Security Council LIVE: UN peacekeeping under pressure

A Portuguese peacekeeper in a blue helmet and camouflage uniform stands guard with a rifle in a rural village in the Central African Republic. In the background, a group of civilians, including children, walk along a dirt path past a simple brick building.
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A UN peacekeeper patrols in the Central African Republic.
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UN peacekeepers have increasingly been sent into places where there is no peace to keep – under resourced, outgunned and exposed to violence they are not equipped to counter. The Security Council meets this afternoon in New York to confront that problem, with Secretary-General António Guterres briefing ambassadors on how to close the gap.

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