UNTSO
United Nations Truce Supervision Organization
UNTSO
United Nations Truce Supervision Organization

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About UNTSO
Find out how UNTSO has monitored ceasefires and supported peacekeeping efforts since its inception in 1948.

United Nations Truce Supervision Organization

On 29 May 1948, the Security Council, in Resolution 50 (1948), called for a cessation of hostilities in Palestine and decided that the truce should be supervised by the UN Mediator, with the assistance of a group of military observers.