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Indo-US Meet On UN Peacekeeping

India and the United States concluded two days of talks here on Friday as part of the second meeting of the Joint Working Group on UN Peacekeeping activities.

A joint communique issued at the end of the meeting said, "The Joint Working Group reflects the desire of the two countries to work together to strengthen the international security system and especially the United Nations and its peacekeeping operations."

The first meeting of the JWG was held in New Delhi in November 2000. In that meeting, New Delhi and Washington had reaffirmed their support for the United Nations and their intent to work together to strengthen cooperation on peacekeeping matters.

The joint statement said that following the June 28-29 meeting here, the Indian and American delgations were satisfied "at the progress made by follow-on actions from their first meeting, and at closer consultations on UN Peacekeeping issues."

The JWG "had constructive discussions on position papers on a range of UN peacekeeping issues.The two sides also shared experiences on functional and operations aspects of peacekeeping,including on specific UN peacekeeping missions," it said.

"In this context,"the communique said,"they agreed to exchange papers on lessons learned from peacekeeping missions and increase mutual participation in UN peacekeeping related training events."

The JWG, it noted,"attached special importance to the development of institutional linkages between the two countries on education and training on peacekeeping issues, including the exchange of observers, students,and guest faculty at respective training activities in the two countries."

The Indian and US delegations decided to meet again early next year to resume their dialogue and to continue informal consultations in the interim in Washington, New York, and New Delhi.

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