{"id":71198,"date":"2016-06-06T10:41:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T10:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=27ee443b86c62c59412621a2437ea3c2"},"modified":"2016-06-06T10:41:56","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T10:41:56","slug":"news-story-uk-peacekeepers-arrive-in-south-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=71198","title":{"rendered":"News story: UK peacekeepers arrive in South Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Michael Fallon today confirmed a small military team has deployed to South Sudan as the UK starts to increase support to the UN Mission.<\/p>\n<p>UK personnel will provide vital engineering work to strengthen infrastructure as well as further advisory support, underlining the UK\u2019s continued commitment to peace and security for the people of South Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>The deployed UK team form the first group ahead of further deployments across 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The arrival of British personnel clearly demonstrates our commitment to supporting UN efforts to improve conditions in some of the world\u2019s most destabilising conflicts.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The arrival follows the Prime Minister\u2019s announcement last year that the UK would double its contribution to active peacekeeping in 2016 &#8211;  including sending up to 300 troops to South Sudan, and around 70 to Somalia.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image embedded\">\n<div class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"UK Armed Forces personnel arriving in South Sudan to support UN peacekeeping operations. Picture: UNMISS.\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/image_data\/file\/53220\/South_Sudan_1.jpg\"><\/div><figcaption>UK Armed Forces personnel arriving in South Sudan to support UN peacekeeping operations. Picture: UNMISS.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>UK Armed Forces already carry out peacekeeping support in a number of countries, and has valuable experience working in varied and often difficult environments, giving them the necessary skillset to support the UN in South Sudan and Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>In South Sudan, UK troops will be split into two engineer squadron groups, with associated support elements. This forms part of a wider contribution to the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), and a recce was carried out earlier this year to determine the best way to utilise UK support.<\/p>\n<p>The first UK troops have also already arrived in Somalia following the initial deployment last month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first UK Armed Forces personnel have arrived in South Sudan to support peacekeeping operations, the Defence Secretary has announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}