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Comment: India and the U.N. Peace-keeping Force.

  • UPSC 2001
  • 20 marks
  • India and the UN System

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The Charter's plan for a UN army under Article 43 was never implemented. The peacekeeping force that replaced it was improvised in 1956, when Lester Bowles Pearson proposed and Dag Hammarskjöld built UNEF I to separate the parties after Suez: lightly armed, consensual and impartial, "Chapter Six and a Half". India helped make that formula…

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  • Why the force suited India
  • What India has given the force
  • The moment of 2001
  • India's agenda for the force
  • Significance and limits
  • Conclusion
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