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43reports. However, an official definition of the term civil-militarycoordination established by the DPKO 42 was found as following:“UN Civil-Military Coordination is the system of interaction,involving exchange of information, negotiation, de-confliction,mutual support, and planning at all levels between military elementsand humanitarian organizations, development organizations, or thelocal civilian population, to achieve respective objectives”.Based on this definition, the term Police-Military Coordination can bedefined as under:UN Police-Military Coordination is the system of interaction,involving exchange of information, negotiation, de-confliction,mutual support, and planning at all levels between UN police andmilitary components within a UN peacekeeping operation”.As stipulated for Civil-military coordination policy, complementarity andavoidance of duplication are at the core of principles and considerations forCivil-Military coordination.42In this definition, for the purpose of DPKO, the term military includes police services (this documentwas adopted in 2002). See complete text at: www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/451ba7624.pdf (last visited15 Jan. 15, 2010)