AKIPRESS.COM - Motorized infantry battalion of 850 military personnel will serve as the sixth contingent of Mongolian peacekeepers in South Sudan. They paid tribute to the General Banner of the Armed Forces on Wednesday.

The military group has over 700 personnel from 40 units of the Mongolian armed forces and 100 personnel from the specialized duty units, including Border Protection Unit, General Police Department, National Emergency Management Agency, General Agency for Court Decision Implementation and Law Enforcement University.

More than 40 percent of the group are skillful military staff with experience in peacekeeping operations, and 5 percent of them are women.

Since 2012, a total of 4,250 peacekeepers from Mongolia served in operations in South Sudan.