The agreement initialed today requires only that the Afghans keep the peacekeeping force apprised of which barracks soldiers are garrisoned in.
The old-timers in Jakarta promised to teach the younger generation about their experiences with UN peacekeeping to keep the sense of mission alive and to make sure that Indonesia would be ready, once again, to serve in the future.
They are kept happy by lucrative UN peacekeeping operations and business deals.This week's events mark the start of another cycle of violence.
The United Nations keeps a forward peacekeeping base nearby, for better communication with villagers, and the Congolese military has a presence in the area.
The United Nations has kept its largest peacekeeping mission here since 1999.
"The Dutch state made available soldiers for the peacekeeping mission, to keep apart fighting parties," its lawyers told the court.
It is true that the compelling cold war need for peacekeeping forces to keep regional conflicts out of the orbit of East-West hostility no longer exists.
On the flight to Islamabad, he explained to me that France's commitment to the future of Afghanistan, which Sarkozy had underscored by promising to keep troops in the NATO peacekeeping force, gave it an important stake in Pakistan's stability and in the fate of democracy there.
"The complex array of threats and, let's call it geopolitical jockeying, requires all of us to contend with an unpredictable landscape, and our support to peacekeeping operations must keep pace with that unpredictability," the Joint Chiefs chairman said.
The world also needs an international criminal court for dealing with leaders like Mr. Sankoh, whose rebel force is known for hacking off civilians' limbs to keep people intimidated and who has disrupted peacekeeping in Sierra Leone, he said.
