The mission deeply regrets cholera outbreak and loss of lives in our brotherly country Haiti, states a press release issued Friday by the Mission.[break]
Nepal has been contributing troops and police to the United Nations Peacekeeping Operations since 1958 and during this period more than 80,000 peacekeepers have rendered their service in more than 40 UN Peacekeeping Missions, the press release reads.
Currently, Nepalese peacekeepers are deployed in 13 different UN peacekeeping missions including Haiti. Troops and police peacekeepers are being rotated round the year and Nepal conducts a thorough and standard medical check-up of its troops and police before sending them to any Peacekeeping Missions.
Since 1958, none of the host countries have reported any communicable disease including Cholera that could be linked to Nepalese peacekeepers, the Mission clarifies, adding no Peacekeeping Missions currently deploying Nepalese peacekeepers in other 12 Missions have reported any communicable disease either.
It may be recalled that United Nations has refuted the allegations in clearest terms, after several scientific lab tests carried out by United Nations, independent organizations and the Haitian government itself.
The Permanent Mission of Nepal firmly rejects such baseless, malicious and unfounded reports put out by some media and individuals without any regard to the specific evidence to the country, the release states.
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