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Gustavo Romero S.P.D. Peacekeeping Netherlands Peacekeeping in the United Nations originally developed in 1948 to assist nations who were inbetween the United States and Russia's war (Cold War). The first peacekeeping mission was in 1948, when the Security Council sent over peacekeepers to monitor the Isrealites and other Arabian countries settle their land dispute to settle on a ceasefire and the borders of the Green Line. Since then, there has been total of 63 peacekeeping missions, while there are 16 current missions operating. Peacekeepers are soldier-like people who are sent by their country to serve the U.N. in any international dilemma. Most of the times, the missions are hazardous; to secure any civilians whom are in risk of death or to rebuild land after a natural disaster. In a 2004 study, there had been more than 53,000 men and women who served as peacekeepers in that year: 49,000 served as troops and military observers, 4,800 served as civilian police, 3,500 were international civilians, 7,200 were local civilians, and 1,400 served as United Nations Volunteers. Since the founding of the peacekeeping organization, there has been a total of 63 peacekeeping missions in the past 60 years; there are 16 current missions. One hundred and eight counties contribute to the peacekeeping; the leading countries that contribute the most servicemen are India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. The United States, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, China, Canada, Spain, and the Republic of Korea are the top ten countries who finance peacekeeping missions. Providing servicemen with large donatations to the U.N. helped many nations reform their shattered government into a prosperous government. Globally, there are 100,000 peacekeepers who are either rebuilding, reforming, or protecting in countries that are in serious struggle to maintain order. We, the Netherlands, is strongly with supporting peacekeeping. We are strongly concerneed with human rights and racism around the world. We have signed as many possible declarations to decrease racism and human rights violations. Not only have we signed many declarations to decrease racism and human rights violatons, we have made sure that the world knows that we have signed them to unite with other nations to settle on a plan that would stop both categories. We will be deeply invovled with peacekeeping and stoping racism and human rights violations. We will compromise with any nation in world who fears that somewhere, people are being missused by their government. We will donate as many peacekeepers as possible. There are 100,000 peacekeepers worldwide; the Netherlands will donate 5,000 peacekeepers divided into 16 Peacekeeping United Nation missions. We will not stop persueing what we believe is right.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peacekeeping http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/dpko/index.asp http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/dpko/bnote.htm http://www.au.af.mil/au/aul/bibs/peacekp03/peacekp03.htm
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