41. AN exciting career with the United Nations peacekeeping forces took Mr Tom Berrie to many Third World trouble spots. 42. Allied foreign ministers have asked NATO military experts to draw up four options for a continuation of the peacekeeping force beyond next June, when its current mandate expires. 43. Also at issue, according to NATO officials, was the size of any Russian contingent in the peacekeeping force and where it would be deployed. 44. Also Sunday, the peacekeeping force released more details of its brief firefight early Saturday morning, when six British soldiers were fired upon, then returned fire. 45. Although Russia agreed early in the Kosovo negotiations to take part in a peacekeeping force, it has consistently opposed sending its troops to the region under NATO command. 46. America will not allow its forces to be put in Kosovo except as part of a peacekeeping force, or be railroaded into making commitments until it is ready. 47. American and European diplomats, who have refused to order the NATO-led peacekeeping force here to arrest Karadzic, have instead tried to make him vanish. 48. American officials said that medics and troops from the NATO-led peacekeeping force in the Balkans arrived at Dubrovnik airport on Wednesday evening to help in the operation. 49. An explosion in a school outside Pristina killed four people, including two Gurkha soldiers in the British peacekeeping force. 50. American troops are not part of the British-led peacekeeping force that is patrolling the streets of Kabul. |
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