United Nations Summit of the Future in 2024 to talk about UN Emergency Peace Service

UNEPS is envisioned as a permanent, integrated, multi-functional unit of up to 13,000 well-equipped and highly trained personnel, ready for almost immediate deployment when authorized by the Security Council.

Then-secretary-general Boutros Boutros-Ghali, right, with Kofi Annan, UN secretary-general designate. In 1992, Boutros-Ghali proposed that the UN Security Council be provided forces and resources to enable it to intervene in an imminent or ongoing conflict when all efforts at mediation have been exhausted.UN photograph/Flickr

Opinion

BY EARL TURCOTTE

December 14, 2023

CNN reports on yet another Israeli airstrike in Gaza. After panning across the seeming total destruction of residential buildings, the camera trains on a small clearing where bodies of some of the dead have been laid out. One is a toddler no more than three years old. Standi...

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