Answers of Quiz 2020 (International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers)

1. On 29 May every year
2. In order to laud and appreciate the invaluable services of these peacekeepers, have been, and still are, rendering for the establishment and restoration of peace in conflict zones, while risking their own lives in the process, the United Nations observes 29th May as International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers.
3. In 2002
4. On 29th May 2003
5. United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (founded on 29 May 1948)
6. The United Nations began the practice of peacekeeping in 1948 when the first United Nations military observers - United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) - were deployed to the Middle East. UNTSO monitored the ceasefire after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
7. The United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) is an organization founded on 29 May 1948 for peacekeeping in the Middle East. Its primary task was providing the military command structure to the peace keeping forces in the Middle East to enable the peace keepers to observe and maintain the cease-fire, and as may be necessary in assisting the parties to the Armistice Agreements in the supervision of the application and observance of the terms of those Agreements. The command structure of the UNTSO was maintained to cover the later peace keeper organisations of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) and the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).
8. 71 operations
9. 17 operations
10. 109,916 UN peacekeepers
11. 9,787
12. 1,821
13. 82,580
14. 4,787
15. 974
16. 1,470
17. Personnel of UN military observer groups are largely unarmed and those in peace force are equipped with light weapons which they are allowed to use only when their own lives are in danger.
18. (B) Blue Helmets
19. (D) All of these
20. (C) Security Council
21. (E) All of these
22. 3700
23. 129
24. 1993
25. 1India (163) 2Nigeria (148) 3Pakistan (145) 4Ghana (136) 5Bangladesh (129) 6Canada (122) 7France (113) 8Ethiopia (111) 9UK (104) 10Ireland (90)
26. 1Ethiopia (8,321) 2India (7,606) 3Pakistan (7,128) 4Bangladesh (6,900) 5Rwanda (6,137) 6Nepal (5,212) 7Burkina Faso (2,993) 8Indonesia (2,871) 9Senegal (2,837) 10Ghana (2,794)
27. 24
28. 8
29. 4,130 peacekeepers (toops, civilian police and military observers) 4.21% of the total force
30. 28% of global force
31. 27,434 (26%)
32. India (2nd) Pakistan (3rd) Bangladesh (4th) Nepal (6th) Sri Lanka (42nd) Bhutan (83rd)
33. China (12th) France (25th) UK (48th) Russia (68th) US (76th)
34. The budget for the force is also only less than 0.5% of the money spent in military worldwide.
35. 1US (28.57%) 2China (10.29%) 3Japan (9.68%)
36. 312
37. 22,397
38. 63
39. April 2014
40. 57th
41. 14
42. The Dag Hammarskjold Medal is a posthumous award given by the United Nations (UN) to military personnel, police, or civilians who lose their lives while serving in a United Nations peacekeeping operation. The medal is named after Dag Hammarskjöld, the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, who died in a plane crash in what is now Zambia in September 1961.
43. In 1988
44. "UN Peacekeepers: 70 Years of Service and Sacrifice"

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