United Nations Truce Supervision Organization
The United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) is an organization founded on 29 May 1948UN Doc A/RES/186 (S-2) 14 May 1948 Appointment and terms of reference of a United Nations Mediator in PalestineUN Security Council Resolution 50 UN Doc S/RES/50 (1948) S/801 29 May 1948UN Doc S/RES/73 (1949) S/1376, II 11 August 1949 UN Security Council Resolution 73 for peacekeeping in the Middle East. Its primary task was providing the military command structure to the peace keeping forces in the Middle East to enable the peace keepers to observe and maintain the cease-fire, and as may be necessary in assisting the parties to the Armistice Agreements in the supervision of the application and observance of the terms of those Agreements.