Co-director of Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes at the Razumkov Centre Oleksiy Melnyk told the BBC news agency about the necessary conditions of successful peacekeeping operation in eastern Ukraine.
The UN peacekeepers have worked everywhere – in Europe, in Asia, in America, and in Africa, where the number of peacekeeping missions was the highest. Peacekeeping operations were rarely conducted quickly; only a few times everything lasted a year or two, and often it lasted 5 or 10 years, or even more.
Such operations are only partly successful – there is no military conflict any more but there is no actual peace …read more
Source: Razumkov Centre
