United Nations thanks Egypt for peacekeeping efforts

CAIRO – 5 April 2018: United Nations thanked Egypt on Wednesday evening for its cooperation with the UN by participating in peacekeeping missions.

“Since 1948, more than a million women and men have served in the UN peacekeeping forces,” the UN wrote on Twitter, adding that Egypt participates in the peacekeeping missions with over 3,200 troops and policemen.

The UN figures, as of February 28, 2018, show that Egypt provides UN peacekeeping forces with 2,293 troops, 775 policemen, 56 military experts and 63 state officers.

The UN Peacekeeping forces are tasked with monitoring peace processes and agreements in post-conflict areas. Peacekeepers are deployed in parts of the Middle East, Mali, Pakistan, South Sudan, Lebanon, Darfur and Golan.

The UN peacekeeping personnel consist of more than 90,000 military personnel, 13,000 police officers, in addition to more than 15,000 civilians, according to the UN.

In January, head of a South Sudanese delegation in Cairo thanked President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, the Egyptian government and people for their peacekeeping efforts in his country.

South Sudan has been suffering a civil war for five years; tens of thousands were killed, while millions were displaced as the country plunged into famine.