The Role Of Canada In The Suez Canal Crisis

As the world goes to show you, there is and always will be hostility, violence, and disputes amongst people and nations. To be able to create peace in the world and to prevent war from breaking out, peace keeping missions are to be carried out and good relations are upheld with other countries. The Suez Canal Crisis was and urgent matter which arose in the 1950’s in which Canada established a key role in resolving and negotiating. Lester B. Pearson prevented any hasty actions from being made by the UN and other countries, Canada played a major role in both creating and contributing to making the United Nations Emergency Force, Canadians worked hard to restore Egypt to its former glory after the crisis had passed. Lester Pearson worked endlessly

Pearson wanted Canada to be known as peace makers throughout the world and give Canada an even greater role as one the world’s powers. Canada contributed to creating the United Nations Emergency force. This concept was put forward by Lester Pearson in cooperation with Dag Hammarskjöld the Russian correspondent in the UN Security Council. The idea was to establish a military force for peace keeping controlled by the United Nations (UN) in an event of an international crisis. Although before the idea of a unanimous force could come through the entire united nations Security Council had to come to a decision on the matter. However no decision could be made final without the votes of the French and British; tensions were beginning to rise in Egypt for on the 29th of October 1956 the Israelis attacked taking over Sinai and the Gaza strip; this was the planned effort by Britain in which Israel was to attack on this day. An emergency meeting was called in early November 1956; the UN general assembly had to decide upon a resolution. They decided to call upon a ceasefire and the withdrawal of all foreign forces active in Egypt, by founding the United Nations Emergency Force to watch over all processes and to prevent hostilities in Egypt. A peacekeeping ceasefire was called, in Egypt before any real fighting could occur. Canada even offered to put in its own troops in the peacekeeping mission. After a battle is over the surrounding area is left in ruins, it is necessary to

After the Suez Canal Crisis was resolved Canadians came and helped volunteer to make the surrounding areas more inhabitable. In November many soldiers worked hard to make the area more or less inhabitable. In March of 1958 the Israeli occupying the Gaza Strip and the Sharm el Sheikh area were given orders by their government to leave the area, Peacekeepers moved into these areas and setup a ten-year base which would serve greatly in monitoring, and contend to keeping the peace. After ten long years of policing and patrolling Egypt, President Gamal Nasser ordered all UNEF troops out of Egypt. After their diligent work in restoring the torn down country troopers left with their heads held high. Even after the UN troops were taken out of the country the United Nations Emergency Force Middle East (UNEFME) was setup and was also effectively used in another incident similar to Suez Crisis the Yom Kipper War. Overall the great efforts held up by Canadians and Lester B. Pearson made the UNEF a great success. For the efforts held up by Pearson he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peacekeeping in