Peacekeeping News

Speaking at a high-level meeting of the Group of Friends (GoF) for promoting accountability for crimes against peacekeepers at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on Tuesday, India's Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador P. Harish, emphasized that the lack of accountability for such crimes severely undermines international peace efforts by emboldening assailants.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said politics must be prioritised in the reform of UN peacekeeping operations.

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres today warned against an abrupt cut to US funding for the UN, saying it will affect the world body's long term reform efforts.

India has strongly criticised a "fragmented" UN Security Council for coming up with "unwieldy" and "unimplementable" peacekeeping mandates that put the credibility of the UN and safety and security of peacekeepers at grave risk.

The failure of Dutch peacekeepers to defend Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in July 1995 has been a source of shame for the Netherlands, which has recently returned to UN peacekeeping by sending troops to Mali.