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Monday, June 02, 2008 - 06.24 GMT |
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Sri Lankan peacekeeper honoured |
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Sri Lankan Peacekeeper, Lance Coporal A.
Jayantha was awarded United Nations Dag
Hammarskjöld Medal on May 30.
Late Lance Coporal who died while serving in
the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH)
was among the ninety UN peacekeepers honored
by the UN from forty member states who laid
their lives during 2007.
Ambassador Prasad Kariyawasam, Permanent
Representative of Sri Lanka to the United
Nations accepted the Dag Hammarskjöld Medal,
on behalf of the Government and the Sri
Lanka Army.
Sri Lanka first participated in UN
peacekeeping in 1960 by deploying six
peacekeepers in United Nations Mission in
the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC).
And recently, Sri Lanka enhanced its
contribution by deploying a complete
infantry battalion of 950 personnel to the
UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH)
in 2004.
Sri Lanka is now a committed partner for UN
peacekeeping operations with over thousand
men and women from the three Armed Forces
and the Police serving in seven different
Peacekeeping Missions and ranks 22nd in
terms of troop contributions to the UN
Peacekeeping.
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