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Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI)

Logo: Global Peace Operations Initiative--GPOIThe Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI) addresses major gaps in international peace operations support. The program aims to build and maintain capability, capacity, and effectiveness of peace operations.

Description: A program implementer addressing troops during the GPOI exercise. [State Dept. Bureau of Political-Military Affairs photo]
A GPOI trainer instructs peacekeeping forces, October 27, 2004.

 Partnership for Peace
Date: 12/22/2008 Description: Army soldiers trained as UN peacekeepers during a ceremony in Lima, Peru 12/22/2008. © AP ImageThe Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI) has trained and equipped nearly 87,000 foreign troops to serve as international peacekeepers. DipNote Blog

Promoting Security Through Peacekeeping
Date: 12/21/2006 Description: Italian UN senior N.C.L Valeria Visco embraces a Lebanese child during distribution of toys by United Nation Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) to children, in the southern coastal town of Naqoura, Lebanon Thursday, Dec. 21, 2006. © AP Image At the UN General Assembly, President Obama pledged to strengthen U.S. support for international peacekeeping efforts, a goal furthered by the Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI). DipNote Blog

President Obama Renews U.S. Commitment to PeacekeepingDate: 09/23/2009 Description: President Barack Obama addresses the General Assembly of the UN in New York. © Official White House photo by Samantha Appleton.
White House Special Assistant Samantha Power briefed journalists at the Foreign Press Center. Full Text

State Department Surpasses Target of 75,000 Trained Peacekeepers by 2010
The United States has surpassed its commitment, adopted at the 2004 G-8 Sea Island Summit, to train and equip 75,000 new peacekeepers to be able to participate in peacekeeping operations worldwide by 2010. Full Text

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