Following the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon in March 1978, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) was established by the United Nations on 1978-03-19 following the adoption of Security Council Mandates 425 & 426. Its original mission was restore international peace and security, and help the Government of Lebanon restore its effective authority in the area. UNIFIL troop deployment began on 1978-03-23, by re-assigning personnel from UNEF (Egypt) and UNDOF (Syria).


The following countries have contributed to UNIFIL:


Armenia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Croatia, Cyprus, El Salvador, Estonia, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, Malaysia, Nepal, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Turkey and United Republic of Tanzania.


This document lists amateur radio activity by members of UNIFIL using a 4U callsign. There were also numerous UNIFIL stations QRV using /OD5 rather than /4U. This may not be a complete list. Additions/errors please to Alan 5B4AHJ. QSL images required for all calls without a blue link. 




CallsignQRV
EI43UN1978
OH6XP/4U1983-84
OH7NR/4U1984
OH7RE/4U
1984
OH9TH/4U
1983-84 
SM1TDE/4U
1993-94
SM5EIT/4U1982 

SM6EIG/4U

1984
WB8HWO/4U1989-92


Related articles

United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) in Syria

United Nations Energency Force II (UNEF II) in Egypt

References

United Nations UNIFIL

United Nations United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon

Wikipedia United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon