§ Ms Oona KingTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what progress has been made with establishing the Peacekeeping College in Britain; and if he will make a statement. [140845]
§ Mr. HainThe establishment of a UN Military Staff college is one of a number of reforms of UN peacekeeping which we have been pursuing with UN partners and the UN Secretariat. In October, the UN Secretary-General directed the Secretariat to produce concrete recommendations based on the proposals put forward by member states for such a college. Officials in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Ministry of Defence are now liaising on the practicalities of how to take forward the UK proposal with the Secretariat.