BRIEF: EU Peacekeeping Force to Remain in Bosnia

UNITED NATIONS – The EU will keep its peacekeeping force in Bosnia for at least one more year according to a UN Security Council resolution issued on Wednesday.

The peacekeeping force, dubbed EUFOR, is comprised of roughly 2,500 troops and has controlled peacekeeping operations in Bosnia since 2004.

The Security Council also asked Bosnia and Herzegovina officials to continue to follow the mandates of the Dayton accords, especially the pursuit of war crimes suspects who are wanted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

The Dayton accords are a peace agreement that heralded the end of the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and split the country ethnically into the Serb Republic and the Muslim-Croat federation.

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Reuters - UN Security Council renews Bosnia EU force mandate - 21 November 2007