US organizing summit on UN peacekeeping next week

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States is organizing a summit on U.N. peacekeeping on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly next week that will be addressed by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame.

A U.S. note on the summit, sent to U.N. member states and obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press, said, “United Nations peacekeeping today is more critical than ever to international peace and security, with peacekeepers called on to end ethnic conflict, prevent violence against civilians, and serve on the international community’s frontlines against violent extremists.”