BSS-45 BAF replaces contingent in Sudan

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BAF replaces contingent in Sudan

DHAKA, Aug 14, 2020 (BSS) – A Bangladesh Navy (BN) contingent overnight left here for South Sudan to replace an existing detachment of theirs as part of the UN peacekeeping mission in the troubled South Sudan, an ISPR statement said here today.

It said a 67-member team off to South Sudan today while another group of 67 members left here on July 25.

The statement said senior BN officials saw the contingent off at the Hazrat Shahjahal International Airport (HSIA) offering a special munajat while an UN-chartered aircraft carried them to South Sudan, the scene of the United Nations Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS).

UNMIS was established by the UN Security Council under Resolution 1590 of 24 March 2005, in response to the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement between the government of the Sudan and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement on January 9, 2005 in Sudan.

UNMIS tasks are to support the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, to perform certain functions relating to humanitarian assistance, protection, promotion of human rights in Sudan.

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