United Nations

Mission in Sudan

The United Nations Mission

in the Sudan (UNMIS) was
established by the UN
Security Council under
Resolution 1590 of 24 March
2005, in response to the
signing of the Comprehensive
Peace Agreement between the
government of the Sudan
and the Sudan People's
Liberation Movement on
January 9, 2005 in Nairobi,
Kenya.

United Nations
Verification Mission
in Guatemala

MINUGUA (United Nations

Verification Mission in
Guatemala) was a ten-year
United Nations
humanitarian mission in
Guatemala that involved, at
the most critical point in the
peace process, a three-month
peacekeeping mission.

United Nations Interim

Force in Lebanon

The United Nations Interim Force in

Lebanon, or UNIFIL, was originally
created by the United Nations, with
the adoption of Security Council
Resolution 425 and 426 on 19
March 1978, to confirm Israeli
withdrawal from Lebanon which
Israel had invaded five days prior,
restore international peace and
security, and help the Government of
Lebanon restore its effective
authority in the area.

United Nations
Interim Administration
Mission in Kosovo

The United Nations Interim

Administration Mission in
Kosovo or UNMIK is the officially
mandated mission of the United
Nations in Kosovo. Currently,
UNMIK describes its mandate as
being to "help the Security
Council achieve an overall
objective, namely, to ensure
conditions for a peaceful and
normal life for all inhabitants of
Kosovo and advance regional
stability in the western Balkans."

United Nations Truce

Supervision Organization

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.

United Nations
Stabilisation Mission
in Haiti

The United Nations

Stabilisation Mission In Haiti
(UNSTAMIH), also known as
MINUSTAH, an acronym of the
French translation, is a United
Nations peacekeeping mission
in Haiti that has been in
operation since 2004. The
mission's military component
is led by the Brazilian Army
and the force commander is
Brazilian.