NATO hands over Bosnia peacekeeping duties to EU force
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The deployment of some 7,000 EUFOR troops across Bosnia Herzegovina on 2 December marks the launch of the EU&#39;s largest-ever peacekeeping operation.
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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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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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A European Union force has taken 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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The European Union will begin its largest-ever peacekeeping operation on Thursday when it takes over from the Nato mission to Bosnia Hercegovina.
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Mr Pieter Feith, representative of EU High Representative/Secretary-General Javier Solana, and Mr Robert Serry, representative of NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, will visit Bosnia and Herzegovina ...
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European Union nations gave preliminary approval Monday to plans to send a 1,800-member mission to Kosovo to replace the current U.N. mission, diplomats said.
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NATO troops assumed command Monday of military operations in southern Afghanistan from the U.S.-led coalition, the coalition said.
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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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PORTOROZ, Slovenia  - NATO nations agreed on   Thursday to assume command of peacekeeping across all of   insurgency-hit Afghanistan in the next few weeks, a NATO   spokesman said.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - NATO stepped up patrols in   Kosovo on Thursday to head off possible violence as a decision   nears on the fate of Serbia's breakaway province.
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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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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.
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Just over nine years after it first deployed troops to help bring an end to the civil war in Bosnia, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is winding
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PORTOROZ, Slovenia  - NATO defense chiefs were set   on Thursday to agree to assume command of peacekeeping across   all of insurgency-hit Afghanistan next month despite some   allies' concerns over tactics and troop shortfalls.
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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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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.