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Regional Peacekeeping Force – 2007

In the Ouagadougou Political Agreement (2007), parties agreed to request additional African peacekeeping troops for Ivory Coast. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Union (AU) were providing military troops for peacekeeping purposes in Ivory Coast.¹

In an effort to increase the number of African troops in the post-agreement period, the President of Ivory Coast requested troops from Burkina Faso. In July, Burkina Faso decided to send 150 troops.² This contribution was supposed to strengthen the United Nations Operation in C™te d’Ivoire (UNOCI). The actual departure date of the military unit was not given. As of December 2007, the Secretary General’s Report to the Security Council did not suggest a substantial increase in the contribution of African or Burkina Faso troops as.³

1. “Eleventh progress report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Operation in C™te dÕIvoire,” United Nations Security Council (S/2006/939), December 4, 2006.
2. “Burkina to deploy a military unit in Ivory Coast,” Agence France Presse, July 24, 2007.
3. “Fifteenth progress report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Operation in C™te dÕIvoire,” United Nations Security Council (S/2008/1), January 2, 2008; “Thirteenth progress report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Operation in C™te dÕIvoire,” United Nations Security Council (S/2007/275), May 14, 2007; “Fourteenth progress report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Operation in C™te dÕIvoire,” United Nations Security Council (S/2007/ 593), October 1, 2007.