Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary General has named Kristin Lund, as the commander of the UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus, on May 13.
The Norwegian commander, the first female to command a UN force, would take over the command with 930 soldiers and 66 police on August 13.
Lund, 56, would replace Chao Liu from China who has led the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus since 2011.
In his words, “I congratulate al Kristin Lund on her appointment as the new Force Commander of our peacekeeping operation in Cyprus, and today, she makes history at the United Nations”.
Ban said in the six-and-a-half decades of UN peacekeeping operations, there has been scores of male force commanders but she was the first woman in that position.
Lund became the first female officer promoted to the rank of major general in Norway in 2009 when she was appointed Chief of Staff of the Norwegian Home Guard.
In 2014, she was appointed to the Norwegian Defence Staff as head of Veteran Affairs.
She was deployed to the UN in Lebanon in 1986 and was also involved with other UN missions.
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