Malaysia has been honoured with the UN award that recognises the participation of female peacekeepers in its peacekeeping missions at the UN Peacekeeping Ministerial 2025 in Berlin, Germany.
The armed forces headquarters, in a statement, said the award recognises the operational deployment and involvement of female peacekeepers from the Malaysian Battalion (Malbatt) under the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil), which met the targets set by the Uniformed Gender Parity Strategy (UGPS).
It said that Malaysia is among the countries that advocate the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda, adding that 10.5 percent of the total peacekeeping mission personnel for Malbatt Unifil consist of women.
"Besides Unifil, the armed forces also deployed female peacekeepers as military observers and staff for Monusco (UN Peacekeeping Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo), Minurso (UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara), and Unisfa (UN Interim Security Force for Abyei)," read the statement.
It said the award recognises Malaysia’s contribution to upholding international peace and security on the global stage.
Other recipients are Fiji, Guatemala, Kenya, Malawi, Mongolia, and Tanzania.
The Armed Forces Chief of Staff Azhan Md Othman, and the military adviser to the Permanent Mission of Malaysia to the UN, Shamsuri Noordin, attended the award ceremony.
Yesterday, Defence Minister Khaled Nordin reaffirmed the country’s continued commitment to supporting the WPS agenda in line with the UGPS.
- Bernama
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