Territorial Army soldiers from the West Midlands are being posted to Cyprus for a six month peace-keeping mission.
An international peace-keeping force would then move in, and refugees driven from these areas would return to their homes.
Still, security analysts say African peace-keeping missions are better supplied from within the private sector than through donor aid.
Intervention in Somalia, the original Gulf war, foreign-aid programmes and the Bosnian peace-keeping mission are much harder to justify.
"What China needs to do now, as well as call for peace-keeping, is to evacuate its Chinese firms, " he adds.
Since then, involvement in protecting Kurdish refugees in 1991, peace-keeping duties in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo have kept the brigade busy.
His unit was part of the landing force of the sixth fleet sent to Bosnia and Herzegovina to support Nato-led peace-keeping efforts.
Smaller European states are heading toward de facto disarmament, with little ability to support peace-keeping missions let alone engage in combat operations.
Russia has hundreds of peace-keeping troops already there, and says more than 10 of its peace-keepers were killed in fierce fighting with the Georgians.
Along with the peace-keeping force will be military observers, staff officers and civilian police and among its main duties will be assisting preparations for next year's elections.
The largest peace-keeping contingency has historically always been Pakistani troops.
The force was initially bolstered by Nigerian troops, who were there as a follow-up to Ecomog, the West African peace-keeping mission that restored President Kabbah to power in 1998.
BRUSSELS, Belgium (CNN) -- NATO ambassadors have put their seal of approval on sending the first 2, 600 of the 60, 000 peace-keeping troops to monitor the peace accord in the Balkans.
But the fact that so many of the defence ministry's proposals have escaped the Treasury's snipers is a reflection of Tony Blair's gung-ho instincts on Britain's role in world peace-keeping.
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Once again, Thailand is a central part of that as our oldest treaty ally in Asia -- one that has not only worked with us here regionally, but also does outstanding work performing peace-keeping activities around the world.
So we have a system of government that's pretty good at the big picture stuff now - as in keeping the peace - but seems to be struggling with the everyday business of governing.
According to the Foreign Office, there were seven meetings here between 1st February 1999 and June 21st 1999, when the British team finally sent a telex back to the Foreign Office on an agreement they said they'd reached with the UN Department of Peace Keeping Operations - DPKO - and with Minurso, the UN mission in Western Sahara.
Inexorably, the evidence suggests that the Anglo-French decision was primarily aimed not at keeping the peace, but at recapturing the ground lost when President Nasser nationalised the Suez Canal in July.
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