Thank you for attending this important commemoration.
I would like to begin with a solemn moment of silence to honour the 106 fallen heroes who died while serving under the United Nations flag in 2013 – and to remember the more than 3,200 who have lost their lives in the history of UN peacekeeping.
[A moment of silence was observed]
Thank you.
Last year was the sixth year in a row that more than 100 peacekeepers died.
Some were killed when their convoys came under attack in Darfur and South Sudan.