United Nations, Sep 24 (IANS): UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Wednesday announced that he will appoint a high-level panel to review the UN peace operations in order to better meet the challenges in today's world.

He made the remarks while addressing the UN General Assembly before the start of the annual high-level debate of the 193-member body, Xinhua reported.

"To better meet the challenges before us, I have called for a review of United Nations peace operations and will appoint a high-level review panel in the coming weeks," he said.

Ban did not give further details on the proposed review panel.

The UN peace operations mainly include peace mediation, peace building and peacekeeping efforts of the world body.

Peacekeeping has proven to be one of the most effective tools available to the UN to assist host countries navigate the difficult path from conflict to peace.

Peacekeeping is flexible and over the past two decades has been deployed in many configurations. There are currently 17 UN peace operations deployed on four continents.