Kadyrov says Chechens traveled long to see the end of the operation, plus they lost everything of value, and paid dearly for peace, stability and prosperity.

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With a team led by a Thai general, the Henry Dunant Centre will be responsible for running the entire peace operation, probably the first time any group other than the United Nations has taken on such a role.

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Equally important is the recasting or re-configuring of the force, which first deployed as a peace monitoring operation, but now should be better able to deal with more robust operations.

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During the visit, some 20, 000 security personnel have been deployed in Israel's biggest ever peace-time security operation.

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