It's from this building that tens of thousands of field-based peacekeeping troops get their direction.
Russia has provided humanitarian aid to Kyrgyzstan, but rejected the interim government's call (since retracted) for peacekeeping troops.
Since then, Germany has become a big provider of peacekeeping troops, with 7, 706 now spread over a dozen missions (see table).
First though, in Sudan, the government said yesterday that any United Nations peacekeeping troops coming to Darfur could be treated as invaders.
Pronk had been the chief champion of U.N. peacekeeping troops for Darfur, to replace the overstretched and woefully under-resourced African Union force.
Nato leads some 6, 000 international peacekeeping troops stationed in Kosovo, while the EU runs a security and policing operation known as Eulex.
At the start of this year, more than 9, 000 UNAMID peacekeeping troops were deployed to the region to address the fighting and humanitarian suffering.
In 1995, defense ministers from NATO and European Union countries agreed to set up a "rapid reaction force" to protect embattled U.N. peacekeeping troops from Bosnian Serb aggression.
France insists that everything it did was performed at the express request of, and in conjunction with, the UN and its 9, 000 peacekeeping troops stationed in the country.
UN-peacekeeping troops from prosecution by the International Criminal Court .
On Tuesday, US Defence Secretary William Cohen reiterated the position of both Washington and London that no link had been proven between depleted uranium and the cases of cancer among former peacekeeping troops.
For example, members of NATO, along with Russia, are worried about suggestions that Bush might pull U.S. peacekeeping troops out of the Balkans, and try to implement a space-based missile defense system.
After getting together in South Africa, the president and main rebel leader of Burundi called for the swift deployment of the peacekeeping troops that South Africa, Mozambique and Ethiopia have promised to contribute.
Describing special envoy Richard Holbrooke's meeting with Milosevic, Clinton sounded pessimistic about the chance the Yugoslav leader would reverse course and accept the plan that would give self-rule to ethnic Albanians in the Serbian province and enforce it with NATO peacekeeping troops.
Berlin and Paris want to deny American peacekeeping troops (to say nothing of US troops on military missions) protections from frivolous or politically motivated prosecutions by third governments, though the EU as a whole has supported exempting US forces from extradition to the ICC.
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Nobody misses the point that America's debt to the peacekeeping budget matches the debt owed to governments that contributed troops and equipment to peacekeeping missions.
What really exposed European weakness was the difficulty many allies had in raising a handful of combat-ready troops for peacekeeping in Kosovo, once the bombing had had its effect.
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America's allies, many of which also send troops on peacekeeping missions, refused to grant an absolute exemption (considering that fatal to the court's credibility), but did restrict the court's powers.
Mr Cameron welcomed China's provision of troops for UN peacekeeping missions in Congo, East Timor and Lebanon.
America has even threatened to pull out its troops from international peacekeeping operations unless across-the-board immunities are granted.
And, perhaps worst of all, like the current UN peacekeeping force, these American troops will be obliged to play the role of honest brokers in Bosnia.
In fact, Ghana, Ethiopia, Nigeria, and South Africa rank among the top 10 nations in their contributions of troops to such peacekeeping operations over the past decade or so.
NATO, it would need a quite different kind of armed forces: mobile troops useful for peacekeeping, for example, rather than a citizen army and secret arms dumps in forests.
Guinea will send troops to join a peacekeeping force in Somalia, the African Union has said.
These may be more palatable for some governments, but many are in any case short of troops, given other peacekeeping commitments.
South Korea's and Japan's new helicopter carriers could also one day be useful for moving troops in United Nations peacekeeping operations.
Now that a peace agreement has been reached by all the groups fighting in Bosnia, the Clinton administration plans to contribute U.S. troops to an international peacekeeping force.
NATO-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo once Serb troops have withdrawn.
The head of the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo said his troops would step up border patrols on the Macedonian-Kosovo border after reports of incursions by ethnic Albanian fighters.
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