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Today's peacekeeping operations are often involved in the settlement of civil conflicts in areas where the structures of government administration have been severely weakened or destroyed. For this reason, key mission staff-political, military, civilian police and civil administration personnel-must be deployed quickly to begin the immediate implementation of core tasks and thus avoid a security and administrative vacuum.
To meet this need, the United Nations Secretariat is continuing to develop its concept of a mechanism to ensure rapid deployment of key personnel. This mechanism would utilize the expertise of the Secretariat, the UN system of agencies and programmes, Member States and non-governmental organizations and include political, military, civilian police and a broad range of civilian experts. Arrangments would be concluded with Member States and relevant organizations for the immediate deployment of pre-selected personnel in the start-up phase of a new operation for a period of 60 to 90 days pending their replacement by more permanent personnel.
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