UN orders review of peacekeeping operations

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UN orders review of peacekeeping operations

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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon announced on September 24 that the UN will revisit peacekeeping operations as multiple crises put military, police and civilian personnel in increasingly challenging environments. Ban did not elaborate on the nature and scope of the review but noted in his speech the problems that the UN as a whole dealt with this year. Ban’s announcement comes after the controversy surrounding the standoff between Filipino troops in the Golan Heights and Syrian rebels in late August, where the peacekeepers defied the orders of their UN commander to surrender their weapons to armed groups. There are 97,947 UN peacekeepers as of August.

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