Source: CCTV.com

05-11-2007 17:27

Article 24 of Chapter V of the UN Charter states: in order to ensure prompt and effective action by the United Nations, its members confer on the Security Council's primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security. In carrying out its duties under this responsibility the Security Council acts on their behalf. Based on this statement, the Security Council is responsible for the establishment of peacekeeping forces. Any action in a peacekeeping operation is subject to a veto by any of the permanent members of the Security Council -- China, France, Russia the United Kingdom of Great Britain and the United States of America.

Peacekeepers in any peacekeeping operation need not take a loyalty oath to UN. The government of their nations have ultimate rights over them. UN peacekeepers wear uniforms of their nations. However, in order to show their identity as peacekeepers, they wear blue helmets or blue berets and UN badges. 　　

 

Editor:Du Xiaodan