US Plans on Increasing UN Peacekeepers

The U.S. plans to increase peacekeepers to the UN.  The U.S. currently does not provide troops for peacekeeping forces.

According to U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice:

But Rice said the United States "is willing to consider directly contributing more military observers, military staff officers, civilian police, and other civilian personnel — including more women — to U.N. peacekeeping operations."


The U.S. has already increased its military observers in the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Liberia and is providing two additional military staff officers to the mission in Chad and the Central African Republic, U.S. officials said.

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