Celebrating 75 years of UN peacekeeping

Berlin (d.de/bw). The United Nations is celebrating 75 years of peacekeeping missions on 29 May, the International Day of UN Peacekeepers. Germany’s Federal Armed Forces, police and civil society experts join in supporting collective security under the aegis of the UN through regular involvement in so-called “Blue Helmet” missions. In 2003 the General Assembly of the United Nations declared 29 May to be the annual International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers as it was on this day in 1948 that the first peacekeeping mission began in the Middle East. Since then, over 2 million military personnel, police officers and civil society experts have been deployed on over 70 UN missions to protect and preserve peace.