China News Service, Yuxi, July 10 (Ding Wendong) On the 10th, China’s 19th batch of multi-functional peacekeeping detachments to Lebanon held an inaugural and expedition meeting in a brigade of the Army’s 75th Army. Peacekeeping officers and soldiers wore starry camouflage uniforms and blue The beret, wearing the "UN" armband, solemnly swears "to faithfully fulfill the mission and maintain world peace."
At the request of the United Nations, in accordance with the orders of the Central Military Commission, the 19th batch of Chinese peacekeeping troops to Lebanon will be rotated in late July this year. It is reported that the 19th batch of 400 peacekeeping troops to Lebanon, composed of multi-functional engineers, construction engineers and medical units, was selected from the 75th and 74th Army Corps and the Guilin Joint Logistics Support Center and other units.
They will be divided into two echelons from late July to mid-August Beijing time, and will fly to Lebanon by special plane, rotate with the 18th batch of peacekeeping troops abroad, and carry out a one-year mine clearance, detonation and "blue line" planting. Tasks such as piles, engineering construction and maintenance, medical treatment and humanitarian relief.
The 19th batch of peacekeeping multi-functional engineer squadrons to Lebanon was mainly formed by a brigade of the Army’s 75th Army. It is understood that this year is the 13th time the Ministry has gone to Lebanon to carry out international peacekeeping missions.
After the unremitting efforts of successive peacekeeping officers and soldiers, the multi-functional engineering unit has been clearing zero casualties for 14 consecutive years. It has achieved the highest international speed, the highest quality, the lowest cost, and the lowest casualty rate in the completion of the demining mission given by the United Nations. So far, a total of about 2 million square meters of suspected minefields, explosives scattered areas, and more than 14,000 meters of patrol roads have been searched and found, and more than 14,000 mines and various types of unexploded objects have been discovered and removed. (Finish)