Alongside more than 20 other nations, we are helping to support the maintenance of the international rules-based order, and upholding conflict prevention and peace resolution processes in line with New Zealand values. The New Zealand Defence Force is currently mandated to deploy up to eight personnel.

As a consistent contributor since 1954, UNTSO is New Zealand’s longest United Nations peacekeeping operation with a mandate of up to eight personnel.

UNTSO is the UN's longest-running peacekeeping operation, and remains one of its most important. The mission was created following the partition of Palestine in 1948 by United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 50 (1948), which called for.

This publication provides documents on Cabinet’s 7 May 2024 decisions to renew the mandate for the New Zealand Defence Force’s Deployment to the United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation (UNTSO). It has been necessary to withhold certain information in accordance with the following provisions of the Official Information Act 1982.

New Zealand has played a role in some of the UN's most challenging missions including in Africa and the Middle East: UNMISS (South Sudan) since its establishment (ongoing). UN Truce Supervision Organisation (UNTSO), working on peacekeeping in the Middle East, since 1954 (ongoing). UN operations in Timor-Leste, and Iraq in the 2000s.

At the main entrance of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) Jerusalem compound, an all-female team stands united, a force to be reckoned with.

2015年7月21日 · United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Major General Arthur David Gawn, of New Zealand, as Head of Mission and Chief of Staff of the United Nations Truce...

Established amidst the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, its primary task was initially to provide the military command structure to the peacekeeping forces in the Middle East to enable the peacekeepers to observe and maintain the ceasefire, and in assisting the parties to the Armistice Agreements in the supervision of the application and observance of the...

Set up in May 1948, UNTSO was the first ever peacekeeping operation established by the United Nations. Since then, UNTSO military observers have remained in the Middle East to monitor...

Following the 1967 war, UNTSO were involved in cease-fire observation in the Israel-Syria sector and along the Suez Canal. Similar operations were established in southern Lebanon in 1973, the Golan Heights in 1974, and in southern Lebanon in 1978. The maximum strength of UNTSO is 572 personnel, with 28 casualties being suffered to June 1990.