›› Its expenses, less contributions from the Governments of Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain and Switzerland, are funded in equal parts by Egypt, Israel and the United States of America. The eleven Participating States -- currently Australia, Canada, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Fiji, France, Hungary, Italy, New Zealand, the United States, and Uruguay -- provide the MFO with military contingents that make up the Force and perform specific and specialized tasks. Though not technically a Participating State, Norway provides the MFO with five staff officers.
Responsibility for the direction of the MFO is vested in the Director General by the 1981 Protocol to the 1979 Treaty of Peace. He exercises his authority through his staff at the Headquarters in Rome, the Force Commander and his staff in the Sinai, and the Director General's Representatives and their staffs in Cairo and Tel Aviv.
