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UN & CoESPU: STRATEGIC GOALS - STRATEGIC COOPERATION

The year 2017 marks a little known but important 10th anniversary for the global security
architecture. It was in March 2007 that the then Police Adviser in the United Nations Department for
Peacekeeping Operations, DPKO,
sent a letter to the then Director of
the Center of Excellence for
Stability Police Units, CoESPU,
attaching a mutually agreed aide-
memoire for modalities of
cooperation.
The aide-memoire built on the
milestone 2005 decision by the
Government of Italy, in accordance
with the G8 Action Plan, to establish
a special international police training
center and doctrinal hub. The Center
was created to harness the
Mr. Dmitry Titov and General Emilio Borghini signing UN DPKO - impressive world of peacekeeping
Carabinieri Memorandum of Understanding in June 2010
expertise developed by the Italian
Carabinieri, in cooperation with other partners, in particular the United States.
The 2007 aide-memoire served as the reference point for our mutual cooperation. The same year, I
was appointed Assistant Secretary-General to build up the UN Office for Rule of Law and Security
Institutions, OROLSI, which had just
been approved by the UN General
Assembly as a new entity in the UN
Department of Peacekeeping
Operations. The CoESPU Director,
Lieutenant-General Emilio Borghini,
and I resolved to invest a great deal of
effort in operationalizing this
preliminary arrangement and place it
on solid ground. The result was an
agreement to radically enhance
cooperation between CoESPU and
DPKO -- a milestone Memorandum
of Understanding signed by both of us Mr. Dmitry Titov during UN Mine Action Service Training
in June 2010.
Our agreement had three overarching objectives: contribute to the conduct of UN peacekeeping
operations in the area of police; strengthen the Organization’s ability to establish, maintain and
sustain peace components in UN operations on the basis of Security Council resolutions; and support
the comprehensive

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