15 Punjab Regiment awarded UN Medals
16 April, 2007 (FIDSNS)
Ebel Es Saqi, Lebanon: Personnel of 15 Punjab Regiment, known as INDBATT-9 (Indian Battalion), deputed to United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), were awarded UN Medals under a UN Mandate. The award ceremony was organised on April 13, 2007.
Maj Gen Claudio Graziano of Italy who is the UNIFIL Force Commander presented UN medals.
A dental laboratory was also innagurated in the unit’s medical complex by Brig-Gen Ramon Ambrasio Merino who is the Sector Commander East.
15th Punjab was inducted in Lebnon on december 2006. Like 4th Punjab, which 15th Punjab replaced, earned a name for itself in a short span of time.
15th Punjab in addition to regular duties organised medical camps, Quick Impact Projects for children, Jaipur foots for the war amputee etc
On March, 2007, Lebanese movement Hezbollah on Monday lauded the Indian Army deployed as UN peacekeepers in the southern part of that country. “The role of Indian army deployed as part of UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon is very positive and it has no problem with the people and Hezbollah,” Hezbollah spokesperson Ali Fayyad said.
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