Suchergebnisse

The National Peacekeeping Force (NPKF) was designed to meet a serious security challenge anticipated in the run-up to South Africa's first democratic elections in April 1994. Its establishment was an imaginative and constructive, but ultimately disastrous initiative. Its failure – however inevitable in retrospect – constituted a major tragedy, less as it proved for the free and fair conduct of the elections than for the longer-term prospects of forging a truly national army. This study seeks to explore: (i) the genesis and evolution of the concept of an integrated South African peacekeeping force; (ii) its character, composition, command structure, and cohesion; and (iii) the causes and consequences of its fateful deployment on the volatile East Rand.

Selected official statements from US sources on deployment of Russian troops within the NATO command structure, headed by a US general.

President Clinton. We don't have prepared statements, but we will each make a very brief statement and then we'll take a couple of questions.

ON MAY 4, 1993, THE UNITED NATIONS OPERATION IN SOMALIA (UNOSOM II) BEGAN ITS MISSION TO ESTABLISH A SECURE ENVIRONMENT THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE COUNTRY AND ENABLE HUMANITARIAN AID DELIVERIES TO CONTINUE. IT IS ALSO CHARGED WITH HELPING TO RECONSTRUCT A COUNTRY WHOSE GOVERNMENT, INFRASTRUCTURE, AND SOCIAL ORDER ARE IN SHAMBLES. THE OPERATION IS THE MOST EXPENSIVE AND AMBITIOUS U.N. OPERATION EVER LAUNCHED, COMBINING HUMANITARIAN, MILITARY, POLITICAL, AND RECONSTRUCTION COMPONENTS.