Ulaanbaatar
Major General Erdenebat Appointed as Force Commander of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus
Politics
Ulaanbaatar, January
4, 2024 /MONTSAME/. On January 2, 2024 Secretary-General
of the United Nations Antonio Guterres appointed Major General Erdenebat
Batsuuri as Force Commander of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus.
Major General Erdenebat has had a
distinguished career in the Mongolian Armed Forces, serving most recently as
the Chief of Staff at the Mongolian Air Force Command (2020-2023). He was previously Senior Officer in the
General Staff of the Mongolian Armed Forces (2017-2018) as well as Chief of the
Peace Support Operation Division within the General Staff of the Mongolian
Armed Forces (2014-2017). He has been deployed in eight United Nations and
North Atlantic Treaty Organization peacekeeping and peace support operations
including in Iraq, Sierra Leone, Sudan and South Sudan.
In 2010-2011 he served as a Contingent
Commander in United Nations Mission in Liberia, and in 2013-2014 as a Battalion
Commander in UN Mission in South Sudan.
He also held the positions of Chief of Staff in UNMISS Sector South in 2018-2019
and Juba Sector Commander in 2021-2022.
