Sentence examples for difficult peacekeeping from inspiring English sources

His term saw lengthy and difficult peacekeeping operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Somalia, and Rwanda.

On the crisis in Congo, General Powell described the situation as "very confused" and warned that Congo was the most difficult peacekeeping task for the United Nations.

A Republican senator has singlehandedly blocked the United States from paying $368 million that it owes the United Nations for four difficult peacekeeping missions, infuriating the Clinton administration and some of its allies.

The fighting, Mr. Holbrooke said, made it more difficult to recruit peacekeeping forces to go to Congo because the duty had become more dangerous.

It was not the most difficult of his peacekeeping assignments: that, he decided, was probably Congo, where the UN force in 1960 was forced to recognise a de facto authority that was both illegitimate and murderous.

"In this situation it is very difficult to talk about peacekeeping when there is no peace to keep".

Senior officials defend the numbers as improving, and argue that publicly shaming member states would make finding peacekeeping troops more difficult.

"To get consensus on anything at all is difficult at the United Nations — water, peacekeeping, it is not just extraterrestrials," she said.

The solution the Army has found -- making its men part detective, part judge and part jailer -- illustrates the difficulty of peacekeeping in a difficult land.

He had an opening splash but found that running in a presidential campaign was far more difficult than any military or peacekeeping effort.

From 1995 to 1996, as under secretary for peacekeeping, he oversaw a difficult transition of that responsibility in Bosnia and Herzegovina from the United Nations to NATO.