Sending Kazakh peacekeepers to the occupied Syrian Golan
Kazakh authorities have approved the plan to send peacekeepers from this country to the Golan Heights occupied by Syria. |
According to the report of Fars News Agency International Group, the government of Kazakhstan announced that the country’s first delegation of peacekeepers sent to the West Asia region is going to start its work in the occupied Golan Heights of Syria from March.
According to “Anatolia News Agency”, the upper and lower houses of the Kazakh parliament approved the proposal of “Gasem Jomart Tokayev”, the president of this country, to send 139 Kazakh peacekeepers to the Syrian Golan Heights.
“Ruslan Zhaksilikov”, the Minister of Defense of Kazakhstan, in response to the approval of this plan in his country’s parliament, said that these peacekeepers will serve as a reserve company for the United Nations Peacekeeping Forces in the Golan Heights (UNDOF).
He pointed out that for the first time the United Nations has given the responsibility of forming an independent peacekeeping mission for the occupied Golan Heights to “Astaneh” and stated: “The participation of these Kazakh army soldiers in a mission The peacekeeper will allow the Kazakh army to acquire the combat skills necessary for peacekeeping operations.” In January, Tokayev proposed a plan to send 430 Kazakh peacekeepers to West Asia and Africa. Dad.
Kazakhstan’s peacekeeping forces are expected to participate in the UN ceasefire monitoring team in South Sudan and the organization’s temporary security force for the “Blue” region of Sudan.
Most of the Syrian Golan Heights was occupied by the Zionist regime after the Six Day War of 1967.
After this war, nearly a thousand UN peacekeepers who Known as the Blue Helmet forces, they were deployed as observer forces in the Golan Heights to monitor the maintenance of the ceasefire between Syria and the Zionist regime. Finally, a very small strip along with the city of Quneitra, which is considered the center of this province, remained under the control of the Syrian government.
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