!!!UN - Einsätze

UN Missions: Austria took part in a UN operation for the first time 
from 1960 to 1963 with a field hospital in the Congo. In 1964 Austria 
sent a field hospital to Cyprus. Since 1967 Austrians have served as 
UN military observers in the Near East; from 1972 one, since 1973 two 
infantry battalions have been engaged in Cyprus and in the Near East 
(Suez Canal, from 1974 Golan Heights). Since the 1980s 
("Diversification") Austrian military and civil observers 
and police forces have participated in numerous operations worldwide, 
e.g. police forces in Namibia (1989/90), in Cambodia (1991-1993) and 
in Iraq (since 1991), a field hospital for Kurd refugees in Iran 
(1991), and poll-watchers in Nicaragua (1991), South Africa (1994) and 
Bosnia-Herzegovina (1996). In addition to these UN missions Austria 
has supplied a transport company for the NATO operation in 
Bosnia-Herzegovina since 1993; in 1997 Austrian soldiers helped put an 
end to the civil war in Albania. The legal basis for all international 
missions is the Entsendegesetz (International Missions Act - 1965, 
1997). Since 1960 about 35,000 Austrians have taken part in UN 
operations.

!Literature
E. A. Schmidl, Blaue Helme - Rotes Kreuz, 1995.


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