Sentence examples for first peacekeeping force from inspiring English sources

Nigeria contributed most of the troops to the AU's first peacekeeping force, in the Darfur region of Sudan, and has sent troops to Burundi and Sierra Leone.

In the 1956 Suez crisis, working with Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold and Lester Pearson of Canada, he organized the first peacekeeping force, the United Nations Emergency Force in Egypt, whose presence provided a face-saving pretext for the withdrawal from Egypt of the armies of Britain, France and Israel.

Lester B. Pearson, the Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs, was awarded the prize in 1957 for his role in organizing the UN's first peacekeeping force to resolve the Suez Crisis.

His requests to the Australian government for military observers led to deployment of the first peacekeeping force to the region; the Australians were soon followed by British and US observers, and enabled Eaton to display a more realistic impression of the situation to the outside world.

NATO members may not agree to deploy a third peacekeeping force in the Balkans, one NATO official said.

There is a photograph of him reviewing the first contingent of the first United Nations peacekeeping force on its arrival at Abu Sueir on the Suez Canal in 1956.

This was the UN's first armed peacekeeping force, stationed along the Suez Canal.

In 1956, the first UN peacekeeping force was established to end the Suez Crisis; however, the UN was unable to intervene against the USSR's simultaneous invasion of Hungary following that country's revolution.

It is the UN's second-largest &-after the Middle East & Kashmir-its third-oldest peacekeeping force & costs approsimately 100 million dollars a year.

The Malian report speaks of the "extreme weakness of the army," and the United Nations is effectively proposing to step in as a substitute with what will be its third-largest peacekeeping force.

American troops in Bosnia have dropped from a third to a sixth of the peacekeeping force.