{"id":508518,"date":"2025-10-18T04:11:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T04:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/508518\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T04:11:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T04:11:19","slug":"france-britain-draft-un-plan-for-gaza-stabilization-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/508518\/","title":{"rendered":"France, Britain Draft UN Plan for Gaza Stabilization Force"},"content":{"rendered":"

France and Britain, in coordination with the United States, are finalizing a draft U.N. Security Council resolution that would lay the groundwork for an international force in Gaza<\/a>, French officials said Thursday.<\/p>\n

The move comes as a U.S.-mediated ceasefire<\/a> between Israel and Hamas continues to hold, and Western and Arab nations begin planning for Gaza\u2019s post-war security and reconstruction.<\/p>\n

French Foreign Ministry spokesperson Pascal Confavreux said the proposed stabilization mission would require a clear U.N. mandate to ensure legitimacy under international law and encourage wider participation from other countries.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrance is working closely with its partners on the establishment of such an international mission, which must be formalized through the adoption of a U.N. Security Council resolution,\u201d Confavreux told reporters. \u201cDiscussions, notably with the Americans and British, are ongoing to propose this resolution in the coming days.\u201d<\/p>\n

A White House official confirmed that the Trump administration<\/a> is in talks with several nations interested in joining the mission. \u201cWe are also in conversations about a potential U.N. Security Council resolution to support this effort,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n

Stabilization Force Expected to Take Time<\/strong><\/p>\n

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said this week that the proposed force would take time to form, as the terms of reference and operational details are still under discussion.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe stabilization force will take some time,\u201d Starmer told Parliament on Tuesday. \u201cThe terms of reference are still being drawn up. There is a United Nations Security Council resolution on the establishment of the force \u2014 or I hope there will be \u2014 but the wider terms of reference are not yet agreed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Diplomats said the mission would not be a formal U.N. peacekeeping operation funded by the organization but could follow the model of a Security Council-backed force like the one deployed to Haiti to combat armed gangs. Such a resolution would authorize participating states to \u201ctake all necessary measures\u201d \u2014 language typically used to permit the use of force.<\/p>\n

Indonesia Offers 20,000 Troops<\/strong><\/p>\n

As reported in Reuters<\/a>, countries approached by the United States include Indonesia, Egypt, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Azerbaijan, according to U.S. officials. Italy has publicly expressed willingness to take part.<\/p>\n

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto told the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 23 that Indonesia was prepared to send 20,000 or more troops to Gaza if a Security Council resolution mandated the force.<\/p>\n

The 193-member U.N. General Assembly last month overwhelmingly endorsed a declaration supporting a two-state solution and the deployment of a temporary international stabilization mission in Gaza under U.N. authorization.<\/p>\n

U.S. officials said a small number of American troops \u2014 up to two dozen \u2014 are already in the region to assist in planning and coordination roles for the proposed mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France and Britain, in coordination with the United States, are finalizing a draft U.N. Security Council resolution that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36,20406,16],"class_list":{"0":"post-508518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-israel-gaza-war","12":"tag-uk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115393218649820160","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}