UN General Assembly
1993

as authorizing a peace-keeping operation, all aspects of it should be handled by a single department in New York. That is why we have suggested the creation of an expanded planning and operations staff. This in effect is a general staff for peace-keeping. These men and women, civilian and military, would be able together to provide the necessary core of the United Nations strategic-planning chain. They would operate mainly here in New York, but also in the field. They would provide the United Nations with the nervous system for which its present staff is neither structured nor resourced. We are not proposing here some new and heavy bureaucracy. On the contrary, we are talking about core staff: trained staff officers, United Nations civil affairs and, increasingly, humanitarian advisers, and chief administrative officers. The example of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), of a special envoy for all humanitarian and refugee aspects of an operation, is good. Then, there must be flexibility in running peace-keeping operations. The more comprehensive a bureaucracy