In the third phase, the peacekeeping operation would be taken over by the United Nations.
The town's capture by the Bosnian Serbs on July 11th 1995, followed by the slaughter of men and boys over the next five days, marked the end of a ramshackle UN peacekeeping operation and ushered in the final phase of the war, in which the Serbs were driven back to a point where peace terms seemed conceivable.The region remains sullen and depressed.
In addition, Mr Martelly has spoken sweepingly about jobs, education, and agriculture, while Ms Manigat has argued for reining in NGOs and phasing out the UN's peacekeeping force.A more immediate concern for the first-round winners was to shore up their legitimacy.
During the campaign, Ms. Rice called for phasing out American troops in the Balkans peacekeeping operation, NATO's main mission currently.
The plan assumes that Mr. Taylor will make good on his promises to step down and leave the country, and that the American presence will be phased out quickly and replaced by United Nations peacekeeping forces from other nations.
Armies dominated by conscript soldiers, serving for only ten months, are not much use for delicate peacekeeping missions, as many other European countries are finding.Hence the recent decision to phase out the draft between now and 2005 a break with tradition that has been welcomed on the political right and grudgingly accepted on the left.
The United Nations peacekeeping force, now numbering about 5,000 soldiers -- chiefly from Australia, Portugal, Japan and New Zealand -- will be phased out over 18 months to two years, Mr. Annan said.
They said they anticipate performing significant combat operations and peacekeeping missions simultaneously as the pace of the war shifts from head-on combat to a more subtle phase.
After many months of downplaying the stark humanitarian consequences, Alan Doss, the head of UN peacekeeping in Congo, has said that the operation will end on 31 December, to make way for a new phase of joint UN-Congolese operations.
The resolution reduces the peacekeeping force in East Timor, the former Indonesian territory that is due to become independent at midnight Sunday, and seeks to phase it out in two more years.
