UN Council Approves 'Offensive' Peacekeepers For DR Congo

[Purveyor]

Source: Agence France-Presse

AFP - The UN Security Council on Thursday unanimously approved the first-ever "offensive" UN peacekeeping brigade to battle rebels groups in Democratic Republic of Congo.

A council resolution gave the force of more than 2,500 troops orders to "neutralize" and "disarm" armed groups in the resource-rich east of the huge country, which has been gripped by conflict for more than two decades.

The intervention brigade and surveillance drones to monitor the DR Congo's borders with neighbors accused of backing the rebels will be operating by July, according to UN officials.

The force will launch UN peacekeeping operations into a new era, said diplomats who negotiated its preparation.

Read more: http://www.france24.com/en/20130328-un-council-approves-offensive-peacekeepers-dr-congo

[klyon]

1. they must have gotten there rebate check where the insurance companies

charged too much for overhead and executive salaries

[Posteritatis]

2. ... What? (nt)

[xtraxritical]

3. I think it's way past time for the UN to be the world police and not the USA.