France would like the African-led mission to become a UN peacekeeping operation as soon as possible.
Ordinary Liberians, and neighbouring African governments, want America to lead the peacekeeping operation.
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Matters can only be made vastly worse as the multibillion-dollar costs of a Bosnia peacekeeping operation have to be factored in.
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If that fails, a land war (as opposed to a peacekeeping operation) might become the only way to avert western humiliation.
And tomorrow, it will be an operation for -- a peacekeeping operation.
The UN's peacekeeping mission has been in DR Congo for more than a decade and was at one time the biggest peacekeeping operation in the world.
So President Reagan decided to withdraw U.S. forces from what would likely become a major military quagmire for the United States, instead of a multinational peacekeeping operation.
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For one thing, the 1, 500-strong "Task Force 72, " part of the international peacekeeping operation in East Timor, has been receiving plenty of favorable reports from the U.N.
The French have said they are planning to start withdrawing their 4, 000 soldiers next month, and would like the African-led contingent to become a UN peacekeeping operation.
Europeans are also hoping to get the go-ahead to take over peacekeeping in Bosnia from NATO and to turn it into the EU's biggest ever peacekeeping operation.
France has said it wants to start withdrawing its 4, 000 soldiers from its former colony next month - and would like the African-led mission to become a UN peacekeeping operation.
Specifically, because we know the importance of peace in Darfur I am announcing today more help from Britain to train, equip and deploy African troops for the joint UN-African Union peacekeeping operation.
The peacekeeping operation, formally titled The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), currently has 17, 500 troops, with the possibility of expanding to 19, 815 under its Security Council mandate.
Ki-moon said that, from the earliest planning stages of a peacekeeping operation, an end point must be envisaged at which the countries concerned could implement peace agreements and achieve at least the minimum level of sustainable stability, among other results.
The last time I was here, we were embedded in the Green Zone security bubble of the African Union peacekeeping operation at the edge of the Somali capital, with its Ugandan and Burundian troops, its heavy mortars and armoured convoys.
Unamsil is now the biggest UN peacekeeping force in operation, numbering some 13, 000.
However, joint training exercises and co-operation in peacekeeping and disaster relief will now be permitted under the new agreement.
The United Nations peacekeeping force in Congo was not involved in the operation.
The United Nations peacekeeping force there, which is already its largest operation anywhere, is about to be made even larger.
Europeans, while increasingly shy of Iraq, say that they will give more money to NATO's operation in Afghanistan, where the international peacekeeping force is under NATO command.
Last week, the UN Security Council strongly condemned what they called Eritrea's unacceptable actions and restrictions on the peacekeeping mission and warned it could have implications for the operation's future.
The UK's contribution to the UN operation in Cyprus began in 1964 making it the longest peacekeeping mission in British military history.
Nato leads some 6, 000 international peacekeeping troops stationed in Kosovo, while the EU runs a security and policing operation known as Eulex.
These included Operation Atalanta - combating piracy off the coast of Somalia, and the peacekeeping work in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo.
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