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Des drones pour remplacer les casques bleus en Côte d'Ivoire?
April 18, 2013
French Article Translation of the Week
"Des drones pour remplacer les casques bleus en Côte d'Ivoire?"
"Le représentant permanent ivoirien à l'ONU a demandé mardi 16 avril au Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies d'envisager le déploiement de drones en Côte d'Ivoire pour appuyer la mission des casques bleus dans son pays."
"On Tuesday, April 16, the Ivory Coast's Permanent Representative to the UN asked the Security Council of the United Nations to consider the deployment of drones in the Ivory Coast to support the peacekeeping mission in the country."
This article has been translated from French. Click here to read the original version on LeMonde.
On Tuesday, April 16, Youssoupha Bamba, Côte d'Ivoire's Permanent Representative to the UN, asked the Security Council of the United Nations to consider the deployment of drones in Côte d'Ivoire to support the peacekeeping mission in the country. Bamba believes that these monitoring devices would be able to offset any future drawbacks of UNOCI.
The United Nations will soon deploy drones for the first time in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to help the peacekeeping mission in the country monitor the eastern, mountainous and porous border with Rwanda and Uganda. In a report to the Security Council, the Secretary General of the UN, Ban Ki-moon, himself recommended the deployment of a similar unit in Côte d'Ivoire.
The UN force in the country needs to reduce its workforce by a battalion and be at 8,837 soldiers by July 31, when the Security Council is set to renew its annual mandate. Ban Ki-moon proposed reducing the UNOCI by two other battalions by mid-2015.
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