As the United Nations continues to send peacekeepers to difficult or war-torn environments like Mali and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, those ‘blue helmets’ will need more and better coordinated support among the actors who authorize and deploy them, Secretary-General António Guterres said on Wednesday.
Unrealistic demands on UN peacekeeping costing lives and credibility – Guterres
- 28 March 2018
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