A atuação brasileira na Monusco

Abstract

Approximately 57,700 Brazilians have already participated in peace missions conducted by the United Nations. Brazil's greatest contribution was in Haiti, where 30,378 Brazilians, men and women, participated in the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti between 2004 and 2017. Among the peace missions conducted by the UN, the United Nations Stabilization Mission of the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) is the most sensitive and the only peacekeeping mission in which the UN has established an Intervention Brigade that is authorized to use force in order to fulfill its mandate. In this scenario, the commander of the military portion of MONUSCO, entitled Force Commander (FC), between 2013 and 2015, was a Brazilian, as is the current FC. Four general officers from Brazil exercised this function, other soldiers from the Brazilian Navy and the Brazilian Air Force are also part of MONUSCO. This paper concludes that the continued participation of Brazilians in MONUSCO is of national interest, since it has a direct impact not only on world peace, but also on Brazilian foreign policy and the national demand to make Brazil one of the permanent members of the Council. of United Nations Security. Exploratory research, bibliographic research and documentary research methods were used to conclude as true the hypothesis that “the continuous participation of Brazilian military personnel in MONUSCO is in the national interest, since it meets the National Defense Policy and contributes to the demand of Brazilian foreign policy to make Brazil one of the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council”.