Peacekeeping is one of the several achievements for which Bangladesh has earned worldwide reputation. Our peacekeepers, from the

Bangladesh started participating in UN peacekeeping mission by sending 15 Peacekeepers to Iraq to join the United Nations Iraq-Iran Observer group (UNIIMOG) in the year 1988.

The United Nations (UN) operation in Cambodia from 1992 to 1993 was, at the time, the most ambitious and expensive undertaking in the peacekeeping experience of the organization.

Bosnia-Herzegovina (BH) was part of the former Balkan state of Yugoslavia. After the Allied victory in World War II, Yugoslavia was set

1.It is universally agreed that the creation of the United Nations Organization in 1945 was an extraordinary act of vision and statesmanship.

Peacekeeping is one area where Bangladesh Public diplomacy has been at its best. Today Bangladesh is the top among the TCC and PCC countries in the world.

Having served in Bangladesh Army for 37 years, I had the rare opportunity of putting on blue beret for nearly six years in four missions. I spent nearly five years in Africa.

Bangladesh Air Force started contributing to UN peacekeeping operation since 1993 and it created a unique opportunity for BAF to demonstrate her strength, capabilities and experience in the global arena.

The UNMIK in Kosovo was one with a difference. The peacekeepers from the military called the Kosovo Force (KFOR) were almost entirely drawn from the permanent member countries of the UN Security Council and the EU.