While the contribution was criticized by some as modest, Stoltenberg praised Canada’s “strong political focus” to support UN operations. Stoltenberg highlighted Canada’s commitments this week to UN peace missions that included additional funding, a pledge to assist with training and the promised deployment of equipment and personnel to support operations. There are still “traditional” peace missions “where our blue helmets are positioned between two parties who have entered into a ceasefire,” said Jean-Pierre Lacroix, who heads the UN’s department of peacekeeping operations. “But most of our peacekeeping operations are deployed in a much different environment where the political process . The sad truth is that as often as not UN peace operations are now in themselves targets,” he told delegates at the summit.

Source: thestar November 17, 2017 20:15 UTC