Security Council approved a resolution Friday to authorize a multinational force to go into Liberia, by a vote of 12-0.
The United States introduced a resolution asking the United Nations to approve the creation of a multinational force in Iraq.
General DAVID PETRAEUS (Commander, Multinational Force Iraq): The operational environment in Iraq is the most complex and challenging I have ever seen.
We have Americans who are part of the multinational force that observes the continuation of the monitoring (of the) Camp David Accord.
What is the mandate exactly of the Multinational Force in the Sinai?
America said all 32 countries in the multinational force in Iraq had agreed to make no further concessions to hostage takers .
Putin did not say whether Moscow would be willing to send its own troops to Iraq as part of such a multinational force.
Approximately 694 military personnel are assigned to the U.S. contingent of the Multinational Force and Observers, which have been present in Egypt since 1981.
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Approximately 693 military personnel are assigned to the U.S. contingent of the Multinational Force and Observers, which have been present in Egypt since 1981.
Whether he can meet even that deadline depends partly on what outsiders do to fill the vacuum left by the withdrawal of the Italian-led multinational force.
Baga is close to the border with both Chad and Niger and a multinational force from the three countries was attacked, its commander Brig Gen Austin Edokpaye said.
Deputy State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said the multinational force in Iraq and the Bush administration's Iraq Survey Group had been ordered to investigate the disappearance of the explosives.
But the multinational force, now numbering more than 2, 000 troops, is still way below its final strength of 7, 500 and has yet to fan out through Dili and beyond.
Washington has presented a draft resolution to the UN Security Council in an attempt to secure a multinational force for Iraq and boost UN involvement in the country's political future.
Saudi Arabia's foreign minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, suggested that a multinational force from Muslim countries could help to keep the peace in Iraq , whose interim government enthusiastically cited Malaysia, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Tunisia and Yemen as likely participants.
Turning to security for the United Nations in Iraq, he said that the distinct entities of the Multinational Force, notably the Georgians, Romanians and South Koreans, continued to provide security for the United Nations in Baghdad, Basra and Erbil, respectively.
The resolution conferred a measure of symbolic sovereignty on the Iraqi Governing Council, authorised a multinational force to patrol Iraq and gave the council until December 15th to publish a timetable for the transfer of power and the holding of elections.
While the Bush Administration made it clear that it was up to the Saudis to invite the USSR to send ground troops to participate in the multinational force, it noted that the United States would have no objection if Saudi Arabia did so.
The three members that abstained objected to a paragraph within the resolution that would not allow the International Criminal Court to punish soldiers in the multinational force who commit crimes if they are from countries that have not ratified the treaty that created the ICC.
It could obtain the guarantee thus far not provided by the United States or Britain -- namely that the use of elements of the multinational force would not occur without the express approval of the Soviet Union, either through bilateral contacts or through the U.N.
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Soon thereafter, France, Italy and the United States formed a multinational force to help stabilize the country -- as differing factions of Arabs and Christians as well as the Israelis and Syrians were in a tangled web of conflict -- and allow PLO fighters to leave the country.
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After meeting America's secretary of state, Colin Powell, on Thursday, and Britain's foreign secretary, Jack Straw, on Friday, Mr Annan acknowledged that diplomats were discussing the possibility of agreeing a multinational force to guard UN sites and staff, with a separate command structure but in some way under the influence of the American military.
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.
In 1984, the last U.S. Marines in the multinational peacekeeping force in Lebanon left Beirut.
But that still left open the question of how Russia could contribute to a multinational peacekeeping force.
Powell, who will also visit Paris and London, said at the weekend that Britain or Germany could lead a planned multinational peacekeeping force to Afghanistan.
General DAVID PETRAEUS (Commander, Multinational Iraq Force): We were out running one of the mornings when he popped off a couple rounds up in North D.
McCurry said the goal of the multinational task force is two-fold: to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid by civilian relief organizations and repatriation of refugees by the U.N.
Thus, at the end of 1995 it organised its first ever multinational Implementation Force (Ifor), under a United Nations mandate to implement the military aspects of the Bosnian peace agreement.
Benjamin Mixon, commander of Task Force Lightning and Multinational Division-North.
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