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    The Russian government believes that UN peacekeeping troops lack necessary training, equipment, and logistical support. This poses threats to the safety and security of UN field personnel. Russia demands more funding for border operations as no peacekeeping operation can succeed without properly trained personnel. Russia also notes that the traditional UN peacekeeping model was developed during the Cold War and involved unarmed troops between state conflicts, but now most are intra-state civil wars requiring support for comprehensive peace agreements. This has expanded peacekeeping operations to include more civilian experts in areas like human rights. Russia further believes the UN peacekeeping operation in Somalia was not successful due to consistent funding shortfalls. Most African nations also lack capacity to support deployed forces for

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    The Russian government believes that UN peacekeeping troops lack necessary training, equipment, and logistical support. This poses threats to the safety and security of UN field personnel. Russia demands more funding for border operations as no peacekeeping operation can succeed without properly trained personnel. Russia also notes that the traditional UN peacekeeping model was developed during the Cold War and involved unarmed troops between state conflicts, but now most are intra-state civil wars requiring support for comprehensive peace agreements. This has expanded peacekeeping operations to include more civilian experts in areas like human rights. Russia further believes the UN peacekeeping operation in Somalia was not successful due to consistent funding shortfalls. Most African nations also lack capacity to support deployed forces for

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    The Russian government believes that UN peacekeeping troops lack necessary training, equipment, and logistical support. This poses threats to the safety and security of UN field personnel. Russia demands more funding for border operations as no peacekeeping operation can succeed without properly trained personnel. Russia also notes that the traditional UN peacekeeping model was developed during the Cold War and involved unarmed troops between state conflicts, but now most are intra-state civil wars requiring support for comprehensive peace agreements. This has expanded peacekeeping operations to include more civilian experts in areas like human rights. Russia further believes the UN peacekeeping operation in Somalia was not successful due to consistent funding shortfalls. Most African nations also lack capacity to support deployed forces for

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    POSITION PAPER

    COUNTRY: Russian Federation


    COMMITTEE: DISEC
    AGENDA: Challenges to UN
    Peacekeeping and the
    Capstone Doctrine
    DELEGATE: Anish Gaurav
    SCHOOL: Sherwood College, Nainital (UK)

    INTRODUCTION
    Honourable Chair, the Russian Government believes that the peace keeping
    troops lack necessary training, equipment and logistical support. Threats to the
    safety and security of UN Field personnel have become an issue of great
    concern. Honourable Chair, Russian Government demands for more funding
    for operations on its borders as my government believes that no peacekeeping
    operation can be successful without the availability of properly trained
    personnel.

    STAND
    The government of Russia would also like to draw the attention of the
    committee towards the methods of UN Peacekeeping. It is a traditional model
    development during the cold war era as a means of resolving conflicts between
    the states and involved deployment of unarmed or lightly armed military
    personnel between belligerent parties. The rise in number of intra-state
    conflicts has resulted in a shift towards multi-dimensional peacekeeping
    operations that are often mandate to support the implementation of a
    comprehensive peace argument between parties to a civil war. This has, in turn
    led to an expansion of the non-military component of peacekeeping operations
    whose success is increasingly dependent on the work of civilian experts in key
    areas such as the law of rule, human rights, gender, child protection and
    elections.

    Moving global, the peacekeeping operation in Somalia wasnt successful
    largely because it consistently experienced funding shortfalls. It is regrettable
    that most African nations do not have the capacity to adequately support their
    deployed farces for peacekeeping operations. Therefore, the Russian
    federation believes it is imperative to enhance the deployment capability of
    African nations. The establishment of AFRICAN STANDBY FORCE (ASF) is a
    major step towards building the capacity of African forces in terms of logistic
    readiness and training of personnel for peacekeeping operations. However,
    ASF cannot be achieved without adequate logistic and financial support.

    VIEWS AND POSSIBLE SOLUTION
    The government of Russia believes it is time to shift gears from old method of
    cessations of armed clashes to new methods of peace building operations. As
    peacekeeping operations are ultimately a tool in the hands of UN Security
    Council and the mandate given to specific missions are generated through
    political process that requires trade off. Therefore real peacekeeping is not
    likely fitting the exact measure up to success factors formulated in the
    Doctrine. My government urges the United Nations to come to a better
    conclusion in consideration of Capstone Doctrine.

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