Sentence examples for peacekeeping function from inspiring English sources

The military is already in control of Ambon but has lost much of its peacekeeping function as soldiers have turned against each other according to their religions, arming, aiding and sometimes apparently leading the local fighters.

After the October 3 disaster in which 12 Americans had been killed and wounded, Bush distanced himself, saying "Our mission was to go into Somalia, open the supply line" and "then to withdraw and have the UN handle the peacekeeping function.

The UN and its allied programs serve an important humanitarian and peacekeeping function around the world.

Senegalese troops have been involved in various United Nations-sponsored missions as well as peacekeeping functions sponsored by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

Condoleezza Rice, the top national security adviser to Gov. George W. Bush, said today that it might be necessary to set up international police forces to carry out peacekeeping functions that are now the responsibility of soldiers.

Mr. Cohen also took issue with suggestions by Ms. Rice that it might be necessary to set up international police forces to carry out peacekeeping functions that are now the responsibility of soldiers.

A15 Bush Aide on Peacekeepers Condoleezza Rice, the top national security adviser to Gov. George W. Bush, told an Army-sponsored conference that it might be necessary to create international police forces to fulfill peacekeeping functions now the responsibility of soldiers.

The international police force, if approved, would include senior law enforcement officers from Western European and former Soviet countries, Mr. Tesoriere said, and would not perform peacekeeping functions like manning checkpoints separating Uzbek and Kyrgyz neighborhoods.

NATO's peacekeeping role has been put in doubt.

(Agence France-Presse) CONGO: GO-AHEAD FOR U.N. MISSION -- A week after President Laurent Kabila shuffled his government to give it an international image, Congolese officials have agreed to allow a United Nations observer mission, precursor to a 5,000-member 5,000-member force, to function effectively.

While the United States and Britain were negotiating the final form of the draft in the past week, on the military front, a flurry of diplomatic activity was under way to assemble an international coalition of military forces consisting of as many as 17 countries to carry out peacekeeping and security functions in Iraq.