CIAO DATE: 08/2010
June 2010
Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre
On 28 May 2010, the United Nations Security Council made a critical decision on the future of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Monuc) - the largest and most costly such operation in the world. The Council decided to reduce the number of peacekeepers by 2,000, and to transform Monuc into a stabilisation force, renamed Monusco.
Resource link: UN peacekeeping in the Congo: when is the job done? [PDF] - 326K