Canadian Peace Keeping Since 1960

Introduction

In Canada, peacekeeping is the common term that refers to the military operations. The peacekeeping is concerned with Canada's involvement to assist the United Nations to maintain peace in emergency situations. In addition, Canadians tend to view the maintenance of peace as their property. In 1945, UN Charter was written that contained detailed stipulations that were correlated with the collective security maintenance. However, the scenario of Cold War inhibited the efforts to institutionalize a United Nations force, and enforced it to rely on inventiveness. However, in 1956, the Suez crisis provided an opportunity to the Canadian legislative structure to be of assistance to the United Nations.

Canadian peace-keeping troops began their final withdrawal from the divided Mediterranean island of Cyprus as their mission there ended at midnight June 15. The pullout marked the conclusion of a 29-year Canadian presence on the island. Canadian troops had been the first United Nations forces sent in 1964 to keep the peace between Greek and Turkish Cypriots. Their mission was complicated in 1974 by an invasion by troops from Turkey in support of the Turkish Cypriots in northern Cyprus. That intervention led to the creation of the self-proclaimed state that in 1983 took the name of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. The republic was populated mainly by Turkish Cypriots and was recognized internationally only by Turkey. In the Canadians' absence, other U.N. troops continued to patrol the border between northern and southern Cyprus.

Discussion

It can be noticed that Canada along with the United Nations intervened the British and France's cooperation with Israel to attack Egypt. Moreover, in the context of peace keeping, Moreover, the withdrawal of aggressors was also considered. The strength of the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) was quickly established; in addition, the Canadian General ELM Burns, Commander of the United nations Agency was liable for monitoring the truce in Palestine (James, 89). The task of the CIC is of utmost significance since the responsibility of relocating people has been recognized in order to supervise elections and monitor the novel frontiers. In the situation of conflict, the Egyptians opposed the presence of Canadians (Heinrich, Shibata, Soeya, 101). Nevertheless, Canada opposed the coalition among diverse nations to attack Egypt. The Canadian sources urged that the Mobile Command would be maintained and given the added tasks of aid to general security and overseas peace-keeping roles (Calvocoressi, Tyerman, 66). The Air Command was ...