What does DPA stand for?

Department of Political Affairs

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Samples in periodicals archive:

In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of DPKO and Department of Political Affairs (DPA)-led operations with mine action components as either specified or implied tasks within the mandate.

Achieving zero new victims of landmines

Between 1995 and 2003, he served initially as Deputy and then Director of Africa I Division in the Department of Political Affairs (DPA), with responsibility for the countries of the Horn of Africa, the Great Lakes and Southern Africa regions as well as regional organisations.

New UN envoy arrives

00 Hardcover UN peace operations histories DT516 Olonisakin (director of the Conflict, Security, and Development Group of the School of Social Science and Public Policy at King's College London, UK) describes the history of the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL), in this first volume of a series initiated by the United Nations' Department of Political Affairs and Department of Peacekeeping Operations to examine the history of UN peacekeeping operations from the perspective of UN decision-making and crisis management.

Peacekeeping in Sierra Leone; the story of UNAMSIL

In collaboration with the Department of Political Affairs (DPA), an experts' group meeting, hosted by the Government of Canada, was held in November 2003.

Editorial

She worked for the department of political affairs and was normally based in New York, but had been in Iraq for two months.

'Dream job' of British victim

government's decision to ban entry visas for Myanmar (Burmese) leaders to their country will not be very effective because no Myanmar leaders are visiting that country," said U Khin Maung Win, the director general of the department of political affairs in the foreign ministry.

AROUND THE WORLD

Widespread speculation that an American would head a merged department of political affairs and disarmament had complicated Ban's earlier proposal.

U.N. chief proposes peacekeeping reforms

Under the new proposal, Abdelaziz said, the Department of Political Affairs would remain as it is now, a separate department headed by an undersecretary-general.

AP: U.N. chief to drop merger plan