VP Pence: The U.N. Must Act to Make Its Peacekeeping Operations More Efficient, More Effective

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PENCE: "President Trump and I firmly believe that the U.N. must act to make its peacekeeping operations more efficient, more effective, more accountable and more credible. Ambassador Haley has previously laid out the United States principles for peacekeeping reform and we’re all familiar with them. Peacekeeping missions must support a political solution, have the consent of the host country, its mandates must be realistic and achievable, every mission must have an exit strategy, and the United Nations’ peacekeeping missions must adjust to progress and failure. In short, when a mission succeeds, we should not prolong it. When a mission underperforms, we should restructure it. When a mission consistently fails to fulfill the mandates of this council, we should end it.”