KAZAKHSTAN, seeking a more prominent role on the world stage, decided yesterday to send officers to aid United Nations peacekeeping missions next year for the first time since independence in 1991.
Twenty officers, who will have observer status at UN peacekeeping forces, will be sent in groups of five to Haiti, Western Sahara, Ivory Coast and Liberia, in line with a decision by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev backed unanimously by both chambers of the legislature yesterday.
Kazakhstan’s support of UN peacekeeping efforts should assist its candidacy for non-permanent membership of the 15-seat UN Security Council, the Defence Ministry said in a statement.
Reuters
Twenty officers, who will have observer status at UN peacekeeping forces, will be sent in groups of five to Haiti, Western Sahara, Ivory Coast and Liberia, in line with a decision by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev backed unanimously by both chambers of the legislature yesterday.
Kazakhstan’s support of UN peacekeeping efforts should assist its candidacy for non-permanent membership of the 15-seat UN Security Council, the Defence Ministry said in a statement.
Reuters
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