URUGUAY BECOMES ELEVENTH COUNTRY TO JOIN STAND-BY ARRANGEMENTS FOR PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS
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URUGUAY BECOMES ELEVENTH COUNTRY TO JOIN STAND-BY ARRANGEMENTS FOR PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS
19971001 Uruguay became the eleventh country on 30 September to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on the stand-by arrangements for United Nations peacekeeping operations.The signing ceremony took place in the office of the Under-Secretary- General for Peacekeeping Operations, Bernard Miyet. The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Uruguay, Alvaro Ramos Trigo, signed the memorandum for his country; Mr. Miyet signed it for the United Nations.
To date, Jordan, Denmark, Ghana, Malaysia, Austria, Italy, Singapore, Bolivia, Ukraine and Nepal have signed the memorandum. A total of 66 countries have expressed their 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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