50 years - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2010 - 65 Euro Cent

The Federal Ministry of Defense and Sport (BMLVS) is celebrating a very special anniversary in 2010: 50 years of foreign assignments by the Austrian Armed Forces. The field hospital in the Congo (within the framework of the "Opérations des Nations Unies au Congo", ONUC) from November 1960 to September 1963 laid the foundation for all subsequent foreign missions. Since this first mission, more than 90,000 foreign uses of Austrian soldiers have been registered at the most diverse hot spots in the world - ready to use, when needed, within the framework of the United Nations (UN), the European Union (EU), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) or in the framework of the Partnership for Peace (NATO / PfP), to take appropriate peacekeeping measures or provide humanitarian aid in the event of disasters for those in need. All of them have excellently represented Austria in more than 100 different missions abroad and have been repeatedly praised for their professional work in the service of peace. The last major deployment was completed in Chad in late 2009; Of course, in many areas Austrian soldiers have been in action for decades: on the Golan Heights at UNDOF for 35 years (currently 375 men in UNDOF-AUSBATT), from 1964 to 2001 in divided Cyprus (Feldspital, UNFICYP - currently only four officers in the Headquarters), in the Middle East since 1967 (today eight observers at UNTSO), in Kosovo since 1999 (currently the KFOR contingent is 450 strong) and in Bosnia since 1995 (IFOR, SFOR-EUFOR OP ALTHEA, last with 150 men ). The support of peace operations by the soldiers of the Austrian Armed Forces is defined according to a number of principles after a decision in the Council of Ministers and in the National Council of the National Council. For example, an international mandate (on behalf of the UN Security Council) requires the consent of the country in which the mission is to take place, the multinational composition of the troops deployed, and the preservation of the existing state with the least possible and appropriate use of Violence. Humanitarian operations (for example, after earthquakes, floods and fire disasters) begin either with a request for assistance from the country in which the disaster took place or through Austria's offer of assistance with its specialists. The scope of these missions spanned Croatia, Iran, Indonesia and Thailand as well as Africa and South America.