国内英语资讯:Spotlight: From small step to giant leap, China makes tangible contributions to UN peace ope_时事

国内英语资讯:Spotlight: From small step to giant leap, China makes tangible contributions to UN peace ope

From Mali, South Sudan, to the DRC and Liberia, stories like these have happened now and again wherever Chinese peacekeepers are stationed.

UN Under-Secretary-General for Field Support Atul Khare said that China is not only a permanent member of the Security Council, but also a major troop contributing country and the second largest financial contributor to peacekeeping budget, adding that only China has these three glorious responsibilities at the same time.

In December 2018, China's share of the UN peacekeeping budget for 2019-2021 was raised from 10.24 percent to 15.22 percent, making it the second largest contributor only after the United States.

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Over the past 30 years, the Chinese peacekeepers have left a string of solid footprints on their journey of safeguarding world peace and security.

In September 2017, Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged at the UN Peacekeeping Summit that China would take the lead in setting up a permanent peacekeeping police squad, build a peacekeeping standby force of 8,000 troops, and provide free military aid of 100 million U.S. dollars to the African Union, as Africa has the biggest peacekeeping needs.

"Chinese peacekeepers -- civilian, military and police -- have played a valuable role in several UN operations over the past 30 years and I commend them for their service under the blue flag," UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix told Xinhua, one day prior to the International Day of UN Peacekeepers that falls on May 29.