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New Delhi: United Nations volition posthumously honour 2 Indian peacekeepers connected the International Day of UN Peacekeepers connected Friday for making the eventual sacrifice successful the enactment of duty.Lance Havildar Harbhajan Singh, who served with UN Organisation Stabilisation Mission successful Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), and Naib Subedar Sujit Kumar Pradhan, who was deployed with UN Mission successful South Sudan (UNMISS), volition beryllium posthumously honoured by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres with the prestigious Dag Hammarskjold Medal.Guterres volition besides contiguous the 2025 Military Gender Advocate of the Year grant to Major Abhilasha Barak of India for her exceptional publication towards women empowerment and sex sensitisation during her deployment with the UN Interim Force successful Lebanon.
Major Barak, wide recognised arsenic the archetypal pistillate combat chopper aviator of the Indian Army, is presently serving successful Lebanon arsenic commandant of Female Engagement Team (FET) nether UNIFIL.Major Barak volition beryllium the 3rd Indian recipient of the prestigious honour, pursuing Major Suman Gawani and Major Radhika Sen, who were honoured for their commendable enactment portion serving successful UN peacekeeping missions.Nearly 180 Indian peacekeepers person made the ultimate sacrifice portion serving nether the UN flag, by acold the highest fig from immoderate troop-contributing country.
India is the 2nd largest contributor to the UN peacekeeping force, with much than 4,200 of its subject and constabulary personnel, including 155 women — presently serving UN bid operations crossed missions successful Abyei, Cyprus, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lebanon, Somalia, South Sudan and Western Sahara. At present, implicit 50,000 civilian, subject and constabulary peacekeepers are serving nether the UN emblem successful peacekeeping missions crossed immoderate of the world's astir analyzable environments.
