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The military multi-skilled engineering group would substitute the 12th batch, whose one-year term had come to an end, Gen. Sem Sovanny, director-general of the National Centre for Peacekeeping Forces, said during a farewell ceremony held at the Phnom Penh international airport late Sunday night, reports Xinhua news agency.

Cambodia sent 216 peacekeepers on a humanitarian mission to Lebanon on February 5 under the auspices of the UN, while the soldiers who had just finished their one-year mission returned home on the same day.

Two French military training instructors have arrived in the Kingdom on a mission to train Cambodian “blue helmets” in landmine clearance for four weeks at the National Centre for Peacekeeping Forces (NPMEC).

Every month, the Cambodian peacekeepers who are on a UN mission to the Central African Republic (CAR), distribute 4,000 litres of clean water to 120 impoverished CAR families in the Bria region, where there is a shortage of clean water. Lt Col Lam Tep, deputy commander of the Engineering Construction Company, commands 15 blue helmets on the mission.

The National Centre for Peacekeeping Forces (NPMEC) has requested that the Australian government provide capacity building training to Cambodian women soldiers to participate in peacekeeping missions in countries around the world.

Cambodia has agreed to extend the UN peacekeeping mission of 273 members from the Royal Cambodia Armed Forces (RCAF) to landlocked, war-torn Mali. Of the 273 soldiers, 129 are from the airport maintenance and engineering unit and 144 from the explosive ordnance disposal unit, according to the National Centre for Peacekeeping Forces (NPMEC).

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Prak Sokhonn on December 2 visited the last day of training of Cambodian forces ahead of their departure for a UN peacekeeping mission abroad.

Sem Sovanny, director-general of the National Centre for Peacekeeping Forces (NPMEC), asked that UN officials approve the deployment of 46 additional Cambodian blue-helmet peacekeepers and equipment to the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan.

Sem Sovanny, director-general of the National Centre for Peacekeeping Forces (NPMEC), asked that UN officials approve the deployment of 46 additional Cambodian blue-helmet peacekeepers and equipment to the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan.

Cambodia sends new batch of 346 soldiers to Mali, South Sudan for U.N. peacekeeping mission-