In a concrete bunker on a mothballed Air Force base in Plattsburgh, N.
The United States should insist that the 300, 000 Cambodian refugees in Thailand are not returned to Cambodia until after a U.N. peacekeeping force is in place.
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Sudan has indicated it might accept a U.N. force in Darfur to aid African Union troops if a peace treaty is signed.
Security Counsel for the very purpose of trying to get a resolution passed quickly, so that we can get that U.N. force in place.
The secretary-general of the United Nations says he's optimistic he'll find the 15, 000 troops he needs to beef up the U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon.
Security Council passed a resolution last August mandating a U.N. peacekeeping force in Darfur, did you think it would be eight months and no peacekeepers would be in Darfur?
Lebanon balked at another French idea about strengthening an existing U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon called UNIFIL. France proposed UNIFIL be given the given the power and authority to contain and disarm Hezbollah.
We will never agree to sanction the use of force in the U.N.
It's hoped by many Western nations that by then a deal will have been brokered to allow in a more robust U.N. force.
Michael Eisenstat, of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, says a stabilization force will have to look much different from the current U.N. force, which has been in southern Lebanon for the past 28 years.
The resolution states that the U.N. will have the force's headquarters in place by October.
They will act as a stabilising force to assist the U.N. in allowing the transition to a new government.
Meanwhile, a U.N. peacekeeping force is no closer to being deployed in Darfur.
In 1990, British warships were authorized to use force to enforce U.N. sanctions against Iraq.
French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin argues that any force operating without a U.N. mandate will do so in a legal vacuum.
Last year, Sudan rejected a U.N. force and only agreed to accept the hybrid force spelled out in Tuesday's resolution after months of negotiations.
Under a tentative peace deal, al-Bashir agreed in November to a three-phase U.N. plan to strengthen the overstretched, 7, 000-strong African Union force in Darfur.
Kofi Annan is attending a meeting of European foreign ministers in Brussels, where a number of countries are expected to make firm commitments to the U.N. force.
He said at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Tuesday that his first preference would be an all-Afghan security force, but a multinational security force could probably be assembled more quickly.
While Russia, a non-NATO country, had previously opposed a peacekeeping force with NATO at its core, it agreed to compromise wording in the proposed U.N. resolution that calls for a halt in the bombing of Yugoslavia before the resolution is formally approved.
Liang is scheduled to visit the U.S. Southern Command in Florida, and tour Camp Lejeune and Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina as well as the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.
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