peacekeeping tasks

Elaborating further, the declaration noted: "UN peacekeeping tasks have increased and broadened considerably in recent years.

Nor was he asked about his view of the role of American soldiers in peacekeeping tasks beyond the specific example of Kosovo and Bosnia.

The Pentagon has begun to push Congress to provide financing for a unit of the Indonesian Army that would take on peacekeeping tasks.

"If NATO is not going to do these peacekeeping tasks, what will NATO do?"

The Petersberg tasks include humanitarian and rescue tasks; peacekeeping tasks; and tasks of combat forces in crisis management, including peacemaking.

It is intended, administration officials said, for peacekeeping tasks in places like the Maluku islands, where there have been recent accusations that the military is engaged in rights abuses.

He asks nations to make available a thousand troops each, ready on a day's notice, for peacekeeping tasks authorized by the Security Council and supplied from U.N. depots around the world.

Refocusing the armed forces on legitimate defense concerns would simplify peacekeeping tasks in Cambodia, cut a key lifeline to Myanmar's tyrannical military dictatorship and complicate life for international narcotics traffickers.

France insists that its 2,500 or so troops will not occupy territory but will only try to save threatened civilians for a two-month interim period, then turn over peacekeeping tasks to an all-African force.

But even if political objections can be resolved, broader public pressure to keep combat casualties low - always a goal but now a condition for a military mission's success - may restrict the kinds of relief and peacekeeping tasks America joins.

They also agreed that in future instances of civil war like the one that has wracked the Balkans for the past year, they would assign national forces to the defense group, the Western European Union, for humanitarian efforts, peacekeeping tasks, and even peacemaking missions.

The Amsterdam Treaty, in developing a more effective common foreign and security policy, stressed the importance of closer institutional and organizational links between the EU and the WEU, including the evolution of the Petersberg humanitarian and peacekeeping tasks.

At the same time, we are in a position to bring this European continent together in such a way that it will not only have the strength that comes from peace at home, but will also be able, in the outside world, to manage peacekeeping tasks and to defend its own interests.

American commanders, however, have said it is crucial to have a third foreign-led division of 10,000 to 15,000 peacekeepers in place in Iraq by next year to avoid further straining the Army there or forcing the Pentagon to send marines, who are not normally assigned to peacekeeping tasks, to perform the mission.