OREANDA-NEWS. UTair Aviation (UTair Aviation, JSC) held a presentation in the Consulate General of the Russian Federation in New York covering the results of the airline’s international operations in 2005.

Since 1991, UTair has been successfully providing air services to peacekeeping missions and is the UN’s major air carrier, with UN contracts totalling $77m in 2005.

All in all, the total value of contracts with the UN has almost doubled over the past two years, topping $100m in 2006.

At the moment, over 50 UTair helicopters are engaged in providing services to UN peacekeeping missions in Sierra Leone, Congo, Liberia, Eritrea, Sudan and Cote d’Ivoire. UTair’s helicopters deliver humanitarian aid to areas of ethnic conflicts and environmental disasters and provide logistical support within disaster areas.