张哲、李竹林
By Zhang Zhe, Li Zhulin
北京，8月12日电 8月10日上午，中国第21批赴黎巴嫩维和部队第二梯队205名官兵，在云南昆明长水国际机场启程出征，与正在黎巴嫩执行任务的第一梯队官兵汇合，标志着中国第21批赴黎巴嫩维和部队正式开始履行使命。
BEIJING, Aug. 12 -- The second-echelon 205 peacekeepers of the 21st Chinese peacekeeping force to Lebanon set out from Kunming, southwest China’s Yunnan Province, on August 10. They will join up with their 205 fellow peacekeepers, who arrived in Lebanon on July 28 as the first echelon.
中国第21批赴黎巴嫩维和部队共计410人，由多功能工兵分队、建筑工兵分队和医疗分队组成，主要担负扫雷排爆、工程建筑、人道主义救援等任务。
The 21st Chinese peacekeeping force to Lebanon has 410 members in total, consisting of a 180-member multi-role engineering contingent, a 200-member construction engineering contingent, and a 30-member medical contingent. The three contingents will mainly undertake the tasks of mine clearance and explosives disposal, engineering construction, medical rescue and humanitarian assistance.
16年来，中国已累计向黎巴嫩派出维和官兵7000余人次，先后探查清排近200万平方米疑似雷区和1.5万余米巡逻道路，发现和排除各类地雷及爆炸物1万余枚，零伤亡。
In the past 16 years, China has cumulatively dispatched more than 7,000 peacekeepers to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). The Chinese peacekeeping engineers have conducted mine hunting and clearing in nearly two million square meters of suspected landmine areas and around 15,000m of patrol roads, and removed more than 10,000 landmines and explosives of various types with zero casualties.
