UN marks ‘unwanted milestone’ of 60-year peacekeeping mission in Cyprus [Video]

In the shadow of the once-glamorous Ledra Palace Hotel, which lies on Cyprus’s dividing Buffer Zone, a memorial has been unveiled to mark 60 years of UN peacekeeping on the island.

It was called an “unwelcome milestone” by UNFICYP’s Chief of Staff, Colonel Ben Ramsay, who said: “I would hope that there aren’t another 60 years of UNFICYP.”

Speaking to Forces News, he said that it was too long for a peacekeeping force to endure, with the absence of war not meaning that there is peace.

More: https://www.forces.net/operations/cyprus/un-marks-unwanted-milestone-60-year-peacekeeping-mission-cyprus

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