Peacekeeping -- Overview to year 2000

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

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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 1956 - present Military observers of cease fire
East 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 | 1992 - 93 Protecting delivery of humanitarian aid | 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