UN peacekeeping missions

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Completed missions
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Africa
Dates of operation Name of Operation Location Conflict Website
1960–1964 United Nations Operation in the Congo (ONUC) Congo Congo Crisis [1]

1988–1991 United Nations Angola Verification Mission I (UNAVEM I) Angola Angolan War of Independence [2]

1989–1990 United Nations Transition Assistance Group (UNTAG) Namibia Namibian War of Independence [3]

1991–1995 United Nations Angola Verification Mission II (UNAVEM II) Angola Angolan Civil War [4]

1992–1994 United Nations Operation in Mozambique (ONUMOZ) Mozambique Liberian Civil War [5]

1992–1993 United Nations Operation in Somalia I (UNOSOM I) Somalia Somali Civil War [6]

1993–1997 United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia (UNOMIL) Liberia Liberian Civil War [7]

1993–1994 United Nations Observer Mission Uganda-Rwanda (UNOMUR) Rwanda Rwandan genocide [8]
Uganda

1993–1996 United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) Rwanda Rwandan genocide [9]

1993–1995 United Nations Operation in Somalia II (UNOSOM II) Somalia Somali Civil War [10]

1994 United Nations Aouzou Strip Observer Group (UNASOG) Chad Aouzou Strip dispute [11]
Libya

1995–1997 United Nations Angola Verification Mission III (UNAVEM III) Angola Angolan Civil War [12]

1997–1999 United Nations Observer Mission in Angola (MONUA) Angola Angolan Civil War [13]

1998–1999 United Nations Observer Mission in Sierra Leone (UNOMSIL) Sierra Leone Sierra Leone civil war [14]

1998–2000 United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic (MINURCA) Central African Republic Central African Republic mutinies [15]
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Americas
Dates of operation Name of Operation Location Conflict Website
1965–1966 Mission of the Representative of the Secretary-General in the Dominican Republic (DOMREP) Dominican Republic Dominican Civil War [16]

1989–1992 United Nations Observer Group in Central America (ONUCA) 1 Central America Nicaraguan Civil War [17]




1991–1995 United Nations Observer Mission in El Salvador (ONUSAL) El Salvador El Salvador Civil War [18]

1993–1996 United Nations Mission in Haiti (UNMIH) Haiti 1991 coup and military rule in Haiti [19]

1996–1997 United Nations Support Mission in Haiti (UNSMIH) Haiti Stabilizing Haiti's new democracy [20]

1997 United Nations Verification Mission in Guatemala (MINUGUA) Guatemala Guatemalan Civil War [21]

1997 United Nations Transition Mission in Haiti (UNTMIH) Haiti Training of the Haitian National Police [22]

1997–2000 United Nations Civilian Police Mission in Haiti (MIPONUH) Haiti Training of the Haitian National Police [23]

1 Shown are the flags of the five countries in which ONUCA operated. They are in this order (sorted alphabetically): Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua.

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Asia
Dates of operation Name of Operation Location Conflict Website
1962–1963 United Nations Security Force in West New Guinea (UNSF) 1 West New Guinea Indonesian takeover of West New Guinea [24]


1965–1966 United Nations India-Pakistan Observation Mission (UNIPOM) India Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 [25]
Pakistan

1988–1990 United Nations Good Offices Mission in Afghanistan and Pakistan (UNGOMAP) Afghanistan Soviet invasion of Afghanistan [26]
Pakistan

1991–1992 United Nations Advance Mission in Cambodia (UNAMIC) Cambodia Fall of the Khmer Rouge [27]

1992–1993 United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) Cambodia Fall of the Khmer Rouge [28]

1994–2000 United Nations Mission of Observers in Tajikistan (UNMOT) Tajikistan Tajikistan Civil War [29]

1999 United Nations Mission in East Timor (UNAMET) 2 East Timor Indonesian invasion and occupation [30]

1999–2002 The United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) 2 East Timor Indonesian invasion and occupation [31]

2002–2005 United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor UNMISET) East Timor Indonesian invasion and occupation [32]

1 The first flag shown is that of the West Papua (West New Guinea), the country that had been arranged to succeed the Dutch colony. However, the Netherlands, whose flag is the second shown, was later forced to hand over the territory to Indonesia, whose flag is last.

2 Shown are the flags of the newly independent East Timor and its former occupier, Indonesia (in that order).

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Europe
Dates of operation Name of Operation Location Conflict Website
1992–1995 United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) 1 Former Yugoslavia Yugoslav wars [33]



1994–1996 United Nations Confidence Restoration Operation (UNCRO) Croatia Croatian War [34]

1995–2002 United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH) Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnian War [35]


1995–1999 United Nations Preventive Deployment Force (UNPREDEP) Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Aftermath of the Yugoslav wars [36]

1996–1998 United Nations Transitional Authority in Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium (UNTAES) Croatia Croatian War [37]

1996–2002 United Nations Mission of Observers in Prevlaka (UNMOP) 2 Prevlaka Peninsula Prevlaka territorial dispute [38]

1998 United Nations Civilian Police Support Group (UNPSG) Croatia Croatian War [39]


1 This mission operated within the current successor states to the Former Yugoslavia of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro). The flags are shown in this order.

2 Prevlaka Peninsula was claimed by both Croatia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) and the flags are shown in this order. Upon resolution, all parties accepted Croatia's claim to the territory.

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Middle East
Dates of operation Name of Operation Location Conflict Website
1956–1967 First United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF I) Egypt Suez Crisis, Six-Day War [40]
Israel

1958 United Nations Observation Group in Lebanon (UNOGIL) Lebanon Lebanon crisis of 1958 [41]

1963–1964 United Nations Yemen Observation Mission (UNYOM) Yemen Yemen Civil War (See also Yemen Arab Republic) [42]

1973–1979 Second United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF II) Egypt Yom Kippur War [43]
Israel

1988–1991 United Nations Iran-Iraq Military Observer Group (UNIIMOG) Iran Iran-Iraq War [44]
Iraq

1991–2003 United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission (UNIKOM) Iraq Gulf War [45]
Kuwait
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Current deployment
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Africa
Start of operation Name of Operation Location Conflict Website
1991 United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) Western Sahara Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara [46]

1999 United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) Democratic Republic of Congo Second Congo War [47]


1999 United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) Sierra Leone Armed Forces Revolutionary Council insurrection [48]
2000 United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) Eritrea Eritrean-Ethiopian War [49]
Ethiopia

2003 United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) Liberia Second Liberian Civil War [50]

2004 United Nations Operation in Burundi (ONUB) Burundi Burundi Civil War [51]

2004 United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) Côte d'Ivoire Civil war in Côte d'Ivoire [52]

2005 United Nations Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS) Sudan Darfur conflict [53]
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Americas
Start of operation Name of Operation Location Conflict Website
2004 United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) Haiti 2004 Haiti rebellion [54]
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Asia
Start of operation Name of Operation Location Conflict Website
1949 United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) India Indo-Pakistani Wars [55]
Pakistan
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Europe

Start of operation Name of Operation Location Conflict Website
1964 United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) 1 Cyprus Cyprus dispute [56]

1993 United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) Georgia Abkhazian War [57]

1999 United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) 2 Kosovo Kosovo War [58]


1 The United Nations and all foreign governments but Turkey recognise the sovereignty of the Republic of Cyprus, whose flag is shown first, over the whole island of Cyprus. The second flag is that of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, a de facto state, by virtue of controlling the northern third of the island, which is recognized only by Turkey and the Organization of the Islamic Conference.

2 There is no official flag of Kosovo. The top flag is the flag of Albania, used by the Albanian-dominated administration and the vast majority of Kosovo Albanians. The bottom flag is the flag of Serbia and Montenegro, used by the Serb-inhabited area of north Kosovo. For more see flag of Kosovo.

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Middle East
Start of operation Name of Operation Location Conflict Website
1948 United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) 1 Middle East (Monitors the various ceasefires and assists UNDOF and UNIFIL) [59]

1974 United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) 2 Golan Heights Agreed withdrawal by Syrian and Israeli forces following the Yom Kippur War. [60]


1978 United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) Lebanon Lebanese Civil War and Syrian occupation of Lebanon

This is something that i have been trying to do for a long time since I have listened to some peoples comments about the United Nations.

Now not all of these missions were successful and some can't be judged just yet and some were even disasters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_all_UN_peacekeeping_missions#Completed_missions