United Nations Support Unit for the Transitional Period

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UNDAY
operation area Namibia
German name United Nations Support Unit for the Transitional Period
English name United Nations Transition Assistance Group
Based on UN resolution 632 (February 16 1989)
Beginning April 1989
The End March 1990
management Martti Ahtisaari ( Finland )
Deaths 19th
costs US $ 368.6 million
Location of the operational area LocationNamibia.svg

The United Nations Transition Assistance Group , shortly UNTAG (of English United Nations Transition Assistance Group ) based on the UN Resolution 632 of 16 February 1989, and was from April 1989 to March 1990 in Namibia used.

The aim of the UN mandate was to implement the plan for Namibia's independence, in particular to ensure fair and free elections in the country .

UNTAG was led from the headquarters in Windhoek by Martti Ahtisaari from Finland in his function as special representative of the Secretary General and head of the mission. Austrian Major General Hannes Philipp was responsible for commanding the armed forces from September 1978 to January 1980 and Indian Lieutenant General Dewan Prem Chand from January 1980 to March 1990 , who was responsible for the entire operational forces from March 1989. As part of the police service component, he was assisted by the Irishman Stephen Fanning from March 1989 to 1990 .

The military personnel for UNTAG were from Egypt , Australia , Bangladesh , Barbados , Federal Republic of Germany , Belgium , PR China , Costa Rica , Denmark , German Democratic Republic , Fiji , Finland, France , Ghana , Greece , Great Britain , Guyana , India, Indonesia , Ireland, Italy , Jamaica , Japan , Yugoslavia , Canada , Kenya , Congo , Malaysia, New Zealand , Netherlands , Nigeria , Norway , Austria, Pakistan , Panama , Peru , Poland , Portugal , Sweden , Switzerland , Singapore , Spain , Sudan , Thailand , Togo , Trinidad and Tobago , Czechoslovakia , Tunisia , Soviet Union and Hungary .

Nineteen family members were killed during the mission, including eleven military personnel, four civilian police officers, three international civil servants, and one local civilian worker.

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literature

  • Daniel Lange: On a German-German UN patrol. The police observer unit of the GDR in Namibia (1989/90) , Schkeuditzer Buchverlag, 2011. ISBN 978-3935530866