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  Sinibaretti-lehti/Summary for the New Year
Sc.) h.c., Ensio Siilasvuo was born to an officer family as the youngest child.
Ensio Siilasvuo volunteered to the Finnish Army in 1941 and served until 1945 as a platoon leader, company commander and chief of staff of an infantry regiment.
The Military Funeral Ceremony was held in the Kallio Church in Helsinki in February 1, 2003 at the presence of the family and hundreds of General's comrades-in-peace.
www.rauhanturvaajaliitto.fi /lehti/1_03/summary.htm   (368 words)

  
  Ensio Siilasvuo -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ensio Siilasvuo (1 January 1922 — 10 January, 2003) was a (The official language of Finland; belongs to the Baltic Finnic family of languages) Finnish (A general officer of the highest rank) general.
Ensio Siilasvuo volunteered for the (additional info and facts about Finnish Army) Finnish Army in 1941 and served as a chief-of-staff of a infantry regiment in 1945.
He was promoted to (The naval officer in command of a military ship) captain at the age of 22 and was wounded twice.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/E/En/Ensio_Siilasvuo.htm   (218 words)

  
 Finns on the international stage — Virtual Finland
Later, General Lauri Koho was made Military Advisor to the UN Secretary-General, General Raimo Helminen was appointed Commander of the UN troops in Afghanistan, and General Gustav Hägglund was Commander of the UN troops on the Israeli border with Syria and then in Lebanon.
Siilasvuo was involved as UN representative and impartial mediator.
Siilasvuo began his peacekeeping career in the 1950s, when he headed the Finnish company in the UNEF operation in Sinai.
www.finland.fi /netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=26159   (2181 words)

  
 S/11808 of 19 August 1975
"In the light of the above, I propose to appoint Lieutenant-General Ensio Siilasvuo, who is currently the Commander of UNEF, as the Chief Co-ordinator of UNTSO, UNEF and UNDOF operations in the Middle East.
General Siilasvuo and his small staff would utilize the existing accommodation, communications and facilities of the headquarters of UNTSO.
General Siilasvuo would continue as necessary to discharge his functions in relation to the Military Working Group of the Geneva Peace Conference on the Middle East and would be responsible for liaison and contact with the parties on important substantive matters relating to peace-keeping in the Middle East.
domino.un.org /unispal.nsf/bb6fe1e72803131885256c380071d04c/04f9b368281c8bb5852568c60074f84c!OpenDocument   (582 words)

  
 The Miracle Worker Does It Again - TIME
Trim in his gray Finnish army uniform, General Ensio Siilasvuo inspected representatives of five nations facing him in Geneva's Palais des Nations last week.
With that, Siilasvuo invited representatives of Israel and Syria to sign the disengagement agreement between their countries that U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had successfully negotiated during a month of difficult and dramatic shuttle diplomacy.
As Siilasvuo reminded the signatories and the U.S., Soviet and Egyptian delegations accompanying them, "a good deal more remains to be done." But remarkable achievements had already been scored—first an Egyptian-Israeli disengagement, next a more complicated Syrian-Israel pullback.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,911391,00.html   (597 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: List of Finns   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ensio Siilasvuo (1 January 1922 — 10 January 2003) was a Finnish general.
Hjalmar Fridolf Siilasvuo (1892 - 1947) was a Finnish general who led troops in the Winter War, Continuation War and Lapland War.
Count Georg Magnus Sprengtporten, or Göran Magnus Sprengtporten as he preferred to call himself, (1740-1819), Swedish and Russian politician, younger brother of Jacob Magnus Sprengtporten, entered the army and rose to the rank of captain during the Seven Years War.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-Finns   (7576 words)

  
 S/11818/Add.5 of 10 October 1975
September 1975 (S/ll8l8 and Add.l-4), Lieutenant-General "Ensio Siilasvuo has reported to me that the Protocol to the Agreement and the maps attached thereto have now been signed for Israel by Mr.
The text of the Protocol, with reproductions of the attached maps, may be found in the annex to the present report.
Taking into account that the preparation of a detailed Protocol is essential the implementation of the Agreement between Egypt and Israel in all its parts constitutes a significant step towards a just and durable peace according to provisions of Security Council resolution 338 of 22nd October 1973,
domino.un.org /UNISPAL.NSF/1ce874ab1832a53e852570bb006dfaf6/c4a411a48c86140085256f500057dc5d!OpenDocument   (2978 words)

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