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ATHENS - Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, expressed his thanks for Greece’s strong support to United Nations Peacekeeping and for the service and sacrifice of its uniformed personnel deployed around the world under the UN flag. Of the 193 UN Member States, Greece

Shipping action plan launched at COP27 in response to new research cautioning ‘as many as 800,000 seafarers’ due for carbon upskilling by the mid-2030s.

UN peacekeepers, Lebanese army conduct joint live-fire exercises-

The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has said that its peacekeepers carried out joint live-fire exercises with the Lebanese Armed Forces in southern Lebanon.This was the second such exercises in 2022 the two forces have conducted south of ...

UN peacekeepers, Lebanese army conduct joint live-fire exercises-

On 14 and 15 August, the European Union (EU) and Indonesia conducted their first joint naval exercise in the Arabian Sea. 

Japan's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced that it spotted Chinese unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) near Taiwan and Japan's Nansei/Ryuku islands on 4 August. According to the MoD, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) deployed one BZK-005 m...

Israeli aircraft threatened a naval vessel assigned to the UN Interim Force in Lebanon's (UNIFIL's) Maritime Task Force in early June, the latest UN report on the mission's performance revealed. An Indonesian Navy AS565 helicopter hovers ove...

China says it is dispatching hundreds of combat aircraft to the six live-fire zones around Taiwan. However, Taipei's daily air incursion reports show smaller figures. assesses that this could partly be because of strains on the country's rad...

United Nations peacekeeping soldiers have been engaged in fostering peace between Lebanon and Israel since 1978. Germany has been supporting the UNIFIL peace mission since 2006. Why is the mission and Germany’s involvement still important?