Namibia - UNTAG
Prepared by the Department of Public Information, United Nations. This text was last updated effective 31 August 1996.
Not an official document of the United Nations.
Prepared by the Department of Public Information, United Nations. This text was last updated effective 31 August 1996.
Not an official document of the United Nations.
LOCATION: Namibia and Angola
HEADQUARTERS: Windhoek, Namibia
DURATION: April 1989 - March 1990
STRENGTH: At maximum deployment, UNTAG's overall strength was approximately 8,000, consisting of some 4,500 military personnel, 1,500 police and 2,000 civilians
FATALITIES: 19 (11 military personnel, 4 civilian police, 3 international civilian staff and 1 local staff)
EXPENDITURES: $368,584,324
FUNCTION: Established to assist the Special Representative of the Secretary-General to ensure the early independence of Namibia through free and fair elections under the supervision and control of the United Nations. UNTAG was also to help the Special Representative to ensure that: all hostile acts were ended; troops were confined to base, and, in the case of the South Africans, ultimately withdrawn from Namibia; all discriminatory laws were repealed, political prisoners were released, Namibian refugees were permitted to return, intimidation of any kind was prevented, law and order were impartially maintained. Independent Namibia joined the United Nations in April 1990
Return to list of peacekeeping operations