HC Deb 30 November 2000 vol 357 c833W
Ms Oona King

To 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. Hain

The 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.