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Under-Secretary-General Alain Le Roy tells the Security Council that in the current global environment, financial constraints have pressured the department to review the basic models of peacekeeping. Costs, troop numbers, and capability requirements cannot all continue to rise indefinitely he said, and there is "no sign that demand is decreasing." UNTV / FILE

Duration:01:21Date:29 June 2009

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United Nations Television, Mission of the United Nations in the Democratic Republic of Congo, MAINTENANCE OF PEACE AND SECURITY, United Nations Mission in Liberia, United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur

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STORY: UN / PEACEKEEPING
TRT: 1.21
SOURCE: UNTV / UNAMID / MONUC / UNMIL
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / NATS

DATELINE: 29 JUNE 2009, NEW YORK CITY

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RECENT 2009, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters

29 JUNE 2009, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Cutaway, delegates
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Alain Le Roy, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations:
“UN peacekeeping is a global partnership. It brings together the legal and political authority of the Council with essential personnel, material and finances of the Member States.”
5. Cutaway, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (French) Alain Le Roy, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations:
“When all the partners are strongly united behind a peacekeeping operation, it sends an unequivocal signal of international commitment which reinforces the authority of the Security Council and the credibility and effectiveness of any individual operation.”
7. Wide shot, Security Council

FILE – UNAMID – JANUARY 2008, EL FASHER, DARFUR

8. Meds hot, UNAMID peacekeepers convoy
9. Various shots, UNAMID peacekeepers talking with refugees

FILE – MONUC – APRIL 2008, SOUTH KIVU, DR CONGO

10. Wide shot, MONUC peacekeepers directing road construction
11. Wide shot, MONUC peacekeepers working on hillside

FILE – UNMIL – APRIL 2009, BUCHANAN TOWN, GRAND BASSA COUNTY, LIBERIA

12. Wide shot, Ghanbatt patrol leaving compound in UNMIL trucks
13. Med shot, male soldier looking out from the truck
14. Pan left, soldiers being briefed

STORY:

As the demand for United Nations peacekeeping continues to grow, the success of current and future operations will depend on the relationship between the Organization and Member States, top officials with the world body said today, calling for a new partnership to ensure the requisite support and resources.

“UN peacekeeping is a global partnership,” Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Alain Le Roy said during a meeting of the Security Council. “It brings together the legal and political authority of the Council with the essential personnel, materiel and finances of the Member States.

“It also draws together the Secretariat – which must plan and manage the operations and the leaders and people of host countries, whose ongoing commitment to peace is perhaps the single most important factor,” he stated.

It is this partnership, Mr. Le Roy said, that gives UN peacekeeping its strengths of legitimacy, burden-sharing, adaptability and reach. 
“When all the partners are strongly united behind a peacekeeping operation, it sends an unequivocal signal of international commitment which reinforces the authority of the Security Council and the credibility and effectiveness of any individual operation.”

Mr. Le Roy added that, in the current global environment, financial constraints require a review of the basic models of peacekeeping. Costs, troop numbers, and capability requirements cannot all continue to rise indefinitely. And there is no sign, he said, that demand is decreasing.

The Departments for Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) and for Field Support (DFS) have been working on a New Horizon initiative, to help form a new ‘Partnership Agenda’ for peacekeeping. “The objective is to arrive at a set of achievable immediate-, medium- and long-term goals to help configure UN peacekeeping to better meet today’s and tomorrow’s challenges,” he said.

The initiative focuses on critical peacekeeping tasks and functions that require a renewed consensus; measures to improve mission design, resourcing and deployment; proposals on assessing and building the capacities needed for future peacekeeping; and a strategy to create a stronger, more flexible support system.

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