{{UN peacekeeping missions should deploy more drones and state-of the art technology to become more effective, limit boots on the ground and keep aid workers safer, their chief said on Thursday.}}<\/p>\n
On the International Day of UN Peacekeepers, staff paid tribute to more than 3 000 peacekeepers who have died since 1948, including 106 last year, and to those still serving on the frontline.<\/p>\n
The head of UN peacekeeping, Herve Ladsous, said that a peacekeeper died on average once every three days in 2013, and that technology needs to be upgraded to assist a record number of UN boots on the ground.<\/p>\n
The Security Council last month approved a new mission in the Central African Republic and in December voted to send an extra 5 500 soldiers to war-torn South Sudan.<\/p>\n
“Clearly we cannot continue to afford to work with 20th century tools in the 21st century,” Ladsous told reporters in New York.<\/p>\n
He said drones had already helped in the Democratic Republic of Congo and could be vital in improving humanitarian access.<\/p>\n
“They [convoys] can use the images of the machines to make sure they are not going to be attacked or hijacked on the way. That, I think, is a very significant development,” Ladsous said.<\/p>\n
“We do need them [drones] in countries like Mali, like Central African Republic and clearly in South Sudan it would be my desire that we might deploy them,” he said.<\/p>\n
Surveillance drones could replace some military observers and make a big difference.<\/p>\n
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