NATO Hands Over Bosnia Peacekeeping to EU
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The European Union began its biggest-ever military operation Thursday, formally taking over NATO's peacekeeping mission in Bosnia with 7,000 troops.
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The European Union took on its biggest military mission yesterday, replacing Nato in charge of 7,000 peacekeeping troops in Bosnia.
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MOSTAR, Bosnia  - Bosnia's Muslim, Croat and Serb political leaders on Sunday reached an agreement to get the stalled police reform back on track to fulfill a key condition for closer ties with the European Union.
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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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France took command of NATO peacekeeping operations in this Serbian province on Wednesday. The move puts French generals in charge of NATO&#39;s two major current operations
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The EU is due to begin is largest peacekeeping operation, taking over from the Nato mission in Bosnia.
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PORTOROZ, Slovenia -- NATO said yesterday that it would take control of military operations across all of Afghanistan in what US Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld hailed as a ``bold step forward."
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NATO offered Serbia, Bosnia and Montenegro  on Tuesday a first step toward membership despite unresolved  war crimes concerns, in a policy switch cheered by the region  but condemned by the top U.N. prosecutor.
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Bosnian Serb police Friday arrested a man suspected of helping a fugitive war crimes suspect and handed him over to NATO for questioning, the NATO headquarters here said.
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The European Union's decade-long drive to develop the military muscle to back up its diplomatic weight took visible form as 7,000 peacekeepers in Bosnia replaced their NATO shoulder tags with the EU's blue and gold colors.
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NATO on Tuesday offered Serbia, Bosnia and Montenegro the first step on the road to membership of the alliance, and declared that other Balkan countries could expect firm invitations to join in 2008.
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The EU will today mount its largest joint military operation when it takes over responsibility from Nato for 7,000 peacekeeping troops in Bosnia.
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Five European Union countries have signed an agreement creating an EU paramilitary force to assist in international peacekeeping missions.
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SARAJEVO  - The European Union launched its biggest military operation, taking over peacekeeping duties in Bosnia from NATO, nine years after the bloody inter-ethnic war in the former Yugoslav republic.
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EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana and NATO head Jaap de Hoop Scheffer oversaw the transfer of power ceremony Thursday at Sarajevo&#39;s Camp Butmir.
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The Albanian parliament passed a resolution Thursday to allow the country to join a peacekeeping mission of the European Union (EU) in Bosnia, which takes over responsibilities from NATO in December.
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U.S. troops marked the end of their nine-year peacekeeping role in Bosnia on Wednesday as NATO prepared to hand over the task to the European Union in December.