Both United Nations and State Department officials were skeptical of this grand venture, but Holbrooke argued that without Lusaka Plus, as he dubbed his hypothetical agreement, the United States Congress would never sign off on the United Nations peacekeeping resolution that the signatories themselves craved.
They all seemed very enthusiastic, and Holbrooke lavished his usual hyperbolic praise on them -- this is the most valuable group of any group I've met with" -- but as they went around the room, the Zimbabwean ambassador, Tichaona Jokonya, said that his president, Robert Mugabe, was coming to New York to get a peacekeeping resolution, not to renegotiate Lusaka.
Second, the UN must develop a comprehensive, modern and effective operational peace architecture, encompassing prevention, conflict resolution, peacekeeping, peacebuilding and long-term development -- the "peace continuum," ensuring the primacy of political solutions at all stages.
Our theory is that we very much need to partner with African countries, first and foremost, and regional African organisations.And one of the main topics in the summit will be finding ways to strengthen peacekeeping and conflict-resolution efforts by Africans.
The American proposal was part of a Security Council resolution on peacekeeping forces in East Timor and would have applied to peacekeepers from any nation who were part of that mission.
By analogy with the use of the epidemiological data for infectious diseases to help design emergency health interventions, we argue for improved use of data on lethal violence in the design and implementation of peacekeeping, humanitarian and conflict resolution interventions.
He worked hard to help push through recent United Nations resolutions on peacekeeping forces in Sudan and Chad.
The American taxpayers also spent an additional $8,779,000,000 from the United States military budget to support various U.N resolutions and peacekeeping operations...
Critics called the piracy resolution and the peacekeeping proposal ill considered, last-minute Bush administration initiatives.
Security Council members have started to work on a resolution creating a peacekeeping force for Congo, while also supervising a military mission in Sierra Leone.
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.
