China to increase UN peacekeeping involvement: white paper

Beijing: China will continue to firmly support and participate in the UN peacekeeping operations (UNPKOs), says a white paper released by the State Council Information Office on Friday.

China will continue to fulfil its responsibilities as a major country, scale up support for and involvement in the UNPKOs, and join forces with other countries to promote a sound and reasonable UN peacekeeping reform, according to the white paper titled “China’s Armed Forces: 30 Years of UN Peacekeeping Operations.”

China’s armed forces will endeavour to play a stronger role in the UNPKOs, comprehensively improve peacekeeping capability, faithfully fulfil their responsibilities, and contribute more to world peace, it says.