Outgoing UN Peacekeeping Chief has acknowledged failures during his tenure

The outgoing United Nations Peacekeeping Chief has acknowledged failures during his tenure, but believes their core mandate of protecting civilians is an incredibly difficult issue to manage. Herve Ladsous was speaking to the media after over five years as the under Secretary General for Peacekeeping. His tenure has seen deployments that have taken place in increasingly complicated theatres, often where there was a fragile peace to keep or none at all. And with rising concerns about funding for peacekeeping operations, he revealed that three missions would be shut down within the next year. Sherwin Bryce-Pease reports.