Nepalese Gen to command UN force at Golan Heights

UNITED NATIONS: Major-General Bala Nanda Sharma of Nepal has been appointed the new Force Commander of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Golan Heights.
Gen Sharma, 54, takes over from Major-General Franciszek Gagor of Poland on Friday as head of the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF).
Since 1974, the mission has maintained the ceasefire between Israel and Syria and monitored the disengagement of their forces while maintaining an 80-kilometre area of separation.
Gen Sharma joined the Royal Nepalese Army in 1969 and had served an assistant military officer with the UN Interim Force in Lebanon in 1980. He is currently commanding an infantry division in western Nepal.