{Despite a request by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to add two extra police units (320 officers) the council agreed to a Washington demand to keep the current total of 1,050 officers.}<\/p>\n
The resolution asks Guterres to explore \u201ctransfers of troops and their assets from other United Nations missions to MONUSCO\u201d if needed and subject to council approval.<\/p>\n
It is the first peacekeeping mission to be renewed since U.S. President Donald Trump proposed that Washington, the largest U.N. contributor, cut funding. U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley is reviewing the 16 U.N. peacekeeping operations.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not the number of people we have on the ground, it\u2019s the quality of the work that\u2019s happening on the ground,\u201d Haley told the council after the Congo vote.<\/p>\n
Washington provides the most money for the total $7.9 billion U.N. peacekeeping budget, paying 28.5 percent, but Trump and Haley want to enforce a 25 percent cap.<\/p>\n
The council has asked Guterres to report by the end of September on options for reducing the peacekeeping mission after elections this year, President Joseph Kabila has stepped down and sustainable progress has been made in reducing the threat of armed groups in the country.<\/p>\n
Resource-rich Congo, which gained independence from colonial power Belgium in 1960, has never had a peaceful transition of power and Kabila\u2019s refusal to stand down when his final term expired in December has raised fears the country could slide back into civil war.<\/p>\n
Opposition leaders signed a fragile deal with the ruling coalition and allies of Kabila on Dec. 31 that requires him to step down after elections that must happen by the end of 2017.<\/p>\n
The Security Council held a minute silence to honor two U.N. investigators whose bodies were found this week in Kasai Central province.<\/p>\n
Source:The Citizen <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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