Estonia Leaves UNIFIL
Estonia has announced that it will shortly discontinue its deployment of peacekeepers to the UNIFIL mission in Lebanon.
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UN Peacekeeping
UN Peacekeepers for Ukraine: Mantra in a Deadlock
The topic of bringing UN peacekeeping forces to the east of Ukraine is once again making rounds these days, even though the “mantra” itself is quite old.
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Soldiers of Peace
Estonian, Finnish and Irish troops serve under a combined battalion in the UNIFIL mission in south Lebanon. The size of the contribution these three states make to UN peacekeeping is perhaps not well known – they are respectively the fourth, second and first largest European contributors, per capita, to UN missions. For each of them, UNIFIL is their single largest contribution to peace support operations.
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