Cover / Postmark Austria 2003

Keyword(s): United Nations Disengagement Observer Force

From early March 1974, the situation in the Israel-Syria sector became increasingly unstable, and firing intensified. The United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) was established on 31 May 1974 by Security Council resolution 350 (1974) following the agreed disengagement of the Israeli and Syrian forces in the Golan.