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  Learn more about Timeline of UN peacekeeping missions in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
1994 UN Mission of Observers in Tajikistan (UNMOT)
1996 UN Mission of Observers in Prevlaka (UNMOP)
2000 UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE)
onlineencyclopedia.org /t/ti/timeline_of_un_peacekeeping_missions.html   (665 words)

  
 Summary of Australian Participation in Peacekeeping Missions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Australia became involved in the mission in August 1947 when locally based diplomatic staff were seconded to the GOC to assist in the delineation and supervision of the ceasefire and repatriation of Dutch forces to the Netherlands.
UNITAF, though not a UN mission, was established under UN Resolution 794 in December 1992 as the situation in Somalia had overtaken the ability of UNOSOM I to quickly restore peace and stability.
The peacekeeping mission within the larger civilian and humanitarian MINUGUA mission was established by the Security Council on 20 January 1997 to verify agreement on the definitive ceasefire between the Government of Guatemala and the Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca (URNG), which was signed in Oslo on 4 December 1996.
www.dva.gov.au /commem/commac/studies/anzacsk/res2.htm   (5043 words)

  
 Yemen, 1963-1964   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
To bring peace, a UN Yemen Observation Mission (UNYOM) was established on 13 June 1963.
The mission consisted of 200 personnel with 25 military observers, including military personnel from India.
On completion of its task in September 1964, the mission was closed.
www.bharat-rakshak.com /PEACE/Yemen.html   (88 words)

  
 Timeline of UN peacekeeping missions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mission of the Representative of the Secretary-General in the Dominican Republic
UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara
UN Organization Mission in Democratic Republic of the Congo
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Timeline_of_UN_peacekeeping_missions   (481 words)

  
 UN Peace Keeping
UN Operations in Somalia began in April 1992 with the efforts to facilitate humanitarian aid to the people trapped by civil war and famine.
The UN mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea was established to establish a buffer zone called the Temporary Security Zone (TSZ) and maintain a secure environment and assist an independent boundary commission in speedy delineation and demarcation of the inter-state boundary between the two countries.
UN Logistics Offrs Capsule (UNLOC-1) to be conducted from 09 Dec to 13 Dec 02; to be attended by 10 foreign and 15 Indian offrs.
indianarmy.nic.in /arunpk1.htm   (8928 words)

  
 UN Peacekeeping: Answers at Your Finger Tips
UN peacekeeping is not based on the principle of dispatching a fighting force to put out a conflict that is raging.
UN troops carry light arms and are allowed to use them only in self-defence, or if armed persons try to stop them from carrying out the orders of their commanders.
The UN Charter states that when the Security Council determines the existence of any threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression, it sham decide what the UN should do to maintain or restore peace.
learning.turner.com /efts/un/unpeace.htm   (2449 words)

  
 Medals of the United Nations: Text List
UN Mission of Observers in Tajikistan - UNMOT
UN Observer Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo - MONUC
UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea - UNMEE
www.medals.org.uk /united-nations/united-nations-text.htm   (157 words)

  
 Mapleleafweb.com: Features - Peacekeeping - A Brief History of UN peacekeeping missions
UN observers conclude mission in 1991 after confirming withdrawal of both sides’ forces to internationally recognized boundaries.
UN observers report withdrawal of last Cuban troops from Angola in May 1991.
After suspension of hostilities undertaken by a coalition of UN Member States to reverse Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait and restore peace and security in the region, Security Council establishes UNIKOM in 1991 to monitor demilitarized zone along Iraq-Kuwait border, deter border violations, and report on any hostile action.
www.mapleleafweb.com /features/military/peace_keeping/history.html   (1001 words)

  
 UN Probes Peacekeeping Contracts Fraud - by Thalif Deen
The focus of the investigation is procurement, which, according to one UN source, could emerge as a major financial scandal in the history of the organization.
He cited two examples from recent peacekeeping missions: A former diplomat, currently with a peacekeeping mission in Europe, is said to have received a Mercedes Benz car as a kickback for favoring a particular contractor.
In another mission, he said, a husband-and-wife team was working in tandem to defraud the organization – mostly on procurement.
www.antiwar.com /ips/deen.php?articleid=8403   (1282 words)

  
 UN Dispatch: May 2005 Archives
UN troops are being sent against bad guys in the low-intensity wars that are too dull, too dangerous or just too prolonged for America and Europe to commit their own troops.
UN troops are shaping up to be a useful part of the "arsenal of peace" we'd like to have to keep another terrorist-haven Afghanistan from taking shape.
UN News Service: "Four Central Asian countries which have suffered a dramatic increase in HIV infection rates in recent years today launched a nearly $27 million project to lessen the human and economic impact of the pandemic...
www.undispatch.com /archives/2005/05/index.html   (9061 words)

  
 UN-NGLS Publications: NGLS Handbook
They are divided into four major programme areas: education; the natural, social and human sciences; culture; and communications, as well as covering a number of cross-disciplinary areas such as environment, population and development, culture of peace, and action in favour of priority target groups such as women, youth, Africa and least developed countries.
It is to be implemented in cooperation with other UN agencies, governmental and non-governmental organizations, and other partners including the industrial sector.
As part of UN peacebuilding efforts, UNESCO supports independent media that provide non-partisan information in conflict areas and thus contribute to the moral survival of affected populations and reconciliation.
www.un-ngls.org /documents/publications.en/ngls.handbook/a17unesc.htm   (7708 words)

  
 Ralph Bunche | Educational Resources | Instructor's Notes | Ralph Bunche & the UN
Later, at the UN General Assembly's First Session in London, Bunche, as backup to John Foster Dulles, often represented the United States on the Fourth Committee which dealt with colonial matters.
With the accident of a political murder and this success, Bunche had been catapulted from a middle-level post in the UN bureaucracy to that of a top-level executive diplomat identified with the United Nations efforts at Peace-keeping.
No single UN official, short of the Secretary-General was so intimately involved in the workings of the United Nations as a whole.
www.pbs.org /ralphbunche/education/instruct_ralph.html   (2060 words)

  
 The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Blog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
UN ready to assist the victims of the earthquake in Pakistan
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs is exploring “ways in which the United Nations can assist in all efforts required to support relief and rescue operations and in subsequent recovery and reconstruction,” a spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in New York.
Annan is “deeply saddened by the loss of life and destruction” caused by the quake, which had a magnitude of 7.6 and struck 95 kilometres outside of Islamabad.
tsunamihelp.blogspot.com   (5442 words)

  
 Today's Airforce: General Information
UN Truce Supervision Organization in Palestine (1948 -) and Observer Group in Lebanon (1958)
UN Military Observation Group in India and Pakistan (1948-79)
UN Temporary Executive Authority in West New Guinea (1962-63)
www.airforce.forces.gc.ca /traddocs/tradf_e.asp   (1041 words)

  
 FTR/UN 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The reports of these missions, containing his findings, conclusions and recommendations, can be found in addenda to the present report.
The mission concluded that the concerns expressed regarding the independence of the judiciary over the last 13 years were well founded.
These are missions that the respective Governments agreed to and confirmed at the fifty-sixth session of the Commission on Human Rights.
www.hri.ca /fortherecord2001/documentation/commission/e-cn4-2001-65.htm   (17559 words)

  
 Afar observation mission - October 1998   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The primarily objective of the UNDP-EUE mission was to familiarise with the particularities of the zone and contact and introduce myself to important governmental institutions, NGOs and other humanitarian and development organisations operating in Hararghe Zone of Oromyia Region.
Hararghe is situated in the eastern part of Ethiopia, bordering Somali Region as well as the urban administrative regions of Dire Dawa and Harari.
The designations employed and the presentation of material in this document do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever of the UN concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.
www.telecom.net.et /~undp-eue/reports/harar0599.htm   (2528 words)

  
 Why Arabs Lose Wars - Middle East Quarterly
It is a truism of military life that an army fights as it trains, and so I draw on my many years of firsthand observation of Arabs in training to draw conclusions about the ways in which they go into combat.
For these qualities depend on inculcating respect, trust, and openness among the members of the armed forces at all levels, and this is the marching music of modern warfare that Arab armies, no matter how much they emulate the corresponding steps, do not want to hear.
Author's observations buttressed by such scholarly works as Eli Shouby, "The Influence of the Arabic Language on the Psychology of the Arabs," Readings in Arab Middle Eastern Societies and Culture, ed.
www.meforum.org /article/441   (5966 words)

  
 Special Service Medal Bar Order "PEACE -- PAIX"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Mission of the Representative of the Secretary-General in the Dominican Republic (DOMREP)
UN Observer Group for the Verification of Elections in Haiti (ONUVEH)
UN Observer Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO)
laws.justice.gc.ca /en/otherreg/SI-95-125/189567.html   (329 words)

  
 Missions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (Kashmir).
UN Observer Mission for the Verification of the Electoral Process in Nicaragua
UN Observers for the Verification of Elections in Haiti.
www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca /peacekeeping/missions-en.asp   (261 words)

  
 List of Missions
From all missions without a link I still miss the plate in my collection and search for it.
All offers of UN related plates are very welcome at any time.
UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
www.hegis.de /list_of_missions.html   (189 words)

  
 International Constitutional Law - Organizations
Oil exporters outside the cartel are the former members of the Soviet Union, Iraq (crrently under UN export sanctions), and Nigeria.
The UN comprises nearly all nation states of the world.
Its most important decisions regarding sanctions and military activity are those voted in the UN Security Council.
www.oefre.unibe.ch /law/icl/gongo.html   (3501 words)

  
 Medals of the United Nations - Index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
UN Truce Supervision Organisation in Palestine - UNSTO
UN Angola Verification Mission - UNAVEM II UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara - MINURSO
Medals awarded by the United Nations - this is the official site and contains full details of the terms of award and lists the nations which participated in each UN mission.
www.medals.connectfree.co.uk /united-nations/un.htm   (116 words)

  
 Dutch Permanent Mission to the UN - Memberships of The Netherlands of principal United Nations organs and subsidiary ...
Dutch Permanent Mission to the UN - Memberships of The Netherlands of principal United Nations organs and subsidiary bodies
The Netherlands and the UN Internships (in Dutch)
The Netherlands is a member of several boards of Specialised Agencies, located in Geneva,   Vienna, Rome, Nairobi, Paris and other cities hosting UN organisations, as well as of the Boards of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
pvnewyork.org /the_netherlands_and/dutch_memberships_of   (608 words)

  
 Image:Flag of Yemen.svg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Flag of Yemen from the Open Clip Art website.
This image is from the Open Clip Art Library.
United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Image:Flag_of_Yemen.svg   (250 words)

  
 Yemen News - Media Monitoring Service by EIN News
Stampede at poll rally kills 41 and injures 50 in Yemen
At least 51 people were killed Tuesday and more than 238 injured in southern Yemen in a stampede at an election rally for the country's president.
UN warns of deadly smuggling of people from Somalia to Yemen
www.einnews.com /yemen   (527 words)

  
 Periodbot output starting #22746264
UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan Lieutenant General Robert Nimmo 1950-1966 2.
UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia Lieutenant General John Sanderson 1992-1993 3.
UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan 1.
www.cs.cmu.edu /~tom7/periodbot/374.html   (4062 words)

  
 RNZRSA - Welfare Column - War Pensions Coverage
Service with United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation (UNTSO), and its detachments being the United Nations Yemen Observer Mission (UNYOM), the United Nations Observation Group in Lebanon (UNOGIL) or the United Nations Operation in the Congo (UNOC) between July 1954 and 31 March 1974;
UN Military Observation Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) UN India-Pakistan Observation Mission (UNIPOM)
UN Truce Supervision Organisation (UNTSO), and its detachments: UN Yemen Observation Mission (UNYOM), UN Observation Group in Lebanon (UNOGIL) or the UN Operation in the Congo (UNOC)
www.rsa.org.nz /pensions/wc2002august/article_2.html   (482 words)

  
 Australian Peacekeeping Operations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Operations include military observation, monitoring cease-fires, clearing landmines, humanitarian aid and the repatriation of refugees.
UN Commission for the Unification and Rehabilitation of Korea (UNCURK)
UN Mission of Support in East Timor (UNMISET)
www.dva.gov.au /commem/commac/studies/anzacsk/res1.htm   (279 words)

  
 A Philatelic Bibliography for Yemen and the Arab Gulf States
Includes discussion of the 1948 U.N. essays and phantasies and a picture of a sheet of the 5 b.
A sheet of the UN New York 8¢ Palais de Chaillot had a light image of a Kuwait stamp on the reverse side of the sheet.
The estimated value of the Royalist Yemen issues, which is offered by Phillips in their 16 October 1997 auction as a single lot, is 25000 to 30000 pounds sterling.
www.ohmygosh.on.ca /stamps/dubai/article.htm   (18537 words)

  
 CNN - UN Peacekeeping Forces - Oct. 22, 1995
CNN - UN Peacekeeping Forces - Oct. 22, 1995
UNAVEM II United Nations Angola Verification Mission II June 1991 - To present
United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara
www.cnn.com /WORLD/9510/un_50/peacekeeping/index.html   (92 words)

  
 unabbrevs.html
- Mission of the Representative of the Secretary-General in the Dominican Republic (1965-66)
- UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (2000-)
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