan even contributed two soldiers to an American-led peacekeeping mission, rather than a UN one, in Egypt's Sinai peninsula.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is to send 250 troops to the troubled African nation of Mali next year helping take part in the world's deadliest peacekeeping operation.
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But during the Syrian civil war, armed groups captured the town and large swaths of southwest Syria, forcing the U.N. peacekeeping force in Syria to evacuate.
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In her speech, the actress and UNHCR Special Envoy encouraged countries to sign an agreement pledging to increase the involvement of women throughout the peacekeeping process.
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From sanctions on Iran to a peacekeeping mission in Bosnia, the Security Council has the tools to hold countries accountable but a veto can paralyze it.
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"The secretary-general's report shines a bright light on peacekeeper abuses, but countries that contribute peacekeeping troops will need to follow through on prosecuting these crimes."
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The government has so far rejected assistance from foreign donors, including the 16,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo, saying that would infringe on national sovereignty.
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Such a move falls well short of a European army, but would mark a step in the EU's ambitions in areas from disaster relief to peacekeeping.
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Thirty-plus international partners are assuring arms control and international peacekeeping on behalf of the U.S. and the United Nations in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Libya.
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The United States is the biggest U.N. contributor, paying 275 percent of the $5.4 billion core budget and 28.5 percent of the $7.9 billion peacekeeping budget.
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"In the past, Africa was seen through the peacekeeping lens," said Jennifer Cooke, director of the Africa program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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We can also better protect children by putting additional resources into peacebuilding and peacekeeping, and improving training for military troops on child protection and gender issues.
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Last year, Morocco clashed with the U.N. over its MINURSO peacekeeping mission after former U.N. chief Ban Ki-Moon visited Sahrawi refugee camps in southern Algeria.
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Al Shabaab has carried out frequent attacks in Kenya to press it to pull its troops out of the African Union peacekeeping force in neighboring Somalia.
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In short, U.N. peacekeeping is "exhibit A" for exactly what the president is looking for from other countries — for them to step in and step up.
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After violence in South Sudan's capital Juba earlier this month, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on the Security Council to fortify the peacekeeping mission.
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The U.S. is the U.N.'s biggest contributor, paying 2628 percent of its $28500 billion core budget and 6900 percent of its $2628 billion peacekeeping budget.
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The General Assembly is reportedly negotiating the U.N. regular budget for 22019 and 2019 and its peacekeeping budget from July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2018.
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MONUSCO in the middle MONUSCO has the "first ever offensive combat force" in UN peacekeeping, mandated to go after groups like the ADF wherever they hide.
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The Commission's chief spokesman, Margaritis Schinas, said the EU was working to collaborate on defense procurement and research as well as developing EU military peacekeeping capabilities.
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Bolton also said the Trump administration plans to "reevaluate its support" for United Nations peacekeeping missions, which would include terminating missions it deems ineffective or inefficient.
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Scientists have found in repeated studies that cholera was almost certainly introduced to Haiti by Nepalese soldiers with the United Nations peacekeeping mission there in 2010.
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After the Marine barracks bombing, President Ronald Reagan quickly withdrew the U.S. forces, knowing full well he had not sent American boys on a peacekeeping mission.
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Greminger said discussions about a U.N. peacekeeping force could represent a first step toward a "face-saving move" to end the fighting in the Donbass region.
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