EU takes over Bosnia peacekeeping
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The European Union began its biggest-ever military operation Thursday, formally taking over NATO&#39;s peacekeeping mission in Bosnia with 7,000 troops.
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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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U.N. Secretary-General Ban-Ki moon said Friday he could not yet give his blessing to a planned 1,800-strong European Union mission for Kosovo because of the international dispute over the future of the breakaway Serbian province.The EU wants to send a policing and administrative mission to Kosovo to replace the current U.N. force, which took control alongside NATO peacekeepers in 1999 after war ended between Serbian troops and separatist ethnic Albanians.'I will have to closely and carefully assess the situation as it develops,' Ban told reporters after talks with Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa, whose country holds the EU's rotating presidency. Read more
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As NATO transferred command of the nine-year-old peace-keeping mission in Bosnia to the European Union on Thursday, it handed a tough challenge for the nascent
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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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Five European Union countries have signed an agreement creating an EU paramilitary force to assist in international peacekeeping missions.
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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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The U.N. Security Council has unanimously approved establishment of a European-led multinational stabilization force in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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European Union leaders agreed on  Friday to send administrators and police to Kosovo ahead of an  expected declaration of independence from Serbia.
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The EU approves a police and justice mission for Kosovo, which is poised to declare independence from Serbia.
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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'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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Bulgaria has started its first co-mission with the EU in Bosnia and Herzegovina, along with some 30 countries, including Canada and Turkey.
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Tiny Slovenia becomes the first of 12 newcomers to take over the rotating presidency of the European Union Tuesday, a big psychological boost to a nation that gained independence from the ruins of the former Yugoslavia 16 years ago.
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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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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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An European Union family web portal was launched today. The aim of the portal is to present the separate EU organisations in Bosnia and Herzegovina.