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Fiji’s Military Regime Deploys More Personnel To UN Ops
Press Release
www.36th-Parallel.com
July 16 2012
For Immediate Release
36th-Parallel.com Inquiry
Shows Fiji’s Military Regime Deploys More
Personnel To
UN Ops Than Australia, Canada, New Zealand Combined
Since
the 2006 Fiji coup Commodore Voreqe (Frank)
Bainimarama’s
military-led government has remained
fully engaged with the United
Nations while incrementally
increasing the number of troops and police
it contributes
to UN peacekeeping operations to record levels.
United
Nations records show, that in the past year alone, Fiji
has
increased by 29 percent the number of Fiji military
and police
personnel deployed to UN operations. Between
April 2011 and May 2012,
Fiji also contributed more
peacekeepers to UN operations than
Australia, Canada and
New Zealand combined.
36th Parallel, co-founder and
principal, Selwyn Manning said: “The
data shows that
the governments of Australia and New Zealand have
not
impeded the participation of Fijian troops in UN
peace-keeping
operations in spite of their public calls
to that effect, and in fact
have not impeded a rise in
the number of Fiji troops being deployed to
United
Nations operations since the December 2006 military
coup.
“Despite Fiji’s military being warned by the
United Nations
secretariat in November 2006 that if it
conducted a coup, overthrew
its government, and installed
a military-led regime, then its
contribution to UN-led
operations would be reduced or suspended, the
United
Nations increased the number of Fiji personnel deployed in
the
immediate post-coup period.
“That trend has increased in the six years since,” Selwyn Manning said.
To access this 36th-Parallel.com report, see:
http://36th-parallel.com/2012/07/fijis-military-regime-deploys-more-personnel-to-un-ops-than-australia-canada-new-zealand-combined/
36th
Parallel Assessments was founded by Paul G. Buchanan and
Selwyn
Manning. It is a non-governmental, non-partisan
New Zealand based
political risk and strategic assessment
consultancy.
The firm combines open source information
sharing with discrete
assessments, analysis and
forecasts. See also:
http://36th-parallel.com/about-us/
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