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Yearbook of the United Nations 2009

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Chapter I: International peace and security new and emerging troop-contributing countries. It expressed support for the efforts of Member States and regional arrangements to enhance the capacity of peacekeeping personnel at peacekeeping training centres. It expressed support for the efforts of dpko in providing those peacekeeping training centres, as well as national training focal points, with guidance on training. Looking forward to further improvement of the standardized training modules for potential senior mission leaders, the Special Committee renewed its call for the finalization of training standards and guidelines for formed police units, as well as the finalization of specialized training modules for police. It welcomed the first standardized UN police predeployment training curriculum and mission-specific training, and noted the recent predeployment missionspecific training that was conducted in partnership

99 with the Secretariat and Member States, which resulted in an increase from 10 to 70Â per cent of newly deployed police personnel receiving predeployment training. It stressed the importance of maintaining an appropriate support and guidance capacity at UN Headquarters to ensure oversight and guidance to the field and to complement the work of the Integrated Training Service. The Special Committee welcomed the integrated distance learning programmes provided to the peacekeeping missions by the Peace Operations Training Institute, and urged dpko and the Institute to work together to promote the e-learning programmes. It underlined that training and awareness-raising in regard to misconduct were among the key elements in ensuring the orderly conduct of UN personnel, a matter in which troop- and police-contributing countries and the Secretariat played important roles.


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