Multinational Force and Observers

The Multinational Force and Observers ( MFO ) is an international peacekeeping force to secure the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. This demanded the full withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Sinai. A peacekeeping force of the United Nations should monitor the border between Egypt and Israel. First, however, took over the U.S. Sinai Field Mission this task; yet in 1981, the United Nations Security Council was unable to use its own peacekeeping force, since the Soviet Union had announced on Syrian pressure toward a veto.

As a result, Egypt, Israel and the United States were negotiating a peace mission outside the UN; so were founded in August 1981, the Multinational Force and Observers.

The headquarters is located in Rome; one regional office there in Tel Aviv and Cairo. The staff comes from twelve countries:

  • Australia
  • Fiji
  • France
  • Italy
  • Canada
  • Colombia
  • New Zealand
  • Norway
  • Czech Republic
  • Hungary
  • Uruguay
  • United States ( Task Force Sinai )
Camp David Accords Sinai Peninsula
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