He sees potential for selling military berets across the world - especially for UN peacekeeping operations, where the floppy hat appears far less aggressive than a helmet.
Can the UN take on another onerous peacekeeping operation?
To resist them, the army could argue that Canada would have more clout in the world if it increased its woefully low participation in UN peacekeeping.
For the past18 months, Mr Bashir's government, whose janjaweed proxiesare blamed for the worst of the atrocities in Darfur, has consistently resistedall diplomatic moves to let the small and ineffectual African Union peacekeeping force there be beefed up with better-equipped UN troops.
The Ugandans, some of them veterans of peacekeeping in Somalia, fought alongside troops from the armies of Congo and south Sudan.
Over the past 62 years, UN peacekeeping operations have made great contribution to international peace and security, and won the wide acclaim from many countries.
Mr Ban's efforts to improve farming are laudable and ambitious. So were Mr Annan's efforts to boost peacekeeping.
The United Nations will juggle nine separate peacekeeping operations across Africa in 2008, including the continent's two largest countries by area, Sudan and Congo.
Member States are currently working to create a more effective support structure for peacekeeping operations, based on recommendations by the Panel on United Nations Peace Operations, which issued its report in 2000 .
So we have got to create in this world also institutions for peacekeeping and humanitarian aid, but also for reconstruction and security for some of the conflict-ridden states of the world.
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