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Duty, not dominance: Eight decades of India's UN commitment
As the UN turns 80, India's peacekeeping legacy blends moral conviction with hard strategic choices
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 "Major Jasmine Chattha leads a parade of Indian peacekeeping troops at a United Nations medals award ceremony in South Sudan (Photo: UN Mission in South Sudan)")
Major Jasmine Chattha leads a parade of Indian peacekeeping troops at a United Nations medals award ceremony in South Sudan (Photo: UN Mission in South Sudan)
As the United Nations (UN) commemorates its 80th anniversary in 2025, few countries can boast a peacekeeping heritage as extensive, reliable, and influential as India, which has also been one of the biggest, most dependable and reputable contributors to UN peacekeeping operations since its first mission in Korea in 1950. It has since remained steadfast in its commitment to world peace and security, participating in over 50 of the 71 UN missions and deploying over 2,90,000 troops. Indian peacekeepers have embodied the organisation's basic ideals of peace, impartiality, and humanity across continents and crises, while supporting missions in Asia,
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S B Asthana
Major General S B Asthana, now retired, was director-general, infantry, in the Indian Army. Views expressed are personal
First Published: Dec 10 2025 | 10:00 AM IST
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