Ammon News - Col. Tareq Sabbah Suleiman Al-Naimat and SSgt. Awad Ra’ed Awad Al-Shloul who both served with the United Nations Integrated Multidimensional Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), to be honored at the United Nations (UN) Headquarters on the occasion of the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers on May 26, 2022.

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will lay a wreath to honour the nearly 4,200 UN peacekeepers who have lost their lives since 1948 and will preside over a ceremony at which the Dag Hammarskj?ld Medal will be awarded posthumously to 117 military, police, and civilian peacekeepers, who lost their life serving under the UN flag last year.

Jordan is the 34th largest contributor of uniformed personnel to UN Peacekeeping. It currently deploys 639 military and police personnel to the UN peace operations in Abyei, the Central African Republic, Cyprus, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali, Sudan and South Sudan.

During a special ceremony, the Secretary-General will award the "Captain Mbaye Diagne Medal for Exceptional Courage" posthumously to Captain Abdelrazakh Hamit Bahar of Chad, who served with the United Nations Integrated Multidimensional Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA).

The medal is named for a Senegalese peacekeeper who was killed in Rwanda in 1994 after saving countless civilian lives. This is the second time the medal has been awarded since the inaugural medal was presented to Captain Diagne's family in his honour in 2016.