The elite troops of the Rapid Response Police have been made available in case of an alert.

These should include rapidly deployable air, naval and ground forces and headquarters from which WEU operations could be commanded.

(c) Clarification of the vocation and aims of the Rapid Intervention Police.

(b) The training and equipping of the Rapid Intervention Police with appropriate weaponry and equipment

(a) The reorganization, training or retraining of the Rapid Intervention Police

As we now fully realize, rapid deployment of intervention forces is essential.

Our capacity to deploy rapid reaction forces also needs strengthening.

Rapid deployment required well trained and well equipped troops.

In April 1940, the United Kingdom and France came to Norway's aid with an expeditionary force.

(c) A fifth police d'intervention rapide battalion is currently being integrated in Kasangulu.

Increased flexibility in the rules governing the Fund would also further the aim of speedy and effective intervention.

(b) A special task force stationed in Maputo for the monitoring and verification of the quick reaction police force.

Just as an integrated approach to crisis areas is important, so too is early intervention.

The agreements which have already been implemented, include the reduction of 50.2 per cent in the personnel of the armed forces, the disbandment of the rapid deployment infantry battalions, the security forces and the paramilitary forces and the purification, all deriving from the conclusions of the ad hoc Commission.

We are moving from a tradition of interposing peace keepers between hostile forces to new forms of engagement.

(f) To monitor and verify the process of the reorganization and retraining of the quick reaction police and its activities, as well as to verify their weapons and equipment

Quick reaction forces, operational reserve troops and NATO air presence contributed to this enhanced security.

25. United Nations training and rapid reaction force training is an integrated part of the Force Training Cycle.

Human rights violations elicit an international outcry and condemnation, followed by intervention and occupation by foreign military forces.

Unlike in the 1930 s, decision makers acted quickly, ignoring dogmas that warned against rapid intervention.

38. In the first few hours after cyclone Geralda struck, Madagascar received assistance in the form of a prompt intervention by France, providing food, medicines, water and electric power.

Kosovo, to a significant degree, owes its independence to a NATO military intervention undertaken in the name of human rights.

A number of standby arrangements with key partners will help ensure that the necessary surge capacity is in place for major emergencies.

France has completed the second phase of the training of 1,500 police d'intervention rapide, and South Africa and Angola have intensified their training programmes.

In paragraph 186, the Board recommended that UNICEF include the management of emergency surge capacity in its strategic review of human resources.

It is not that the Council does not have a sense of what should be done rather, the problem is the absence of a rapid intervention capability.

None of the countries that had indicated possible contributions were willing to provide troops for rapid deployment.

four police d'intervention rapide (PIR) battalions (two trained in Kinshasa by French instructors and two trained in Mbandaka by Angolan instructors).

5. The Mozambican Government further has indicated that it also will seek the support of the international community in reorganizing its Rapid Intervention Police.

2.3 On 16 October 1999, the author was arrested at gunpoint by 20 armed members of the Rapid Intervention Police and DNIC officers at his home in Luanda, without being informed about the reasons for his arrest.

We feel that it is necessary to accelerate the creation of United Nations rapid deployment forces, which would recruit volunteers and would be extraterritorial in character.

The military returned to barracks and on 30 June the Police nationale congolaise, in particular the Police d'intervention rapide unit trained by Angola and France, were deployed for crowd control.

(d) 30 police observers comprising a special task force to monitor and evaluate the quick reaction police and to be available for unforeseen exigencies

I hope that you will take prompt action to resolve these problems with the host country, in accordance with the provisions relating to the equal treatment of all Member States.

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In this connection, the Netherlands welcomes the formation of the stand by forces planning team, which is engaged in formulating a concept and drawing up an inventory of rapid deployment forces.

But the result of intervention was that US forces became just one more target, culminating in the 1983 bombing of a US Marine barracks that killed 241 American soldiers.

Although the British had 100,000 troops stationed near the Suez Canal at the time, they chose not to intervene.

This argument was also used (with strong opposition from Russia and China) to justify NATO intervention in Kosovo and more recently in Libya.

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