The first United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) was established by United Nations General Assembly to secure an end to the Suez Crisis with resolution 1001 (ES-I) on November 7, 1956. The force was developed in large measure as a result of efforts by UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld and a Nobel Peace Prize-winning (1957) proposal and effort from Canadian Minister of External Affairs Lester B. Pearson. The General Assembly had approved a plan submitted by the Secretary-General which envisaged the deployment of UNEF on both sides of the armistice line.
HIRH Prince Gharios El Chemor has received the medal of the UN Peace Corps Suez in a solemn ceremony at the City Council Hall. Watch the ceremony HERE
HIRH Prince Gharios El Chemor of Ghassan Al-Numan VIII received a UN Peace Corps’ medal (UNEF – United Nations Emergency Force – Suez), the very first unit deployed to the Middle East. Also, the medal Captain Manuel Theodoro de Almeida Batista, a hero from the Brazil-Paraguay war. The honors were conferred by the Brazilian Army veterans in the Campos City Hall, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil on August 3rd 2016.
More about the United Nations Emergency Force HERE
The United Nations Economic and Social Council(ECOSOC; French: Conseil économique et social des Nations unies, CESNU) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations, responsible for coordinating the economic, social and related work of 14 UN specialized agencies, their functional commissions and five regional commissions. The ECOSOC has 54 members. It holds one four-week session each year in July, and since 1998, it has also held a meeting of April with finance ministers heading key committees of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Excerpt from the United Nations letter to the Royal House of Ghassan
The ECOSOC serves as the central forum for discussing international economic and social issues, and for formulating policy recommendations addressed to member states and the United Nations system.
Non-governmental organizations have been granted consultative status to the Council to participate in the work of the United Nations. Consultative status enables an organization to actively engage with ECOSOC and its subsidiary bodies, as well as with the United Nations Secretariat, programmes, funds and agencies in a number of ways.
(Important: many organizations have profiles on the UN website but they don’t hold any accreditation unless expressly mentioned on the field “Accreditation(s)/Affiliation(s)”. According to the website: “A profile in this database and on this website does not in and of itself connote any affiliation with the United Nations, unless such affiliation is expressly indicated, i.e., by identifying the type of ECOSOC consultative status held by an NGO.” )