Skip to content. | Skip to navigation

Personal tools
Sections
You are here: Home → Breaking news → Germany ends its peacekeeping presence in Bosnia

Germany ends its peacekeeping presence in Bosnia

27 September 2012, 20:32 CET
— filed under: , ,

(SARAJEVO) - Germany on Thursday ended its 17-year-long peacekeeping presence in Bosnia as its last two soldiers serving with the European Union's military force (EUFOR) left its base here, a spokesman said.

A ceremony marking the event, during which the German flag was lowered, has taken place at EUFOR Sarajevo's Butmir base, spokesman for the force David Collins told AFP.

EUFOR, which took over from a NATO peacekeeping mission in 2004, is charged with military tasks set out in the peace deal that ended Bosnia's 1992-1995 war.

The inter-ethnic war between the country's Croats, Muslims and Serbs left some 100,000 people dead.

The first German soldiers were deployed to Bosnia in late 1995, within NATO-led peacekeeping force IFOR of some 60,000 troops, in accordance with the internationally brokered Dayton Peace Agreement.

EUFOR currently has some 600 troops provided by 23 nations, 18 of them EU members.

Advertisement


Text and Picture Copyright 2012 AFP. All other Copyright 2012 EUbusiness Ltd. All rights reserved. This material is intended solely for personal use. Any other reproduction, publication or redistribution of this material without the written agreement of the copyright owner is strictly forbidden and any breach of copyright will be considered actionable.


Document Actions