UN
United Nations Peacekeeping
Major General Arthur David Gawn, Head of Mission and Chief of Staff of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO, began his speech with a Maori chant. The song recounted the memory of lost warriors and its poignancy enveloped the assembled crowd.
News
The crowd stands and salutes as The Last Post is played to remember four Observer Group Lebanon (OGL) Peacekeepers who were killed in action ten years ago. They were: Major Hans-Peter Lang from Austria, Major Paeta Derek Hess-von Kruedener from Canada, Lieutenant Jarno Makinen from Finland, and Major Du Zhaoyu from China. The ceremony was held at the site of their old patrol base in Khiam, south Lebanon.
Young people cut through the freshly baked pizza made at UNIFIL's Italian Base in Chama.
Outgoing Force Commander Major-General Luciano Portolano hands over the UN flag to Major-General Michael Beary.
UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander, Major-General Portolano, reviews a guard of honor at the Lebanese Armed Forces headquarters in Beirut.
UNIFIL Deputy Head of Mission Imran Riza, and the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Marc Ayrault, review the guard of honour at UNIFIL’s headquarters in Naqoura.
A UNIFIL Brazilian Peacekeeper from the Maritime Task Force (MTF) in the operations room of the UNIFIL flagship Independencia, off the coast of Beirut, Lebanon.
