August 05, 2008
UN sets up new office in SL
Posted by: Thinker : Category: News
New York - The UN Security Council on Monday voted unanimously to set up a peacebuilding office in Sierra Leone to help the country recover from a decade-long civil war. It adopted Resolution 1829 that gives a one-year mandate from October 1 to a UN Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Sierra Leone (UNIPSIL) tasked with helping the government monitor and promote human rights, democracy and the rule of law as well as fight corruption. UNIPSIL, which will have a staff of 60 to 70, will replace the 298-strong UN Integrated Office in Sierra Leone (UNIOSIL) which was deployed after the withdrawal of a large UN peacekeeping mission in 2005. UNIOSIL’s mandate expires on September 30. The 15-member…
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