EU Assumes Bosnia and Herzegovina Mission From NATO
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SFOR came to a successful conclusion almost nine years to the day since the alliance deployed forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina in its first-ever peacekeeping operation.
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2 December 2004 -- The European Union began its largest military operation today, formally taking over NATO&#39;s peacekeeping mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina with 7,000 troops.
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NOORDWIJK, Netherlands  - Five European Union defence ministers signed an agreement Friday to set up a law-enforcement group to provide support for international peacekeeping missions.
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britain LONDON -- Britain will withdraw its remaining 600 troops from Bosnia after a 15-year peacekeeping mission in the region, Defense Minister Adam Ingram said yesterday. Ingram said the move follows a European Union agreement Tuesday to reduce the 6,000-strong force, leaving around 2,500 EU troops in Bosnia. Ingram said that Bosnia-Herzegovina had "a security situation approaching normality" and was ...
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NATO will assume responsibility for  security across the whole of Afghanistan from Thursday when it  takes command in the east from U.S.-led coalition forces, a  senior NATO official said on Tuesday.
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PORTOROZ, Slovenia, Sept. 28 -- NATO agreed Thursday to take command of military operations across all of insurgency-hit Afghanistan next month after the United States pledged to transfer 12,000 American troops in the country to the NATO force.
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The European Union plans to open a mission in Iraq after the country&#39;s first free elections slated for January, to help train police, legal officials and administrators, EU foreign ministers said yesterday.
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NATO&#39;s peacekeeping mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina was officially transferred to a EU-led force at a ceremony Thursday. At the same time, NATO opened a permanent headquarters in Sarajevo.
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The European Union agreed on Monday to send a mission to help train local police in Afghanistan, whose government is struggling with an Islamist insurgency.
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PALE, Bosnia  - NATO peacekeepers once patrolled  this Bosnian Serb rebel stronghold in armored personnel  carriers, but the town is now so calm an EU force taking over  on Thursday could monitor it from the bar.
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A European Union force yesterday took over peacekeeping in Bosnia from Nato for an operation seen as a test of the EU&#39;s military aspirations and credibility.
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NATO forces will deploy to Bosnia and Herzegovina and to Kosovo to take part in an operational rehearsal to ensure NATO troops and the Reserve Forces Headquarters are prepared to respond to a crisis in the ...
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The European Union approved the launch of a 2,000-strong police and justice mission for Kosovo on Saturday, a day before the breakaway province is expected to make a Western-backed declaration of independence from Serbia.
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The Bosnia and Herzegovina Police Restructuring Commission met in Brussels on 28 October 2004 at the Institutions of the European Union and presented this Declaration to the European Commissioner for External ...
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The European Union on Wednesday confirmed a plan to cut its EUFOR peacekeeping contingent in Bosnia, as security improves in the former Balkans hotspot.
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Politics: 8 September 2004, Wednesday. For the first time EU hopeful Bulgaria will join the block of 25 in a military operation of the Union starting end-2004 in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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NATO will assume responsibility for security across the whole of Afghanistan from Thursday when it takes command in the east from U.S.-led coalition forces, a senior NATO official said on Tuesday.