{"id":4577,"date":"2023-01-07T07:44:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T02:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4577"},"modified":"2025-03-27T01:11:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T19:41:25","slug":"what-is-united-nations-interim-security-force-abyei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-united-nations-interim-security-force-abyei\/","title":{"rendered":"What is United Nations Interim Security Force, Abyei?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Indian contingent, which consists of two officers and 25 other ranks, will work as a platoon in an engagement and specialise in community outreach in addition to carrying out numerous security-related duties.<\/li>\n<li>This time India is deploying the largest single unit of female Blue Helmets in a UN mission since 2007.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>What is UNISFA?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It was established by the UN Security Council in response to the critical situation in the Abyei area of Sudan by resolution 1990 of 27 June 2011.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Resolution 1990 made provision for the deployment of 4,200 Ethiopian troops to provide security and protect civilians under imminent threat of violence in the disputed border region.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>What is United Nations Peacekeeping Mission?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>This Peacekeeping operation is policing and peacebuilding actions carried out by the UN to bring order and stability to war-torn nations.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The UN Peacekeepers are known as <strong>\u2018Blue Helmets\u2019<\/strong> or \u2018Blue Berets\u2019.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Peacekeepers are the military personnel of the UN that work alongside the UN Police and civilian colleagues to promote \u201cstability, security, and peace processes\u201d.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Origin:<\/strong> When the UN Security Council approved the deployment of UN military observers to the Middle East in 1948, the UN Peacekeeping Forces were established.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nodal Agency:<\/strong> The United Nations Charter authorises the United Nations Security Council to take collective action to maintain international peace and security.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Structure:<\/strong> The UN Peacekeeping force is supplemented by personnel from member nations.\u00a0 They are added to the force on a volunteer basis.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>India\u2019s role:<\/strong> India is one of the largest troop-contributing nations to the U.N. peacekeeping missions. India is the second-highest military and fifth-highest police contributing country to the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is the role of the UN Security Council?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The UN Security Council has the primary responsibility for international peace and security. The General Assembly and the Secretary-General play major, important, and complementary roles, along with other UN offices and bodies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.com\/2023\/01\/06\/india-deploys-a-women-only-platoon-of-peacekeepers-to-the-un-mission-in-abyei-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>India deploys a women-only platoon of peacekeepers to the UN Mission in Abyei<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNISFA was established by the UN Security Council in response to the critical situation in the Abyei area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}