UN Form New World Peacekeeping Body

The United Nations General Assembly has voted on Tuesday to create a new body to facilitate peace-building throughout the world. The vote approved a new peace-building commission that will concentrate its efforts on halting renewed warfare through reconstruction and other initiatives once fighting stops.

The UN Assembly President, Jan Eliasson testified the vote as “historic”, as he said that it was the UN’s “best chance to reverse the trend, which in recent years, has seen around half the countries end their fighting only to lapse back into conflict within five years.”