United Nations

  • United Nations Truce Supervision Organization

    United Nations Truce Supervision Organization
    In the Middle East
    Countries involved:Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Malawi, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland and United States
    Method of financing: United Nations regular budget
    Appropriations for biennium 2012 - 2013: $70,280,900
    In charge:Major General Juha Kilpia (Finland)
  • United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan

    United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan
    In the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir (Northern tip of India)
    Created ceasefire between India and Pakistan
    Countries Involved: Chile, Croatia, Finland, Italy, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Sweden, Thailand and Uruguay.
    Method of financing: United Nations regular budget
    Appropriations for biennium 2012 - 2013: $21,084,900
    Man in charge: Major General Young-Bum Choi (Republic of Korea)
  • First United Nations Emergency Force

    First United Nations Emergency Force
    Ended in June of 1967
    secured and supervised the cessation of hostilities, including the withdrawal of the armed forces of France, Israel and the United Kingdom from Egyptian territory and, after the withdrawal, to serve as a buffer between the Egyptian and Israeli forces
    Countries Involved: Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, India, Indonesia, Norway, Sweden and Yugoslavia
    Man in charge: Major-General Indar J. Rikhye (India)
    Location: Gaza
  • United Nations Observations Group in Lebanon

    United Nations Observations Group in Lebanon
    Ended in December of 1958
    Ensured that there was no illegal infiltration of personnel or supply of arms or other materiel across the Lebanese borders. After the conflict had been settled, tensions eased and UNOGIL was withdrawn
    Countries involved: Afghanistan, Argentina, Burma, Canada, Ceylon, Chile, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Portugal and Thailand
    $3.7M
    Lebanese-Syrian Border
  • United Nations Security Force in West New Guinea

    United Nations Security Force in West New Guinea
    Ended in April of 1963
    Established to maintain peace and security in the territory under the United Nations Temporary Executive Authority (UNTEA), established by agreement between Indonesia and the Netherlands. UNSF monitored the cease-fire and helped ensure law and order during the transition period, pending transfer to Indonesia
    Countried involved: Pakistan, Canada and United States
    Located in W. New Guinea
    Man in charge: Major-General Said Uddin Khan (Pakistan)
  • United Nations Yemen Observation Mission

    Ended September 1964
    observe and certify the implementation of the disengagement agreement between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Republic. The mandate of UNYOM ended on 4 September 1964 and its personnel and equipment were withdrawn
    Countries Involved: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Ghana, India, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Sweden and Yugoslavia
  • United Nations Emergency Force

    United Nations Emergency Force
    Ended in July of 1979
    Supervised the ceasefire between Egyptian and Israeli forces and, following the conclusion of the agreements of 18 January 1974 and 4 September 1975, to supervise the redeployment of Egyptian and Israeli forces and to man and control the buffer zones established under those agreements
    Countries involved: Australia, Austria, Canada, Finland, Ghana, Indonesia, Ireland, Nepal, Panama, Peru, Poland, Senegal and Sweden
    $446.5M
    Suez Canal sector later Sinnia Penninsula
  • United Nations Disengagement Force

    United Nations Disengagement Force
    In March of 1974 firing was intense in the Israel-Syria Sector. UN observers stayed there so they can moderate it.
    Countries involved: Austria, Croatia, India, Japan and Philippines
    $47.9M
    Man in Charge: Major-General Iqbal Singh Singha(India)
  • United Nations Good Offices Mission in Afghanistan andPakistan

    ended in March of 1990
    Assisted in ensuring the implementation of the Agreements on the Settlement of the Situation Relating to Afghanistan and in this context to investigate and report possible violations of any of the provisions of the Agreements
    Countries involved: Austria, Canada, Denmark, Fiji, Finland, Ghana, Ireland, Nepal, Poland and Sweden
    Man in charge: Colonel Heikki Happonen (Finland)
    $14M
  • United Nations Angola Verifacation Mission I

    United Nations Angola Verifacation Mission I
    Ended in May 1991
    Verified the phased and total withdrawal of Cuban troops from the territory of Angola. The withdrawal was completed by 25 May 1991. On 6 June, the Secretary-General reported to the Security Council that UNAVEM I had carried out, fully and effectively, the mandate entrusted to it
    Countries involved: Algeria, Argentina, Brazil, Congo, Czechoslovakia, India, Jordan, Norway, Spain and Yugoslavia
    Man in charge: Brigadier-General Péricles Ferreira Gomes (Brazil)
    $16.4M
  • United Nations Operation in Somalia I

    United Nations Operation in Somalia I
    Ended in March 1993
    Monitored the ceasefire in Mogadishu and escort deliveries of humanitarian supplies to distribution centres in the city. The mission's mandate and strength were later enlarged to enable it to protect humanitarian convoys and distribution centres throughout Somalia. It later worked with the Unified Task Force in the effort to establish a safe environment for the delivery of humanitarian assistance
    Countries involved: Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium,Canada, Czechoslova
  • United Nations Operation in Somalia II

    United Nations Operation in Somalia II
    Ended in March 1995
    Take appropriate action, including enforcement measures, to establish throughout Somalia a secure environment for humanitarian assistance. To that end, UNOSOM II was to complete, through disarmament and reconciliation, the task begun by the Unified Task Force for the restoration of peace, stability, law and order.
    countries involved: Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Botswana, Canada, Egypt, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Kuwait, Malaysia
  • United Nations Mission in Ethiopa and Eritrea

    Ended in July of '08
    Set up to monitor the ceasefire between Etiopa and Eritrea
    $1.32B
    Man in charge: Major-General Mohammad Taisir Masedeh (Jordan)
    Algeria, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Benin, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, India, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Paraguay
  • United Nations Mission in Sudan

    Ended on July 9 2011
    Man in charge: Major General Moses Bisong Obi (Nigeria)
    There was a genocide happenin UN was like huhuh that stuff ain't happenin hur so they sent in some fellas and split dat sheet up. It worked pretty good Southern Sudan was the worst part and they declared independence so its pretty bomb yo.