Prospects for Peace: UN Peacekeeping Missions
| Date | Tuesday, September 19, 2006 |
Jane Holl Lute, Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations, discusses the challenges of peacekeeping in Lebanon and Darfur. What is the UN doing to hold the ceasefire agreement between Lebanon and Israel? What is the status of the deployment of the new peacekeeping mission along the Israel-Lebanon border? In Sudan, the mandate of the current African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) force ends on September 30 - the Sudanese government has thus far rejected a resolution to introduce a UN force to replace AMIS. What are the prospects for implementing the UN peacekeeping force in Darfur? What do these two, expansive new missions mean for UN peacekeeping writ large?