The Security Council has extended the UN peacekeeping force in Liberia for another year, but chided the West African nation to fully fund its national police force to ease the UN withdrawal.
The council unanimously adopted a resolution on Wednesday to withdraw 1129 UN troops over a year, whittling to a force of 3730 peacekeepers by mid-2015.
The police component was kept at 1795 officers in 10 police units, but the resolution urges Liberia to fully fund its own national police and security forces, saying Liberia is ultimately responsible for protecting its own people.
The UNMIL peacekeeping force was set up in 2003 to oversee a ceasefire agreement after President Charles Taylor resigned at the end of a civil war. At one point it had as many as 15,000 UN troops.
