May 29 of this year marked the 20th International Day of UN Peacekeepers. One might think this would be a major event in countries such as the United States, which has the largest foreign military deployments in the world and the globe’s largest military budget. But this was not the …
Read More »Kiev calls for UN peacekeeping mission
On Thursday, amid the ongoing Russian offensive, Ukraine’s parliament called on the United Nations and other international organizations to send a peacekeeping mission to their country. Addressing the UN, the International Red Cross, the European Parliament and “parliaments and cabinets” of all nations, they adopted a resolution urging foreign involvement …
Read More »Russia-led bloc approves peacekeeping deployment in Kazakhstan
A peacekeeping force will be deployed for a ‘limited’ period of time to stabilize the situation in Kazakhstan, the chairman of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Nikol Pashinyan, has announced. “In response to the appeal by [President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev] and considering a threat to national security and sovereignty of …
Read More »Ukraine proposes to leave out the peacekeeping contingent in Donbass
According to American, it will increase the chances to persuade Putin on the emergence of such a mission. The United Nations peacekeeping forces, which can enter the Donbass, should be without Russian representatives. However, Ukraine may not be sending its contingent. The proposal was made by former Deputy Secretary General …
Read More »Poltorak opposed Russian participation in the peacekeeping mission in the Donbass
The UN peacekeeping mission must be deployed in all the temporarily occupied territory, said Poltorak. Ukraine excludes the possibility of participation of Russian representatives in the UN peacekeeping mission in the Donbass, said the Minister of defense Stepan Poltorak during a meeting with canadian counterpart Hargita Sajjana in the framework …
Read More »Famous cartoonist made fun of “peacekeeping” intentions of Putin
The artist skillfully showed the current situation on one picture. Cartoonist Sergei Elkin in his new work showed how the President of Russia Vladimir Putin tries on a “blue helmet”. This caricature Elkin responded to the proposal on the consideration by UN Security Council of the issue of deployment of …
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