Over the course of 50 years, units of the Canadian army, Royal Canadian Navy, and Royal Canadian Air Force (Canadian Armed Forces after 1968) have served with several United Nations (UN) missions. Their duties have included operations under both Chapter 6 (peacekeeping) and Chapter 7 (confronting aggression and threats to peace) of the UN Charter. These missions ranged from full combat duties (Korea, Somalia, the Gulf War, and the Balkans), observing and supervising the status of a ceasefire through the deployment of military observers (the Middle East and Pakistan), physically enforcing a ceasefire with peacekeeping forces (the Middle East, Cyprus, and the Balkans) and many other duties such as mine warfare education and mine clearing (Afghanistan and the Balkans).
UN Temporary Commission Korea: | 1947-1948 |
UN Truce Supervision Middle East: | 1948 |
UN Military Observer Group India-Pakistan: | 1949 |
Korean War: | 1951-1954 |
UN Emergency Force I: | 1956-1967 |
UN Observation Group Lebanon: | 1958 |
UN Mission Belgian Congo: | 1960-1964 |
UN Security Force New Guinea: | 1962-1963 |
UN Observation Group Yemen: | 1963-1964 |
UN Peacekeeping Cyprus: | 1964-1999 |
UN India-Pakistan Observation Mission: | 1965-1966 |
Dominican Republic: | 1965-1966 |
International Observer Team Nigeria: | 1968-1969 |
U.N. Emergency Force II Middle East: | 1973-1979 |
UN Interim Force Lebanon: | 1974 |
UN Disengagement Observer Force Middle East: | 1974 |
Multinational Force and Observers Middle East: | 1986 |
UN Good Offices Mission Pakistan-Afghanistan: | 1988-1990 |
UN Iran-Iraq Military Observer Group: | 1988 |
UN Observer Group Central America: | 1989-1990 |
UN Transition Group Namibia: | 1989-1990 |
UN Observer Group Nicaragua: | 1989 |
UN Observer Group Haiti: | 1990-1991 |
Desert Shield and Desert Storm: | 1990-1991 |
UN Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission: | 1991- |
UN Verification Group Angola: | 1991-1994 |
UN Advance Mission Cambodia: | 1991-1992 |
UN Observer Group El Salvador: | 1991-1995 |
UN Protection Force Yugoslavia: | 1992- |
UNITAF Somalia: | 1992-1993 |
UN Mission Bosnia-Herzegovina: | 1996- |
UN Mine Action Centre Bosnia-Herzegovina: | 1996-1997 |
UN Support Mission Haiti: | 1996-1997 |
UN Verification Mission Guatemala: | 1997- |
UN Transition Mission Haiti: | 1997- |