Chief-of-staff the Serbian Armed Forces Ljubisa Dikovic took part in the first conference of chiefs of staff of the countries participating in the multinational UN operations held in New York, the Defence Ministry released in a statement.

This is the first conference of the kind organized by the UN since its establishment.

Friday's conference in New York brought together chiefs of staff of over 100 UN member states and the high military officials were addressed by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

The goal of the conference is to inform the chiefs of staff about the current political, strategic and operative circumstances of the ongoing UN peacekeeping operations, current challenges and opportunities for support to these operations, as well as to analyze the perspectives of the UN peacekeeping operations.

The talks were held on possibilities to use joint efforts to improve efficiency of the UN peacekeeping operations.