It is "Placekeeper," not "Peacekeeper".
It wants a stronger OSCE presence, demilitarisation, and international (not Russian) peacekeepers.
He did not say peacekeepers would be needed for that long.
Ethnic cleansing is being carried out against Muslims and there are not enough peacekeepers to stop it.
Nothing so far — not 18,000 peacekeepers, not various regional peace treaties, not other high-level diplomatic visits — have stemmed the violence.
They have not allowed peacekeepers to move into the areas with the richest diamond mines, which are centered on Koidu.
But it soon became clear that the troops were not neutral peacekeepers; they were there to make sure that the trains moved, which would inevitably undermine the boycott.
The United States is not sending peacekeepers, but has promised logistical and intelligence support, and help in evacuating international forces should they become endangered.
Susan E. Rice, the American ambassador to the United Nations, stressed that the observers needed complete freedom of movement, while noting that the 250 observers were deploying as observers, not as peacekeepers with a mandate to use force.
