U.N. Confirms Dates for Cambodia Pullout
The Security Council decided Friday that the withdrawal of the military component of the U.N. operation in Cambodia, one of the biggest and costliest in U.N. history, should be completed by Nov. 15.
In a unanimous resolution, it also confirmed that the functions of the U.N. Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) would end when a new government is established some time in September, in accordance with 1991 Paris agreements that ended years of war and civil conflict in the Southeast Asian nation.
UNTAC, which has already begun leaving, included at its peak nearly 16,000 troops and thousands of police and civilian officials.
The U.N. operation in Cambodia is estimated to cost more than $1.5 billion and is rivaled in scope and size only by those in the former Yugoslavia and in Somalia.
A small number of U.N. staff will remain in the country to monitor human rights and provide assistance to the fledgling government.
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