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Peacekeeping Facts and Figures : Foreign Contributions-Personnel
- African Peacekeeping Force Wins Support
-- [Global Policy Forum] (June 2, 2003)
Representatives from the New Partnership for African Development stressed the importance of creating an African peacekeeping force at the G8 summit in Evian. France and Britain offer principle support for the initiative first proposed over two years ago.
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- China to Aid UN Peace Mission in Congo
-- [Global Policy Forum] (January 31, 2003) Despite its permanent seat on the UN Security Council, China did not take part in peacekeeping missions until 1989. Recently, Beijing announced plans to send more than 200 engineers and medics on a UN peacekeeping mission to Congo.
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- Current UN/UN-mandated missions and German contributions
-- "Currently (end of April 2001) Germany is participating in 7 of the 18 ongoing UN missions(UNIKOM/Kuwait, UNMIBH/ Bosnia and Herzegovina, UNMIK/Kosovo, UNTAET/East Timor, UNOMIG/ Georgia and also SFOR/Bosnia and Herzegovina and KFOR/ Kosovo), contributing some 7300 troops and 450 police officers and civilian specialists. Hence also in terms of personnel Germany is one of the biggest contributors to UN operations..."
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- Dilemmas of Peace Building: Reflections on Turkey's Drive for ISAF Command
-- [Global Policy Forum] (April 19, 2002)Afghanistan’s Interim Security Assistance Force is a peace-building, not a peacekeeping operation. As Turkey gets ready to take over ISAF’s command, the Turkish Daily argues that understanding the often confusing difference between the two operations is important for success.
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- Peacekeeping Is Back, With New Faces and Rules
-- [Global Policy Forum] (July 20, 2003)The New York Times reports that recent UN peacekeeping operations (PKOs) mainly consist of troops from developing countries. More economically robust countries pay the peacekeeping budget. The Under-Secretary General for PKOs worries that this segregation “could cause some resentment.”
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- The Descendants of Vikings Are Now Raiders for Peace
-- [Global Policy Forum] (April 21, 2002)As a major contributor to UN peacekeeping operations, Norway advocates a peace-making model that stresses cooperation, flexibility, and patience.
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- UN's Big Five Block Move to Have Them Pledge More UN Peacekeepers
-- [Global Policy Forum] (November 13, 2000) The Security Council adopts a reform-minded resolution welcoming and following up on the Brahimi report, but rejects a proposal by Bangladesh that each of the permanent five Security Council members provide five percent of each peacekeeping operation’s troops.
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- Untie SDF's hands for PKOs
-- [Global Policy Forum] (April 18, 2002] As the largest contingent of Japanese peacekeepers heads for East Timor, the Daily Yomiuri argues that the Japanese government should incorporate UN peacekeeping missions into one of Japan’s Self Defense Force’s (SDF) main duties.
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