AlHijjah 19, 1434, Oct 24, 2013, SPA -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Wednesday requested the deployment of 250 peacekeepers to protect the global body's personnel and facilities in the Central African Republic. In a letter to the U.N. Security Council, Ban proposed the establishment of a "guard unit" to protect the U.N. Integrated Peacebuilding Office in the Central African Republic (BINUCA). The proposed unit initially would be composed of 250 military personnel deployed in Bangui. "The guard unit would, in a second phase, increase its strength to a battalion of 560 military personnel, with its own enablers, in order to progressively deploy to locations outside Bangui where the U.N. has a presence," the letter said.
