Today we will talk about U.N. peacekeeping operations and how they work. Peacekeeping operations take up a vast majority of the U.N.'s 10 Billion dollar budget annually. This is because it is it is used in so many parts of the world, and everything costs alot. The way peacekeeping missions start, is when the U.N. general assembly sees it fit to send peacekeepers to a certain region. They then vote on it, and if it passes, peacekeepers are sent. There are 17 deployments of peacekeepers in Haiti, Western Sahara, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Darfur, Sudan, Timor-Leste, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Syria, Lebanon, Middle East, and Cyprus. Peacekeepers are placed to distribute aide, and protect the citizens. They will not fire unless fired upon.
UN peacekeepers on a patrol in the Middle East.
Well, thats it for today, hope you enjoyed!
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