U.N. Peacekeeping
Friday, October 11, 2013 - 00:00
A roundup of some of the top articles and news highlights from around Central Eurasia over the last week:
Central Asia:
Wednesday, October 9, 2013 - 07:48
Peacekeeping forces of the Collective Security Treaty Organization practiced the protection of a humanitarian cargo motorcade and the isolation of an area where extremists operated during the exercise Nerushimoye Bratstvo 2013.
Wednesday, October 9, 2013 - 07:41
The larger context of the drill, though, included fights over resources in the region and interethnic tension, giving some sense of the circumstances in which the CSTO imagines that these peacekeeping forces might someday be used.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - 07:19
Members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), a Russia-led military alliance of former Soviet states, started joint peacekeeping drills on Monday in Russia’s Urals region, the Central Military District said.
Monday, October 7, 2013 - 08:38
A delegation of the UN Security Council arrived Sunday in Kigali for a two-day official visit to Rwanda, official sources told PANA. The sources said the delegation would discuss, with the Rwandan authorities, the implementation of a peace accord aimed at stabilizing the sub-region, including eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Monday, October 7, 2013 - 08:35
Tajikistan is represented by a platoon of the Mobile Troops in the second joint military exercise for the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) collective peacekeeping forces.
Monday, October 7, 2013 - 08:29
After an aggressive new U.N. brigade in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo scored a military victory over M23 rebels and forced them back to peace talks, U.N. peacekeepers are now turning their focus to two other equally dangerous armed groups.
Monday, October 7, 2013 - 08:23
In the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the national army and United Nations peacekeepers are working to combat dozens of armed groups that have terrorized local populations. In North Kivu province alone, 1 million people - one-sixth of the entire population - has been displaced by violence. While combat rages, civilians are also fighting a daily battle of their own – the battle to survive.
Friday, October 4, 2013 - 10:32
France is drafting a United Nations Security Council resolution aimed at stabilizing the Central African Republic, the chronically dysfunctional country in which a transitional government has failed to stop months of lawless rampaging, atrocities and dire shortages that are attracting extremist militants from neighboring states.
Friday, October 4, 2013 - 07:30
The annual NATO program Operational Capabilities Concept in Almaty announced that Kazakhstan peacekeepers are ready for the UN operations, the Kazakh Ministry of Defence reported.