Sentence examples for current peacekeeping from inspiring English sources
There's a signal from this summit to some of the existing contributors whose soldiers are not willing to fight or go on patrol they shouldn't just assume that the current peacekeeping system and very low expectations of peacekeepers will continue," he said.
Since the deployment in Southeast Asia, China's participation in UN peacekeeping has substantially expanded, 2,000 Chinese "blue helmets" are currently carrying tasks in 12 different missions -- on a total of 15 current peacekeeping operations.
They have to carry out all the UN's current peacekeeping missions, and many more would be needed to deal with the different factions in Syria.
The Turks are to take over leadership of the current peacekeeping force from the British and have expressed their opposition to the expansion envisioned by Mr. Karzai.
A spokesman for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bernard Valéro, questioned the authenticity of the statement and said France stood behind current peacekeeping operations.
He said that decades of turmoil have made corruption "congenital" in Sierra Leone, now the setting for the United Nations' largest current peacekeeping operation.
The Security Council has proved far more willing to approve regional peacekeeping efforts like the Nigerian-led mission in the Ivory Coast, particularly as the United Nations' current peacekeepers are thinly stretched in more than a dozen conflict zones.
Congo, which is home to the largest current United Nations peacekeeping force — more than 17,000 troops — is also an example.
The draft resolution also allows the current United Nations peacekeeping force in nearby Sierra Leone to use its equipment to airlift to Monrovia the first battalion of Nigerian troops.
Sadly, the current United Nations peacekeeping contingent has been discredited by an ugly sex scandal ("In Congo War, Even Peacekeepers Add to Horror," front page, Dec. 18).
On Monday, formal authority was transferred from the current African Union peacekeeping force to a joint United Nations-African Union mission.
