UN Honors Nepali Peacekeepers on UN Peacekeepers Day
Kathmandu. UN Peacekeepers Day is being celebrated on Friday in remembrance of the day when UN peacekeeping operations began in West Asia in 1948.
On this occasion, two Nepali peacekeepers are being honored posthumously. According to the UN office in Lalitpur, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will lay a wreath in honor of the peacekeepers at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on June 7, which is Jestha 22.
In addition, the Dag Hammarskjöld Medal will be awarded posthumously to 68 soldiers, police, and civilians who lost their lives in the line of duty. Suraj Lamichhane and Deviram Jaisi from Nepal are being honored posthumously with this medal.
Nepal is the country that deploys the largest number of security personnel in the UN peacekeeping force. More than 4,300 soldiers and police personnel, including 364 women, have been deployed from Nepal.
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