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Visit of Ambassador Alain Le Roy, UN
DPKO Under Secretary General.
Vicenza, 16th December
2009
The UN USG Ambassador Alain Le Roy has visited CoESPU. The occasion
has been given by the closing ceremony of the 18 Higl Level and
Middle Management courses. The Ambassador has been welcome by
Lt.General Stefano Orlando, Carabinieri Deputy Cdr., by Lt. General
Emilio Borgini, Carabinieri Mobile and Specialized Units Cdr. and
by BG Umberto Rocca, CoESPU's Director. Also representatives from
G8 nations and participant nations were present to the ceremony.The
USG has underlined the good and fruitful relations between the UN
and the Center, that are already enshrined in a Memorandum of
Understanding going to be implemented with an Aide Memoire between
UN DPKO and CoESPU.
It has also been stressed the increasing relevance of the police
component in the theatre of operations: the number of police
officers working in peacekeeping missions under the flag of the UN
has augmented in the last 3 years from 6.000 to 13.000 and by the
end of 2010 they will be 15.000. Moreover the Ambassador has
highlighted the key role played by gendarmerie forces, like
Carabinieri, due to their unique capacity in robust policing, quite
necessary in destabilized environment. The USG has also underlined
the increased number of Formed Police Units that the UN Security
Council is authorizing due to the effectiveness and capacity of
these coherent pre trained and pre equipped units to carry out
activities in very challenging scenarios in order to fill the
security gap. Crucial is the activity of the Center in this regard.
The UN USG has also remarked that Italy is currently the main G8 as
well as European contributor to peacekeeping operations under the
UN flag.
Lt Gen. Stefano Orlando has expressed his gratitude to the USG for
the great attention devoted by the UN to the Center and has thanked
the attendees for their efforts in order to achieve the completion
of the courses. The Deputy Commander General has also underlined
the strong and continuous support provided to CoESPU by the U.S.
Government and has thanked the other G8 partners for they support
and the sending nations for their participation in the activities
of CoESPU.The 18° High Level and Middle Management courses, in
Frech language, had 109 police officers from Burkina Faso, Camerun,
Egypt, Giordania, Mali, Nepal, Nigeria, Senegal, Serbia ed Ukraine.
Besides Carabinieri officers, the teachers were lecturers from
Universities, French gendarmerie officers, EGF officers and high
ranking officers from Cameroon and Senegal running key positions in
the field of Peacekeeping.The UN Delegation, apart from the
Ambassador Le Roy, consisted of the UN DPKO Police Advisor Ann
Marie Orler, Carlos Peralta and da Saskia
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