Serbian Armed Forces Contingent in Sinai: Professionally and Responsibly in Service of Peace
Friday, 28.2.2025 | Multinational Operations
Members of the Serbian Armed Forces engaged in the mission of the independent peacekeeping organization Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) on the Sinai Peninsula are professionally and responsibly performing their tasks in the service of peace, as shown by the assessment of partners and superiors at the Mission HQ.
The fourth SAF contingent is on Sinai at the moment, which has started its mandate this week. This is a ten-member engineering task force as part of the American contingent, which, in accordance with the assigned mandate, performs engineering and infrastructure works in the mission camp in the southern part of the peninsula.
This week, they have been visited by Head of the Operations Directorate (J-3) of the Serbian Armed Forces General Staff, Major General Gordan Pavlović, who was in the AO accompanied by Head of the Peacekeeping Operations Center, Colonel Mirjana Milenkovic, to see the conditions in which members of the Serbian Armed Forces are being engaged.
General Pavlović attended the our contingent’s rotation ceremony in the mission, and, on that occasion, praised the Serbian Armed Forces’ members who have been performing all tasks professionally and responsibly since last September, and wished the new contingent every success in their work, expressing his belief that they will follow in the footsteps of their predecessors.
During his stay in the AO, the Head of the Operations Directorate (J-3) also had meetings with the mission force commander, Major General Michael Garraway, and representatives of the Office for Engineering Works, who spoke rather highly of the SAF engineers’ engagement.
The mission of the independent peacekeeping organization MFO was established in accordance with the agreement between the Arab Republic of Egypt and the State of Israel in 1981, with the aim of implementing the security provisions of the Egypt-Israel Agreement of 1978. The Serbian Armed Forces began participating in the mission in July 2023 by sending an engineering task force within the American contingent, thus contributing to the strengthening of bilateral relations with the United States of America and the position of our country in terms of foreign policy.
