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Old 30th Sep 2013, 21:55
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Lonewolf_50
 
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Dare I suggest, in light of the thread title, that "It" isn't coming?

Maybe not.

UNSC Resolution 2118 seems to call for Blue Helmets to be involved. Who will offer blue helmeted soldiers, and in what forms, remains to be seen.

Watch this space.
Full text of the resolution is here, you have to go about 1/3 down the page to get past the PR fluff and read the Resolution fluff ...

Paragraphs 10, 16, and 21 note that the Security Council ...
“10. Encourages Member States to provide support, including personnel, technical expertise, information, equipment, and financial and other resources and assistance, in coordination with the Director-General of the OPCW and the Secretary-General, to enable the OPCW and the United Nations to implement the elimination of the Syrian Arab Republic’s chemical weapons programme, and decides to authorize Member States to acquire, control, transport, transfer and destroy chemical weapons identified by the Director-General of the OPCW, consistent with the objective of the Chemical Weapons Convention, to ensure the elimination of the Syrian Arab Republic’s chemical weapons programme in the soonest and safest manner;

“16. Endorses fully the Geneva Communiqué of 30 June 2012 (Annex II),
which sets out a number of key steps beginning with the establishment of a
transitional governing body exercising full executive powers, which could
include members of the present Government and the opposition and other groups and shall be formed on the basis of mutual consent;

“21. Decides, in the event of non-compliance with this resolution, including unauthorized transfer of chemical weapons, or any use of chemical weapons by anyone in the Syrian Arab Republic, to impose measures under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter;
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