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World Service,16 Dec 2009,10 mins

UN Peacekeepers

Witness History

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These days it takes months to get United Nations Peacekeepers into action. But when the first force was launched in 1956 it only took days to get it off the ground. Sir Brian Urquhart tells Witness about his part in its creation

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