Three Indian peacekeepers who died during operations in South Sudan and Congo last year, have been honoured posthumously at the United Nations, in a ceremony marked as the International Day of Peacekeepers.
Sanjay Kumar and Vijay Subhasha died in the South Sudan mission in August and September 2009 respectively.
Baljit Singh died in June 2009 serving the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
The top UN official for peacekeeping Alain Le Roy handed over the Dag Hammarskjold medal to the officials of the Indian mission that will be passed on to the family of the deceased.
The UN Saturday remembered 218 fallen troops during the past year.
"This year's commemoration is a sombre one. The past 14 months have been especially deadly for United Nations peacekeeping," UN chief Ban Ki-moon said.
Last week, an Indian peacekeeper was also killed 80 kilometers north of Goma, the volatile DRC capital of North-Kivu province.
On Saturday, the UN also honoured its 96 personnel that it lost in the earthquake in Haiti - the biggest single loss of life in the history of United Nations peacekeeping.
"Ambushes in Darfur, terrorism in Kabul and a plane crash in Haiti ... These were among the tragedies that struck peacekeeping last year, killing 121 people. That toll was nearly matched in a few seconds with the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti last January," the UN chief said.
The International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, which is marked on May 29, was established by the General Assembly in 2002 to pay tribute to all men and women serving in UN peacekeeping.