In the area of peace and security, the Secretary-General notes the sustained demands placed on the Organization to provide peace, or promote dialogue and reconciliation, as it celebrated 60years of peacekeeping. These new demands include work in the Sudan, Somalia, Iraq, Myanmar, the Middle East, Sri Lanka, northern Uganda, the Central African Republic, Western Sahara and elsewhere.
In the past year, the United Nations deployed two of its most complex peacekeeping operations: in Darfur, and to Chad and the Central African Republic. The Department of Peacekeeping Operations now leads 19 missions with more than 130,000 women and men, including troop and police contributions from 117 Member States and a budget of about $7 billion. This expanded range and complexity of peacekeeping operations requires States to maintain a common purpose behind peacekeeping, and strengthen their commitment to peacekeeping operations.
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