NIGERIA JOINS STANDBY ARRANGEMENTS FOR PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS
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NIGERIA JOINS STANDBY ARRANGEMENTS FOR PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS
19980223 On 18 February, Nigeria became the fifteenth country to sign a memorandum of understanding on the standby arrangements for United Nations peacekeeping operations.The signing ceremony took place in the Office of the Under-Secretary- General for Peacekeeping Operations. The Chief of the Defence Staff of Nigeria, Major-General Abdulsalami Alhaji Abubakar, signed the memorandum for his country. The Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Bernard Miyet, signed for the United Nations.
The 14 other countries that have signed the memorandum to date are Argentina, Austria, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Denmark, Ghana, Italy, Jordan, Lithuania, Malaysia, Nepal, Singapore, Ukraine and Uruguay.
To date, 67 countries have officially expressed their willingness to participate in the standby arrangements regime, which was created in 1994 as a means to accelerate the deployment of a new peacekeeping operation and to enhance rapidly the capacity of an existing mission.
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