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Russia to increase support of UN peacekeeping activities

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Russia to increase its support of UN peacekeeping activities around the world.

Russia plans to increase its support of UN peacekeeping activities around the world, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov told the UN Security Council summit in New York.

"We [Russia] intend to further increase our practical contribution to the UN's peacekeeping and peace-building activities," Sergei Lavrov said.

Speaking about the settlement of conflicts, Lavrov, said present-day conflicts must not be resolved by force.

"The solutions [for conflicts] must be searched for in the political and diplomatic dimensions by involving all parties in dialogue and negotiations and without isolating anyone. The events of August 2008 proved where a unilateral withdrawal from peacekeeping formats and a reliance on force leads to," he said.

Russia recognized Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent states two weeks after a five-day war with Georgia in August 2008, which began when Georgian forces attacked South Ossetia in an attempt to bring it back under central control.

Lavrov also said there was a need for ample financial and intellectual investment to prevent conflicts as well as for the stronger UN potential in the sphere of preventive diplomacy and mediation.

All peacekeeping operations, he continued, must not be obtrusive and interests and the priorities of the parties involved in a conflict must always be taken into account.

UN, September 24 (RIA Novosti)

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