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National scene: Govt to hold UN peacekeeping meeting
JAKARTA: The Foreign Ministry is holding the Asia-Pasific regional meeting on peacekeeping next Monday and Tuesday to strengthen support from each country for the UN peacekeeping program, particularly to close the gaps in their contributions
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AKARTA: The Foreign Ministry is holding the Asia-Pasific regional meeting on peacekeeping next Monday and Tuesday to strengthen support from each country for the UN peacekeeping program, particularly to close the gaps in their contributions.
'This meeting is being held because of the high demand from the UN for its country members to contribute peacekeepers to conflict countries. There is a significant gap between contributions and demand,' said Andy Rachmianto, the International Security and Disarmament Director with the ministry.
According to the ministry, the meeting will be attended by 28 peacekeeper-contributing countries from the Asia-Pacific region.
Besides that, Singapore, Laos and Myanmar, who have yet to contribute any personnel will also attend to talk about potential contributions in the future. UN Security Council members, the US, England, France and Russia will also be present at the meeting.
The second day of the meeting will be a field-visit session to the Indonesian Peacekeeping Center in Sentul, West Java.
'Indonesia has deployed at least 2,700 personnel to 10 conflict areas. We are aiming to send 4,000 in total by 2019. Hopefully our contribution and the hosting of the meeting can be a good sign to support the nomination of Indonesia as an impermanent member of UN Security Council 2019 to 2020,' Andy said.
