Kazakhstan's parliament has given approval to deploy military personnel from the country's armed forces, with a limit of 430 individuals, to engage in different United Nations missions.
As per the United Nations' invitation, it has been scheduled that, starting from March 2024, Kazakhstan will dispatch its first independent national contingent of peacekeeping forces consisting of 139 military personnel with military equipment to serve as a United Nations reserve force for monitoring the disarmament process.
Kazakhstan's Minister of Defense, Ruslan Zhaksylykov, stated that an international agreement will be concluded with the United Nations outlining the commitments of both parties, as well as financial and logistical support for the participation of this group in the specified mission.
Overall, the Parliament of Kazakhstan has agreed to deploy military personnel from the country's armed forces, not exceeding 430 individuals, to participate in various United Nations missions. These missions include deployment to the Golan Heights, monitoring the UN Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) between Palestine and the Zionist regime, South Sudan, and the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) in Sudan.
The Kazakhstan Defense Minister underscored the United Nations' choice of Kazakhstan for autonomous peacekeeping operations in these areas.
From 2014, 67 officers from Kazakhstan have been involved in UN missions in the Western Sahara, Ivory Coast, Mali, the Central African Republic, and Lebanon, serving as military observers and staff officers.
Starting in 2018, a total of 538 military personnel from Kazakhstan have contributed to a peacekeeping unit within the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).
