MINURSO’S PEACEKEEPERS: NATIONAL DAY OF GERMANY [1]
On 03 October , MINURSO celebrated German Unity Day by raising the country’s flag at the Mission HQ in Laayoune.
Germany is the fourth largest contributor [3] to Peacekeeping Operations. Its peacekeepers are deployed in seven peacekeeping missions [4] worldwide including MINURSO.
German Unity Day which falls on 3 October has been the German national holiday since 1990 when the former German Democratic Republic officially joined the Federal Republic of Germany.
The German flag is a tricolor, made of three equal horizontal bands: black in the top, red in the middle and gold in the bottom. The black and gold combination relates to the colors on the semi-official coat of arms of the Holy Roman Empire.
Glückwunsch Deutschland !