CAIRO - 30 May 2024: The United Nations praised the distinguished record of Egyptian achievements in peacekeeping operations over more than 60 years of its existence. The UN also hailed Egypt’s great sacrifices, as 60 brave blue helmets from Egypt sacrificed their lives for the sake of peace. This came in a joint article written by Ambassador Ahmed Abu Zeid, the official spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Director of the Public Diplomacy Department, and Elena Panova, the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Egypt, entitled “Towards more effective and appropriate UN peacekeeping operations for the challenges of the future... Reflections on 76 years of Peacekeeping operations and Egypt's track record." The two sides noted, in the article distributed by the United Nations Media Center in Cairo, that “as we commemorate the 76th anniversary of United Nations peacekeeping operations, we are looking at honorable pages of a long history, the lines of which have been etched by more than a million peacekeepers who served under the United Nations flag, in more than 70 peacekeeping operations on four continents, since the establishment of United Nations peacekeeping operations in 1948.

Source: Egypt Today May 30, 2024 07:52 UTC