... the Department of International Organizations at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs V.E. Sergeev delivered welcome remarks at the event. He noted Russia’s strong focus on advancing UN-led peacekeeping activities through training and instructing peacekeepers, providing financial support, sharing expertise, and promoting the network of peacekeeping veterans. Special emphasis was placed on Russia’s position on strengthening the UN role internationally.
The roundtable discussion also covered the ...
... made it possible to destroy Soviet Armenian equipment used by separatists on the territory. The liberation of Shusha (Shushi) on November 8, 2020, and the progressive exhaustion of the pro-Armenians heralded a total victory. The news of the arrival of peacekeepers was unfortunate at a time when everything seemed to be going in a positive direction for Baku.
In the eyes of Yerevan, this news is also mitigated. The Armenians and separatists of Nagorno-Karabakh thus avoided a possible total defeat, but ...
On August 14-17, Accademia Konrad Adenauer and "Villa Collina" (Italy) welcome international expert meeting "Russia-Ukraine Conflict - Will UN Peacekeeping Mission Be Created?" that involves representatives from Germany, Russia, and Ukraine
On August 14-17, Accademia Konrad Adenauer and "Villa Collina" (Italy) welcome international expert meeting "Russia-Ukraine Conflict - Will UN Peacekeeping Mission Be Created?" that involves representatives from Germany...
... problems for both Ukraine and Russia
It all began three months ago to the day, in the Chinese town of Xiamen. During a news conference following the BRICS Summit, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin proposed the use of international peacekeepers under auspices of the United Nations in the east of Ukraine. The idea was not totally new either: it had been discussed, in a variety of formats, ever since the very first months of the military confrontation in Donbass. However, it was the ...
... recent Russian proposals put forward by President Vladimir Putin in Xiamen (China) in early September and then further expounded upon by Sergey Lavrov in New York presuppose an extremely narrow mandate for the peacekeeping mission. Specifically, the peacekeepers should safeguard the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission only, provided that the observers are fulfilling their obligations as set out in the Minsk Agreements. Any other use of the peacekeepers would effective constitute an on-the-ground revision ...
As the 2018 World Cup looms in Russia, the need for a peacekeeping force in the Donbass grows evermore urgent. Beijing should recognise the irony in coming to the aid of both the West and the former Soviet bloc.
Peacekeepers in southeastern Ukraine are suddenly back on the global policy agenda, and Asia now has its first major opportunity of this century to rescue Europe from itself – and, by extension, to save the world entire.
The recent announcement by Russian ...
Alexander Nikitin held a lecture and presented his report “International Intervention in Conflicts: UN, OSCE, EU, NATO, CSTO Peacekeeping Policies”
On Wednesday, June 28, 2017, Alexander Nikitin, Director of the Center for Euro-Atlantic Security at the Institute for International Research MGIMO and Head Research Associate of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, held a lecture and presented his report “
International Intervention in Conflicts: UN, OSCE, EU, NATO, CSTO Peacekeeping...
... example of this is the AU mission in Somalia, which is primarily aimed at combating terrorist groups like Al-Shabaab in support of the internationally-recognized government in Mogadishu.
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Aslan Abashidze, Denis Vidineyev:
Who Sends Peacekeepers and How?
An additional obstacle towards more effective peacekeeping in Africa has been the funding of the operations, fraught by shortages, discrepancies, and imbalances.
This stands in sharp contrast to French and EU missions. While the ...
... avoid direct interventions and possible great power confrontations where their core interests were not at stake. It also helped effectively deal with decolonization conflicts that would come to dominate the international agenda.
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UN peacekeepers patrolling the streets of
the CAR capital, Bangui
The end of the Cold War, the gradual unblocking of the UN, and the general euphoria about the Organization caused a veritable surge in peacekeeping. If in 1956-1988 the UN
fielded
10 missions,...
The Future of Peacekeeping
The International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers is celebrated on 29 May
[1]
. The day has a dual purpose – to commemorate UN peacekeepers who have died in the name of peace and pay tribute to all men and women dedicating high levels of professionalism, dedication and courage by ...
