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The development of peacekeeping operations has brought concerns of its own.
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Sir Brian Urquhart, who served as personal assistant to the first secretary general, Trygve Lie, and was instrumental in the development of the organisation's peacekeeping force, has long argued for the system to be overhauled.
For example, the charter could justify the allocation of exceptional political power to the 5 (or 9 or 12) states that had voluntarily assumed the greatest share of the United Nations' burdens: by their contributions of budgetary support, development assistance, peacekeeping personnel, etc.
NATO needs those European development and peacekeeping capabilities.
And now all of our work – financing for development, social spending in rich nations and poor, the millennium development goals, peacekeeping – is endangered by the global financial crisis.
In fact, the President has a horror of peacekeeping missions.
The expansion of peacekeeping forces is essential.
True, there has been no war and a laudable history of peacekeeping, but that only makes it harder to explain why the country is placed 154 out of 177 in the UN's latest development index.
Many poor nations say that more money should be spent on development, not peacekeeping.
"It is clearly one of the most tragic days for United Nations peacekeeping," said Alain Le Roy, the under secretary general of peacekeeping operations.
But for many, the privatisation of peacekeeping is still a step too far.
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