peacekeeping mission
- n the activity of keeping the peace by military forces (especially when international military forces enforce a truce between hostile groups or nations)
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- Golan Heights peace mission needs backing
UNITED NATIONS, June 14 (UPI) -- It's critical that a U.N. peacekeeping mission near the Israeli border with Syria can operate freely and without risk, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said.
June 14, 2013 - UPI - U.N. says Israel-Syria ceasefire jeopardized by Golan violence
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A spillover of violence from Syria's civil war into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights is jeopardizing a decades old ceasefire between Israel and Syria, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a report to the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday. Ban recommended to the 15-member council that self defense capabilities of a U.N. peacekeeping mission ...
June 12, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News - UN chief appoints Germany's Martin Kobler as Congo envoy
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed former German diplomat Martin Kobler on Monday as his special envoy to the volatile Democratic Republic of Congo, succeeding former U.S. diplomat Roger Meece in July. Kobler - currently U.N. special envoy in Iraq and previously deputy U.N. representative in Afghanistan - will head a 17,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping mission in ...
June 11, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News