UN Member States have been deploying “Blue Helmets” (or peacekeepers) since 1948, so on the occasion of the International Day of UN Peacekeepers, we’re spotlighting operations over the decades, from monitoring buffer zones in Asia to escorting aid .
UN Archive Chronicles Decades of Peacekeeping Efforts miragenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from miragenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Stories from the UN Archive: Keeping the peace over decades globalissues.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from globalissues.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
From the General Assembly’s first consideration of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) to welcoming astronauts fresh from a walk on the Moon, this #ThrowbackThursday, we looked back at the UN’s role in the space age ahead of the International Day of Human Space Flight, marked annually on 12 April.