US urges Europe, Asia to do more for UN peacekeeping
The United States is urging countries in Europe, Latin America and Asia to commit more to UN peacekeeping operations around the world as Washington considers where it might be able to do the same, the US envoy to the United Nations said on Friday.
The United Nations has more than 110,000 soldiers and police in 16 peacekeeping operations around the world in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and in Haiti. While Western countries used to routinely offer peackeepers for blue-helmeted UN battalions, the United Nations now relies mainly on developing countries.
