Sentence examples for peacekeeping office from inspiring English sources

Before his tenure the peacekeeping office had been run on a shoestring budget, employing a handful of officials.

"It's happening," said Hiroute Guebre Sellassie, who heads the United Nations peacekeeping office in North Kivu Province.

But more senior people in the UN's peacekeeping office, already failing to get enough troops into Darfur, rule that out.

Annan's peacekeeping office flatly rejected General Dallaire's requests to seize weapons.

Mr. Annan has taken institutional and personal blame for that catastrophe, which occurred while he was the head of the United Nations peacekeeping office.

"They were able to bypass all of the positions we had," said Hiroute Guebre Sellassie, who heads the United Nations peacekeeping office in North Kivu Province, where Goma is situated.

The bride and bridegroom work in Washington, where she is a project management specialist in the technology and general services department of the International Monetary Fund, and he is a foreign service officer in the office of peacekeeping and humanitarian operations at the State Department.

Turchynov's request for UN peacekeeping troops – which his office described as an invitation to participate in a "joint anti-terrorist operation" – appears to have been a largely symbolic gesture.

According to a confidential memo compiled by the UN's office of peacekeeping and first reported by VICE News, the UN estimates that it will be able to do little to protect civilians in the event of widespread fighting in the country.

Calm returned to the streets of Abidjan, the country's main city, after four days of violent protests by supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo that besieged United Nations offices and peacekeeping bases and paralyzed much of the rest of the country.

At the Cinéma Usu-Usu today, a stone's throw from the United Nations office responsible for peacekeeping operations here, "Mortal Kombat" was the afternoon feature.