Security Council Approves Largest Peacekeeping Operation in History of United Nations
The Security Council approved the establishment of a $1.9 billion peacekeeping operation in Cambodia involving 22,000 soldiers, police officers and civilian administrators to oversee the country's transition to a new administration after multi-party elections to be held by May 1993, by unanimously adopting resolution 745 (1992) to establish the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) for a period of eighteen months. Ambassador Ahmed Snoussi, Permanent Representative of Morocco, seated in the Security Council.