SINCE the completion of its second tour as a rotating member of the UN Security Council in 1990, Malaysia has remained one of the major troops contributing countries (TCC) to UN peacekeeping operations in the African continent and the Balkans.
The increase in the number of deployments of UN Peacekeepers require both military observers as well as police officers. The UN has been deploying police officers for peacekeeping missions since the 1960s but their mandate was limited to monitoring, observing and reporting on the rule of law.
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