C. Division of Regional Operations

The Division of Regional Operations subsumes the four regional desks of the former UNSECOORD.

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20.8 The subprogramme is under the responsibility of the Department of Operations, which embraces the various regional operations.

Yet we are still making a clear distinction between United Nations led operations and operations conducted by regional organizations.

Enhancement and support of regional and subregional peacekeeping operations were crucial, and regional organizations should be encouraged and supported.

Third, SINTNCs ventured abroad to establish a regional or even global coverage of their operations.

The absence of strong regional institutions has made it difficult for the regional programme to find a clear counterpart for its inter country operations.

The above figures relating to geographical distribution only take into account country and regional specific operations.

DFAM staff increasingly participated in regional and global workshops of operations staff and in country visits.

More and more, we are asking regional organizations to contribute to peacekeeping operations throughout the world.

(b) For supplies intended solely for monitoring, verification or peace support operations conducted by regional organizations

There is no direct mechanism under the Basel Convention to fund the operations of these regional centres.

If regional organizations are not encouraged to make contributions to United Nations mandated peacekeeping operations, then the United Nations will have to undertake such operations using its own assets.

UNOPS reorganized its client service and procurement operations and decentralized staff out of New York into regional structures.

There should be continued efforts made to mainstream child protection into United Nations regional and national peacekeeping operations.

The Department of Peacekeeping Operations should therefore submit an in depth study on the regional air transportation resources available.

The Department's priorities for the biennium 2006 2007 were Headquarters safety and security, regional operations coordination and field support.

In recent times, multinational regional forces, both armed and unarmed, have been engaged in conflict and post conflict operations.

A detailed procedure has also been formulated as to how the Department of Peacekeeping Operations would be supported through the establishment of the Peacekeeping Operations Support Section within the Division of Regional Operations, as proposed in the report of the Secretary General (ibid.), which will be collocated with the Department of Peacekeeping Operations.

Request the General Assembly, on an exceptional basis, to finance regional operations authorized by the Security Council with assessed contributions

Request the General Assembly, on an exceptional basis, to finance regional operations authorized by the Security Council with assessed contributions

Any attempts to increase regional cooperation, including the sharing of assets, must allow for the smooth functioning of the individual operations.

Thus, it is critically important that the Court receives the full cooperation of States, relevant regional organizations and United Nations operations.

Request the General Assembly, on an exceptional basis, to consider financing regional operations authorized by the Security Council with assessed contributions

The rules of the United Nations peacekeeping budget should be amended to give the United Nations the option, in very exceptional circumstances, to use assessed contributions to finance regional operations authorized by the Security Council, or the participation of regional organizations in multi pillar peace operations under the overall United Nations umbrella.

4. Expresses its appreciation to Governments, regional organizations and other donors for their financial and in kind contributions to mine action, including contributions for emergency operations, peacekeeping operations and for national and local capacity building programmes

Efficiency is gained by having the RNCs based in the UNEP regional offices, which serve as the centre of operations and give administrative and institutional support to the RNCs and the respective regional networks.

Overall the Agency continued to increase its lead role in terms of growing drug seizures, inter agency cooperation and regional drug enforcement operations.

In light of the growing number and complexity of peacekeeping operations, the challenges of working with regional and sub regional organizations, the problems with training and the behaviour of some peacekeepers, and the need to integrate peacekeeping and post conflict peace building efforts, who he asked was providing strategic oversight for the dozens of operations mandated by the Council?

In addition, the Office of Operations will seek to promote regional peacekeeping capacity and organizational relationships and focus on partnerships to address cross cutting issues.

Regional customs enforcement should initially focus on sharing intelligence based on the analysis of the information collected and on operations to prevent illegal arms trafficking.

The final part of the report requests the General Assembly to approve recommendations that would enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of SDS in supporting the rapid deployment of United Nations peacekeeping and peacebuilding operations, including regional peace operations mandated by the Security Council.

So I retreated back to my cave and continued to support and produce comedy and let my friends use my couch as a regional operations hub.

If the international community was to meet the multiple challenges of peacekeeping operations and post conflict peacebuilding, it was essential to enhance cooperation between the United Nations and regional organizations, which played an important role in maintaining regional peace and security.

In 2004, several landlocked developing countries, with advisory support from regional commissions and other United Nations entities, implemented measures to increase the efficiency of transit transport operations.

Participation in several activities of Egyptian research centers where I made presentations on issues such as United Nations reform, peacekeeping operations, the Mid Eastern regional problems, etc. 

In addition, it should indicate how many temporary personnel had been recruited for the Division of Regional Operations and under what mandate that had been carried out.

The regional approach to peacekeeping operations was moreover tested for the first time through inter mission cooperation between UNAMSIL and other United Nations presences in the subregion.

A major focus of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations has been to cooperate with and to develop mutually supportive peacekeeping activities with African regional and subregional organizations.

The Department of Peacekeeping Operations and the Department of Political Affairs have agreed to provide capacity building support through a staff exchange programme with African regional organizations.

(iii) Field projects provision of support to the six OHCHR field presences and seven regional representatives, including prior assessments, planning, inception, backstopping, monitoring and evaluation of operations.

In that connection, it was mentioned that the persisting precarious financial situation of the Regional Centre in Africa was compelling the Department to consider relocating temporarily its operations.

We urge the Council to adopt comprehensive and regional approaches to DDR, to include those approaches in the mandates of peacekeeping operations, to provide financing for DDR under the budget for peacekeeping operations, and to give due consideration to reintegration to ensure sustainable socio economic development.

To encourage and sustain regional and subregional mechanisms for preventing conflict and promoting political stability, and to ensure a reliable flow of resources for peacekeeping operations on the continent.