Active peacekeeping includes subduing belligerent forces, supervising cease-fires, repatriating belligerents, destroying weapons, assisting refugees, providing humanitarian assistance and helping to reconstruct the political order.
And about 3,000 peacekeepers, including 700 Americans, are based in Macedonia to back up the peacekeeping force in Kosovo.
Canada has since served in over 50 peacekeeping missions, including every UN peacekeeping effort until 1989, and has since maintained forces in international missions in Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia, and elsewhere; Canada has sometimes faced controversy over its involvement in foreign countries, notably in the 1993 Somalia Affair.
She said the United States would still help Rwanda support peacekeeping missions, including in the Darfur region of Sudan.
The Gambia's military forces have participated in various international peacekeeping missions, including serving as United Nations Peacekeeping Forces in several countries.
It is home to the world's biggest peacekeeping mission, including about 1,400 troops in and around Goma.
Grossly inadequate sanitation practices at a peacekeeping base, including the spillover of faecal waste, led to the contamination of a nearby stream.
In August, when the fiercest fighting began, Congolese forces were backed by the new peacekeeping brigade, including air support from Indian helicopters.
Rachel L. Swarns (NYT UNITED NATIONS U.S. PAYS DUESS -- The United States paid some of its back dues to peacekeeping operations, including $40 million for Kosovo and $53 million for East Timor.
Turning to the future of Iraq, Musharraf hoped that Muslim peacekeeping troops (including Pakistanis) could replace U.S. forces under a United Nations umbrella.
