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ablution facility

Military; Peace keeping

Prefabricated, relocatable units (usually 10' or 20' ISO containers) for use by up to 30 people, and equipped with showers, mirrors, WCs, wash basins, urinals, hot water tanks, ...

good offices

Military; Peace keeping

Procedure when, for the maintenance of peace, a nation intervenes in a friendly manner between two powers whose differences might well lead to armed conflict, and offers its ...

blockade

Military; Peace keeping

Procedure whereby a belligerent nation prevents the access of its enemy's coast to vital shipping of foodstuffs and war materials (maritime blockade, "blocus maritime"); in ...

recovery

Military; Peace keeping

Process of extricating a vehicle or equipment casualty from the place where it has become disabled or defective and moving it to the first place where repairs can be effected or ...

United Nations high-readiness brigade

Military; Peace keeping

Proposed by Denmark; brigade on stand-by to intervene immediately when a peace-keeping operation is established by the Security Council, until it is actually deployed; short name ...

United Nations rapid deployment brigade

Military; Peace keeping

Proposed by Netherlands in a 'non-paper' (A/49/886); a standing international all-volunteer 'fire brigade' (a light infantry brigade of up to 5000 men), distinct from the stand-by ...

United Nations Logistics Basing Centers

Military; Peace keeping

Proposed by the UK for the decentralized storage of equipment for peacekeeping operations in Africa, as part of a regionalization of equipment stockpiles.