U.S. .. calling for U.N. peacekeeping force of up to 15,000 for Liberia

[Nambe]

UNITED NATIONS (AP)

The United States called for the United Nations to send up to 15,000 peacekeepers and 900 police officers to Liberia along with civilian staff to help restore peace and start rebuilding the battered west African nation.

The U.S. draft resolution circulated Monday to Security Council members asks Secretary- General Kofi Annan to transfer authority to a new U.N. peacekeeping force in October from a Nigerian-led West African force that arrived in early August, bringing calm to the capital after 2 1/2 months of fighting that killed more than 1,000 civilians.

The draft, obtained by The Associated Press, would give the new U.N. force a broad mandate to support the implementation of a June 17 cease-fire agreement, assist Liberia's new transitional government, facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid, protect U.N. staff and disarm combatants and retrain them for civilian life.

The council was scheduled to receive an open briefing on Liberia on Tuesday. ---

[FlemingsGhost]

1. At least they're ASKING this time.

I'm guessing there is little oil in Liberia.

[madrchsod]

2. didn`t we just

bug out of there? didn`t we land some troops then pull them out?

[PartyPooper]

5. Yeah, we pulled all 2 dozen or so of them out of there with 'malaria'

at least, that's what I remember reading here at DU a couple of weeks ago.

[leesa]

3. I thought the UN was irrelevent!

[Vikingking66]

4. and how many of those are U.S troops?

Why is it that when it's needed, we always ask for someone else,
but when it's not, we're happy to go?

[arcane1]

6. but what happens to Pat Robertson's mines?

:shrug:


Poppy gives them to Barrick, and Pat suddenly becomes a Dem?

:shrug: