28 September 2013 - United Nations (U.N.) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon profusely thanked Foreign Secretary Albert F. Del Rosario for the Philippines’ support to U.N. peacekeeping during his meeting with the ASEAN Foreign Ministers on 26 September 2013. Mr. Ban publicly commended the Philippine Government for maintaining Filipino peacekeepers in the United Nations Disengagement Force in the Golan Heights (UNDOF) despite the two kidnapping incidents in March and May this year. Mr. Ban described the Philippine peacekeepers as being extremely courageous in performing an outstanding necessary task. END