Operations of maintenance of peace

The operations of maintenance of peace are authorized by the Safety advice of the United Nations to bring back peace in a country or a territory. They are supervised by the Département of the operations of maintenance of peace

Since 1948, date of the first operation (ONUST), the United Nations deployed 61 operations of maintenance of the peace, of which 15 are always in hand (of which the first: ONUST, in Israel and occupied Palestinian Territories).

See also: List of the operations of maintenance of peace

The Department of the operations of maintenance of peace has an annual budget of more than 5 billion dollars US (in 2006). The approximate sum spent for the operations of maintenance of peace since 1948 reached the 42 billion dollars US. It manages 15 operations of maintenance of peace and 3 missions political and of support for the consolidation of peace (MINUNEP, MANUA and BINUSIL).

At the budgetary level, only six countries contribute to more than 5% of the budget of the operations of maintenance of peace: the the United States (26%), the Japan (19%), the Germany (9%), the the United Kingdom (7%), the France (7%) and the Italy (5%). With them six, they deal with close to the three-quarters (73%) of the expenditure of maintenance of peace.

At February 28th, 2007, the three countries providing the most soldiers to these operations are the Pakistan (10 169), the Bangladesh (9 653) and the India (9 608). The fourth and the fifth are far behind: the Jordan (3 572) and the Nepal (3 369). For information, France is 10th with 2.023 soldiers sent.

At the end of February 2007, here the distribution as a personnel:

  • Personal in uniform: 82.751
    • Soldiers: 70.715
    • Police force: 9.444
    • Observant soldiers: 2.592
  • Country providing of the personnel in uniform: 114
  • Personal international civilian: 4.555
  • Personal local civilian: 10.300 Voluntary
  • of the United Nations: 1.951
  • Full number of personnel being used in the 16 missions as peace: 96.900
  • Full number of personnel being useful in the 18 missions managed by the DPKO: 101.642
  • Losses in human life since 1948: 2.322

Gripping forces of Peace can beings deployed by other international organizations or nations like the Multinational force and observers in the Sinai.

See too

External bonds

  • Official site of the DPKO
  • List of the operations of maintenance of peace

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