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NEPAL JOINS STAND-BY ARRANGEMENTS FOR PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS

16 September 1997


Press Release
PKO/61


NEPAL JOINS STAND-BY ARRANGEMENTS FOR PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS

19970916 Nepal, on 10 September, became the tenth country to sign a memorandum of understanding on the stand-by arrangements for peacekeeping operations.

The signing ceremony took place in the Office of the Under-Secretary- General for Peacekeeping Operations, Bernard Miyet. The Permanent Representative of Nepal, Narendra Bikram Shah, signed the memorandum for his country; Mr. Miyet signed it for the United Nations.

To date, Jordan, Denmark, Ghana, Malaysia, Austria, Italy, Singapore, Bolivia and Ukraine have signed the memorandum. A total of 66 countries have expressed willingness to participate in the stand-by regime.

Stand-by arrangements were created in 1994 as a means to fill the three-to-six month gap between authorization of a peacekeeping mission by the Security Council and full deployment by standard recruitment methods.

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