{"id":8005,"date":"2013-05-23T13:45:27","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T13:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/ban-ki-moon-says-un-ready-to-use-force-to-pacify\/"},"modified":"2018-11-09T16:00:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T16:00:49","slug":"ban-ki-moon-says-un-ready-to-use-force-to-pacify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/ban-ki-moon-says-un-ready-to-use-force-to-pacify\/","title":{"rendered":"Ban ki-Moon Says UN Ready to Use Force to Pacify Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{The UN secretary General Ban ki-Moon said Thursday that the United Nations is ready to pacify the great lakes region by force if need be.}}<\/p>\n<p>He noted while in Goma, DRC, &#8220;We have the best chance in many years to bring peace, stability and development to this country and this region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ban said in the next period of one or two months, the UN will deploy an Intervention Brigade with a mandate of neutralising armed groups in Eastern DRC. <\/p>\n<p>He said the intervention brigade will support the existing 17,000-strong U.N. mission.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This time, we&#8217;re going beyond the traditional way of peacekeeping missions. (The brigade) has been mandated with a clear and robust mandate to enforce peace when it is necessary,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Soldiers from South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi, have already begun to arrive in Congo as part of the 3,000 troops that will form the intervention brigade. <\/p>\n<p>The \u201cunprecedented\u201d joint visit to Africa\u2019s Great Lakes Region is in support of the UN-brokered peace agreement, which was signed in February by 11 African leaders and aims to end the cycles of conflict and crisis in the eastern DRC and to build peace in wider region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe it offers the best hope for peace in a generation,\u201d Mr. Ban said. \u201cBut that agreement must translate into concrete actions. A peace deal must deliver a peace dividend for people.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-2767 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/hio.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>L-R..{UN secretary General Ban ki-Moon, President Joseph Kabila and World Bank President Dr. Yong Kim } <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{The UN secretary General Ban ki-Moon said Thursday that the United Nations is ready to pacify the great lakes region by force if need be.}} He noted while in Goma, DRC, &#8220;We have the best chance in many years to bring peace, stability and development to this country and this region.\u201d Mr. Ban said in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[334],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-8005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe-reporter"],"bylines":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8005"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=8005"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=8005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}