That sweeping language is similar to the language the Security Council has used in prior peacekeeping operations where the use of force was authorized as a last resort.

FORBES: Connect

In recent months, Eritrea has placed increasingly tight restrictions on the operations of the UN peacekeeping force deployed along the border and ordered Western UN staff to withdraw.

BBC: NEWS | Africa | Eritrea broke law in border war

The Sierra Leoneans also attack Guineans, largely, it seems, in reprisal for operations by Guinean troops attached to the West African peacekeeping force, Ecomog, which intervened in Sierra Leone.

ECONOMIST: Guinea

In 2003 Nato took its operations outside Europe for the first time when it assumed strategic command of the UN-mandated peacekeeping force in and immediately around the Afghan capital, Kabul.

BBC: Profile: Nato