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A new report on UN peacekeeping issued on Thursday recommends improved consultations between the Security Council and troop-contributing countries among the ways to strengthen field operations, UN Mission in Sierra Leone said.
The report, the first by the Security Council Working Group on Peacekeeping Operations, also supports establishing regional peacekeeping training centres to increase international cooperation for operations. In addition, the group suggests troop-contributing countries cooperate in training, logistics and equipment.
Moreover, the group asks the Secretary-General to convene assessment meetings with contributing countries at various stages of an operation. It says these countries should conduct reconnaissance visits to the mission area and prepare contingency plans and exit strategies for volatile situations.
Council set up the group, chaired by Ambassador Curtis A. Ward of Jamaica, in January to examine the relationship between the Council, contributing countries and the UN Secretariat.
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