United Nations: Peacekeping Operations

(asked on 18th December 2023) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many UK personnel have served in UN peacekeeping missions in each year since 2019.


Answered by
James Heappey Portrait
James Heappey
This question was answered on 12th January 2024

Since 2019, the UK has contributed to the following UN Peacekeeping missions: MINUSMA (Mali), MONUSCO(DRC), UNFICYP(Cyprus), UNIFIL(Lebanon), UNMISS (South Sudan), UNSMIL(Libya), UNSOM(Somalia).

The total number of UK personnel who have served on these missions in each year since 2019 is outlined below.

2019: 2,284

2020: 1,115

2021: 1,844

2022: 1,978

2023: 1,211

The figures provided capture those directly employed on the UN Missions. Where the UK deployed at Unit level and above, the figures also include those who served as part of the National Support Element.

The figures do not include the UK troops training and mentoring partner forces in advance of their deployment on UN operations.

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