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Cameron also emphasised that Afghan forces would have lead responsibility for peacekeeping during the elections and insisted Britain would stick to the deadline of bringing out all fighting troops by the end of the year whatever happens.

Following this command, Soriano returned to Germany to serve with the 3d and 1st Infantry Divisions, which included deployments to Bosnia for peacekeeping during Operation Joint Endeavor.

When Kofi Annan last spring assumed the role of UN and Arab League Special Envoy for Syria, the lessons he learned as head of UN Peacekeeping during the Srebrenica genocide should have provided a compass for his new mandate.

The president held extensive discussions about the peacekeeping operation during his trip to Africa this month.

Australia played a peacekeeping role during the nearly decade-long civil war in Bougainville, which at its height had displaced 70,000 of the 180,000-strong population.

In spring 2012, gunmen opened fire on a peacekeeping convoy during the course of a blockade of the force's remote sites and convoys.

You see, twenty years ago I served in the UN peacekeeping force during the Balkan wars – wars so cruel, so devastating, which flowed from this same factory of deceit, bigotry and ethnic nationalism.

With a rise in peacekeeping operations during the 1990's, Army leaders decided last year to rely more on the 564,000 members of its Guard and Reserve to ease the burden on the regular Army.

It was, he said, "unfair" to criticise him personally, as have some who refer to his role as head of UN peacekeeping operations during the 1994 Rwandan genocide and the massacre of Bosnian Muslims by Serbs at Srebrenica the following year.

Unlike peacekeeping operations during the Cold War, the operations have usually lacked the consent of the government of the target state.

Countless more innocent lives would have been lost if it wasn't for the UN's efforts to protect civilians -- including an unprecedented move to shelter 85,000 people on its peacekeeping bases during a particularly virulent outbreak of fighting.