Nigeria Chairs
Special Committee On Peacekeeping
Nigeria
has been re-elected Chair of the Special Committee on
Peacekeeping Operations of the UN for 2010 to 2011.
Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Professor Joy Ogwu,
unanimously secured the mandate at the opening of the 2010
substantive session of the Committee, also known as C-34, in New
York.
The Committee, which reports to the General Assembly through the
Fourth Committee, Special Political and Decolonization, is made
up of one hundred and forty-five member states.
Membership is drawn from mainly past or current contributors of
peacekeeping operations, while seventeen other member-states,
the EU, Red Cross, Interpol and Sovereign Military Order of
Malta, participate as observers.
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