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UNITED NATIONS: India is a “major partner” in the UN’s strategy for the digital transformation of peacekeeping, the United Nations peacekeeping chief has said, as he lauded the country’s commitment and engagement through key initiatives such as ensuring accountability for crimes against the Blue Helmets.
India is currently the third largest contributor of uniformed personnel to UN Peacekeeping, with over 6,000 military and police personnel deployed to Abyei, the Central African Republic, Cyprus, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lebanon, the Middle East and Western Sahara.
“India is a major player in the world, in the UN, in multilateralism, and it’s a major player in peacekeeping as well, including but not only through the importance of its contribution in terms of troops and police. We’re also supported in many other ways, including in terms of the initiatives that we take to improve peacekeeping,” Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix said in a media interview published on May 31.
The UN peacekeeping chief highlighted the “important role” played by peacekeepers from India, one of the significant troop and police-contributing countries to UN peacekeeping.
