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Peacekeeping -- Overview to year 2000

The table below was compiled in early 2000 and lists UN peacekeeping operations involving Australian service personnel.

An Australian soldier conducts water quality testing in RwandaAn Australian soldier involved in civil aid on Bougainville

Location of Service

When

Activities

Indonesia

1947 - 51 Military observers
Korea 1949 - present Military observers, troops
India-Pakistan 1950 - 85 Military observers, air transport
Israel and the Middle East 1956 - present Military observers of cease fire
1960 - 64 Medical
Congo 1962 Humanitarian aid
West Irian 1963 Military observers
Yemen 1964 - present Law and order
Cyprus 1965 - 66 Military observers
India - Pakistan 1974 - present Military observers
Syria 1976 - 79 Monitoring cease-fire
Sinai 1978 Military observers
Lebanon 1978 Military observers
Zimbabwe 1979 - 80 Monitoring Rhodesian military forces, return of civilian refugees
Sinai 1982 - 86, 1993 - present Monitor Israeli withdrawals
Uganda 1982 - 84 Training government forces
Iraq - Iran 1988 - 90 Military observers
Cambodia 1989 Law and order, training police
Namibia 1989 - 90 Engineering support, supervise elections
Afghanistan - Pakistan 1989 - 93 Mine clearance
Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, Red Sea
[click here for more on the Gulf War]
1990 - 93 Enforcing sanctions against Iraq
Kurdistan 1991 Humanitarian aid
Iraq 1991 - 1999 Inspection of Iraqi chemical, biological and nuclear warfare capabilities
Western Sahara 1991 - 94 Communications
Cambodia 1991 - 92 Communications
Cambodia 1992 - 93 Communications, law and order, assisting election
Somalia
[click here for more information about the Somalia operations]
1992, 1993-95 Protecting delivery of humanitarian aid
1992 - 93 Movement control
Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia 1992 - 93 Military observers
Rwanda [click here for more information about the Rwanda operations] 1994 - present Medical, protection
Mozambique 1994 - 95 Police, mine clearance
Bougainville 1994 - present Aid and support
Haiti 1994 - 95 Police monitors
East Timor
[click here for more on East Timor]
1999 - 2000 Protection, engineering, support

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