When enough peacekeeping soldiers flood into a little country, as in Eritrea, or journalists into small towns, as in western Pakistan recently, prices of everything shoot up.
Other reported contributions include offering more CF-18 jet fighters for joint patrols of North American skies and Canadian soldiers for peacekeeping duties in Bosnia to free U.S. troops there for duty elsewhere.
Yet with the Bundeswehr mostly engaged in humanitarian work and peacekeeping, Germans may see sending soldiers abroad as just a form of armed development aid.
The assumption in Washington and London is that France could and should be the main contributor (with 5, 000 or so soldiers) to a peacekeeping force On the one hand, it is quietly pleased to be courted.
There is the possibility of more attacks against the international peacekeeping force Unifil, which lost six soldiers in a roadside bombing towards the end of June.
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UN, for its part, refuses to employ soldiers younger than 18 in its peacekeeping forces and prefers 21-year-olds for the tougher assignments.
NATO, and it would mean that American troops were less likely to be involved in peacekeeping (which the Pentagon believes dulls combat soldiers' fighting edge and for which Congress can lack enthusiasm).
Just send a few soldiers, U.N. peacekeeping force UNAMID or Sudanese to watch over the place.
The soldiers will join a 250-strong unarmed peacekeeping mission in the UN buffer zone.
Internationally, Chilean soldiers have won plaudits for their role in peacekeeping and rescue operations in Bosnia and most recently in Haiti in January, when its troops helped deal with that country's earthquake.
After ten months of peacekeeping in Afghanistan, the alliance has still deployed only 250 soldiers outside Kabul.
Three Congolese soldiers from the Central African Economic Community (Cemac) peacekeeping force stationed in the country were killed, said the organisation.
The military needs such systems, particularly when soldiers are involved in international coalitions, joint humanitarian and peacekeeping missions that require complex resource sharing requirements.
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The NATO-led peacekeeping force said it was distributing a "wanted" poster to its soldiers to help them spot and capture the 51 suspected war criminals indicted and at large.
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The three American soldiers, captured on April 1, were part of an unarmed peacekeeping force patrolling the border between Yugoslavia and Macedonia.
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The EU also plays a key supervisory role in Kosovo through its Eulex rule-of-law mission while soldiers from EU states are deployed as part of the K-For peacekeeping mission.
The EU plays a key supervisory role in Kosovo through its Eulex rule-of-law mission while soldiers from EU states are deployed as part of the K-For peacekeeping mission.
Soldier and Marine family members who knew about this program, and the very real challenges it faces in accomplishing change within the military, asked for a way to communicate better the gap in equipment our young Soldiers and Marines need on the ground in a new kind of war and peacekeeping.
It even includes English lessons and soldiers in that classroom were confident that one day their army would even be considered for peacekeeping roles abroad.
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.
But in recent weeks it has still managed to pull off a string of spectacular attacks in Mogadishu, culminating in the ambush and elimination of an entire Burundian peacekeeping platoon, which, despite official denials, appears to have caused the death of more than 60 soldiers.
The inherent problem posed by inserting foreign observers into this conflict was recently underscored when the international peacekeeping forces confessed after repeated denials that they had indeed filmed Hezbollah operatives kidnapping three Israeli soldiers near the Lebanese border.
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