Ban urges larger role for China in UN peacekeeping missions

Mon, 01 Nov 2010

New York - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon would like to see more Chinese involvement in UN peacekeeping missions, he said on a visit to Beijing Monday.

"The secretary general noted that China could play a greater role in peacekeeping and in the search for political solutions to African crises, including in Somalia and Sudan," Ban's spokesman said in New York after the UN chief met with Chinese President Hu Jintao.

Ban did not address the subject of human rights, instead focusing on other issues such as climate change and Millennium Development Goals, the Korean Peninsula and Africa, the spokesman said.

Ban also did not address the imprisonment of dissident Liu Xiaobo, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last month.

Hu expressed support for the United Nations, the statement said.

Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/news/351394,eu-membership-president-visits-long-term-signing-midfielder-wilshere-china-un-peacekeeping-missions.html.