EU force takes over Bosnia role
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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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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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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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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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A BRITISH general is taking over in Bosnia, where the worldâs two most-wanted indicted war criminals have evaded capture for nearly a decade.
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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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European Union experts will from next  month start training police forces across Afghanistan,  including southern provinces which have borne the brunt of  insurgent violence, EU officials said on Tuesday.
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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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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- When NATO forces first came to Bosnia nearly a decade ago, they lived in heavily guarded compounds, patrolled the streets in tanks, and often wore full body armor.
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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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The European Commission plans to set up an EU force to deal with fires, floods and other emergencies.
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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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WIESBADEN, Germany  - The European Union has a duty to ensure stability in the Balkans a decade after the ethnic wars of the 1990s and offer its peoples the hope of EU membership, the bloc's foreign policy chief said on Thursday.
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Foreign ministers formally gave the go-ahead for the Union's biggest-ever peacekeeping force outside Europe
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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&#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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NOORDWIJK: Five EU states signed an accord on Friday creating a new European military police force deployable to crisis situations worldwide, the latest tool in Europeâs developing security arsenal.