Tomainia, a nation of blueeyed blonds.

Finally, there is a need for a substantial strengthening of the safety provisions for the Blue Helmets.

It is not always the case that the quot blue helmets quot are regarded by all the conflicting parties as welcome guests.

The national preparation of quot Blue Helmet quot forces needs to be coordinated to a greater degree by the United Nations.

Lately, human losses among peace keepers from the United Nations Blue Helmets have increased.

In many tense situations, one does not need Blue Helmets one needs effective policing.

For instance, 700 United Nations peacekeepers had to be deployed to Fataki, in Ituri, to secure the census and voter registration process.

Precisely because their functions have become diversified, the Blue Helmets must have clearly delimited fields of activity.

As a fourth and last consideration, the security of the blue helmets is as much a concern of the contributing countries as of the Secretariat.

We have heard horror stories of women and children being raped and abused by individual blue helmet peacekeepers.

Provision is made to cover the cost of the United Nations uniforms and accoutrements issued to military and police personnel, including blue berets, cap badges, armlets and so on.

With no compunction about opening fire on the Blue Helmets of the United Nations, the Serbian forces in Bosnia have prevented the deployment of those soldiers in certain sensitive areas.

For this to happen each participant of the peace process the leaders on both sides, those who conduct actual monitoring, the military observers and the blue helmets should display highest sense of responsibility.

That has become our national commitment, and we have continued to improve our rapid deployment capacity in readiness for United Nations blue helmet activities and to make troops available for deployment.

We need the blue helmets of peace, not the mercenary black helmets of death which have recently participated with increasing frequency in conflict zones around the world.

We welcome all the measures taken thus far by the Security Council and are particularly encouraged by the fact that more blue helmets have been sent and that Mr. Antonio Monteiro has been appointed as the United Nations High Representative for the elections in Côte d'Ivoire.

(d) Publication in English, French and Spanish of quot The Blue Helmets quot edition intended for distribution to the media, parliamentarians, non governmental organizations, research and educational institutions, government agencies and officials (PERD)

Nevertheless, these Russian military forces are still referred to as peacekeepers or blue helmets , as the overall conflict resolution in the region in structured as a United Nations led peace process.

The savage killing of 10 Belgian quot blue helmets quot , who were among the 100 United Nations peace keepers slain since the beginning of this year, highlights the unmistakable fragility of peace keeping operations.

In addition, we should give special attention to the increased risks for humanitarian workers in the region, who are more and more often mistaken, at worst, for combatants or, in the best of cases, for Blue Helmets.

Over the past 21 months, investigations into allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse involving 264 United Nations peacekeeping personnel have been concluded 16 civilians have been summarily dismissed, and 132 Blue Helmets have been repatriated (seven of whom were Commanders).

The combined impact of a number of these conflicts has had a corrosive effect on the standing of the United Nations. Pictures of Blue Helmets standing by, unable to prevent conflict and impotent to save life, have become a media cliché.

The questions that we must pose based on the above are the following When can one say that an established peacekeeping mission has succeeded? In what cases are Blue Helmets the solution to the problems of States? Under what conditions should the United Nations intervene?