Sentence examples for peacekeeping until from inspiring English sources

Above all, Mr. Annan has earned plaudits for his efforts to revitalize the United Nations, and especially to put real teeth in its peacekeeping missions, which he managed as under secretary general for peacekeeping until he was elected to his current post in 1996.

To ensure peace the UN Security Council extended its peacekeeping operation until December 31.

But their soldiers are often ill-trained, and their equipment usually has to be supplied by someone richer.However desperate the need, the UN is not even allowed to start collecting a peacekeeping force until the council provides its mandate.

A peacekeeping force remained until 1985.

Carney served with a number of U.N. Peacekeeping Missions, and until recently led the Haiti Democracy Project, an initiative launched under the presidency of George W. Bush to build stronger institutional foundations for the country's long-term relationship with the United States.

It was just a matter of keeping a lid on things until international peacekeeping forces took over and an Afghan national army was in place.

When Russia last November brokered a peace deal in Moldova that would have involved Russian "peacekeeping" troops staying there until 2020, it expected no resistance.

That is low by Western standards but, until recently, peacekeeping was a relatively good deal for Bangladesh, Pakistan and India, the three leading contributors.

Secretary General Kofi Annan recommended to the Security Council today that the United Nations not increase the size of its peacekeeping force in Lebanon until Israel withdraws and Lebanon guarantees the safety of the troops.

One of its most important messages to the UN's secretary-general, Kofi Annan, is that, if told to do the impossible, he should just say no.For the UN's first 40 years, peacekeeping usually meant waiting until armies had fought to a standstill, and then interposing monitors between the ex-combatants.

Ethiopia could delay its pullout until a larger peacekeeping force arrived.