- 行业: NGO
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The United Nations Organization (UNO), or simply United Nations (UN), is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace.
Canadian initiative, undertaken to streamline and improve the UN system funding of peace-keeping, under which a contractual arrangement would be established, using standard costs for the provision of military personnel and equipment to peacekeeping missions; the concept was trialed during the UNMIH and should serve as a model agreement for other member nations; the outlines the personnel, materiel or equipment to be provided by the contributing nation, as well as the administrative, logistics and financial responsibilities of both the UN and the Member State regarding the establishment, deployment, support and redeployment of a contingent, detailing reimbursement arrangements so that both parties can predict expenditures against agreed standard costs and can expedite reimbursement through a submission procedure based on the PSA
Industry:Military
Carried out a comprehensive review of the whole question of peace-keeping operations in all their aspects.
Industry:Military
Catalogue that lists drugs, consumables and equipment available in the central UN Medical Depot in Oslo.
Industry:Military
Central point where rations are being drawn by contingents, daily (fresh rations) or weekly (dry rations)
Industry:Military
Central UN medical warehouse, based in Oslo, Norway, where medical supplies and equipment are inspected, cleaned, maintained and stored after a mission closes and from which they are shipped to the requesting peace-keeping missions; also found as UN medical warehouse.
Industry:Military
Characterizes a force which can feed, clothe and house itself during at least the initial period of a crisis or deployment; e.g. peace-keeping forces are to be self-sufficient in food-ration items for a period of 60 days from their deployment; is distinct from "self-sustainment", q.v.
Industry:Military
checkpoint' can be 3 things: 1. predetermined point along a route of march where troops or convoys on the move 'check in' in person at a manned 'control post' and are given further instructions on the route ahead (synonym of "control post" or "control point"); 2. predetermined position along a route where foot, vehicle (or sometimes air) patrols call in their coordinates to headquarters on the radio net, and report on their progress and fulfillment of their mission (synonym of "report point" or "report line"); 3. (the most frequent in a PKO context) a permanent or temporary, self contained, post, e.g. at an entry point to a BZ, where troops or MPs stop vehicular and pedestrian traffic (including civilian) to check documents, frisk passengers, search cars etc., in order to stop the smuggling of arms, ammunition and explosives; checkpoints can be static ('fixes') or mobile ('mobiles'); if they are 'closed checkpoints, they are called road blocks.
Industry:Military
Civilian and military assistance rendered by the host country to UN forces deployed within or staging through that country; it includes medical support: resources and infrastructure of the host country that is available and accessible to peace-keeping forces.
Industry:Military
Civilian officer responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of official premises and associated equipment and appliances as well as furniture.
Industry:Military
