India calls for stronger protection of UN peacekeepers amid rising threats

India has called for holding perpetrators of attacks against UN peacekeepers accountable, underlining that Blue Helmets face asymmetric and technologically enabled threats. India is among the largest troop-contributing countries to UN peacekeeping, having deployed more than 3,00,000 troops across 50 missions to date. "India upholds the safety and security of peacekeepers as one of the most important aspects of peacekeeping," Military Advisor at the Permanent Mission of India to the UN, Colonel Tarunendra Pratap Singh, said here Thursday. "Personnel today face asymmetric and technologically-enabled threats, and those who attack peacekeepers must be held accountable," Colonel Singh said while addressing the annual debate on comprehensive review of the whole question of peacekeeping operations in all their aspects. He said India's continued leadership on UN Security Council resolution 2589 on accountability of crimes against peacekeepers, adopted under Delhi's presidency of the 15-nat