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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

2018年9月17日 · New Zealand’s deployment has been extended to July 2020. UNMISS is led by New Zealander David Shearer, who serves as the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. New Zealand has consistently contributed to UNTSO – the United Nations’ first peacekeeping mission - since 1954.

2023年9月25日 · Working alongside personnel from around the world as part of the United Nations’ longest-running peacekeeping mission, has been a rewarding challenge for two New Zealand women. The United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation (UNTSO) is now in its …

2022年4月26日 · Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta and Defence Minister Peeni Henare today announced that the Government has extended New Zealand’s commitment to three peace support deployments to the Middle East and Africa – the United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation (UNTSO), the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) and the ...

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...

Authorized Strength 159 military observers 81 international civilian personnel 148 national civilian staff Country contributors American, Argentinian, Australian ...